BWY Diploma Course Tutors (DCTs) are highly qualified and experienced yoga teachers with many years of experience and additional study. They offer the highest standard of yoga teacher training available in the UK, regulated by BWYQ and approved by Ofqual.
DCTs are based all over the UK and offer their own unique experience in practice and specialist areas of yoga. Finding the right tutor for your yoga teacher training is an important step on your journey to becoming the best teacher you can be.
DCTs who offer yoga teacher training, are not employed by BWY. They offer approved and regulated courses independently, that are overseen by BWY Quality Assurance Officers.
BWY Teachers and Associate Teachers can begin the route to becoming a DCT once they have a minimum of five years teaching experience. The training is delivered by our most senior yoga teacher trainers and can be taken online or in-person.
Find a Diploma Course Tutor near you
Pam Barton
North Cumbria and Northumberland
Pam Barton had a long career of teaching in schools, including gaining a MA in Education. This experience enables her to give you support and guidance as you develop your yoga skills into teaching skills, becoming a safe and competent yoga teacher.
The decision to embark upon Yoga Teacher Training marks the start of an immensely satisfying and fulfilling career. The journey is long and challenging, but it is also full of delights and wonderful experiences as you gain knowledge, skills and confidence.
All course days are held in person, face to face, ensuring maximum benefit from shared activities, and full opportunity for encouragement and positive support from the group and your tutor.
Email: namastefrompam@yahoo.co.uk
Carolyn Clarke
Nottinghamshire
Carolyn Clarke is an experienced yoga teacher trainer. She has led all levels of BWY courses over a forty year period; from Foundation Course 1 to in-person Level 4 Diploma and Certificate courses, alongside both online and in person CPD courses. Her main interests are pranayama, meditation and philosophy, which links well into progressional teaching and learning.
Carolyn believes in encouraging a person-centred approach in teaching, linking into modern methods of yoga practice as well as interrelating to the classical elements drawn out in the syllabi.
She is currently leading both a BWYQ Certificate in Teaching Yoga and a Progression course to Diploma level. Courses are run at Babworth Court Yoga Centre, Retford, Nottinghamshire, at the fully equipped studios of Jasmine Trust Yoga where Carolyn is Centre Manager and principal tutor.
Email: carolynclarkeq@gmail.com
Eliane (Elly) Codiroli
Hertfordshire
Eliane has over 20 years experience teaching yoga. Alongside her BWY qualifications she is certified in Ashtanga Yoga and holds a BSc in Psychology and a Diploma in Social Work, which all inform and enrich my teaching approach. She is a committed Ashtanga practitioner, maintaining a daily personal practice and studying under the guidance of her teacher at least twice weekly. This ongoing commitment supports both her professional development and personal growth within the discipline of Yoga.
As a mother of three and grandmother of three, she brings both professional and lived experience to her work. Two of her adult children have physical and developmental disabilities, which has shaped her strong commitment to inclusive practice. She is passionate about creating accessible and inclusive yoga classes and training opportunities for all.
She regularly runs BWYQ Certificate Courses in Hertford, Hertfordshire. The programme runs over 20 months and is delivered primarily in person (80%), with 20% offered via Zoom. All sessions can be accessed live online where necessary and are recorded to support flexible learning and catch-up.
Email: purpleelly@sky.com
Tarik Dervish
London, Brighton and Online
Tarik has been teaching for over 25 years and running Yoga teacher training courses since 2010. He specialises in Ayurveda and integrates this approach in all his courses. He also offers CPD workshops and courses in Ayurveda and Yoga philosophy for experienced practitioners. He is often invited to run workshops on other BWY teacher training courses, particularly focusing on the Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā and its relationship to the Ayurvedic paradigm. He runs courses and workshops online, in central London and Brighton and offers BWY approved CPD days around the country.
Tarik is also a transpersonal counsellor and astrologer, specialising in Psychosynthesis, a holistic approach to psychological wellness. He holds a degree in Ayurveda, is a graduate of the prestigious Psychosynthesis Trust in London, and holds a Diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies.
