Our Teachers
Teachers at Yoga Space Yorkshire
Name: Emma Ropner
Classes: Kundalini Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Gong Baths, Women’s Circles at YSY, Yoga for Children, Yoga For Cancer, Yoga for Addictions, Yoga for Anxiety, Partner Yoga.
Emma is the founder and owner of YogaSpace Yorkshire. She is a KYTA and Yoga Alliance Professionals certified yoga teacher. She has RYT qualifications in Kundalini yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Cancer, Yoga for Children, The Architecture of Posture, Altered States, the Breath, and Sound Qualifications in Gong playing and Sound baths. She is the senior teacher at YogaSpace Yorkshire.
Emma writes
“I believe there is a connection between how we manage and move our bodies and how this helps manages our ‘minds’. My spiritual number is 5, the number of the teacher, and my life’s mission/purpose is to share the teachings of wellbeing practices like yoga, sound therapy, and the esoteric aspects of human life, with my students. I believe we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Our life’s work is to know and love ‘the self’ so that we can connect to that divine power residing within all of us. From this space,- we activate through yogas like Kundalini, all that connects us with the universal creative forces. These are the forces power life’s blessings. I work with the subtle layers and powers within our human bodies; energy centers called the chakras. My passion is to help you awaken your personal power centers to stay physically strong, mentally resilient, and to remain, or grow, happy.”
Emma trained with KRI certified yoga schools in London and Portugal (Karam Kriya) and with Julie Montagu’s London-based Whole Self Yoga School for Vinyasa Mandala Flow. She has trained extensively with Carolyn Cowan, trained with James Reeves at Triyoga, who teaches the acclaimed Yoga Nidra IRest method. She has trained with the Yoga for Cancer Specialist, Vicky Fox (Triyoga) to bring this therapeutic form of yoga to YogaSpace Yorkshire to support those in the area. She is a qualified children’s yoga teacher and trained with StarChild Yoga, an Education for Peace, certified by KYTA.
She learned her Gong craft from two gong master Gurus; Mehtab Benton from the USA who has taught all over the world. Emma continues to train with Sheila Whittaker who is the lead trainer at the College of Sound Healing. Emma has two gongs, Mercury and Chiron.
Emma holds residential retreats here at YogaSpace Yorkshire in collaboration with visiting guest teachers.
Emma is available for private lessons. Please ask.
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Tel: 07833 231348
Email: emma@yogaspaceyorkshire.com – if you have any class queries
Testimonials for Emma’s classes
“From the first moment of entering the beautiful hall, I knew this studio is something special. A light spacious yet so cozy and calm yoga space is hard to find. Relaxation comes naturally and yoga is so much more enjoyable in these beautiful surroundings. Emma is am amazing kundalini yoga teacher and divine when playing the gong. Her classes are challenging yet respect individual circumstances and make you feel so much better instantly. She is very knowledgeable, connects theory and practice with ease, is full of energy and positive spirit and a joy to be taught by. I truly love my kundalini yoga and gong sessions with Emma”
“Emma’s Kundalini classes are ‘first-class, a relaxed and professional atmosphere. Emma is a fabulous teacher and really opens you to a new way of being while you show yourself self-love and care'”
Emma is a certified Kundalini Yoga, Yoga Nidra teacher and Gong practitioner and is the founder and owner of YogaSpace Yorkshire. She trained with KRI certified yoga schools in London and Portugal (Karam Kriya) and is a member of Yoga Alliance Professionals. Emma has trained extensively with Carolyn Cowan (Kundalini Global) and blends this more therapeutic inclusive kundalini practice into her classes so that her students are provided with tools to regulate/have agency over their states of being often experienced as hopeless to change when accessible/doable yoga and the mat are the means by which we change how we feel.
