Dynamic Flow is a vinyasa yoga class designed to challenge the body while quietening the mind, using a series of varied yoga postures that synchronise the breath with continual flowing movement.
Tell me more about Dynamic Flow yoga!
Most classes will open with sun salutations, include standing and seated asanas (postures), and conclude with a savasana (relaxation).
Dynamic flow yoga classes vary from teacher to teacher as they draw upon their diverse influences and own individual styles – read more about our teachers on the timetable when you come to book your next Dynamic Flow class.
The word ‘dynamic’ indicates that the class has a strong physical focus offering challenges to all students. Teachers will give options and variations of postures to accommodate the class. Dynamic Flow classes are suitable for all levels of practitioner though some experience may be useful. You can expect to get warm and sweaty!
The word ‘Flow’ is used to describe the ‘vinyasa’ – a Sanskrit word which refers the linking of movement and breath together. It can also be literally translated as ‘vin’ meaning ‘to place’ and ‘yasa’, ‘in a special way’ – in other words, to move with intention.
Meet your Dynamic Flow Yoga Teachers!
At Yogarise London, we are lucky to have some of the best Dynamic Flow Yoga teachers in London. Read on to find out more about them in our handy A-Z.
Dan Bennett
Dan Bennett teaches with calming compassion and clarity, to deliver a dynamic and challenging practice. A passionate musician and drummer, as well as a yoga teacher, Dan’s life has revolved around finding rhythm. Rhythm features strongly in his classes through the breath and is enhanced with curated playlists that compliment and accompany the flow.
Dan teaches at Yogarise in Peckham.
Rishin Paonaskar
Rishin Paonaskar grew up in India and although yoga was taught at his school, he didn’t take it up until several years later to recuperate from a cycling injury. In 2012 he left a career in banking to start his own food business and also completed his 200 hour Yoga Alliance training. He has since trained as a myofascial body worker with senior Forrest Yoga teachers Jambo Truong and Brian Campbell, with Judith Hanson Lasater and as a yoga sports coach with the Institute of Yoga Sport Science. Rishin’s Dynamic Vinyasa Flow Yoga classes are challenging but accessible, while his Flow + Restore sessions are a chance to completely relax and reset. Come along to sweat, laugh and play in Rishin’s vinyasa, or enjoy a simple flow (to stretch and strengthen) followed by a delicious restorative sequence, designed to soothe the nervous system.
Richard Knight
Richard Knight, despite flirting with yoga over the years, wasn’t able to carve out a niche for his practice until a total career change. That niche grew and grew, to become a fundamental part of his life. Focusing on the connection between mind and body, Richard’s classes interweave yoga philosophy with creative flows. They will leave you smiling and energised, and reflecting on your practice beyond the mat. Drawing on the various heritages of Vinyasa Yoga, his teaching combines the discipline of Ashtanga with the creativity of Rocket. Expect to be challenged and inspired in both body and mind, knowing that no visit to the mat is ever wasted! He also teaches an accessible chair flow, adapted to suit people with limited mobility, consistent with his belief that yoga truly is for every body. Off the mat, Richard lives in South East London and works in business development for a homelessness charity and as a wedding celebrant. His weekends usually involve a combination of teaching and practicing yoga, and marrying people!
John Collins
John Collins was introduced to yoga almost 20 years ago whilst working in America. The wide variety of benefits soon became very clear and the practice continued… Moving through Ashtanga Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, Dharma Yoga and every Vinyasa Yoga and Power Yoga class around. Some years after beginning he discovered the wonderful Stewart Gilchrist. After many months and many chaturangas he decided to undergo teacher training with Stewart and has been teaching ever since. John aims to teach an authentic, challenging yoga class with and emphasis on breath a smattering of philosophy and good humour. John’s classes are fun and challenging to all – come along for a sweat and a smile.
John teaches in Peckham.
Amy Chilver
Amy Chilver has been practising Yoga for over 16 years. After realising the profound impact it had on her life, Amy trained as a yoga instructor with the desire to share this with others. Amy has over 700 hours of teacher training, and has recently spent 4 months in India where she experienced intense training in pranayama, meditation, chanting, sound healing and asana.
