Anna Karides has been teaching Yoga and AcroYoga for over a decade.

In her native Cyprus, she took part in long-distance running competitions and aerobic marathons, as well as doing ballet and modern dance for 13 years. In her teens, her curiosity for the body led her to pick up many books on yoga, which was the start of her yoga journey. At the time, she was self-taught and a serious hip injury gave her the opportunity to immerse herself deeper into the practice, revealing the vast benefits of yoga including, not needing her asthma inhaler any longer.

Fascinated by the practice of yoga, Anna took her first teacher training while she was completing a Masters in Law. Straight after becoming a Barrister, she became the youngest ever certified AcroYoga teacher at the time.

She is grateful to have studied with pioneering yoga teachers, among them Dharma Mittra, Elena Voyce, Jason Nemer & Jenny Sauer-Klein, Sharon Gannon & David Life and Emma Henry. Her classes are inspired by AcroYoga, Jivamukti and Dharma Mittra, and reflect her passion for backbends, arm balances and inversions. In London she has been teaching at the city’s leading studios: Indaba Yoga, triyoga, Bodyism, Xtend Barre, Hotel Café Royal and many more.

Anna has taught at Wilderness Festival, at the Obonjan Music & Wellbeing Festival in Croatia and at the rooftop Frank’s Café as part of Bold Tendencies’ immersive arts programme in 2015, organised by the widely acclaimed Secret Yoga Club. She performed and presented at the British Yoga Festival, Mind Body Spirit Festival, at the opening of Reebok’s first CrossFit store in London’s Covent Garden, and at the long-running OM Yoga Show. Her biggest audience to date was at Lululemon’s Sweatlife Festival in 2016, where she taught a class of over 300 people.

Find more about Anna at https://www.annakarides.com/

Connect on Instagram @annakaridesyoga

Eleni is a yoga teacher, nutritional therapist (DipNut CNM) and doula living in London, UK. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 after completing her studies in traditional Hatha yoga the Ashram in India. She then found her teachers Shiva Rea, the leading teacher who made Vinyasa flow what we know today in the west, and Sarah Powers who found Yin yoga. Having spent countless hours in trainings and retreats with her teachers she is offering dynamic and yin classes that focus on the healing aspect of the practice.

Eleni is also a nutritional therapist helping clients heal through changing their diet. She works with clients experiencing chronic health conditions, autoimmune conditions, digestive issues, hormonal problems, infertility and inflammatory diseases. She is particularly passionate with working with women around the reproductive age.

After becoming a mother, Eleni completed a doula training to help women have better birth experiences and find empowerment through matrescence. She is passionate to share holistic practices to experience radical vitality during pregnancy and educate women of how birth works. Therefore she works with couples wishing to conceive, pregnant women and women in the postnatal period.

Eleni currently teaches hot yoga at Triyoga studios in London and int he past has taught for The Life Center, MoreYoga and Total Chi studio. She has been leading yoga retreats since 2017 in the Greek islands.

Find more about Eleni at www.bhava.yoga and www.newearthmamas.com

Connect on instagram @elenibhava