Email: tarik@yogawell.co.uk
Clare Gibson
Surrey
Clare has been teaching yoga since 2000, having trained with the British Wheel of Yoga and subsequently the Krishnamacharya Healing Yoga Foundation (KHYF). She has been practicing yoga for many years and has spent time exploring different yoga styles. However, her primary influence comes from the teachings of Sri Krishnamacharya and his son, TKV Desikachar.
She is passionate about learning and in 2023 completed an MA in the History and Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at SOAS. (University of London). In 2024 she gained a post graduate certificate in higher education from Falmouth University, to further develop her teaching skills.
She has been a DCT since 2015 and delivers both Diploma and Certificate courses. She also offers the Progression Course and more recently the Advanced Integration Course, for teachers outside the BWY. Courses are held in Esher Surrey and online.
Email: Clare.harmonyoga@gmail.com
Hayley Giles
Dorset
Hayley Giles has over 30 years of experience teaching yoga and a decade of leading teacher training, She brings both depth and passion to her work. She has guided 125 trainees to become confident, successful yoga teachers across the South, and delivered nine Foundation Courses, supporting hundreds of students in building strong, informed practices.
Her training spans a range of traditions, from Sivananda to Kundalini, allowing her to draw on diverse approaches and offer a well-rounded, adaptable teaching style. She specialises in altered states of breathing, exploring the profound ability of breathwork to energise, uplift, and restore balance.
Known for nurturing creativity and confidence, she supports students in discovering their authentic voice and teaching style. Classes and courses take place at Embrace Yoga Studio in central Wimborne, with both in-person and hybrid options available. Offerings include Foundation Courses, Level 4 Teacher Training, and Diploma Progression pathways.
Email: hayley-yoga@hotmail.co.uk
Course website: elevateyoga-teachertraining.com
Michelle Griffiths
South Yorkshire
With a lifelong commitment to movement and rehabilitation, Michelle brings extensive experience in yoga, and many other specialist therapeutic practices. Her background includes level 4 certifications in nutrition, antenatal and postnatal, also rehabilitation qualifications and experience, such as FaME (falls prevention), exercise after stroke and cancer rehabilitation.
In 2005, Michelle founded Mind Body Spirit, growing it from a one-person practice into a dedicated studio of seven teachers known for personalised, evidence-informed instruction. Offerings include: Hatha, Ashtanga, kundalini and yin yoga; Pilates using equipment across all levels and abilities; plus workshops and retreats focused on mobility, rehabilitation, fitness, and lifestyle guidance.
Courses offered:
BWYQ Level 4 Diploma Teacher Training – a 500 hour level 4 course, building the foundations of a strong teaching, through many learning styles to develop your own way of learning and teaching.
BWYQ YOGAD – a specialist teacher training course on Yoga for General Anxiety Disorder.
Yoga courses in the pipeline:
Antenatal and postnatal
Older populations
Email: info@mind-bodyandspirit.com
Tracy Harris
West Sussex
Tracy Harris is a highly experienced yoga teacher and teacher trainer. Her yoga journey began in 1997 during rehabilitation from a serious accident that left her with chronic back and neck pain. Yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices helped her rebuild strength, flexibility and inner calm. She is passionate about sharing the transformative benefits of practice, helping students feel grounded, present, and at ease in body and mind.
She founded Summerhouse Yoga & Wellbeing in 2010 and has worked with hundreds of students. Students “highly recommend” Tracy’s teachings as “amazing, absolutely fantastic, therapeutic and nourishing”.
Tracy partners with the national charity MS-UK to provide yoga, meditation and Qigong classes for people with Multiple Sclerosis. She also works with people with chronic pain, illness and disease.
Email: namaste@summerhouseyoga.co.uk
Roberta Jesson (Bertie)
Oxfordshire
Bertie has 22 years experience of teaching a variety of yoga styles from adults through to toddlers. She began practicing yoga 27 years ago in London and became hooked while living in New York for a couple of years. Her specialist interests are anatomy and physiology, philosophy, meditation, the breath and teaching accessible, strengthening yoga. Bertie offers both the Certificate and Progression courses and has been training yoga teachers for the last 10 years. She teaches in yoga studios in Oxford, online, leads workshops in Anatomy and Physiology around the country and runs a yearly retreat to Greece. Email: bertieyoga@gmail.com
Kari Knight
Scottish Highlands / Online
Kari Knight is a senior Diploma Course Tutor for the BWY who has successfully delivered Foundation 1 and 2, BWYQ Certificate to Progression teaching training courses and the module “A Therapeutic Approach to Cancer Recovery’. Kari lives in the north-west Highlands of Scotland where she enjoys being close to nature. She teaches in the local community and in her own studio space.
