Aneta Idczak

Aneta Idczak is your Summit host who will be interviewing all presenters and holding a safe space in the sessions.

Aneta is an experienced Trauma-informed Yoga, Mindfulness and Embodiment Teacher, Somatic Coach, Becoming Safely Embodied (BSE) and Focusing Practitioner, Somatic Bodyworker and TYM Therapist. She is a registered Senior Yoga Teacher and Trainer, and Yoga Business Mentor. Aneta is a Founder of Golden Mandala Yoga-Soma Institute providing accredited 80-Hr Trauma-informed Yoga & Embodied Resilience teacher training as well as Yoga Business Mandala 1-year Group Mentoring + Coaching Programme.

Aneta works with needs-led integrative approach drawing on close to three decades of studying various psychological, therapeutic and body-focused modalities, and her approach is further influenced by 22 years of working in Social Care and in the community with Trauma, Mental Health, Addiction, DV and child protection issues, and training and supervising front line workers.

You can find out more about Aneta’s teacher trainings and business mentoring programmes HERE

Deirdre Fay

Deirdre Fay, MSW, encourages a transformational methodology, allowing our traumas to shift, no longer keeping us from having the life we want. Instead through developing an inner, core structure, recognizing and normalizing our fundamental attachment needs we turn toward what’s more nourishing. With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and educator, Deirdre brings together modern science and wisdom traditions to explore the Transformational Journey of Life which has been called a radically positive approach to healing trauma.

Deirdre’s message resonates deeply with those who may look successful on the surface, but internally feel plagued by shame, anxiety, distress, depression – wondering why they’re stuck in repeating relational life patterns. Her third book, Becoming Safely Embodied (2021) became an Amazon best-seller before it was published now selling over 35,000 copies a year.

You can find out more about Deirdre’s work at www.dfay.com

Shulamit Ber Levtov

Shulamit is the Entrepreneur’s Therapist and co-founder of the Business Therapy Centre. Applying both coaching and therapeutic tools, Shulamit works with women business owners who want to develop, implement and be accountable for their mental health plan so they can set the foundation for sustainable success and show up fully as their CEO-self in their business. 

Shulamit has been an entrepreneur for over 27 years and has more than 20 years of professional experience supporting women’s mental health and personal growth. As a Masters-level, registered social worker and trauma therapist, retired Kripalu Yoga teacher, trauma survivor and award-winning entrepreneur, Shula brings a unique perspective and approach to supporting women in business.

You can find out more about Shulamit’s work at www.shula.ca

Fiona Agombar

Fiona Agombar is an author and yoga therapist in the Viniyoga Tradition. She is accredited as an advanced teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). She is passionate about campaigning to change attitudes to those with fatigue conditions and describes herself as a Rest Activist. Fiona specialises in teaching yoga for CFS/ME, burnout, stress and long-Covid. She has set up teaching modules on stress and fatigue for Yoga Campus and CPD training for the BWY.

Fiona was a key speaker for Global Yoga Therapy Day in August 2020 and a speaker at the Wellness After Covid Symposium in May 2021. In March 2021 she contributed to the British Council of Yoga Therapy on guidelines for teaching those with long-Covid. She runs successful training for teachers on Burnout, CFS and Long-Covid with Sarah Ryan through Yoga Teachers Forum. Fiona has referrals for long-Covid from a major teaching hospital in the UK. She is the author of Beat Fatigue with Yoga (Cherry Red Books) and Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burnout and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Singing Dragon). She is currently writing a book on Long Covid with Nadyne McKie.

You can find out more about Fiona’s work at www.fionaagombar.co.uk

Jenni Stone

Jenni is a full time practising yoga teacher and reflexologist in North London, UK with 20 years’ combined experience supporting people with cancer with both modalities. She developed and runs the Yoga for Cancer teacher training at the Yoga Teachers Forum, is the resident teacher at Maggie’s Royal Free and co-founder of Women’s Yoga Hub.

Jenni has a lifelong curiosity about the human condition in all its aspects and loves to read everything from human biology and medical research to poetry, philosophy and personal development.

You can find out more about Jenni’s work at www.jennitherapy.com

Laurent Roure

Senior yoga teacher, breathwork and pranayama facilitator, meditation and mental health specialist, and Mental health first Aider. Mentor and trainer.  

Laurent Roure is a senior yoga, somatic yoga, breathwork, pranayama, and meditation teacher and trainer based in London and internationally.

Laurent’s meticulous yet relaxed approach to teaching yoga combines elements of the classical and contemporary. Through Hatha and Somatic yoga, pranayama and breathwork, meditation, and yoga Nidra (deep relaxation), Laurent offers a therapeutic and supportive practice suitable for all levels, ages, and abilities.

You can find out more about Laurent’s work at www.yogalaurent.com

Anna Kerry

Anna is a stroke survivor and Yoga teacher who helps other stroke survivors through a trauma-informed approach to recovery.

Anna journey with yoga started 6 years ago when she started her regular practice and fell in love with yoga. At the age of 35 Anna suffered a stroke, which was a very traumatic event.

Due to the trauma she went through she realised she didn’t trust her body and any sensations she had within her body made her anxious that she was having another stroke. She came across a 4-hr taster session on trauma, which completely blew her mind, and she wanted to learn more about trauma and the effects it has on our body. She wanted to be able to help herself and also in the long run help other people who have been through trauma. Anna trained in Trauma-informed Yoga approach and is sharing her inspiring story, knowledge and experience with other survivors.

