My name is Hannah, and I practice yoga rooted in non-dual Śaiva-Śākta Tantra.
My first experience of yoga was a blissful moment as a child, playing in my mum's local class. Growing up without much spiritual anchoring and the pressures of individualistic, westernised societies, like many of us, I played out stories of isolation, punishment and forgetting. It was a chance meeting with a yoga teacher at the uni gym that brought me back to the mat. In Becky, something in me recognised her spark, and in her classes I felt a loving presence that enabled me to practice coming home.
Celebrated below, the teachings and my teachers have helped me hold my yearning for the connection, depth and belonging in community so often sacrificed in our exploitative social structures. The practice has ignited a love in my heart for inquiry, “re-membering”, and nurturing our true selves as interdependent beings of our Earth and her elements. I love yoga for helping us walk each other home.
I'm also delighted to dance as a co-founder with Threads Dance Collective in Bristol.
My teachers
Among my yoga teachers (alive and beyond) are Sam Burkey, Becky Szwandt, Atiya Khan, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Prem Sadasivananda, Ram Dass, Sarah Harlow, Antoaneta Goeta, Christopher Gladwell, Christopher "Hareesh" Wallis, as well as being guided by the teachings of the ancient sages such as Vasugupta and Abhinavagupta through the texts. My main focus is on non-dual Śaiva-Śākta practices.
My current teachers in Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy are Garth Naudé and Alan Stoddart. Informing this learning on my commutes are Tara Brach, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Joseph Goldstein, Gil Fronsdal, with Christian perspectives from Cynthia Bourgeault.
My teachers in voicework are Bryony Greenhill and Eliza Kenyon, and in dance Alex Mackay, Leigh Tolson, Saar Harari, Natalia Iwaniec, Iwona Olszowska, Sándor Petrovics, Dominique Savitri and Emma Roberts, among more from Gaga, 5 Rhythms and its offshoots.
My training in Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is with James Winstanley, a direct student of Master Kusum Modak, via the Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Institute.
“Officially”, I have spent 600+ hours in facilitator training, mostly with Yogasara in Bristol.
Reach out
You're welcome to contact me for a conversation about what you need from your yoga practice, ask about joining a group event, or to arrange a massage:
E-mail hannahkramayoga@gmail.com
Phone/WhatsApp/Signal 07983 214 768
Call your spirit back from all the places it has wandered,
invite your fragments to unite
and watch them shine
in a sacred council of renewal
in your own front garden.
- Molly Remer