TESTIMONIAL FROM A HAPPY YOGI!
“I just want to say a huge thank you for everything – I have gained so much from all the yoga sessions I’ve been to with you over the past few months, it has helped me to cope much better with all the various stresses I have. It has also given me a much more positive and stronger outlook, and I’m happier and more at peace!” JI – Weds Class
- GENERAL YOGA CLASSES – Mondays 4.00 pm and Tuesdays 5.50pm
- https://www.judithdavismindedyoga.co.uk/classes/
- “YOGA TO SOOTHE THE BUSY MIND” Wednesdays 9.15am -10.15am
- https://www.judithdavismindedyoga.co.uk/yoga-to-soothe-the-busy-mind/
- 8 WEEK YOGA, MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION COURSE TO REDUCE STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION please register your interest by email
- https://www.judithdavismindedyoga.co.uk/8-week-yoga-mindfulness-meditation-course-to-reduces-stress-anxiety-depression/
About Me
I am Judith Davis and I moved to Lyme Regis in 2023 and so enjoyed welcoming everyone to my new Yoga Room at the top of Charmouth Road.
I discovered yoga some 40 years ago just after having my two children. A bad back, probably from too much lifting of babies and toddlers, lead me to experiment with many core strengthening yoga postures. Before long, however, I realised that a bad back was not just about just working with tummy muscles, it was more a question of working holistically with the whole of the mind, body and spirit, in other words, the whole being.
Teaching from the deepest part of me, I know that the body and the mind are inextricably linked.
I believe that, before we can be really free we have to grow deep roots and find a firm foundation and stability both in the mind and the body. Working with the body, we can see that to develop flexibility we first need to build strength in the muscles to give support to the body. Just like a tree – once it has grown its deep roots and foundations, then the branches and leaves can be more available to move about freely in the wind and air. We too, once we have ensured we are well and truly grounded, can find our freedom of movement and flexibility in the body and creativity of mind.
I was taught from 2009 by Steve Harrison of the Yoga Sanctuary in Southampton. My teaching is free flowing and natural, with movement entwined around the breath. The yoga postures flow imperceptibly one from the other, just as the inhale transfers silkily into the exhale…. My aim is for students to leave my classes feeling deeply relaxed, rejuvenated, revived, strengthened and toned – equally ready to face a busy day or a night of deep rest.
Initially, at The Yoga Sanctuary, Southampton, I undertook a 200-hour Teacher Training Course, followed by an Advanced Training in the Philosophy of Yoga
In 2013 I studied for the 18 month 580- Hour Minded Institute Yoga Therapy Course in London with Heather Mason http://themindedinstitute.com/ As a result I have the Yoga Therapy and Yoga Practice: Judith Davis Minded Yoga.
In 2020 I became a Yoga In Healthcare Practitioner enabling teaching yoga in the NHS, working with local GP practices both and running a 10 week yoga course to help patients develop self efficacy around their wellbeing and healing.
In 2026 I qualified as an Integrative Yoga Psychotherapist- an innovative and first of its kind training, recognising that our emotional experiences live in the body as much as the mind. https://www.judithdavismindedyoga.co.uk/integrative-yoga-mindfulness-breathwork-and-talking-therapy-to-heal/
I have worked:
- privately (one-to-one yoga or yoga therapy for stress and stress related disorders such as depression and anxiety)
- teaching general classes
- in Her Majesty’s Prison Winchester
- at Southampton University
- in companies
- leading the Eight-Week Course to Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Depression, and Enhance Well-Being
- with the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance working in the NHS
……continually wishing to deepen my practice and share the healing power of yoga with others:
Additionally I have worked as a Supervisor for The Minded Institute since 2014, offering supervision and support for Yoga Therapists https://themindedinstitute.com/supervisor-support-for-yoga-therapy-teachers/judith-davis/ and am a Director of the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance taking Yoga into the NHS https://www.yogainhealthcarealliance.com/details-of-the-programme/
“The Buddha was asked, “what have you gained from meditation?” He replied “nothing!” However, let me tell you what I have lost: anger, anxiety, depression, insecurity, fear of old age and death…”