Bev started practising Sivananda Yoga in 1979, when she was 16 years old. She started teaching under the guidance of Pauline Hall in 1998 and qualified as a British Wheel of Yoga teacher with Christine Smith and Connie Pearce in 2001.

Bev has practised Ashtanga vinyasa yoga since 1999 with her teachers Lino Miele and Sri K Pattabhi Jois. In February 2004 Bev was authorised by Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Mysore, South India, to teach the primary series of Ashtanga vinyasa yoga and today is one of the few practitioners skilled in the art of chanting the precise count of the Ashtanga vinyasa system in Sanskrit.

Bev's teaching of yoga very much reflects her own experiences of the practise - that is one of healing. After being diagnosed with a scoliosis (curvature of the spine) at the age of 14 and spending much time in hospital, the promise of relief through the therapeutic benefits of yoga were the motivation for Bev starting a regular practice. For almost 20 years she stabilised her condition by practising daily and was able to live a normal life as any young professional person.

In 1999, the untimely death of Bev's mother by cancer initiated some major life re-evaluation which naturally included her yoga practise. She knew her journey through life was going to take a major change in direction and by pure chance in Kovalam, India, she met Lino Miele, Tina Pizzimenti and Gwendoline Hunt and with them discovered ‘real’ Ashtanga yoga. Gwendoline also shared her passion for chanting in Sanskrit - which lives on in Bev today. At the same time Bev met her Ayurveda teacher, Vijayan and has since devoted her life to these two ancient 'sister' sciences of yoga and ayurveda.

A year later, Bev travelled to Mysore to study with Guruji. His kindness and innate understanding of the healing power of the practice was evidenced as he took his new student under his wing and worked closely with her difficult practise. Today through the practise of yoga and many Ayurvedic treatments Bev's spine is almost straight. Bev still regularly travels to Mysore to study with Guruji, Sharat and Saraswati.

By 2006, Bev knew something more was required to help her with the emotional turmoil she was experiencing as she was working her way through the Ashtanga intermediate series. Fortunately having moved back to Bath she was able to re-connect with Rob Preece, a Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana practitioner and teacher, she had met several years earlier. With Rob's guidance, Bev set about slowly transforming her psychological and emotional self.

Bev's life took another major change in direction in January 2008 when she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and subsequently a severe liver disease caused by decades of un-diagnosed infection. Bev was personnally unable to accept the Western medical Interferon treatment. So she opted to be regularly monitored by her local NHS hospital whilst under the very careful guidance of her Ayurveda and Buddhist teacher's she set out on this new and often so very difficult journey of self-healing. In October 2009, Bev's NHS monitoring programme has confirmed that her liver has been healed and that her viral load is now on the decline.

When sharing these practises with others, Bev is always faithful to the direct lineage of her teachers. However, she also uses the knowledge gained from her own depth of practise, in particular her heart felt experiences of healing through physical and emotional transformation.

Simon met Bev as a fellow engineering student in 1981. Despite living alongside Bev’s obvious passion for yoga for almost 20 years, it took a holiday in India in 2000 and being in the company of other enthusiastic Ashtanga practitioners for Simon to embark on his own yogic journey with Lino Miele as his primary teacher. However, it wasn’t long before Simon was also making regular trips to the KPJ Ashtanga Yoga Institute (KPJAYI) in India to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Guruji) and his grandson Sharat. Today Simon continues his studies at the KPJAYI and also attends retreats with Lino Miele when time allows.

For Simon, the Ashtanga practice has slowly brought about a metamorphosis from career focussed IT consultant with a stiff, muscle bound cyclist's body into a full-time Yoga teacher and accomplished practitioner. The power of this system of yoga is evidenced in the transformation it has effected over the years, bringing Simon to a point where he is now able to work through Third (Advanced A) series.

Simon’s practice started out very much focussed on his reluctant and often painful physical body. However today the beauty and grace of his practice demonstrates that Ashtanga yoga truly is a synchronised meditation of body, breath, mind and spirit.

Simon's experiences have given him a firm belief in the ancient 'yogic' wisdom embodied in the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. The concept of lineage is a very important part of maintaining this wisdom. The current living master Sri K. Pattabhi Jois passes on the method as he was taught by his teacher Krisnamacharya and Simon follows this tradition by passing on the method as faithfully as possible.

A hunger to learn more about the Ashtanga system drew Simon to take a career break from his IT job in 2003. He used this time to undertake a world trip, visiting the yoga shala's of some of Guruji's most senior and respected students. As well as Lino Miele, Simon has studied with John Scott, Nancy Gilgoff, Dena Kinsberg, Tina Pizzimenti and Gwendoline Hunt.

Through years of study, practice and teaching, Simon has developed a deep understanding of this traditional yogic practice. An understanding that is enhanced and enforced by the continued companionship and discussion of shared experiences with Bev. In his teaching, Simon aims to use this understanding to make the Ashtanga practise, a style of yoga that is all too often perceived to be very demanding, accessible to students of all abilities, ages, shapes and sizes ! Simon primarily teaches self-practice (i.e. 'Mysore style') classes which allow him to offer private tuition in small group settings.

Simon started teaching with Bev in 2002. He was authorised by Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Mysore, South India, to teach the Primary Series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 2006 and qualified as a British Wheel of Yoga teacher with Christine Smith and Carolyn Blackburn in 2008. Today he is the driving force behind 'Ashtanga Yoga in Bath' and teaches classes in Bath and Swindon.