At WestEndYoga, we aim to ease the stresses and strains that everyone encounters at some stage of their lives, both personally and professionally.
We strive to empower individuals, companies and families to make lives happier, healthier and more productive, to give people the tools to fulfil their full potential.

Meet The Team

Helen Crowdey
Managing Director, Yoga teacher, Mother and Passionate about Life.

Originally a London girl, Helen has been practicing yoga for many years, since discovering it at University.  "Yoga has been my best friend through many trying times" she says, "I love to share what I have learnt along the way in the hope that it helps others".

Helen is a qualified Power  Vinyasa Flow teacher, who  trained in Maya Tulum, Mexico with Sean and Karen Conley from Amazing Yoga, USA,  accredited by Yoga Alliance. Helen is also a qualified children's yoga teacher, having trained with YogaBugs, Yoga'd Up and Tatty
Bumpkin and accredited with Active IQ.

Helen passionately believes that yoga is for everyone and as well as leading challenging power yoga classes, she also teaches more gentle variations including: A very gentle Saturday morning group for her local community. She has also taught 'Gentle yoga for ladies in saris' (a Bengali women's group),  and yoga for disabled youths. Helen enjoys working with children, "..they are our future, we must treasure them and teach them well."

Helen is a Yoga Registered Teacher (YRT) with the Independent Yoga Teachers Network and a member of the British Association of Yoga Teachers (BYTA)

Jane Davison
Finance Manager, Yoga Teacher, Meditation Guide and Therapeutic Massage Practitioner.

Jane is passionate about well being and believes that the best way to a healthy body is by working towards a healthy mind.  Jane has been practising Transcendental Meditation (TM) for over 10 years and has been practising Yoga for over 8 years.  Jane believes that it is the combination of both practises which have helped her to maintain a positive outlook on life amongst the daily pressures of city living.
Jane started her career training as a make-up artist at the London College of Fashion, and then quickly moved into the field of Interior Design where over the next 12 years she helped build and run a successful business within the industry.

Her love for the holistic approach to life, lead Jane to complete a Massage Course in 2004 at the London College of Massage where she qualified as Therapeutic Massage Practitioner, where she also completed an Indian Head Massage Course in 2008. 

In December 2007, Jane decided to pursue her love of Yoga and left the world of interior design.  She is now a fully qualified Sivananda Yoga Teacher, trained in Dahab, Egypt under the instruction of Barbara Gordon and accredited by Yoga Alliance.  Jane is also a qualified YogaBugs Teacher, accredited by Active IQ and regularly teaches Yoga to children in schools and nurseries within central London.

Zizi Kanaan
Music Tutor, Yoga Teacher
Originally from the USA, Zizi teaches adult and children's yoga and is qualified with Sivananda, YogaBugs, Yoga'd Up. Zizi combines combines yoga with a wonderful musical career...

Rosie McKay
Actress, Drama teacher and Yoga Teacher

Rosie stumbled, literally, into a yoga class around the time she turned 18. Since then she has experimented with various methods whilst enjoying a hectic, fun-filled life in the theatre until finally she settled into a daily ashtanga practice and naturally moved into teaching yoga by assisting her own teacher, Joey Miles.

She now brings all the creative energy of the theatre to her YogaBugs and Yoga’d Up classes in sessions that are imaginative, joyful and ultimately soothing.

Rosie has practiced yoga with teachers all over the world including Pattabhi Jois in Mysore and  John Scott in Cornwall, she completed a formal teacher training qualification with Paul Dallaghan in Thailand at his Centred Yoga Institute and went on to qualify to teach children through YogaBugs. Rosie believes yoga should be taught from a heart filled with laughter.

Sarah Soderberg
Massage Therapist, Children's yoga teacher, Mother.
Sarah is from Sweeden, she is a qualified massage therapist and childrens yoga teacher with YogaBugs and Active IQ Sarah is also studying with the British Wheel of Yoga, having completed the British Wheel Yoga Foundation course.

Patricia Olabre
Children's Yoga teacher
Patricia hails from the Philippines but has lived most of her adult life in Germany. She is a qualified childrens yoga teacher with YogaBugs and Active IQ. Now in her second year of teacher training in the Krishnamacharya tradition, she will be a certified British Wheel of Yoga teacher when she graduates in June 2009. She was introduced to yoga through the Brahma Kumaris, where she learned Raja Yoga and meditation in 2003. Since then, yoga has played a very important part in her life. She has attended several retreats and workshops in the pursuit of good health and happiness.

Peter Wright
Massage Therapist, Children's yoga teacher
Is a qualified massage therapist and childrens yoga teacher with YogaBugs and Active IQ Peter is also studying with the British School of Yoga.

WestEndYoga - The History
For years, Helen Crowdey has been practicing yoga and applying what she learns on her mat to her life - having to translate and adapt her lessons to suit her busy lifestyle as a single mother and a business woman living in the hectic and very demanding West End of London, Helen's 'WestEnd' style of yoga led her to create WestEndYoga - the yoga for big city living!
Helen spent four years as a children's yoga teacher, taking YogaBugs and Yoga'd Up to inner city kids in schools, nurseries and children's centres before taking on the London branch of YogaBugs, in the process of doing this Helen was constantly approached by the parents and teachers of these children, who, when witnessing the benefits of yoga on the children, wanted to practise themselves. Adult clients range from stressed teachers, mothers with post-natal depression and parents with highly stressful careers and no time to attend a yoga class.   Realising that the team of YogaBugs teachers working together with the children all had various wonderful and different styles of adult yoga and holistic skills on offer, WestEndYoga was born. The story continues...