Donna Noble is an Creator, Wellbeing Coach, Facilitator, Activist, Licensed Grasp NLP Practitioner, and the Founding father of Curvesomeyoga.   She has been an authorized Yoga Instructor since 2011 and practising yoga for the reason that late Nineteen Nineties.  Donna teaches Internationally in addition to all around the UK at Workshops, Conferences and festivals. She has written and been featured in quite a few digital and print media – Model Journal, Om Yoga & Way of life Journal, Elephant Journal on BBC Radio London and Channel 4 on varied subjects masking variety & inclusion and physique positivity.  She additionally co-created the UK’s first Black Wellbeing and Health Pageant in 2020.  

Her debut e book “Instructing Physique Constructive Yoga” was printed in August 2022 and contributed to the Anthology: Forgiveness is the Hardest Factor”.   

Inform us a bit about your self… 

I’ve many roles: Creator, Wellbeing Coach, Facilitator, Yoga Instructor and Educator , Activist and Founding father of Curvesomeyoga. I spent 20+ years working throughout the company world. 

My yoga journey started within the late 1990’s and I grew to become an authorized yoga instructor in 2011 and educate varied types of yoga internationally (vinyasa, Physique Constructive, Accessible,  Chair, Sizzling, Yin, Aqua and  Being pregnant Yoga).  I’m additionally a Licensed Grasp NLP Practitioner.  

My ardour for sharing the advantages of yoga stems from the proud therapeutic it provided me after I suffered with Bell’s Palsy. 

Curvesomeyoga was based in 2014 from a need to supply accessible and inclusive yoga displaying that everyone can do yoga no matter form, dimension, ethnicity, potential or gender.  The place anybody is welcome to return and expertise yoga on their very own phrases.  

What does a typical day appear to be for you? 

As an entrepreneur, my day varies and is predicated on my present focus.  It’d contain getting ready displays and facilitating workshops.  Teaching or mentoring shoppers, educating yoga, sat at my desk in Zoom conferences or writing.   If I’m feeling drained and it’s doable, I’ll have a nap as I imagine that self care is essential – making time for yoga, meditation or going for a morning run.  

Then enjoyable as a lot as doable within the night when I’m not educating.  

How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn into a yoga instructor? 

My yoga journey started within the late Nineteen Nineties when a colleague noticed an image of Madonna with one leg behind her head in Eka Pada Sirasana.  A lot to my shock, she recommended we give yoga a attempt.   A number of years later, an excellent buddy, Errol, recommended I ought to have a plan B. Finally, after practising Yoga for a few years, I made a decision to finish a Yoga Instructor Coaching Course at Triyoga.  I assumed that I may probably educate Yoga, and my logic was that I may do that after I retired. 

Nonetheless, the Universe delivered sooner than I anticipated, and I retired from the company world and have become a Yoga Instructor a lot ahead of I may have anticipated.    

The realisation got here that I used to be destined for one more path while finding out on a Grasp NLP Practitioner Course.  I used to be requested what was occurring in my life.  I defined that I didn’t know what to do when it comes to my profession as my position was been made redundant.   I used to be knowledgeable that unconsciously, I already knew.  It was defined to me that after I talked about Yoga, I “lit up”, and after I spoke in regards to the present position, the other occurred.  It was so simple as that.    In that prompt, I made a decision that I’d full the Instructor Coaching course, then fly to LA to attend Sizzling Yoga Coaching.   

What was to have solely been a nine-week journey morphed into six months of travelling and educating earlier than returning to London to proceed the yoga journey. Changing into a yoga instructor was by no means a part of my unique plan.  

What impressed you to concentrate on variety & inclusion, and physique positivity ? 

I by no means set out with the intention of turning into a Physique Positivity advocate. My journey began with a easy need to share how Yoga had performed a transformative position serving to me heal from the trauma of Bell’s Palsy. As my journey advanced, I grew to become more and more the physique’s innate skills and needed to share my expertise of therapeutic.  

