Tara Fraser took her first ever Yoga class alongside her mother at the age of 6. She trained professionally as a dancer and has been teaching Yoga since 1993. 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 a number of years.

Tara is qualified by the British Wheel of Yoga and teaches everyone from tiny babies to 100 year olds. She believes Yoga can help everyone to live well, feel good and age gracefully.

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 the best selling Yoga for You and Live Better:Yoga and The Easy Yoga Workbook(DBP) and a contributor to Yoga and Health Magazine and Health and Fitness Magazine. She lectures and teaches nationally and internationally.

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.

Susannah has been practising yoga since childhood. Her teaching style is intuitive and creative, drawing on her main influences of Hatha Yoga, Viniyoga and Astanga Yoga. Her dance background also brings into play a focus on alignment. Susannah’s classes have a meditative quality and work on the principles of ‘Sthira and Sukham’ – (form and experience, strength and softness). So although her classes can be quite demanding they are also deeply relaxing.

For Susannah yoga is about breath and bringing a sense of space and freedom to the body (freedom in Sanskrit translates as ‘love’). Yoga is an expression of this inner love, grace and beauty.

Susannah teaches Hatha Yoga, kids classes, pregnancy classes.

Tarik Dervish is a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner (BA Ayurvedic medicine) and a qualified and experienced Yoga teacher (British Wheel). He’s been teaching since 1997 and has had a wide variety of training including Iyengar, Satyananda and Sivananda traditions. He is also a qualified Astrologer, Aromatherapist and Thai Yoga Massage Therapist. He believes in helping students develop a strong personal physical practice as a foundation for more subtle energetic work. His main spiritual inspiration is from the Bihar School of Yoga. He also practises Ayurveda at a clinic in central london.
"Im not as interested in how far you can bend as how much you can let go of the tensions that are clogging up your channels. May your practise blossom into the ultimate stress relief so that you may experience a deeper sense of satisfaction."

Tessa is an experienced and dedicated yoga practitioner having studied Iyengar yoga for over 20 years and taught for 9 years. She qualified as an Iyengar yoga teacher in Sydney Australia after completing a 4 year apprenticeship and ran an Iyengar yoga school in Sydney until her return to the UK in 2000. She has studied with the Iyengars in India, and now teaches in North London. She has taught at Yoga Junction since 2000. Tessa is a sensitive and perceptive teacher with a clear and dynamic teaching style. She is interested in encouraging students to develop a personal relationship with their yoga and to develop their own practice.

Samantha Syer Became interested in yoga as a teenager and developed her practice further when she became pregnant with her first child. She realised that the way she interacted and played with her newborn was in essence what happens in a baby yoga session. It all became clear when she met Dr. Francoise Barbira Freedman, a medical and social anthropologist at Cambridge University and founder of Birthlight, a trust set up to improve the experience of childbirth and early parenting. Her classes were a haven for Samantha and her child. They would go to their yoga classes come rain or shine and it became part of their daily life together at home. Samantha trained with Birthlight and gained her Diploma in Baby Yoga and Massage

Her classes provide a peaceful and playful space to connect with your growing baby and ever-changing body! These classes balance strengthening poses with flowing sequences and relaxation techniques. Breath, sound work and pelvic floor exercises are also incorporated as healthy preparation for birth and beyond. This class is adaptable and ideal for pregnant women at any stage.