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About The People and teachers at Tara's Retreat
Anne-Marie Newland
Anne-Marie writes for numerous health, fitness and yoga magazines and is a consultant to Sport and Dance. Her past life as a punk rock drummer and fashion designer has taken her to speak on the radio and TV about life changing moments and the practice of yoga. As an Anglo-Iraqi Anne-Marie follows politics with deep interest and has at times, like most people, found that her yoga, heritage and politics can sometimes make for a rocky road. Imagine though how much harder that road would be without yoga as a place to rest into and out of.
For details of Anne - Marie's teacher training course at Tara's Retreat in September please email us and check out
www.sun-power-yoga.co.uk
Yoga Teacher George Phillips
George started practicing yoga in early 1980 first with Rita Bancroft and later with Ruth White. in 1996 a teacher called Ginny Kempster asked if he would like to go on a Retreat with her tutor Monica Burton. At the end of the retreat Monica asked if George had considered doing teacher training - so in September 1997 he started training with the British Wheel of Yoga. In 1998 George covered his first class in Cheam, more classes followed it seemed that this was where he was destined to be. The teaching diploma was gained in 2003 by which time George was taking several classes. He teaches a mixture of styles all based on Hatha Yoga. He regularly attends workshops and training days to further his own development. Outside of Yoga his hobbies include canoeing, sailing, walking, cycling, swimming i.e. anything active and carpentry. Ambitions many & various including setting up his own Yoga Centre that can offer classes and therapies, courses and training.
George has a very healthy following in the Surrey area and is a gentle and inspiring teacher.
Lizzie Bicknell Yoga teacher
I have been teaching yoga since the 80s. I first studied with the Wheel and then FRYOG and have spent 20 years concentrating on Iyengar yoga. Having suffered back pain as a teenager I have developed my own style, concentrating on good alignment and spine improvement. Although reading the philosophy is interesting it is the very nature of working in the Yoga postures in detail that draws the mind into the present. By feeling each move and how it is affecting you personally you can learn a lot about your body and how to move safely. This helps the beginner and the more advanced. My technique helped me quickly recover full health after a bad skiing accident. You need not have done any Yoga before as I will guide you through each move. The more advanced can take the posture to the next stage. I am keen on how the philosophy can help in practical ways in the modern world.
If you are into Yoga then you cannot do without Lizzie's amazing take on the method and how it helps to align your body and increase your ability to do other forms of exercise
Annette has a passion for the Arts in general with dance being top of the list.She spent her childhood, dancing (ballet,tap,modern stage,historical to name a few styles.) Unable to get a grant to train at the London School of Contemporary Dance she studied Laban technique for 3 years and then embarked on a teaching career. Here in Spain she teaches modern jive and Latin line dance.
Some of Annette's artwork adorns the walls of the studio space at Tara's Retreat and she also teaches a local art class.
She came late to art, undergoing a Foundation Course in art and design as a mature student followed by a B.Tech. in textiles.
Annette also reads Goddess Tarot cards and has provided readings for some of the visitors to Tara's Retreat. When she is not doing any of the above she is writing poems some of which will feature in an up and coming book about the sea, (yet another passion), alongside photographs taken by a talented friend.
 Sarah is a Divine channel, healer and facilitator of individuals and groups helping people to reconnect with the essence and power of their Soul. Sarah embodies the energies of the Divine Mother and specifically The Magdalene energies, the feminine aspect of The Christ energy. She has a gentle yet powerful way of facilitating other peoples’ deep transformation ultimately enabling them to find their inner Truth, Power and Wisdom. She lives near EwellVillage, Surrey in England with her husband and two young children.
Penny Rattle is one of our facilitators on the WeighLess4Life programme
 Penny is a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner and an Advanced Energy Meridian Therapist specialising in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). She has a therapy practice – Breeze of Change - based in West Ewell, Surrey where she assists people in overcoming those things that are holding them back. She has helped many people gain a successful, happier, more fulfilled life. Penny was very successful in her corporate career when she realised she wasn’t fulfilling her mission to help people and make a difference to them. This was when she started training in the therapeutic disciplines she has now become expert in. She is an advocate of educating people to be in control of their thoughts and emotions in any situation, so they can feel empowered and achieve more than they ever thought possible – as many of her clients are happy to pay testament to. www.breezeofchange.co.uk
Rene Nott is 39 years old and the mother of two teenagers.
 'I walked in to an Astanga class for the first time over 7 years ago and
fell utterly in love. I have been practicing religiously since and started teaching in the spring of 2004 after having trained with David Swenson, David Williams, Daniel De Bora and Brian Cooper, the latter was a year of ongoing studies travelling up to Edinburgh monthly'. 
Daniel Rust is a British Mosaicist who draws inspiration and creativity for his mosaics from living in Spain. Daniel works in the medium of hand cut glass and tessarae mosaic tiles; his aim is to produce mosaic commissions that are beautiful, unique and fulfil the need for functional, permanent works of art.
Daniel is a resident at Tara's Retreat and has produced some beautiful work there
Daniel Rust
Kathryn Timms
Kathryn's Journey.......... 
Four and a half years of sleep deprivation and feeling desperate. Not willing to admit I was drowning and suffering from Postnatal depression, I dragged my body to a meditation class. One evening an enlightened lady described this unusual sounding process to me, called The Journey...................
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