Her specialisms include Restorative yoga, Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra, mindfulness, self-compassion teachings, and a therapeutic approach to cancer recovery. From October 2026, Kari is piloting a ‘flexible, blended learning’ approach to the BWYQ Certificate, Diploma and Progression courses. The FBL approach is for those who are unable to attend course weekends on a regular basis. FBL is delivered online, in-person with one residential and meets the BWYQ’s high industry standards.
Email: kariknightyoga@gmail.com
Lucie Landau
East Sussex
Lucie is an experienced yoga tutor. She teaches online and in person at her private studio in East Sussex. Since 2015 she has taught many BWY courses, Foundation and Teacher Training, often in collaboration with other teachers. She specialises in Pranayama, Meditation and Yoga philosophy.
Her early training includes Zen meditation sessions with Harada Roshi in Japan, theory and practices of Hatha Yoga Pradipika with Shri Indar Nath in UK. However, her biggest influence was her spiritual teacher Gurudev O. Sharma in India with whom she trained for over 30 years. He introduced her to the perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, which prompted her to do her second degree in Hindi and Indian philosophy at SOAS University of London. Later she undertook a three year Advanced Pranayama training with Dr Shrikrishna Bhushan Tengshe in Germany.
Recently she has completed a course in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and offers individual IFS informed sessions to her yoga students.
Email: lucieindia@gmail.com
Tori Lang
Cardiff
Tori is an experienced senior teacher with over 30 years of personal practice of yoga, and 20 years of teaching – all levels from beginners through to experienced students, from dynamic to yin, to yoga nidra and specialist classes, on zoom and in person. She teaches the BWY Foundation course, and BWY level 4 Diploma Course in Penarth, Cardiff. These are both in person and usually run one weekend per month.
She is also trained in Yoga for Healthy Backs and Yoga Therapy, and is the Training Officer for BWY in Wales. She has trained with International teachers, and many senior British yoga teachers, and has an eclectic approach to yoga teaching. Her teaching is described as inclusive, supportive, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, fun, and her courses as well-planned and delivered to a high standard – exceeding expectations.
Email: info@yogawithtori.co.uk
Perry Lewis
Leicestershire
Perry has been practicing yoga for twenty-three years and teaching for seventeen. He founded Yoga Nectar to help his students cultivate the mindset and means to make their practice a truly integrated and joyful experience, so as to provide them with tools to enhance the quality of their life. He does this by guiding them through physical, breath and meditation practices which they can incorporate into their everyday lives. This is with a view to providing them with an enhanced sense of mental and physical wellbeing.
Perry runs regular teacher training courses, at certificate and diploma level, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
Email: perry@yoganectar.co.uk
Janet Long
Cheshire
Janet has a keen interest in all things relating to energy. She is a highly experienced yoga teacher, a qualified Reiki Master/Teacher and Group Sound Therapist. These skills weave through her yoga practice both personally and professionally. She believes in life-long learning and is currently studying to be a Total Yoga Nidra Network Facilitator.
Janet has been teaching yoga since 2009 and running Foundation Courses since 2017 and BWYQ Level 4 Diploma Courses from 2020. Courses run in person at a venue in Timperley, Cheshire. She also teaches weekly yoga classes (in person and online), workshops and retreats.
Email: rainbowhealingtherapies@yahoo.co.uk
Donna Negus
Essex
The teacher training I offer encourages you to find your unique abilities and voice. You are supported on your teaching journey and encouraged to be both curious and questioning. Courses are offered in Romford, Essex. The course days are in-person but can be recorded. There is an option to participate online if you are unable to attend.
