Teacher Details

Debz is a RYT200 Yoga Alliance Teacher and has been practicing and studying yoga for over 15 years, it is now a way of life for her and includes meditation and spiritual study on a daily basis. During this journey Debz has overcome stress, anxiety, depression and compulsive disorders thanks to her committed practice to yoga and meditation.

With the support of her yoga teacher LuLu Russell, Debz completed her teacher training with the renowned Brian Cooper of Union Yoga in April 2003. Soon after she started her own classes in Carlisle and Cockermouth. She is now the owner of The Purple Lotus, offering holistic health and fitness to all.

Debz keeps up her own training and study by attending workshops at Union Yoga in Edinburgh and frequent visits to India, the birthplace of yoga. She has also trained with Graeme and Leonie Northfield whom she finds extremely inspiring and highly recommends.

Yoga naturally led to Debz's interest in Thai Yoga Massage, she completed her training in levels 1 and 2 in August 2003 with Brian Cooper. Since then she has practiced Thai Massage at The North Lakes Clinic in Cockermouth, Warwick Hall in Carlisle and now from The Purple Lotus, Carlisle.

Debz discovered The Nia Technique when she was looking for something fun and free that would allow her to work out in a completely different way. While yoga is the discipline that put Debz back in good health, it is Nia which brings a smile to her face. She completed the white belt training course in October 2006 and returned to Carlisle as the first Nia instructor in the north of England, introducing the worlds first fusion fitness technique to Cumbria. For more information on Nia visit www.nianow.com.

Debz has just recently trained for Anti-Gravity Yoga and is the first teacher in the UK. Anti-Gravity Yoga will be starting at the Purple Lotus studio in September 2010.