Amy has a degree in Psychology and training in Yoga & mental health and is extremely passionate about finding ways to translate the tools you cultivate on the mat to life off of it. Amy’s classes consist of strong, uplifting and playful asana practice with breathwork and meditation. With plenty of options, she encourages students to take the practice that works for them, whether they have come to their mat to sit and breathe for the whole session or to move more dynamically. Amy’s aim is to hold a space for students to feel welcome, connected, at ease, and with a sense of achievement. Amy’s favourite thing about teaching is the people she meets and she is always open for a chat after class!
Amy teaches at Yogarise Peckham and Streatham.
Becky Farbstein
Becky Farbstein took her first yoga class at a local gym more than seventeen years ago and has been practising ever since. With no background in dance, gymnastics, or martial arts, Becky has always found dynamic yoga to be both challenging and rewarding. In Becky’s classes you can expect a strong and challenging vinyasa flow yoga sequence that fuses precise, anatomically-informed consideration of the physical practice with traditional yoga philosophy. Becky is grateful to all of her teachers and mentors, especially her current teacher, Jason Crandell, with whom she has completed her advanced teacher training certificate. Becky is the lead teacher on the Yogarise 12-month 200hr Yoga Teacher Training (UK, weekends only), starting in January 2024.
Becky teaches at Yogarise Peckham.
Ayesha Sowani
Ayesha Sowani is Indian and grew up in various countries across Asia. She first encountered yoga at a young age through her family and has been practicing ever since. She trained as an upholsterer and found that yoga was a fantastic way to balance her mind and body for a physical job. Her interests and belief in yoga as healing and grounding for both body and mind led her to want to further her understanding and knowledge of the subject in both theory and practice. Ayesha undertook her 200hrs teaching training with Yogarise. Since then she has taught one-to-one and group sessions regularly. Expect a dynamic and energetic vinyasa practice with modifications accessible to all levels, incorporating philosophy, asana and pranayama. In class , your breath is your sound track, creating the metronome for movement.
Ayesha teaches at Yogarise Peckham.
Rebekah Jade
Rebekah Jade spent years studying how to be well through the eyes of medicine and science. It was when yoga came into her life that she understood the full picture of what it means to care for the body, mind and soul. She shares the practices of Vinyasa and Restorative yoga to help others deepen a connection with themselves and experience the power of synchronised breath and movement. Her classes balance strength and stillness. Expect to find elements of pranayama, meditation and anatomical teaching interwoven throughout class. Rebekah is passionate about creating inclusive spaces in yoga and wellness. Her platform, Pana, shares wellbeing practices while celebrating black culture through music and food to welcome diverse communities.
Rebekah teaches at Yogarise Peckham.
Carrianne Hayden
Carrianne Hayden is a life enthusiast with a passion for movement, mental positivity and self love. Her teaching style is motivational, inquisitive and inclusive. Carrianne believes every body is a body bursting with potential and possibilities and uses a non traditional approach to yoga to help her students tap into theirs. With 500+ hours of training and 7 years of consistent teaching in varied environments under her belt, Carrianne aims to makes the student feel supported yet challenged, focussed without over thinking and above all else enough as they already are. Expect a feel good, dynamic, layered flow class building in momentum and fluidity.
Carrianne teaches at Yogarise Peckham and Streatham.
Christa Daboiko
Christa Daboiko is a yoga teacher and mental health pharmacist passionate about integrating approaches to improve physical and mental wellness. After discovering yoga in 2015, she soon developed a regular practice which created a life-changing shift in her mental health. Realising the positive impact this had on her wellbeing, she felt compelled to combine this with her mental health experience and share it with others. Since completing her teacher training, she has been on a mission to improve the representation of diverse backgrounds in the wellness space and expand access to underserved communities that are too commonly overlooked. She is a co-founder of Black Joy x Wellness, a safe sanctuary for BIPOC to prioritise their wellbeing and also hosts regular events to bring people together through yoga. Christa firmly believes that yoga is for everybody, empowering individuals to explore movement, pranayama, and meditation as powerful tools to nurture their mental wellbeing. She teaches dynamic and playful vinyasa classes that create a welcoming space for students to flow creatively through fun, challenging sequences that calm the mind and build strength and flexibility. With an added exploration of philosophy and reflection she encourages students to embrace yoga beyond the physical poses. Expect to vibe, connect deeply with your breath and leave feeling invigorated and refreshed.
