Founder

Gabrielle is the founder of Grace and Grit Yoga and has been teaching yoga for eight years now. She did her yoga teacher training with Sun Power Yoga and Traditional Yoga. Gabrielle did specialist yoga teacher training with Sonia Sumar, ‘Yoga for the Special Child,’ and also has a Diploma in Yoga Therapy with Yogacampus. In her years of teaching Gabrielle became very aware of who was able to access yoga and felt the drive to create a way for specialist yoga to become a much more wide-reaching health, well-being and therapeutic intervention.

Gabrielle also has an MA in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, which gave her the academic grounding in the philosophy and history of the traditions from which therapeutic yogic practices originate. Her dissertation was on the tension between disembodiment and embodiment in yoga, which gave her the opportunity to unpack what exactly the mind does in embodiment practices, and therefore why they have therapeutic effect.

Gabrielle considers her guru to be Dr Kumar, the founder of Traditional Yoga and Vedic Nutraceuticals, https://vedicnutraceuticals-uk.com. Gabrielle was given a place at his ten-day silent retreat due to her circumstances and she also did their meditation teacher training. The retreat was the most beneficial and needed experience for Gabrielle at the time. The time for practice created more depth, and the meditation training gave more understanding creating another stepping stone on her path with yoga. Traditional Yoga is a registered charity and a globally connected online ashram, if you undertake their free 200hr and 500hr teacher trainings, whereby the original Yamas and Niyamas, the yogic code of conduct must be strictly adhered to. See https://traditionalyoga.co.uk for more information.