You can find out more about Anna’s work at www.theikosyoga.com

Daniel Groom

Daniel Groom (He/They) is a yoga teacher and C-IAYT and CNHC registered yoga therapist, who has been practising a wide range of yoga styles since the year 2000.He has studied Yoga Therapy, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra with leading experts. He has great passion in sharing his knowledge with students and believes whole-heartedly Yoga can help people to achieve their ultimate life desires.

He also offers support mentoring new and established Yoga Teachers and is a Supervisor on the Yoga Campus Yoga Therapy Diploma. Daniel is dedicated to continuing his studies with mentor Lisa Kaley Isley.

Daniel founded the Queer Wellbeing Group in association with Southend-on-Sea Pride which offers a monthly get together for LGBTQIA+ people and is active in the promotion of LGBTQIA+ rights in the UK.

You can find out more about Daniel’s work at www.anahatayogacentre.com

Dawn Wright

Dawn has been teaching yoga for over 23 years now, and have a wealth of experience in how to be a professional, passionate and profitable yoga teacher. She is still there at the coalface, teaching classes, workshops, retreats and running teacher training courses alongside business coaching and mentoring yoga teachers. And for Dawn this is really important so that I am coming from a place where I TOTALLY KNOW the reality of being a yoga teacher and the challenges that you face.

Dawn has been able to use years of working in financial, tax and business management (including yoga studio management) to help her create the yoga business she desires, and because she LOVES to learn, she continue to invest a lot of time, money and energy in updating her knowledge and skills in modern marketing, business planning, supporting technology, and coaching and mindset skills. She is also a professional coach accredited with the Association of Coaching and the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

You can find out more about Dawn’s work at www.dawnwrightyoga.co.uk

Tessa Sanderson

Tessa has an academic background with a PhD in Medical Sociology.  She is the author of six books for women and children, and founder of the State of Birth symposium (www.thestateofbirth.com).  She has taught pregnancy yoga for 17 years and takes what she learns from supporting parents with perinatal birth trauma into antenatal courses and her role on the local Maternity Voices Partnership to push for change.

You can find out more about Tessa’s work at www.tessaventurisanderson.co.uk

Gabi Parkham

Born and raised in Brighton (UK), Gabi (she/her) has been practicing yoga since childhood. 

In the last 5 years, Gabi has been an active LGBTQIA+ equity educator and consultant; leading LGBTQIA+ trainings in various settings including running her own workshops for yoga teachers and other wellness professionals. In 2018 Gabi co-founded Laviot (www.laviot.org), a social and supportive community for LGBT+ Jewish women and non-binary people. Alongside teaching yoga, Gabi also works at MindOut, the Brighton based LGBTQ+ Mental Health Service.

You can find out more about Gabi’s work at www.gabimarkhamyoga.com

Julia Davis

Julia is Founder of Yoga Teachers Forum and is passionate about community support within yoga.  She runs training in Yoga Nidra & Circle Holding & Perimenopause Yoga as well as running support circles and mentoring for yoga teachers.  

Her yoga practices support the rhythms of womanhood from menarch to post menopause, respecting the vast range of experience of people who experience the menstrual cycle.  She believes that a world in which all people are literate in the cyclical nature of women is a world in which the cycles of all life will be respected.  Julia is an educator in eco-menstruation, and yoga that honours the cycles.

You can find out more about Julia’s work at www.yogateachersforum.org

Sarah Leather

Sarah Leather is a trauma-informed Business Coach helping women in midlife to get more clients in a wholehearted way.

She has been running her own business for over 30 years. But the first 20 of those were hard work with a 1:1 model of hourly sessions, which led to burnout. Once Sarah invested in her business and learned how to create a successful signature program, everything changed. She created the spaciousness she craved, doubled her income working half the hours, & now helps her clients to do the same in a way that works for them. Sarah runs a multiple 6 figure business from home doing the work she loves. Her signature program is called Wholehearted Marketing where she helps women to create consistent income.

Originally from Australia, she lives in beautiful West Cork in Ireland with her husband, 4 nearly grown-up kids, guide-dog breeder Indi & 3 badly behaved cats.

You can find out more about Sarah’s work at www.thesarahleather.com

Ron de Brito

Ron was born in London to African/ Indian Trinidadian parents and attended Grammar School in Finchley, North London.

She is a Certified Embodied Facilitator, Empowerment and Compassion Coach, Nonviolent Communication Practitioner and she holds Grief Circles. She is passionate about helping people discover compassion within themselves, unearth their inner resources and find ease with being fully receptive to their humanity, in the Wholeness felt in body/mind/ spirit.

She is a former secondary schoolteacher, research biochemist, children’s tutor and she’s a mother. She is in love with aliveness and being a vibrant dot connected to everything in a beautifully interconnected universe.

You can find out more about Ron’s work at www.rondebrito.co.uk

Isabelle Griffith

Isabelle Griffith is an Emotional Resilience & Embodied Feminine Leadership Coach, Trainer and Speaker. She is the creator of The Pause Approach™ and The Soma Leadership™ Method, as well as the founder of The Embodied Feminine Leadership Academy™.

Prior to setting up her coaching and training practice, Isabelle spent 20 years in the corporate world in a variety of roles and sectors. She now specialises in helping women to press pause, reconnect with themselves and have the impact they desire without sacrificing themselves, their wellbeing and their wholeness. She helps them to go from stressed, overwhelmed and burnt out to regaining calm, joy, purpose and confidence. 

Isabelle is passionate about supporting women to stress less, live more fulfilling lives, and amplify their impact. Her coaching is insightful, transformational and compassionate because this has been her journey too.

You can find out more about Isabelle’s work at www.isabellegriffith.co.uk