Ashley has been both a student and teacher of yoga for over 25 years in numerous locations around the world.

Ashley’s focus is on adaptations that make yoga accessible on all levels. He is a registered nurse and a trauma therapist and brings with him decades of experience in yoga, mental health work and people development. He is inspired by helping others to take a leap of faith, and watching them reap the rewards.

Iyengar and Vinyasa form the foundations of his practice and with a move to New York City he started to run a teacher training facility, teaching new yoga teachers in GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®.

Now back in the UK Ashley teaches BROGA® and assists in the delivery of teacher trainings. He brings with him these decades of experience in yoga, teaching and also psychiatry.

Ashley is inspired by helping others to take a leap of faith, and watching them reap the rewards.

During his nurse training in Bristol he started to dance. A fellow student took him to a class on Jacob’s Wells Road and although she never returned he never looked back. A whole world was opened up – the world of his physical body. Having hated sports at school he had written off his physical self as something to complain about – ‘my this is too that’, ‘if only I was a bit more XYZ’. Having found a new relationship with his body he moved to Holland to embark on a crazy journey into the world of experimental dance that in turn led him to the discipline of ballet. As yoga had always been a passion, once he decided to stop dancing it was a natural progression to take his yoga teaching further. Living with his partner in New York City he ran a teacher training facility and trained other teachers.

The experience of life comes in many forms – the body, the emotions, the thoughts. Understanding these experiences is a strong human driver; accepting them for what they are can be harder. Ashley does not promote anything that is esoteric or alienating and believes anyone can find a journey into their whole selves often using the gateway of the body as many people do through a yoga class. His values include integrity, honesty and discipline. Ashley prides himself on being present, for plain speaking and celebrating achievements together.