Our Teachers
Introducing our team of teachers. Having experienced and empathetic teachers that will help to guide you on your yoga teaching journey is one of the most important aspects of any training. Our teaching team come from an array of backgrounds and have years of experience guiding students and teachers of yoga.
Lascel De La’ Bruvs
Lascel was born in Whitechapel in London's East End. It was during his studies as a keen Music Technology student that a traumatic life changing event eventually led him to his passion for teaching yoga (read Lascel's story by following the link below).
Originally trained as a Hot Hatha Yoga Instructor at Bikram's Yoga College of India in L.A. Lascel then went on to share his passion for teaching the world famous 26/2 set sequence far and wide. Initially teaching all over the U.K. he then lived life as a traveling teacher, teaching in Europe, The USA, Australia, Asia and eventually India. It was on a return trip from Australia Lascel was presented with an opportunity to retrain under Michelle Pernetta, one of the UK's most established, experienced senior teachers. He went on to become a regular on the schedule at studios across London for the hugely popular brand of dynamic, modern, inclusive yoga at "Fierce Grace". A growing interest in the philosophy and foundations of yoga as a whole, as well as a continued and growing interest in the modern western interpretation and anatomical focus of asana, eventually led him to take an impulsive extended one way trip to India. He traveled and taught for a few months and eventually enrolled on another teacher training in South Goa. After completing an advanced 300 hour course in modern Ashtanga Vinyasa, Lascel stayed on at the school initially as an assistant teacher for the 200 hour teacher training course to fully immerse himself in his new found love for Ashtanga, Pranayama, Meditation and Yogic Anatomy. He soon went on to becoming a lead teacher on the 300 hour teacher training course that he had completed prior.
Having experienced first hand both the huge physical but more importantly psychological benefits that can come with a yoga practice, Lascel is passionate about sharing these benefits with as many people as possible. He believes that yoga should be accessible for all from the die hard, daily, borderline obsessive intense practitioner of all things yoga, to the guy that heard after 20 years as a plasterer and 4 pints at his local, that a spot of yoga might sort his shoulder out. Lascel's 1000+ hours in various teacher trainings, along with many years of experience as a full time teacher assisting practitioners of all abilities and dispositions, along with his continued passion for his own practice and continued learning is what inspires him to teach from the heart in a compassionate, dynamic, fun and inclusive style.
Morwenna Truscott
Morwenna discovered Ashtanga Yoga whilst training as a dancer at The Laban Centre in London, it soon became apart of her life, developing alongside her career as a dance teacher, eventually over taking it all together. Drawing from her dance background and yoga experience, she teaches flowing Vinyasa Classes with creative transitions and dynamic sequencing. Imaginative cueing allows her students to gain greater insight into their individual body alignments and develop a deeper awareness of their own physicality.
In 2014 she began assisting and leading yoga teacher training courses in Goa, India. During this time she was able to refine her teaching skills, train with great teachers in Mysore and immerse herself into the study and practice of both Ayurveda and Yoga Philosophy, which are still an important influences in her life and teaching to this day. Especially Ayurvedic diet and routine. She feels that Yoga and Ayurveda together form a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness that can lead to greater transformation in your practice, your health and your awareness of others. Just like yoga it is a lifelong learning process that is only improved through practice and experience.
Teachers, yoga, people and podcasts of all kinds continue to inspire and fuel the development of her practice, teaching and exploration of yoga.
Emily Scandone
Emily began exploring yoga in her bedroom on YouTube! This set her on a journey to deeper exploration and gave her a new medium in which to express and inhabit the NOW!
Her background in art reflects and continues to nourish her investigation of what it is to live in the present moment. She achieved a Fine Art degree which focused on the area of context and site specific. Using the medium of performance to consider space and how we can capture the NOW!
In 2018 she completed her first teacher training with us and has been learning, teaching and growing ever since.Her background in gymnastics continues to inform and influence her journey in embodied movement and yoga.
Through yoga and instinctual movement Emily feels you are able to express yourself more authentically, which is central to her teaching style; encouraging others to gather inward in a safe space and to express, embrace and embark with one another as individuals and as a collective. She instructs energetic flows as well as restoring energy within the body.
Yoga is just a tool to find freedom within our body and mind.