About
Mind Body Zone hosts classes, workshops and retreats in Yoga (Yin/Vinyasa Flow), Pilates, and Mindfulness.
Owner/artist Louise Wallis has been teaching movement for over 20 years. Originally a Dance and Exercise-to-Music teacher, a knee injury led her to train in Pilates and Yoga. (Qualifications below).
"My first authentic experience of Yoga was in India in 2004", says Louise. "It was part of the regime at the Nature Cure hopsital where I was speaking - along with a vegan diet - and worked wonders for the residents, including me. Visiting India felt like coming home, and sowed the seeds of my future vocation as Yoga Teacher. I've been vegan for 36 years, and that was the first time I'd seen Yoga and a vegan diet used together. This approach is now my specialism, as the two practices are a match made in heaven. Combining them can be a powerful prescription. There's a synergy, they seem to potentise each other - simultaneously grounding and empowering us to reclaim control of our minds, bodies, and ultimately our lives"
Louise created World Vegan Day in 1994 and co-founded Karamel, the Time Out award-winning vegan restaurant and music venue in North London in 2014.
Under the name Luminous, she also DJs, and sings in the band Luminous Frenzy. She was voted one of the 'World's Top 100 Female DJs' by Shejay magazine in the very first list of its kind.
Join Louise for an Indian Summer Vegan Yoga Retreat in Dorset Fri 14th - Sun 16th Sept 2018.
TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:
- Teaching Yoga as a Therapy for Those with Anxiety & Burnout Syndrome (Mandala Yoga Ashram) April 2018
- Garuda Matwork Foundation - Teacher Training (Garuda Academy) March 2016
- Yoga Teacher Training (Vinyasa Flow with Mollie McClelland Morris - Yoga Alliance certified 200 hours) March 2015
- Pilates Level 3 Diploma (Future Fit Training) 2012
- Pilates Progressions (Mat Work) Advanced Level (Future Fit Training) 2007
- Pilates Progressions (Mat Work) Improver Level (Future Fit Training) 2007
- Pilates Teacher Training (Future Fit Training) 2007
- Dance Leader in the Community - Level 1 Certificate (Sports Council/Arts Council) 1997
- Exercise to Music - Teacher Training (Royal Society of Arts) 1996
Louise is a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists, through which she holds public liability insurance.