Christa teaches at Yogarise Peckham and Queens Park.
Jo Norton
Jo Norton has been a full time yoga teacher since spring 2012. She started practising Bikram yoga in 2004 after struggling with anxiety for a long time. Her practice turned her life around and after 6 years of regular practice she felt very passionate about becoming a teacher herself. Since then she has also completed her Vinyasa teacher training at Hot Power Yoga and is returning to teaching after having a baby. She is also an actor and feels exceptionally grateful to be balancing two careers that she absolutely loves. Jo teaches a strong, dynamic class with lots of kindness and compassion.
Jo teaches at Yogarise Streatham.
Sarah Kelly
Sarah Kelly was introduced to yoga during her time at drama school and found that when things felt hectic, yoga kept her mindful and calm. Sarah encourages lightheartedness throughout practice while always keeping the greater tradition at heart in a practical and relatable way. Sarah believes that absolutely everyone can reap the benefits of strengthening the connection to the body and calming the mind through yoga.
Sarah teaches at Yogarise Streatham.
Jill Martin
Jill Martin, having burnt-out from a 20 year corporate career, relates only too well to the stresses and strains of modern life, and their impact on our physical, emotional and psychological health. Yoga became a key part of her life at a time when her body was exhausted and depleted, and she needed to find a way of managing her stress levels, and to be kinder to her body. 12 years later, Jill lives a completely different life. Her work now spans all aspects of the body and being. As well as teaching yoga, Jill works as a Workshop Facilitator, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Coach, Emotional Healer and Life Alignment Practitioner. Her yoga classes are challenging and playful in the power vinyasa style, integrating different types of stretching, and dynamic moves to build strength, flexibility and resilience… whatever your level. Her classes are empowering and peppered with lessons relating to how our bodies work as well as modern-day spirituality and even quantum physics. She also includes tools from emotional healing to help find freedom from some of the emotional weight we all carry, to leave students feeling lighter, calmer and more grounded.
Jill teaches at Yogarise Streatham.
Sophie Heatley
Sophie Heatley, after graduating from King’s College London with a BA in French with English, decided to do her YTT and has never looked back. She sees the practice as a loyal friend who is always there for you, holding space without judgement or expectation. Sophie has over five years of teaching experience, working with multiple levels and styles, from Chair Yoga to Rocket, Vinyasa, and Yin. Those who practise with Sophie describe the sessions as thoughtful, empowering, creative, and always full of warmth and compassion.
Sophie teaches at Yogarise Peckham and Streatham.
Amanda Denton
Amanda Denton trained as a contemporary dancer at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, but, after a riding accident, turned her attention to the healing arts, qualifying in Massage and Aromatherapy. The discovery of yoga enabled her to come to terms with her injury both mentally and physically. Amanda has experienced and studied a wide range of yoga practices since qualifying as a Sivananda teacher in 2002; her further training includes studying Yogasana with Stewart Gilchrist, Kundalini yoga with Nidhan Kaur, Chakra Vinyasa with Shiva Rea, Tapasya Hot Yoga with Kristin Campbell and more recently Anatomy of the Bhandas and Entering The Bloodstream with Tias Little. In 2017 Amanda completed a 100hr Yin training with the Yoga People. Amanda became a senior registered yoga with (SYT) with Yoga Alliance in 2013 and assisted on the Light Centre Teacher Training with Stewart Gilchrist (200hr) in 2014 and 2015. Amanda teaches yoga as a breathing, moving meditation, an uninterrupted flow of mindfulness and concentration, embracing the eight limbs of Patanjali Yoga. She brings all of her own yoga and healing experiences to her teaching, paying attention to alignment, offering sensitive adjustments, encouraging and supporting the individual to become self-aware and take responsibility for their actions both on and off of the mat. Amanda believes that kindness to the self and others is fundamental to the practise of yoga, and far supersedes perfection in the asana. Amanda has a passion for the amazing, healing benefits of Gong Bath and Sound Therapy and has trained extensively in this field with renowned Gong Master, Leo Cosendai.
