“When we allow ourselves time and space to breathe we become awakened.”

About Louise

My lovely mum sent me to a yoga class in my late teens. She planted a seed and the seed grew.

​Having practised yoga since 1993 and teaching as an accredited teacher since 1999, I have an understanding of how yoga and healing are fundamentally the same. Curing is what mainstream or complimentary medicine may or may not do. Healing is what happens after the Doctors, medicine, surgery and technology have finished. Healing comes from within.

​I have been through many life experiences including illness, surgery, bereavement, divorce, loss of job, loss of income and bringing up two lovely daughters now in their twenties. Yoga has given me inner strength at times of stress and difficulty for which I am grateful. This has taught me to take life's ups and downs as periods of growth and change.

I currently teach group classes each week in Bristol, as well as private one to one sessions.

“The breath is the heart of yoga practice. Breathing affects every cell of our being. It brings vital energy into the body. As we learn to watch our breath, we let go of old patterns and new energy flows in”

— Louise Shaw

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