Information on the Teachers

Ken Eyerman twenty five years of experience in Bodywork and Movement is brought to this week, combining a unique blend of dynamic flowing Yoga with gentle inner sensing and Feldenkrais movement awareness lessons.

Mary Niker is an Iyengar Yoga teacher who teaches classes mainly in the  the Thames Valley area. A regular Free Spirit Travel teacher she also has yoga holidays in Sinai (pictures below), Italy, Ireland, Turkey and the UK.

She has studied yoga for over 19 years and been trained by many of senior teachers in the UK, frequently returning to India to extend her training.

Students of all ages and backgrounds are welcomed on this yoga week. Growth and learning is encouraged at the pace you feel you are most comfortable with.  

Mary is dedicated to teaching Yoga with care and respect and quotes " Through the practice of Iyengar Yoga we can not only combat stress, but achieve positive mental, spiritual and physical growth."

David Sye, listed as one of the top ten Yoga teachers in the UK and a Yoga Elder, has developed over many years "Yogabeats", his own brand of Yoga.

Yogabeats has now been touring in various festivals, cities and countries, gaining international success and recognition.

He has been practising yoga for over 20 years in International locations such as America, India and Israel. His “gentle power” yoga fuses Hatha, Astanga, Mridu and Vini. Gentle at the beginning and end but with dynamic and powerful periods at the core.

A regular teacher at Finca Argayall, David will take you on a journey to touch all your senses. The Yoga class is for all levels and is driven by music that matches the pace and the flow of the Yoga

It is an enjoyable and fun class, the ages of yoga students attending David's yoga holidays range from 20 to over 70, it really is yoga for everybody!

Angus Ford-Robertson has been teaching yoga internationally for 8 years.

He teaches Hatha Yoga and has been influenced by a number of teachers including Faustomaria Dorelli, Erich Schiffmann and Eckhart Tolle. His teaching style is greatly influenced by his experience in Ashrams and Buddhist monasteries around the world.

His classes can be physically challenging - but the emphasis is always on developing inner awareness. He communicates in no-nonsense language leaving students with a clear understanding of the purpose and benefits of yoga practice. Most of all, this week will provide a fun, safe space for students of all levels to develop and deepen their yoga practice.

All participants will leave feeling deeply relaxed and centred - and with an abundance of practical techniques for developing calmness in everyday life.

Angus is an experienced trained clinical hypnotherapist - and will be offering sessions to students interested in discovering the transformative healing power of hypnotherapy.

Jim Tarran attended his first Hatha yoga sessions in 1990 and began teaching on a small scale in 1991. In 1992 he travelled to India and whilst in Nepal completed a teacher training at the Patanjali Yoga centre. 

One year later he began running classes in Byron Bay Australia. Returning to England in 1994 he began his Iyengar teacher training, successfully graduating in 1996.

Jim’s style of teaching has continued to deepen informed by his practice of Buddhism and his desire to vitalize and inspire his own practice. Jim uses the tools of Yoga to fund a sense of engagement of life itself. “The form reveals the meaning” he says “and the meaning develops the form.” In so doing he has found more and more kinship with the whole breadth of the Yoga tradition.

Jim runs "drop-ins", courses and days in the Brighton area and his popular classes are known for their humour, humanity and depth. He also runs a teacher training program on which students are taught all the prerequisites of safe and well-informed Asana, mantra, Pranayama and meditation.