Amanda teaches at Yogarise Streatham.
Andy Kobelinsky
Andy Kobelinsky cartwheeled her way around the world with Argentina’s gymnastics team, before settling in London in 2003. And she has been practicing yoga ever since! In 2013, she decided to become a teacher and has now trained in many styles of yoga including Yin, Vinyasa Flow and Forrest Yoga, learning from brilliant teachers such as Biff Mithoefer, Rocky Heron and Noah Maze. Biff has been a great mentor to Andy and has a major influence on how she teaches yoga and lives her life off the mat. You will always leave Andy’s classes feeling uplifted, challenged and positive about your practice. With her great energy, she will always push you to work harder whilst being equally supportive, funny, and soulful in her approach to the mind, body, and soul. The music she plays is such a treat for the ears – Andy has a unique understanding of how much music can affect you. Her great musical taste has seen her create her own Yoga Disco Flow which she has taken to many of the UK’s biggest festivals such as Bestival, Houghton, Funk and Soul Weekender, Wilderness, We Out Here, Soul Circus and Sweaty Betty Live. Andy also runs a unique Yin, Poetry and Live music experience where she creates an environment which always inspires, energises and soothes. For the last 6 years she has run these workshops in the UK and Internationally and has collaborated with many artists including Robyn Herfellow and Bat For Lashes.
Andy teaches at Yogarise Queens Park.
Austin Ince
Austin Ince is an experienced yoga teacher, who came to yoga in an attempt to avoid surgery for a painful lower back condition. The outcome was transformational and he no longer required an operation. Impressed with the results of a daily yoga practice and the life-changing effect it had, Austin turned his back on the music business deciding to become a teacher to share the benefits of yoga with others. He completed his 200hour teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga & Rocket Vinyasa Yoga with It’s Yoga – San Francisco, before continuing his Advanced Rocket Vinyasa Yoga training with The Yoga People. Austin then adding a further Anusara based 500-hour Advanced Teacher Training with Suzanne Slocum-Gori, Noah Mace, Nico Luce and Dr Genieve Burley. He has also studied with the Tapasya Hot Yoga teacher training at Triyoga with Kristin Campbell and has a certification in Yin Yoga from Bernie Clark. He has furthered his yin trainings with Sebastian Pucelle, Murielle Burellier and with Norman Blair. In all completing over 200 hours training in yin and meditation. Austin’s classes are energising, creative and flowing, balancing a strong physical workout with a calming restorative element. He keeps instructions clear, interesting and light-hearted, whilst never losing sight of the serious benefits to his students. He believes that to grow as a teacher it’s important to remain the eternal student. Austin teaches Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga, Power Yoga, Rocket Yoga, Alignment based Vinyasa Yoga and Yin Yoga. As well as teaching classes and giving private one-to-one instruction, Austin has tutored on Yoga Alliance US certified teacher-training courses in London and Goa and is a 500hr yoga teacher.
Austin teaches at Yogarise Peckham and Streatham and Queens Park.
Shamita Ray
Shamita started life as a dance and choreographer, specialising in contemporary dance and bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance). She started practising Iyengar yoga as a means to increase flexibility and complement dance training. A chance wandering into an Ashtanga class one day turned was, until then, a mere hobby, into a lifelong passion, rivalling her love for dance. She went on to undertake 200 & 500 hour teacher training, eventually developing her own style of yoga that combines the precision and alignment of Iyengar, with the breath and dynamism of Ashtanga. Ever curious to explore the many facets of yoga, she has also completed teacher trainings in Yin, Ashtanga, meditation, Forrest Yoga, and Gong Master Training. Most recently, she completed a MA in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation. Shamita teaches regular classes and workshops at Yogarise Queen’s Park and Streatham studios in addition to leading the Sanskrit module on the Yogarise 200hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training.
