Our Team, Teachers & Facilitators
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Want to reconnect and join a facilitator in their local or online sessions?
See below for where to find them or how to make contact.
Alicia Chasteau
Dance, Yoga & Sound.
Founder of Ubuntu Spirit
Alicia is a group exercise instructor with over 15 years teaching experience and more recently Yoga. Alicia is passionate about sharing healing modalities, which include restorative yoga and she is currently finishing a Diploma in sound healing.
Founder of Ubuntu Spirit, Alicia is passionate about making wellbeing more accessible, bringing diversity and representation to the wellness sector, and building community, often drawing on her background in Social Work and Community Work.
Cousins Alicia and Taron-i work together to organise the retreats. Their aim is to offer fitness, wellness, rest and connection, that is accessible financially, inclusive and delivered by a diverse group of facilitators.
Regular Classes:
Restorative Yoga & Sound in Twickenham & Richmond
Taron-i Sylvester
Fitness, Mobility
Co-Founder of Ubuntu Sprit Retreats
Taron-I is an experienced Personal Trainer with over 15 years of experience.
Having worked with a range of clients from those with severe mobility issues to world champion athletes, Taron-i brings a wealth of knowledge in all things strength and fitness. Specialising in the use of biomechanics he aims to patiently teach key techniques to better your physical wellbeing, manage pain and improve function.
On retreats he will be holds workshops on mobility, stability and posture. You will leave sessions with the tools to identify and correct any imbalances or restrictions in your body. He also be offers assisted stretch and massage sessions.
Regular Sessions:
Personal Training and movement assessments Ealing Broadway. Also learning and development for trainers.
Faye Edwards
Dance & Stretch
Celebrity trainer, founder of F.I.T Jam Dance Movement, and Master Trainer at Johnson Digital, Faye Edwards is renowned for her high energy and positive influence in the fitness space.
Faye’s inclusive approach is that each individual journey is their own. Every ‘body’ is different, and every body is capable!
Expect to feel empowered and motivated in Faye’s F.I.T sessions.
Regular pop sessions and day retreats around London. Zanzibar Retreat Winter 2025.
Louis Walcott
Yoga & Fitness
As a coach, Louis helps people achieve meaningful lifestyle changes by empowering them to take control of their fitness, nutrition and mindset.
Louis is also founder of Mandem on the Mat, a community providing immersive experiences through events and workshops in Yoga, Meditation and Sound Healing for black men to practice.
On our retreats Louis offers sessions in both yoga and fitness.
PT in Central London.
Kay Smith
African Drumming, Percussion & Song
Kay has been playing djembe for the last 15 years and loves to both teach and perform. Kay likes to describe her sessions as an introduction to the 'Joys of Djembe'. She loves what she does and it makes her incredibly happy to share her passion with others. This shines through in Kay's uplifting, joyous and infectious fun energy. Kay’s goal is to create an enjoyable experience for all levels and experience of participants.
African Drumming in Ealing monthly with us.
African Drumming Thursday fortnightly in Barons Court.
Donna Peart
Hatha & Restorative Yoga
Donna specialises in and will be offering Hatha and Restorative Yoga with a focus on breath awareness. Donna's style is mindful, encouraging students to intuitively find their way, developing their practice at their own individual pace. Donna is also a Level I / II Reiki Practitioner.
Teaches in West & North West London.
Weekly Yoga classes in Triyoga Ealing.
Zeena Kalisperides
Hatha & Ashtanga Yoga and Spinal Energetics
Zeena is a yoga teacher with over 20 years of personal practice. After practicing as a general dental surgeon for several years, she felt a natural pull to shift careers, transitioning into yoga teaching in 2013.
Zeena has a deep passion for living well through yoga, green living, and mindfulness.She believes in using yoga as a tool to create strength, presence, and flow, both on and off the mat.
On our summer retreat, she will also be offering Spinal Energetics sessions in both group and one-to-one formats, guiding you through energy work that connects deeply with the body and helps release tension stored in the spine.
Zeena is also offering group sessions in Spinal Energetics with us. Click here for these.
www.zeenakaliyoga.wordpress.com
Violeta Camarero
Art Therapy & Vision Board Workshops
"I wholeheartedly believe in the transformative power of art, convinced that engaging in creative expression fosters self-awareness and brings about healing. Let's embark on this journey of self-discovery and well-being together"
Violeta Camarero is an enthusiastic, grounded and caring Art Psychotherapist who trained at Hertfordshire University (UK). Violeta is trained to facilitate art therapy sessions for people to explore their mental health and wellbeing through the relationship in order to learn to manage better any issues arising and gain emotional literacy and resiliency.
Violeta works therapeutically with children, adolescents and families in education as well as in the National Health Service and the Youth Justice Service in London. Violeta is a genuine believer that showing up for ourselves through making art brings self awareness and healing.
Holds regular Vision Board or Art sessions for us in Ealing. Currently on maternity leave.
Yasmine Kadhim
Artist & Illustrator
Yasmine is our creative lead. Running our instagram account, website design and also running art sessions as part of our community offering.
Yvonne O'Garro
Hatha & Restorative Yoga
Yvonne’s Hatha Yoga teaching is mindful, grounded and alignment focused, encouraging a conscious breath during classes to keep connected to self.
Passionate about Restorative Yoga and the benefits it can have on our bodies, Yvonne loves to share the practice that helped her navigate life with more ease
and calm with others. Yvonne has recently completed a 60-hour Yoga for Cancer training that will help those impacted by cancer, to feel empowered as they move their bodies and reconnect to their breath,
to reduce the side effects of their treatments.
Raimonda Richards
Yin Yoga, Sound & Gong, Breathwork
Raimonda Richards has been practicing yoga for 20 years and teaching for 13 years. Raimonda studied Kundalini Yoga with Shiv Charan Singh, a direct student of Yogi Bhajan.
Raimonda studied a Gong Sound Practitioners course with Gong Master Don Corneux who also studied and worked together with Yoghi Bhajan. Later she undertook the Gong sound practitioners course with Tom Solton and Abbi de Sol.
Through completion of a Shamanic practitioners course, her interest moved to study and practice work on the subconscious mind. Raimonda uses this as a focus in her classes and workshops to help people to release subconscious blocks.
Teaches in West London. Weekly Classes in Ealing & Acton.
Karen Hope
Meditation, Healing & Treatments
On our retreats Karen will be offers group sessions including nature walks and meditations, plus one to one therapy sessions in reiki, energy healing and spiritual guidance.
Khaled Kendsi
Iyengar Yoga
He has attended classes in RIMYI in Pune several times, where he studied with the Iyengar family and helped in the medical classes. Khaled is attentive and helpful, with deep understanding of the precise methods of Iyengar yoga.
Khaled works as a Cardiac Physiologist for the NHS and is qualified in Immediate Life Support.
Teaches in West & North West London.
