My name is Lesley Wood or you may know me as Namratadevi. 

Here I am  receiving a 'Certificate of Supplier Excellence' from

The Managing Director of ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company, 

 where I have been teaching yoga for many years.

I  moved to Middlesbrough in 1978 and trained at North Ormesby Hospital

to become an Operating Theatre Practioner,  helping surgeons and nurses

to mend bodies. Interested in the Holistic approach to health and healing,

I studied  Holistic Aromatherapy with Joy Burnett in Newby Village, 

Cleveland and became a member of I.F.P.A (International Federation of

Professional Aromatherapists) this lead me on to do further study in Reflexology ,

Indian Head Massage and Reiki. 

Still working for the NHS  I went on to work at James Cook University Hospital

and ran a stress relief clinic for staff within the Cardio-Thoracic division,  and

massaged  patients on the wards and in CICU to help support  their hospital

stay and recovery. 

Continuing my interest in Holistic Health I started studying with Sara Delamore

in Borrowby, near Thirsk on a  British Wheel of Yoga Teaching  Diploma. I qualified

with The British Wheel of Yoga and left the NHS in 2000 to become a self 

employed Yoga Teacher and Holistic Therapist.

Since I qualified I have studied a variety of Yoga styles and in 2007  I completed a

Satyananda Yoga Integration Course with Swami Vedantananda Saraswati

in London and Portugal and I  now teach in the tradition of Satyananda Yoga.

While at the ashram  studying on a Kryia Course at Rikhia Peeth, India I was

initiated as a  Karma Sanyasin  by my  Guru Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati.

I  teach yoga, for stress management within Industry, to patients  in  Mental Health

Hospital , adult community classes,  to children in schools and nurseries  and a

variety of community classes.

I am also a British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Course Stage 1, tutor. The

British  Wheel of Yoga Stage 1 Foundation Course click here is open to 

students that have been regularly attending a class for a minimum of 2 years. 

This course will allow you to deepen your understanding of yoga and

encourage self study, which can lead to a Teaching Diploma if you so wish. 

I  continue to have  regular contact  with my teachers  and organise  weekend and

day programmes to bring Satyananda Yoga to Cleveland and North Yorkshire.

My special interests are personal empowerment and development. 

This is me with my family