Teachers

Tara Fraser (BWY Dip)

Tara Fraser took her first Yoga classes alongside her mother at the age of 6. She qualified with the British Wheel of Yoga and has been teaching since 1993. Tara believes yoga can help everyone to live well, feel good and age gracefully. Her style is eclectic drawing on many traditions but heavily influenced by the personalised and therapeutic approach of TKV Desikachar which has been her own practice for over 10 years.
Tara is the founder and co-director of Yoga Junction where she teaches regular classes and courses and BWY teacher training programmes. She is the author of five best-selling yoga books (Including Yoga for You and The Easy Yoga Workbook) and lectures and teaches nationally and internationally.

Nigel Jones (BWY Dip)

Nigel Jones has been practicing Astanga Yoga since 1992. He lived and worked at The Practice Place in Crete (now Yoga Plus) and studied with Derek Ireland for 2 years. He returned to London in 1996, where he continued to practice with John Scott. Subsequently Nigel took the British Wheel of Yoga Teacher's Diploma.

He has been teaching Astanga Yoga classes, courses and workshops in London since 1996. He has taught in most of London's Yoga Centres and has taken many students from beginners level to becoming teachers themselves. Being naturally rather a stiff person, he has much sympathy with people of a similar constitution. He likes to encourage all types of people to take up yoga, not just the strong and flexible. His classes are friendly and un-intimidating and he encourages students to achieve some sort of autonomy in their Yoga practice, where they can begin to think and make decisions for themselves, without dogmatic interference from a teacher. He has a very hands-on approach and believes in getting as much feedback as possible from his students.

Nigel has been teaching at Yoga Junction since 1999 and became co-director in 2002.