Meet The Team

Our teachers come from all walks of life and a variety of professions. We all share a passion for supporting women (and birthing people) through pregnancy, birth and life as new mums! Everyone here has completed their LushTums Teacher Training Courses to a Standard of Excellence and we are delighted to be a part of their journey.

Leadership

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    Clare Maddalena

    FOUNDER & CREATOR OF LUSHTUMS

    Clare created LushTums back in 2007 after the birth of her first child and seeing how beneficial yoga was to her own pregnancy, birth and motherhood journey. You’ll still find Clare teaching her much loved classes and workshops in Brighton & Hove.

    Brighton & Online

Teachers in the South East

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    Clair Edwards

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Clair trained in 2013 on our first teacher training course.

    Brighton
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    Katherine Wilding

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Kath teaches in Patcham on the outskirts of Brighton.

    Patcham
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    Anna Richmond-Ried

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Anna teaches in Shoreham in the Adur area.

    Adur
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    Kate Anderson

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Kate trained in 2013 on our first teaher training course.

    Haywards Heath
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    Sarah Harding

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Sarah trained in 2013 on our first training course.

    Haywards Heath
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    Vashti Ballard

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Vashti teaches in Worthing and will soon be adding Postnatal Yoga too.

    Worthing
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    Amy Hebben_Wadey

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Amy also teaches Women’s Yoga classes and WiggleBums Yoga

    Eastbourne
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    Mae Dewsbery

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Mae trained in 2013 on our first course and teaches in Hastings.

    Hastings
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    Katie Reynolds

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Katie’s lovely classes are warm and welcoming.

    East Surrey
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    Candy Myhill

    PREGNANCY YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Candy also offers a range of services to support bumps & babies.

    Chichester
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    Ruth Egerton-Stein

    PREGNANCY YOGA & BIRTH PREP CLASSES

    Wonderful Ruth, with decades of teaching dance and becoming a grandmother.

    Chichester
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    Josie Pepa

    HOLISTIC BIRTH COACH & PREGNANCY YOGA TEACHER

    Mum of 3 and passionate about pregnancy and postnatal transitions.

    Lewes

Teachers in the East

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    Emilie Gourgue

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Emilie used to practise as a midwife and now teaches LushTums in London and online to English and French speakers

    West London + France & Belgium
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    Rebecca Riboldi-Young

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Rebecca teaches in Hamstead, North London

    North London
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    Emma White

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Coming soon to South West London!

    South West London
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    Chloe Free-Taylor

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    You’ll find Chloe offers LushTums classes plus other services to mums and babies in Kent.

    Cranbrook Tunbridge Wells
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    Kat Slack

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Kat offers a ranges of lovely classes to pregnant women and mums in Ramsgate

    Ramsgate
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    Eszter Dobsi

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Eszter offers classes in English and Hungarian locally in Billericay and also online in Hungarian.

    Billericay Hungary
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    Ruth Edwards

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Ruth offers a range of classes to support mums, bumps and babies.

    Milton Keynes
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    Kate Moult

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Kate offers a range of bump and baby classes in St Albans.

    COMING SOON
  • Sam Kirrage.

    Sam Kirrage

    Midwife Sam was a LushTums mum turned LT teacher and offers Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Prep.

    COMING SOON
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    Ashley Asiedu

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Join Ashley in North Chingford, East London for birth and baby classes.

    East London

Teachers in the West & South West

  • Clair McGill

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA & WOMEN’S YOGA

    Clair is our OG Bristol teacher. She is also a doula and holistic sleep coach.

    DOWNEND & REDLAND
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    Kim Mousley

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND WOMEN’S YOGA

    Kim also offers hypno-birthing courses and is a birth and postnatal doula.

    Hanham Keynsham Bristol
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    Kate Bulman

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND WOMEN’S YOGA

    Kate also offers fertility yoga and doula support.

    Horfield Redland Bristol
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    Katrina Cailfi

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Join Katrina in Patchway, Bristol.

    Patchway Bristol
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    Chloe Giuffrida-Sage

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Join Chloe in the Bedminster area of Bristol for fun and nourishing classes.

    Bedminster Bristol
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    Chelsea McKillop

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Join Chelsea in the Downend area of Bristol.

    Downend Bristol
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    Mary Hillyard

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Mary teaches in Bath and from her garden studio in Wick.

    Wick Bath
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    Marie Hanley

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA & WOMEN'S YOGA

    Creating community for mums in Andover, Pewsey Vale and surrounding villages.

    Pewsey Andover
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    Sophie-Jo Lusted

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Join classes from bump to baby.

    Worcester Malvern
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    Thea Abbott

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Classes launching in Devon soon!

    Totnes Devon
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    Dulcie Batt

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Dulcie offers hypno-birthing and lovely retreats and supports women from bump to baby.

    Bournemouth Poole
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    Jenna Foster

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    You can also join Jenna for hypno-birthing and her Mother’s Collective initiative.

    Wimborne
  • Emily Wimperis Pregnancy Yoga in Ross-On-Wye

    Emily Wimperis

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Physio Emily offers nourishing classes in ovely Ross-On-Wye

    Ross-On-Wye

Teachers in Wales

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    Tracy Pink

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA, WOMEN’S YOGA & KIDS YOGA

    Plus parent craft classes and everything in between.

    Monmouth Ross-On-Wye
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    Nicola Rous-Morgan

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA AND ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Midwife Nikki now offers LushTums classes along with hypno-birthing courses.

    Port Talbot
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    Claire Walby-Kettle

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Plus Claire runs a range of fabulous mum and baby interactive classes.

    Swansea
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    Rebecca Smith

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Join Bex for her local supportive and nurturing cloasses.

    Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly
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    Gabi Chaney

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    And coming soon, Antenatal Education Courses too!

    Penarth
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    Laura Wynn

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Creating community for mums and mums to be.

    ABERGAVENNY

Teachers in the North, Scotland and Ireland

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    Jaina Bhana-Mistry

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Plus yoga for all with Jai.

    Manchester
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    Jade Moore

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Creating community and bringing the joy of yoga to mums-to-be and mums.

    Tameside
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    Amy King

    PREGNANCY YOGA & ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Helping mums-to-be in pregnancy and birth.

    Derby
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    Anna Skatun

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Offering LushTums Pregnancy Yoga and Birth Prep classes in and around the local area.

    Edinburgh
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    Kelly McDonald

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Preparing you and your birth partner in pregnancy for giving birth and having a baby.

    Belfast

We’ve gone global!

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    Sasha Kolbusz

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA

    Sasha teaches in downtown Manhattan.

    New York USA
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    Lizzie Hodkinson

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Plus lots of regular yoga classes!

    Vancouver Canada
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    Habby Sævarsdóttir

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Sharing movement and birth education.

    Reykjavík Iceland
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    Halla Björg Lárusdóttir

    PREGNANCY YOGA

    Midwife and birthing hub teacher.

    Reykjavík Iceland
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    Emilie Gourgue

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Teaches classes to French speakers in London, France and Belgium

    France
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    Eszter Dobsi

    ANTENATAL EDUCATION

    Classes for Hungarian speakers in the UK and Hungary.

    Hungary
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    Cat Belini

    PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL YOGA & WOMEN’S YOGA

    - Coming soon -

    AUSTRALIA

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