Meet our Teachers I - Jules

We give you a chance to get to know our wonderful teachers a bit more. About their journey to yoga, personal practice and teaching, tips and thoughts that inspires and motivates their everyday life and classes.

This month, we asked Jules Caird to share her story with us…

‘I came to yoga through meditation, which I started practising as an undergraduate at university, to help deal with life as a student. That lead to me going on Buddhist meditation retreats and exploring yoga classes down in Brighton where I was studying. 

When I moved back to London, I started going to Norman Blair’s Yin Yoga classes at the North London Buddhist Centre, which seemed vital to maintain balance whilst living in London. Now I teach there myself, attempting to hold the space that I found so necessary, all those years ago. I love the circular nature of the practice, that we are not trying to get anywhere - and it makes sense I ended up back teaching in the same room that I first felt the magic of yoga really integrate into my life.  

I didn’t plan to become a yoga teacher when I did the 300-hour teacher training with Norman and Melanie, but I listened to Norman’s encouragement and the cliches are true, it was life-changing.  

This all led to deciding to commit (and it has been a big commitment!) to do the 550+ hour Diploma in Yoga Therapy with Yogacampus. 

This has really refined and increased my skills in how to apply the philosophy and offerings of yoga in classes with students, and in my own practice. It means I am trained to work 1:1 therapeutically with people with a vast range of conditions, using the yogic framework of healing. 

My classes are currently inspired by the two-year journey I am on to become a Yoga Therapist, the awesome lectures I attend as part of that, and also by the teachers I practice with myself. 

My own practice at the moment is: waking up a bit earlier so I can write, I write at least 3 pages a day, and then a breathing practice (pranayama), leading into mediation. From there I take stock of what I might need that day.

Some days I go to a class, some days I self- practice, some days I go boxing, some days I use the time to have a long hot bath and do a Yoga Nidra. 

Yoga for me is about creating space in my life every day to check-in, and from there offer myself what I might need. This supports me to connect outwards, with the community around me ( I also work in the NHS). 

Outside of yoga, I enjoy reading - I read a lot (at the moment I am devouring memoirs written by women), being outdoors, working with children with my other hat on as a Speech and Language Therapist, ART, and - my number 1 favourite- going out to dinner.’

If you’d like to practise with Jules, she teaches every Thursday evening 7:15 - 8:15 Vinyasa for all levels.