Leah Barnett

Leah has been teaching yoga for almost 20 years after training in 2001 whilst working as a human rights lawyer. In 2011 she undertook further training in the Krishnamacharia tradition in the UK and India and qualified as an advanced teacher with the BWY (British Wheel of Yoga). Leah has been influenced by many well known yoga teachers including Donna Farhi, Mathew Sanford, Angela Farmer and Fiona Agombar. Her approach is very gentle and interpersonal, responding to the needs of the room, creating a space where there is full permission for each person to do whatever feels right for them.

Leah has been teaching yoga for over 20 years after training with the Inner Yoga Trust back in 2001. At the time she was working as a human rights and refugee lawyer for a big charity in inner London and used her yoga training to help her stay grounded and relieve the stress levels which at times would become intense.

For the last 10 years Leah has been teaching yoga classes, one to ones and retreats specialising in working with people with chronic illness including fatigue conditions (ME/CFS/Long Covid) MS, cancer, arthritis etc as well as those with anxiety disorders, PTSD and complex trauma. She has also worked with populations who would not usually be able to access yoga and taught yoga to refugee and asylum seeking women for ‘Ourmala’, a charity offering free yoga and other support to this client group between 2014 – 2019.

In addition to teaching weekly classes and private sessions Leah also runs training courses for yoga teachers focusing on how to best support students with stress, burn-out and fatigue conditions including ME/CFS & Long Covid.