meet the team

northern yoga is the work of Michelle and Laura, who work together to spread the teachings and joy of yoga


Read on to find out more about them and their journey.




meet Michelle


Michelle has been immersed in the world of yoga since 2010, when she stumbled on the healing powers of yoga following a series of martial arts injuries. After falling in love with yoga, Michelle trained as a hatha yoga, yin yoga and trauma-sensitive yoga teacher.


Michelle is also a registered nurse, Mental Health First Aid England instructor and crisis counsellor. She is passionate about psychological wellbeing and has a wealth of practical and academic experience that she brings to her yoga practice.


Michelle empowers her students through their own journey of holistic healing to find inner peace. Michelle is passionate about self-compassionate approaches to self-acceptance and self-care.



meet Laura


Laura has practiced yoga since, as a teenager, being advised it would help her posture – her love and appreciation of yoga developed as it started to help her physical well-being and its hook was the feeling of relaxation at the end of a class.


Laura's experiences motivated her to a life-long personal practice culminating in her training as a Hatha and Yin yoga teacher with a trauma-informed focus.


Laura has also applied her professional experience as a midwife, health visitor and family nurse to her life-long passion of yoga practice and also offers yoga classes in pregnancy. Laura’s teaching applies an invitational, empowering approach with the aim of raising self-awareness of one's inner teacher.