Scott has been practising yoga since 1998, and teaching Ashtanga yoga since 2003. He’s one of only a few Ashtanga teachers to both be authorised in the primary and intermediate series by Manju Jois and be given senior teacher status by John Scott.

Scott is registered as a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and has also undergone extensive training with Clear Mind International, gaining their level 1, 2 & 3 certificate in Mindfulness and Compassion. Scott’s years of dedicated and committed teaching each morning has led Stillpoint to become a highly respected central London Ashtanga yoga shala. He meets everyone who comes and looks to create long-term relationships, integrating the practice of yoga and embodied mindfulness as a way of meeting the world.

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Danny teaches the Ashtanga yoga sequences with emphasis on an expanding, evolving practice as well as showing derivative poses, modifications and variations. He strives to create independence from teachers and systems.

He draws from the teachings of Krishnamurti, Buddhism, ancient Egypt, contemporary teachers such as Carolyne Myss and Marianne Williamson, as well as many shamanic nature-based indigenous native cultures including Mayan, Hawaiian and Native Americans.

Danny communicates the teachings of ancient traditions in a non-dogmatic, contemporary, compassionate, humorous way. He passes on how to experience and create a meditative, therapeutic and ritualistic yoga practice.

He recognises yoga as an ancient shamanic practice and relates yoga to all shamanic, nature-based, indigenous explorations from North and South America, Polynesia, Tibet, Africa and Asia. The yogis and shamans were the early pioneers of consciousness, healing knowledge, and communication with the spirit realms. The basic premise of Shamanism is that nature is our spiritual guide and teacher. Danny’s main objective is guiding people to evolutionary consciousness as well as helping people develop a healing, sacred, personal, meditative, joyful, non-dogmatic yoga practice.

Yoga is designed to create wellbeing, help people fulfil personal destiny and learn to age with vitality, energy and grace. Danny teaches yoga as a means of creating personal authority and personal responsibility leading to universal responsibility.

Danny has studied Kung Fu, Tai Chi and karate. He is a musician, singer, songwriter, performance artist, human rights activist, filmmaker and film producer and has taught some of the world‘s most renowned and talented musicians, actors, sports champions, artists, designers, film directors and dancers.

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Greg Nardi, is a YAP Senior teacher and E-RYT 500. 

He is the lead teacher of Ashtanga Yoga Worldwide classes, workshops, and trainings.

Ashtanga Yoga Worldwide comes from Greg’s 24+ years of experience studying, practicing, and teaching yoga. He took extended trips to Mysore, India between 1999-2016 to learn yoga with a focus in asana, yoga history and philosophy, pranayama, meditation, and chanting. Greg also attends Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. He teaches with Yoga4Change a florida based non-profit organisation that achieves lasting, demonstrative change for veterans, individuals who are experiencing incarceration, youth, and people living with mental health conditions through a purpose-driven yoga curriculum.

Greg was formerly authorised level 2 with the KPJAYI in Mysore, India. Since resigning his authorisation in 2018 Greg has dedicated himself to educating yoga practitioners about power dynamics and consent driven, student centred approaches to the teaching and practice of Ashtanga Yoga. Greg believes in the healing power of yoga for all.

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As an instructor of kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskeletal anatomy) at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999-2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. By repeatedly teaching incoming students who had no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person.

David brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners.

Over the years David has used his skills as a Neuromuscular Therapist to help people reduce their chronic pain patterns. He often brings this information into his workshops where students are regularly uncovering painful patterns or injuries in their bodies.

David was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga in 1999, but it was in 2001 that he met John Scott in Penzance, Cornwall, presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time overseas. Two weeks of practising with John was transformational and he realised that he’d found his teacher. This began a relationship of both teacher/student as well as a collaborative colleague relationship that continues today.

It was also John who told David to go to Mysore in India the following year, which he did. David arrived in Mysore in 2002 where he studied with K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. In fact, it was the last year that the old shala was used for practice. David was authorised in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore with his wife Gretchen Suarez. They are both authorised level 2 to teach Ashtanga yoga.

David is owner of  Yoganatomy, a highly successful yoga anatomy education company that delivers online anatomy training to teachers and training providers.

David also owns 3D Muscle Lab, an innovative and groundbreaking new anatomy learning tool that will help you to deepen your understanding of the body.

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Kia teaches with careful adherence to the authentic teachings of Ashtanga yoga and pranayama whilst encouraging each individual to explore the beauty of the practice for themselves. With a genuine dedication to the growth and development of her students, her way of teaching integrates her profound knowledge of the breath and pranic energy, and subtle and physical anatomy, with yogic principles. She offers an inclusive, safe and inspiring space open for personal exploration, inquiry and transformation. Her deep love of and years of dedication to all aspects of this practice shines through in her warm, insightful and inspirational teaching.

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Manju is dedicated to his mission of teaching the ancient tradition of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, for a total mind-body-spirit unification with Self and has taught the true Mysore Ashtanga method for over 50 years. Manju and his father brought Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga to the USA in 1975 and Manju has travelled worldwide teaching this tradition ever since.

He offers Ashtanga weekend workshops, teacher trainings and intensive week-long classes. He incorporates pranayama and Vedic chantings in his classes, which blend very well with the Ashtanga yoga practice. Manju’s intention is to teach in the way of the ancient tradition and bring the many benefits of Ashtanga yoga to his students.

He hopes to bring “better concentration and understanding” of Ashtanga yoga to his students in a world full of distractions. Manju’s dedication to his life of teaching and practising yoga has brought the benefits of the ancient tradition of Ashtanga yoga to many students throughout the world, as he guides each to “unite with yourself”.

Manju is devoted to his wife Nancy and their young daughter Sathu, born in 2002, who was named after her paternal grandmother. Sathu is a multi-talented, beautiful girl, who continues to bless the Jois family beyond measure.

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