My teaching (and practice) is profoundly influenced by the insights Vanda Scaravelli gave us. I have been taught for over 25 years by her students (Diane Long and the Late Sophy Hoare). This path of yoga is without prescribed boundaries, whereby, the quality of our practice is vital and the cultivation of attention is embedded.
Learning to teach yoga with me will allow you to become familiar, not only with asanas but with the philosophical thought that ensures you will become the yoga teacher you aspire to be.
Email: donna.negus11@gmail.com
Diana O’Reilly
South Wales
Diana O’Reilly has been teaching yoga for more than twenty years, having begun her yoga journey in Toronto, Canada. Her passion for yoga stems from the belief that we can affect the mind, body and spirit together through movement, breathwork and meditation and that yoga creates an alchemy of these to bring us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and realisation of our potential.
Diana has trained with various schools and styles such as Iyengar, vinyasa flow, ashtanga and Scaravelli-inspired. Her own style is influenced by all these schools as well as her own personal work on the mat.
Diana runs foundation and teacher training courses with the British Wheel of Yoga. She is currently Chair of the British Wheel of Yoga.
Email: d-or@hotmail.co.uk
Sunnah Rose
London
Sunnah Rose has been a dedicated yoga teacher since 2002, beginning her journey with studies in India. She later qualified as a British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) teacher and progressed to become both a Foundation Course Tutor and Diploma Course Tutor, delivering both of these courses (Foundation Course and Teacher Training Certificate) in High Barnet, North London.
An active and experienced teacher, Sunnah offers a wide range of classes across North London, including general, pregnancy, and postnatal yoga. She also leads workshops, weekend courses, retreats, and yoga holidays throughout the UK and Europe.
With over 25 years of teaching experience, Sunnah has built a respected and successful career. She is well equipped to guide and mentor aspiring yoga teachers as they begin their professional journeys.
Drawing on training with a variety of teachers, Sunnah creates classes that are deeply relaxing yet dynamic, blending gentle vinyasa flow with hatha yoga to encourage spinal release, creativity, and balance.
Email: sunnahrose@gmail.com
Tiffany Thorne
Cambridgeshire
As a Scaravelli-inspired practitioner with 30 years of experience, Tiffany brings a unique academic and spiritual depth to her teaching. Her background includes:
- Twelve years of Sanskrit scholarship at the University of Cambridge.
- A decade of teaching yogic philosophy within teacher training programs.
Tiffany’s passion lies in creating accessible, embodied learning experiences. By exploring philosophy through the body, ancient texts come to life, allowing teachers to develop a truly authentic voice.
She offers the Advanced Integration Course. Designed for non-BWY 200-hour teachers and BWY certificate holders, this program is the bridge to earning your BWYQ Level 4 Yoga Teaching Diploma. The curriculum blends monthly in-person study days with comprehensive online learning.
Email: tiffanythorne@gmail.com
Brenda Ward
Lancashire
Following a career in Law, Brenda qualified as a Yoga teacher with the BWY in 2004 and, since then, has dedicated herself to sharing the transformative power of yoga with others. She now teaches full time, offering daily online classes, courses, international retreats and workshops, as well as the BWYQ Level 4 Diploma in Teaching Yoga.
In 2022, Brenda qualified as an Ayurveda consultant and runs a weekly Ayurveda clinic offering 121 consultations and personalised therapy plans.
Her retreats include “Walk in, Float Out” (Thailand, March 2027) which offers a transformational week of Yoga, Ayurveda, breathwork, meditation and deep relaxation.
Email: brendayoga@mail.com
Dawn Wesselby
Leicestershire
Dawn has been teaching yoga for twenty five years and teaching diploma and certificate courses since 2007. She loves learning and sharing her knowledge with students to enable them to make yoga part of their daily life. She has a passion for philosophy and the energetic effects of yoga, encouraging students to look beyond the physical benefits to bring peace of mind and contentment. Dawn runs teacher training courses in Lutterworth with Perry Lewis. They work well together, bringing their own unique perspectives to student teachers, balancing the practical with the spiritual. Dawn is also qualified in a number of complimentary therapies and works as an artist. Email: Atamjeetyoga@gmail.com
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