One other key second was studying an article titled “Fats Ladies Do Yoga” by Deborah Coughlin in The Guardian (October 2014). The article chronicled her disheartening expertise as a yogi and left a profound impression on me. I grew to become so obsessed with this newfound perspective that my mates discovered me tiresome in my enthusiasm. At this level, I confronted a selection: both keep shut up or do one thing about it. I selected the latter, resulting in the creation of Curvesomeyoga, aimed toward making Yoga extra inclusive and various, displaying that each physique is a yogaBODY. Although I didn’t have all of the solutions, I felt compelled to succeed in these ignored within the yoga group.

Quick ahead to 2020, I noticed a paradox within the yoga world: because it grew in recognition, it appeared to turn into much less various. An invite to take part as a panellist on the ‘Black Ladies in Health’ occasion was a singular and empowering expertise. Being surrounded by black girls who shared their tales and experiences led me to grasp that there was a urgent want for protected, judgement-free areas throughout the black group. Little did I do know on the time that this expertise would in the end result in co-creating the UK’s Black Wellbeing and Health Pageant.

Moreover, I used to be approached to supply Range and Inclusion modules on Instructor Coaching programs each in America and the UK, and this development felt fully natural.

My purpose has at all times been to make sure that as many people as doable are spared the discrimination and exclusion that I’ve confronted. Witnessing the shortage of variety and the invisibility of sure populations within the yoga group, I felt compelled to make a distinction.

Inform us about your e book?

“Instructing Physique Constructive Yoga”  is a information to spreading acceptance, and self-assurance by means of yoga. It ensures that each particular person who steps onto the yoga mat feels welcome to return simply as they’re. It’s the essence of yoga that rejoices in the great thing about each physique, each in and out

With sensible ideas, in addition to info on social justice and body-positive yoga off the mat, Instructing Physique Constructive Yoga is a well-rounded useful resource that offers yoga academics the boldness to host inclusive and welcoming courses for all.

This e book celebrates all that yoga is. It breaks down all obstacles and reveals us that yoga has open arms for anybody who desires to practise. A liberating take a look at how anybody might be a part of what yoga has to supply mentally and bodily. Donna shares her knowledge and previous experiences to point out us the origins of yoga, unconscious bias and the way we will all be extra inclusive in terms of yoga.

“A celebration of yoga for all.” — Fearne Cotton

It has been described as a e book that each yoga instructor ought to learn!  

How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students? 

I’ve witnessed how my college students achieve confidence and belief of their physique by means of their yoga apply.  Studying to honour and hearken to their physique in addition to letting go of self judgement and appreciating  the energy and resilience of their as they start to note all of the issues it does for them with out asking.  

I’ve seen this by how college students realise their our bodies true potential.  Seeing practitioners start to grasp that they’re extra than simply how their our bodies look and witnessing them appreciating their energy.   

Yoga has helped my college students discover a sense of calm and stability of their lives.  Permitting them to let go of stress, to hearken to their innate knowledge and to decelerate and be current within the second.  They’re able to see past the bodily facets.  

Listening to how they take yoga off the mat into their each day life as they admire that the true yoga begins off the mat. 

Being extra accepting and seeing that each one they want is inside them.  

Seeing how they take the yoga off the mat into their each day life.  

What’s your favourite quote or life motto?

“Range is being invited to the occasion, and inclusion is being requested to bop” – Verna Myers In actual fact, I like this quote a lot that I tailored it: “Range is being invited to yoga, equality is with the ability to entry yoga, and inclusion is being allowed to apply” – Donna Noble

What developing for you in 2023 / 24?

I’ll be internet hosting a particular weekend Physique Constructive Yoga Retreat from Might tenth to twelfth in Kent. You may get all the small print about this occasion at this hyperlink.

The continued work on my second e book.

 Remaining open to new alternatives that come my method.

 Prioritising extra time for pleasure and self-care to maintain a wholesome stability.

 Exploring new journey adventures whereas persevering with the e book tour.

  Above all, staying devoted to the mission of being the change I aspire to see on this planet.

Discover Donna

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