Before setting up Reclaim Your Self Julia (Jools) was a project manager in international development for 10 years. While working in Tanzania, she learned massage as a hobby and the seed was sown for a big career change. “As soon as I put my hands on my first client, something changed in me and I felt an immediate sense of well being and felt inspired to learn more and more”.

Jools trained in massage and healing work in Tanzania, India and the UK. She spent time practising yoga and meditation and studying nutrition, while fine tuning her passion and inspiration to create something to share with others. In 2004 she returned to London to launch Reclaim Your Self.

As the director of Reclaim Your Self, it is Jools's dream to run high quality, unique and powerful yoga breaks that are accessible to anyone at whatever stage of their journey they are on. When not working on yoga breaks Jools has a busy private massage practice in London.

Stephen runs some of our yoga breaks, and gives coaching workshops and one to one sessions.

As a qualified NLP practitioner and professional trainer, Stephen has ten years of experience enabling people to reach new goals. Using simple, down to earth methods, he helps people instigate change, identify what they really want and map out a realistic and achievable path to make the change happen in all areas of personal development, career, health, habits and home life. By focusing on what can be achieved as opposed to what you may be avoiding, Stephen creates positive ways to implement clear action.

Stephen uses a mix of traditional coaching, NLP and alternative approaches such as the study of language patterns and the creation of visualisations. “Through knowing what you dream of and understanding how to reach those dreams, I think our own personal potential really surprises us when we do achieve those dreams!”.

Helen has been practicing Hatha yoga for 17 years and started her journey in Australia inspired by the teachings of Dr. Iyengar. After discovering and attending classes with various students of Vanda Scaravelli, she completed a two year teacher training with Gary Carter at Natural Bodies Yoga Centre in Brighton, UK.

Helen's extensive bodywork experience in massage by foot pressure, hot stones and holistic medical massage also has a strong influence on her teaching style and approach to yoga. Her Scaravelli inspired yoga classes are open to all levels and all ages and are packed with lightness and fun!

Tim has been practising Shadow Yoga for 8 years, having come from a background in Astanga and Sivananda. He completed his 3 year teacher training course at Islington Yoga and continues to study with Zhander Remete and Emma Balnaves.
Shadow yoga classes are energetic and vibrant, embodying the grace and flow of a yogic dance. They place attention on the breath and subtleties of movement, whilst building stability and breaking down deep seated stiffness in the hips, back and shoulders. Tim’s classes will always challenge you to explore your limitations without ever pushing you beyond them, and will leave you feeling calm and rejuvenated.

Juliette Campbell

Juliette has been practicing and teaching yoga for almost 11 years in Barcelona where she manages a non profit yoga organisation.

She has travelled the world from India to New York to study and learn from her teachers Gurmukh, Hari Kaur, Helen Noakes, Shivadass, Surinder Singh, Tara Stiles Gurushabad, Cindy Lee and many swamis.

Juliette teaches both Hatha & Kundalini yoga. Her love for yoga has no borders and gives her wings! Juliette's classes are creative and led with joy and an open heart

Sandi has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She combines the practices of yoga and relaxation to create centring, brightness and ease. Her style balances dynamic fluid sequencing with restorative postures and includes an emphasis on alignment, rhythm and the breath.

Sandi has studied relaxation techniques, meditation and holistic massage therapy and taught Iyengar Yoga for many years. She is influenced by Buddhist Meditation practices and fluid yoga forms that establish a connection with energy and intuition. Her teaching style is non-dogmatic.

She also holds Birthlight Diplomas in Ante-natal and Post-natal Yoga, Baby Yoga and Massage. Sandi lives in North London with her three children and partner. Her interest is in bringing the transformation, healing and insights from practice into life.

As our head chef, Eleanor creates all our retreat menus, sources top quality local ingredients and cooks delicious, healthy meals on all our yoga breaks.

Eleanor’s interest in food and nutrition began with an award winning juice bar based in Wales where customers would often ask for nutritional advice to help with their health issues. This inspired her to study nutrition and explore healthy cooking all around the world. Eleanor’s work centres on a holistic approach, exploring both seasonal and regional influences on a person as well as their unique individual predisposition. Her approach to cooking food is simple yet tasty, as locally sourced fresh organic ingredients cooked with passion will speak for themselves.

Gerry runs the kitchen on all our yoga breaks and is currently training to be a nutritionist.

Having trained as a chef and worked in restaurants for many years, Gerry moved to Wales to bring up her four children. As a full time mother, Gerry strived to combine good home cooking with fresh seasonal produce, to provide optimum nutritional value for her growing family.

Now her children are grown up, Gerry has joined the Reclaim Your Self team and is combining her two great passions of cooking and travel. Her grounded, down to earth approach in the kitchen compliments Eleanor’s expertise and knowledge, and together they make a great team.

Annie gives Holistic Fusion treatments, runs relax and re-balance classes and workshops on our yoga breaks.

She has been a fully qualified Acupuncturist and Alternative Health therapist for 11 years, prior to which she was an Advertising Executive, enabling her to fully understand the stresses of every day modern life. Annie is considered one of the UK’s leading alternative therapists and often writes for women’s magazines and national papers.

She has created ‘Holistic Fusion’; a new method that offers people a tailor made range of alternative therapies in one session. Trained in a wide range of therapies to assist the mind, body and spirit including: Self Actualisation, Acupuncture, La Stone therapy, Massage, Reiki, and Chakra rebalancing. Annie has a unique way of reading the body and providing insights as to what is happening in that person’s life which is causing disruption to that person’s health.

Rachael Luba

Rachael is a qualified Aromatherapist and is also qualified in La Stone Hot Stone Massage. She is currently studying Body Massage Therapy Massage at Morley College, London.

Her aromatherapy treatments help clients to find balance through expert blending of essential oils to help address both physical and emotional issues. Combined with therapeutic massage techniques, a treatment with Rachael is a soothing and rejuvenating experience and great for helping clients switch off and let go of long held tension.

Rachael was inspired to study complementary medicine after coming on a Reclaim Your Self yoga break as a client a few years ago. “As a client I felt so supported and able to address some difficult issues in my life – the experience inspired me incredibly so it’s an honour to now be part of the team and to be able to help a few people along their path too”.