Keri Elkins

Biography

Keri currently teaches our Gentle Flow class on Wednesday mornings. She has been practicing asana yoga since being introduced to it by her Mum, in a gentle hatha class designed for busy mums.

In the 25+ years since, Keri’s yogic experiences have spanned her birthplace (Sydney, Australia), to Ashtanga in Thailand, to the USA, Canada and, latterly, the UK, with her Hampshire-born husband and young growing Aussie family.

During the Covid lockdowns, Keri was able to attend some group workshop classes in Advaita Vedanta on Zoom with Ram Banerjee, co-founder of the World Yoga 4 day Festival and, between home-schooling sessions, she managed to maintain a regular flow practice via various online teacher-led resources. Once the fog and lockdowns of Covid had lifted, Keri began regular practice at Stable Yoga, finding, at the start of 2022, two welcoming group practices per week. She has been practicing here ever since.

Keri successfully completed her first 200 hour Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training qualification at Yoga Hero in Leeds Dock during the Autumn of 2023. Now a fresh, energetic, recovering perfectionist, she teaches a resilient, safe, Gentle Flow class with ease, peace and love. Incorporating pranayama/breathing techniques, some guided sequencing, balances, and a lovely savasana with optional oils and a gentle massage to close.

What do you get up to when not teaching/practising yoga?

I adore spending time with family and friends, travel to explore the great outdoors, and immersing myself in different cultures. I play my guitar in the hope that one day it might become more than a casual friend, amongst other ambitions still waiting patiently for my attention.

Favourite posture?

Wild thing, for the fact it is a peak pose that can be achieved with patient, practiced effort, it also opens the heart and feels completely freeing and playful. Aside from that, my favourite is the point when I find peace in any pose!

What’s on your bucket list?

To continue experience-collecting until I no longer can. And keep climbing mountains.