Katy Appleton, Founder and Director of appleyoga brings to yoga more than 25 years of expertise in movement through ballet, body tuning, breath and energy work.

Katy is an internationally-recognised teacher of Vinyasa Flow and is known for bringing the true essence of yoga alive in a student’s body-mind in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways. Her teaching is biomechanically savvy whilst also being fun and playful, invoking a deeper embodied sense of self.

Katy enjoyed a 10-year career as a dancer before devoting herself completely to yoga. She danced across the world with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, complementing her dance career with the power of yoga's movements, breathing and relaxation techniques.

After qualifying to teach in 1998, she studied many different styles with some of the world's leading teachers, and she draws on her experiences to form her own style of yoga, known worldwide as appleyoga. Katy is also the creator of the appleyoga school, running life-transforming teacher trainings, apple adventure worldwide retreats and online courses. She has published several yoga books and award-winning DVDs for home practice.

Debbie is one of the few fully certified Institute For Functional Medicine Practitioners in the UK and a Registered Nutritional Therapist with The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine.

Debbie also has a Masters Degree in Social Work with Children and Families, is a qualified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, visiting lecturer in Functional Medicine, clinical practice assessor and the regional BANT supervisor.

Debbie leads a private clinic specialising in complex case analysis, functional testing and helping adults and children get to the root of what’s going in their bodies. She is also a mother and stepmother of 4 children, passionate about art and design and a terrible but enthusiastic surfer.

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