Emma has also trained in Mandala Flow taught by Julie Montagu who runs The Whole Self Yoga School. She trained with James Reeves at Triyoga, who teaches the acclaimed Yoga Nidra IRest method. She trains extensively in London at a yoga studio with expert teachers and recently trained with Vicky Fox at Triyoga, to bring a therapeutic form of yoga, Yoga For Cancer. She trained with Star Yoga, an education for peace, and is qualified to teach children age 2-18 years.
She learned her Gong craft from two gongmaster Gurus; Mehtab Benton from the USA who has teaches all over the world, and continues to train with Sheila Whittaker who is the lead trainer at the College of Sound Healing. Emma offers the gong during the relaxation in her Kundalini yoga lessons, plays the gong as part of her yoga Nidra class and offers a dedicated gong bath experience class. Emma has two gongs, Chiron and Mercury.
Emma’s vision is to bring yoga and wellbeing into the heart of the Yorkshire countryside and make it available both to locals and to residential retreat visitors and anyone visiting this part of North Yorkshire who seeks a mid-week yoga practice.
Emma holds residential retreats here at YogaSpace Yorkshire in collaboration with visiting guest teachers.
Emma is available for private lessons. Please ask.
Private Yoga, Yoga Nidra , Private gong yoga, private yoga for cancer class.
Join the newsletter for updates about all these events to know more and join in. We are waiting to welcome you here.
Email: emma@yogaspaceyorkshire.com
Text: 07833231348
We are looking for lovely fully qualified local teachers to join our YogaSpace Yorkshire team.
We now have more studio time slots – if you study our timetable and see a time that suits you and your student group – join us!
YSY teachers also have the opportunity to hold weekend workshops and retreats here.
60-90 minute classes may also be available for the following non-yoga practices:
Zumba class, Ballroom Dance Class, Aerobics, Bums and Tums
We are open to inquiries from teachers who wish to teach in a dedicated wellbeing community.
Contact Emma: emma@yogaspaceyorkshire.com
Our Practitioners
What do they say about Yogaspace Yorkshire?
From the first moment of entering the beautiful hall, I knew this studio is something special. A light spacious yet so cozy and calm yoga space is hard to find. Relaxation comes naturally and yoga is so much more enjoyable in these beautiful surroundings. Emma is am amazing kundalini yoga teacher and divine when playing the gong. Her classes are challenging yet respect individual circumstances and make you feel so much better instantly. She is very knowledgeable, connects theory and practice with ease, is full of energy and positive spirit and a joy to be taught by. I truly love my kundalini yoga and gong sessions with Emma
I have been to many different yoga retreats both in the UK and overseas and this one was by far the best.
My advice? Book it now!
I have taken part in several Kundalini yoga classes during retreats at Patrick Brompton Hall and have loved all of them.
I was a novice to this particular yoga but the classes catered for all abilities and I was immediately made to feel comfortable.
I couldn’t have asked for a better start to my Kundalini yoga journey and I can’t wait to go back again soon!
Emma’s Kundalini classes are ‘first-class, a relaxed and professional atmosphere. Emma is fabulous teacher and really opens you to a new way of being while you show yourself self-love and care’
I want to do your yoga Nidra class again – I slept so well. Thank you.
Yoga at Patrick Brompton Hall is a very special experience.
The beautiful and peaceful yoga studio is the perfect setting for yoga practice.
The Women’s Group has been an amazing, welcoming, warm experience.
The positive energies and collective female wisdom has been brilliant – the thought provoking sessions followed by the yoga and final gong bath was the perfect balance – thank you Emma – and please can we do it all again!
I came on retreat and stayed at the cottages with my oldest daughter in June 2018 and January 2019.
Emma and Charlie are the perfect hosts they made us feel completely welcome in their beautiful home which sits in beautiful grounds surrounded by spectacular views of Yorkshire.
To sum it up with one word: love. The best yoga retreat I have been to.
Amazing teacher, wonderful hosts, beautiful facilities, gorgeous surroundings, and delicious food.
Absolutely loved every bit of it