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Ailith Anderson - Owner  

Ailith’s teaching style is no-nonsense, but compassionate. In her classes, she prioritises precise instructions, while also leaving space for self-inquiry, and this enables students of all levels to feel confident and supported in their own personal practice. 

While Ailith maintains and respects traditional yogic values, she also regularly looks beyond the yoga mat in search of science-lead movement disciplines and mindfulness techniques. She bakes these into her teaching to form modern, dynamic and anatomically intelligent practices that leave plenty of room for a fun and satisfying class.

Ailith views movement as a puzzle which she is fascinated to explore. She is always learning and is open to discovering new methods of teaching that can continue to make her classes practical and beneficial to students in and out of the yoga classroom. 

​Come join the learning. 

​Ailith is 500 RYT qualified and is the owner of East Side Yoga.

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Bex Hunt 

Rebecca was first introduced to Yoga during her professional dance training, as a complimentary form of exercise to enhance her strength and flexibility. She continued to practice yoga for its physical benefits for several years before taking a two-year break from dancing professionally. However, it wasn’t long into the break before she remembered that she loved the feeling of being connected to her body through movement, so while still needing a rest from the competitive and gruelling dance world, she went back to Yoga. This time Rebecca opened up to the mental health benefits of Yoga, as well as the physical benefits, and she has never looked back. Through Yoga, Rebecca has learnt to be compassionate towards her body, and to let go of competing with herself (although this is still a work in progress!)

Her classes will leave you feeling strong, energised and calm in both body and mind.​

Fern Ross

Fern (500 RYT) first discovered yoga in 2007, when she moved to London to pursue a career as a journalist. Yoga provided a welcome relief to the pressures of the newsroom and fast became a constant as she worked her way up the journalism ladder, winding up as Associate Editor of ELLE UK.
In 2015, she finally took the plunge and completed her 200 hours with Frog Lotus Yoga and Stretch London. Shortly after, she swapped deadlines for downward dogs, and has been teaching full-time ever since, recently completing her 500 hours with Jason Crandell. She is also trained in Yin Yoga (with Norman Blair) and Pregnancy Yoga (Nadia Narian), and undertook a transformative six-month mentorship with Naomi Absalom in 2017. 
Fern teaches alignment-focused vinyasa flow where playfulness and enquiry is actively encouraged, empowering you to progress and adapt your practice to a level that meets you where you’re at.

Nina Romijn

Nina began to take her yoga practice seriously when she moved to Edinburgh in 2015, and found that yoga maintained a grounded, connected and inspired outlook. Nina loves how yoga can give a vibrant embodied experience while still expressing intention and thought. In 2017 Nina completed her 200-hour Vinyasa teacher training with Demelza Feltham and Helen Gillespie of MUDRA Yoga. A Love for the dynamic and empowering nature of vinyasa yoga has strongly influenced Nina's classes,  while she also offers food for thought, space for play, and an opportunity to reinvigorate both body and mind through mindful movement. 

Sharon Iacono

Sharon has been practicing yoga for around 20 years and teaching for just over 4.
Sharon's original 200 hour certification is in Hatha Raja Yoga, based around Ashtanga and Vinyasa. Sharon also gained a further 200 hours in Yin and Therapeutic Yoga and completed a 5 day intensive CET with Jambo Truong in Forrest Inspired Yoga. All of these disciplines inspire her teaching styles today.
​Sharon believes that yoga is a really good complimentary practice for every activity that puts pressure on the muscles, fascia and joints. Her classes are generally a mix of yoga styles dependent on the class, but they will all involve building strength, flexibility and stretching those overused muscles and working deep into the fascia. 

Francesca Tognaccini

Francesca’s passion for Yoga stemmed when she began regularly practising Ashtanga, discovering the benefits of connecting breath, body and mind, allowing her to cope better with difficult moments in life without completely burning out. The benefits which came with her frequent practice convinced her that even through life’s hard times, balance can be restored with Yoga, and she believed then as she still does today, that this beautiful discipline can be harnessed and applied by everyone allowing all to reap the rewards. This belief convinced Francesca to become a Yoga teacher and pursue her desire to share her knowledge and help others.

In her classes you will be guided through alignment focussed Vinyasa flows designed to build physical and emotional strength as well as enhance balance and promote flexibility. You will find that her kindness and compassionate teaching style will ease even demanding moments in class, making challenging poses possible and fun, and allowing you to focus on your own movement, knowing you are in safe hands.

Paula Radziszewska

Struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression herself, Paula is passionate about mental health and bringing awareness into the impact movement and breath has on the mental and physical health. Acknowledging that both movement and relaxation combined with breath work can really improve our wellbeing.
She’s trained in Vinyasa, Yin and Acu Yin styles and started her 150h foundation training in Yoga Therapy this year. She's attending regular workshops to deepen her knowlege and is not shy to ask more experienced teachers for advise and guidance if needed. 
She's teaching Yin and Restorative classes with focus on "using the practice to get into the body, rather than using the body to get into the practice." (B.Clark) During her classes Paula recognizes that everyone is different and aims to create a safe space for you to learn to observe & honour your limits and abilities.

Sarah Taylor

On returning to Edinburgh after six years, Sarah discovered yoga in 2014 and immediately fell in love with the effect it had on her body. After suffering ill-health for a number of years and being unable to do any form of exercise, she found that yoga helped her to slowly rebuild strength and flexibility whilst instilling a sense of calm.
In January 2018, Sarah completed her 200 hour Yin Yang teacher training with Dhugal Meachem here in Edinburgh.  Having practiced many styles of yoga and  being drawn towards the more dynamic styles she grew an appreciation of the complementary passivity of Yin yoga.  Nowadays you can find her teaching Vinyasa, Power and Yin.  Sarah’s teaching style emphasises alignment through clear instruction and demonstration. She hopes to share the amazing benefits of this ancient practice to help everyone find health and happiness.​

Elspeth Talbot

Elspeth has been involved in health and fitness for over thirty years.  Initially training with Fitness Scotland as an Exercise to Music Instructor and for many years choreographing and teaching Aerobics and Step. 
The holistic wellbeing yoga offers at all levels and ages has become a genuine passion for Elspeth.  Currently she teaches Ashtanga & Vinyasa Flow classes at Queen Margaret University where Elspeth also works as a Graphic Artist.  Elspeth's style has a clear emphasis on alignment, guided dialogue, and demonstration, including options for all abilities.