Team
EUNICE LAUREL (she|her)
FOUNDER & FACILITATOR
Eunice is a yoga facilitator, and yoga teacher-trainer and educator, with over fifteen years work experience. She has supported women and children in therapeutic and studio settings, with overseas NGOs, London-based charities and in private practice. Eunice is also a clinically trained movement psychotherapist who honed her experience and skills in inpatient psychiatric units with the NHS through the pandemic. She works under the ethos of a trauma-informed intersectional feminist lens.
Eunice considers herself an activist standing alongside many others working to eradicate violence against populations forcefully marginalised and to actively disrupt the social structures that support inequity.
Eunice was born in Manila, raised on the traditional lands of the the Gadigal People of the Era Nation (we now call Sydney), and now resides in London.
VALERIA DEL CASTILLO
VOLUNTEER SUPPORT FACILITATOR
Val is a student of yoga and occasional yoga teacher, having completed her 200-hr yoga training at Yogacampus. She holds a BA in International Relations and Affairs and a Masters in Sexuality and Gender Studies.
She’s an avid reader, a strong mental health advocate and a constant learner. Her daily practice consists of navigating the challenges that arise on her way to live a balanced life.
Val was born and raised in Venezuela and has resided in London for the past ten years. She speaks English and Spanish. She pays her rent by posting on Facebook and Instagram for big companies.
RUTH WESTOBY
ADVISOR & FACILITATOR (YOGA PHILOSOPHY)
Ruth is a doctoral researcher at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
She is fascinated by yoga in both academia and practice, having begun yoga explorations in 1996. Alongside practice and doctoral research Ruth runs workshops and teaches yoga philosophy on some of the principle teacher training programmes in the U.K.
As well as researching for a doctoral thesis in constructions of gender in Sanskrit texts on haṭhayoga, she holds an MA in Indian Religions and continues her study of Sanskrit. She is also the devoted mama of two young boys.
