Hello! I’m Sophie, the owner and your teacher at Mind and Movement Yoga.

Based at Hiltingbury Sports in Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh, classes bring together my training and experience in multiple movement disciplines, from yoga, personal training and sports coaching, to optimally support your physical, mental and emotional well-being.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or have some experience, and whatever fitness level you are, there’s a class option to help support your needs. Choose from restful meditation to dynamic movement practices. All classes interweave mindfulness and breath awareness to help empower your health, fitness and well-being goals.

Come along to a FREE TRIAL CLASS at Hiltingbury Sports, Chandler’s Ford: Wed 9.20 am / Thurs 5.45 pm / Fri 10 am / Fri 6.30 pm. Please click onto classes for more information, and get in contact to book your space!

Alternatively, get in contact if you’d like to enquire about arranging Private 1:1 Tuition, Private Small Group Sessions or Events.

Move, Feel and Breathe Well with an integrative holistic approach to well-being. Classes incorporate many key elements of the eleven components of health and fitness for living and aging well.

Learn how to bring both fluidity and stability in your body to move with more ease and strength.

Learn breathing techniques to help reduce stress and calm your nervous system.

Be guided on anatomy and alignment, with modifications to assist your personal practice and allow you to progress at your own pace.

Whether you seek to improve balance, strength, mobility and resilience for everyday life, or cross train to enhance your performance and recovery in sports, there’s a class option available to help support you.

Community and connection. Whoever you are, classes are welcoming and inclusive to all. Come join a like-hearted, supportive community and begin to create a positive change in your overall well-being.

Sophie began practising yoga in her late twenties, attending yoga classes to help manage her asthma and anxiety whilst working in London. She certified as a Yoga Alliance yoga teacher in April 2010 while abroad in Taiwan. In January 2022, she attained her advanced yoga teacher certification after two years of further training in London. Sophie is an accredited Experienced R.Y.T 200 hours and R.Y.T 500 hours Advanced Yoga Teacher, specialising in yoga, meditation and movement to support emotional resilience, mental health and physical mobility. With U.K and international training and teaching experience, Sophie has 20 years of practice in various styles of yoga. She is also Y.A.C.E.P designated to train yoga teachers, provide professional guidance and facilitate accredited workshops.

An CIMSPA certified Level 3 Personal Trainer, qualified to instruct safe technique in strength training, exercise and effective programming. Sophie combines the benefits of yoga and meditation with elements of resistance training, for a modern integrative holistic approach towards health and well-being for all ages and abilities.

Sophie is an official England Boxing Level 1 Coach. Boxing is often regarded as one of the hardest sports, due to the requirement of training all eleven components of physical and mental fitness criteria, in order to compete.

Yoga Teacher Certified: Yoga Alliance 200 hours Yoga Teacher with Yoga House Institute, Taiwan, including Techniques of Asana; Teaching Practicum; Anatomy and Physiology; Meditation; Ethics and Lifestyle; Yogic Philosophy; Pranayama; Pre-natal Yoga; Bhakti Reiki; Chanting. Yoga Alliance 500 hours Advanced Yoga Teacher with YogaLondon, U.K, including Advanced Anatomy; Advanced Philosophy; Advanced Asana Practices; Mindfulness Based Stressed Reduction (M.B.S.R.); Yoga and Depression and Yoga and Anxiety in Building Emotional Resilience Through Yoga (B.E.R.T.Y.); Restorative Yoga; Yoga Nidra Meditation; Ayurveda in Daily Life. Y.A.C.E.P Accreditation: Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider designated.

Personal Trainer Diploma Certified: CIMSPA qualified Level 3 Personal Trainer with Focus Awards including Anatomy, Physiology and Kinesiology for Exercise and Health; Applying Nutritional Principles to Personal Training; Planning Exercise Programme Design; Delivering Exercise Programmes; Principles of Health and Well-being, Principles of Professional Practice and Health and Safety.

England Boxing Coach Certified: Level 1 Amateur Coach, including Safeguarding, Health and Welfare, Training and Competition, Effective Coaching, First Aid and Enhanced DBS.

_{You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you. None can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.}

Swami Vivekananda