Shamita teaches at Yogarise Streatham and Queens Park.
Nadeem Ahmad
Nadeem first experienced yoga when he was 45, becoming addicted to the practice once he found a teacher & studio he absolutely adored. His teachers helped him to discover that yoga was more than just a physical practice helping him to find a new path in life. He was fascinated by the effect of yoga on the body and mind and decided to do his 200hr teacher training. His classes, no matter the level, are always following the same steady pace, inviting all of his students to focus on breath, intention and technique with plenty of variations. If you are a beginner you can keep it easy and on the flip side you can take the variations to a much more intense level. And finally, Nadeem always says, keep on practicing and all will be well…
Nadeem teaches at Yogarise Peckham.
Autumn McFarland
Autumn is a certified sound facilitator and yoga teacher whose journey began with a passion for dance. At 18, she moved to LA to pursue a dance career but later returned home, where mental health challenges sparked her path to self-discovery and healing. Through yoga and sound healing, she found solace and empowerment, realising her true calling was to share these transformative practices with others. Her personal journey and dedication to holistic wellness makes her an dedicated and compassionate instructor. In her classes, Autumn’s primary goal is to create a space for students to deepen their connection with themselves, encouraging self-exploration and inner alignment. She focuses on harmonizing the mind, body, and spirit through mindful movement, emphasizing strength, stability, and a profound sense of calm. Participants in Autumn’s classes will leave feeling reenergised, refocused, and ready to face their day with a reawakened sense of well-being. Autumn’s holistic approach fosters emotional, spiritual, and physical healing, guiding students on their journeys toward renewal and balance.
Autumn teaches at Yogarise Queens Park.
Amy Slevin
Amy Slevin is a yoga teacher with a wealth of experience in a variety of disciplines including parkour, gymnastics, dance, athletics and team sports. From her training as an osteopath she has extensive knowledge of bodies and how to get the best out of them from pain relief to fancy tricks. Her yin class takes you on a restorative journey with gentle flowing, rhythmic and repetitive movements to lull you into a supremely relaxed state, ready to send you off to bed and face the world anew the next day.
Amy teaches at Yogarise Queens Park.
Marcia Sharp
Marcia left her management career at the BBC to make yoga her full-time occupation. Marcia has been practising yoga for over 20 years and studying yoga in it’s various forms since 2004. Marcia trained at the acclaimed International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in France (200hrs TTC), and under Sri Dharma Mittra in NYC (500hrs ATTC). The style of yoga that Marcia teaches is based on Dharma Yoga’s strong physical and mental practice that will increase your mobility, flexibility and strength, and each session includes arm balances, headstand and hand balancing – for those who wish to try exploring. Yoga with Marcia is a balanced, healthy and fun way to tone both body and mind; Marcia subtly combines the transformative qualities of the practice and cultivates mindfulness, creativity and exploration – individually and cohesively. Her classes are motivating and challenging, Marcia’s style is adaptable to everyone, she guides you with love and a little banter.
Marcia teaches at Yogarise Queens Park.
Joe Sharp
Joe is an Experienced Yoga Teacher and has taught over 4,700 hours of classes. He’s been teaching full time since 2018 and teaches in some of London’s best studios. He’s also taught Yoga and meditation to a range of organisations including BUPA, L’Oreal and Nestle Health Science. Joe’s teaching style is friendly, positive and engaging. He encourages students to consciously develop a state of heightened awareness, from which they can move through life with less worry and anxiety and more steadiness, ease, and joy. Involved in physical activity and sport throughout his life, Joe has competed internationally as a skier. He has previously worked as a Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor and has an HND in Sports and Exercise Science.
Joe teaches at Yogarise Queens Park.
