About Samantha

Hi – I’m Sam, founder of Sam B Yoga and The Children’s Yoga Foundation.

In my 20 years of teaching in schools, I have noticed children developing more and more problems with their mental health. There is now so much pressure on teachers and parents whom many of which are struggling with their own mental health problems.  This is why I practice yoga and have done for over 20 years. I am passionate about teaching yoga and know my dharma is to pass this gift onto as many children as I can.  I have been teaching yoga in schools now for 7 years and teach it as part of the curriculum because every child has a right to a wellbeing education.  The success of Sam B Yoga providing yoga within schools was featured on BBC South Today on 4^thJuly 2017 and you only need to see the difference of pupils before they come into a yoga class and then after to see it works.  If I can help save a child from suffering mental illness and empower them with the skills promote their well-being, then I have done my job.

In 2019, I founded the ‘Children’s Yoga Foundation alongside Vicky and Bryony to support and collaborative teachers, schools, parents and children’s in yoga.  We organised the foundations first conference, delivering CPD and presentations to over 80 children’s yoga teacher across the UK.  Our life is a blessing and yoga truly helps you to live from that perspective.  Yoga offers healing, transformation and empowerment to our children and it is fantastic that more and more schools are recognising this.

I offer Children’s Yoga Training focusing on the delivery of yoga in schools and to help teachers integrate yoga into the curriculum to a professional level, whilst keeping the authenticity of yoga and underlining the importance of a personal practice.

About Yvonne

Yvonne has been a passionate advocate for treating people holistically and her professional career reflects this with a dual focus on yoga and counselling. She has a successful, professional counselling career as well as being an experienced yoga teacher. These two areas of expertise combine well, particularly for her work with schools.

Yvonne has set up and delivered yoga and wellbeing training in schools for teachers and students; delivering ‘Teen Yoga’ teacher training programs in the UK and internationally. Yvonne advises schools and local authorities on developing wellbeing plans. She has specific training to work with children and adults with autism and ADHD and she also uses a therapeutic application of yoga for children and adolescents with mental health issues.

Yvonne’s counselling journey started in 2003 originally training in person centred therapy and beginning her placement with vulnerable young people and young parents. Following on from qualifying Yvonne began working for various youth and community organisations.

As part of her role as a counsellor at a youth project she set up a counselling service in local schools which is still in existence today. Yvonne completed her post qualification diploma in counselling children and young people as well as other training in Gestalt, working with trauma, autism, CBT and creative therapies.

​Yvonne is a passionate and committed Yoga teacher and teacher trainer. Her interest began at an early age following periods of joint pain and weakness, which she has successfully reversed through her yoga practice. Her yoga practice supported her through many turbulent periods of life and she recognised the value of yoga as a therapeutic tool and wanted to share this with others. Yvonne has worked closely with Charlotta Martinus of www.teenyoga.com and is committed to bringing yoga into mainstream education.