Vanessa Dale's Professional Biography

Vanessa’s background was as a PR Executive for a multinational IT company; her main role was event management. Vanessa took voluntary redundancy in 2000 and decided to use the opportunity to get away from the ‘rat race’ and retrain in a more fulfilling profession, in an area that she felt very passionate about, which was of course yoga.

Vanessa has been practicing yoga for nearly 8 years and qualified in 2003, since then her studies have been an on going process and she now has qualifications in Jivamukti Yoga, Anusara Yoga, British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) Foundation Course, Advanced Yoga Anatomy, Yogabugs and is attuned in Reiki One, Two, Advanced and has her Reiki Masters. She is currently studying Kundalini Yoga and Advance Yoga Therapy and later this year will commence her BWY Diploma. Through her studies she has developed her own style called Hathalini Yoga™, an exciting fusion of Hatha and Kundalini yoga.

Vanessa can also offer yoga as a therapy as either ‘rehab’, gently bringing strength and flexibility back to the body after an injury, or as a preventative measure, she can also offer ‘Postural Analysis and Correction Alignment’, using yoga to bring the body back to balance, and back into alignment.

Vanessa’s expertise is also veering into the sports market, this is a huge market which, with thanks to media exposure, a lot of Sports Persons are now realising the benefits of yoga and incorporating yoga into their training programmes, working on the ethos of ‘prehap not rehab’. She has run a workshop for an established cricket team, and for a South London premiership football team (following on from the workshop for the football team she now also runs private sessions for a few of the players). Vanessa is currently in negotiations with two other premiership football teams and two professional rugby teams.

Vanessa runs regular yoga classes for multinational blue-chip companies, bringing yoga into the workplace. She teaches at the Amida Health club, David Lloyds and Cannons. As well as this she runs her own ‘open’ classes from her studio here she offers a dynamic and challenging class with an emphasis on having fun.

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Vanessa Dale's Personal Biography

In my previous life I was a PR Executive working for a large multi-national IT company. Here I had a very exciting job organising specialised events for the IT press. We used to ‘schmooze’ the press by offering exciting events in the hope that they would write about our products and not our competitors. The type of events on offer was sailing (we are talking BIG sail boats), rugby (corporate style) or the grand prix (the company sponsored McClarens so we got to meet and ‘hang out’ with the drivers so very glamorous you understand). However, the recession hit and the cutbacks hit the marketing and PR budget. I knew it would never be the same again so I took voluntary redundancy and decide to take the opportunity to retrain.

So what did I want to retrain as! I had no idea but the two activities I loved were Ceroc dancing and yoga. Yoga seemed the better option as it had a longer ‘shelf-life’ and the older I became the better example of yoga, and what it can do for you, I would be, were as with Ceroc the older I became the ‘sadder’ I would become. I had visions of me as a little old lady try to teach dance, pausing for a rasping breath. And so the roller-coaster journey with yoga began. The first stop was training in London, every Wednesday getting up at 5am to study Ashtanga which was where my interest initially was but a friend mentioned I may like Jivamukti yoga (who were based in New York), coincidently a birthday trip to New York (how spoilt I am) enabled me to try the Jivamukti yoga which led to me studying it for a whole month, full-time in the wonderful surroundings of Austria. A very intense, torturous, amazing month followed, away from family and freedom.

Well I qualified (amazing! But I earned it I can tell you, I still have my nervous twitch to prove it, the yoga is helping me with that though, just kidding!) and my love for yoga has grown and the more I learn the more amazed I am about this wonderful gift of life, the human body and what a fascinating instrument it is, even an every day event like breathing has a fascinating journey, and if you knew what happened to the body just by breathing you too would be amazed! Each breath delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell, fibre muscle in the body and with each out breath it takes away the waste products the toxins. Did you know most headaches are just lack of oxygen to the brain because we don’t breathe properly we have got into bad habits, we tend to mouth breath which has no filter so the body tries to produce a filter, mucus, which if you are asthmatic is the last thing you need. So you see just by a simple everyday process all this is going on without our awareness on the life inside us, how it all works is truly a miracle and it would be an honour if you would please let me share my yoga with you.

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Namaste
Vanessa

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