EMMA GARTSIDE
Senior Yoga Teacher, CIC Founder

About Emma

Emma is the founder of Upward Frog CIC and a student/teacher of hatha yoga.

She is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals with over 700 hours of accredited teacher training and has taught more than 6,500 yoga classes.

Emma is committed to continuing her learning and developing her skills and has taken additional trainings including Trauma Informed Yoga with Susi Wrenshaw, yoga nidra with Julia Davis and Tessa Sanderson, restorative yoga with Adelene Cheong, yin yoga with Norman Blair, chair yoga with Liz Oppedijk and menopause yoga with Petra Coveney.

As well as being a yoga teacher, Emma is also a qualifed Personal Trainer and holds the Exercise Referral Diploma for working 1-2-1 with people with long-term health conditions.

Away from the studio, Emma works on her own practice, collects crystals, reads yoga books and enjoys spending time with her dogs, family and friends. She has a grown up son and lives in Stockport.

Describe your teaching style

My yoga teaching is based on traditional practices that I learned from my own teachers over the years and from ongoing self-study of historic and modern yoga texts. Most of my classes are informed by the eight limbs and the panchamaya kosha model.

I hope my style is encouraging, welcoming and appropriately challenging to students of all ages and abilities. I treat everyone as an individual and create space for students to develop their own practice at their own pace.

EMMA’S QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING:

Yoga student since 1992
200 Hours Yoga Teacher Training
L3 Diploma Gym Instructing + Personal Training
L3 Diploma Exercise Referral
Managing Violence and Aggression (NHS Protect)
100 Hours Trauma Informed Yoga
35 Hours Yoga Therapy and Mindfulness for Chronic Pain
20 Hours Trauma Sensitive Yoga
70 Hours Yoga4Health Teacher Training
42 Hours Therapeutic Chair Yoga and Advanced Chair Yoga Skills
30 Hours Yoga Nidra and Circle Holding
30 Hours Menopause Yoga Teacher Training
30 Hours Yin Yoga Teacher Training
30 Hours Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
30 Hours Assisting Training
20 Hours Art of True North Alignment
12 Hours Art of Sequencing
12 Hours Preventing + Managing Yoga Injuries
Adult Safeguarding
Enhanced DBS
Emergency First Aid At Work
Senior Yoga Teacher (YAP)