Donna Noble is an Writer, Wellbeing Coach, Facilitator, Activist, Licensed Grasp NLP Practitioner, and the Founding father of Curvesomeyoga. She has been a licensed Yoga Instructor since 2011 and practising yoga because the late Nineties. Donna teaches Internationally in addition to everywhere in the UK at Workshops, Conferences and festivals. She has written and been featured in quite a few digital and print media – Model Journal, Om Yoga & Life-style Journal, Elephant Journal on BBC Radio London and Channel 4 on varied matters overlaying variety & inclusion and physique positivity. She additionally co-created the UK’s first Black Wellbeing and Health Competition in 2020.
Her debut ebook “Educating Physique Optimistic Yoga” was printed in August 2022 and contributed to the Anthology: Forgiveness is the Hardest Factor”.
Inform us a bit about your self…
I’ve many roles: Writer, Wellbeing Coach, Facilitator, Yoga Instructor and Educator , Activist and Founding father of Curvesomeyoga. I spent 20+ years working inside the company world.
My yoga journey started within the late 1990’s and I turned a licensed yoga instructor in 2011 and educate varied kinds of yoga internationally (vinyasa, Physique Optimistic, Accessible, Chair, Sizzling, Yin, Aqua and Being pregnant Yoga). I’m additionally a Licensed Grasp NLP Practitioner.
My ardour for sharing the advantages of yoga stems from the proud therapeutic it provided me after I suffered with Bell’s Palsy.
Curvesomeyoga was based in 2014 from a want to supply accessible and inclusive yoga exhibiting that everyone can do yoga no matter form, dimension, ethnicity, capacity or gender. The place anybody is welcome to return and expertise yoga on their very own phrases.
What does a typical day appear to be for you?
As an entrepreneur, my day varies and relies on my present focus. It would contain getting ready displays and facilitating workshops. Teaching or mentoring shoppers, educating yoga, sat at my desk in Zoom conferences or writing. If I’m feeling drained and it’s potential, I’ll have a nap as I imagine that self care is necessary – making time for yoga, meditation or going for a morning run.
Then enjoyable as a lot as potential within the night when I’m not educating.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn into a yoga instructor?
My yoga journey started within the late Nineties when a colleague noticed an image of Madonna with one leg behind her head in Eka Pada Sirasana. A lot to my shock, she steered we give yoga a attempt. A couple of years later, a superb pal, Errol, steered I ought to have a plan B. Finally, after practising Yoga for a few years, I made a decision to finish a Yoga Instructor Coaching Course at Triyoga. I believed that I may doubtlessly educate Yoga, and my logic was that I may do that after I retired.
Nonetheless, the Universe delivered sooner than I anticipated, and I retired from the company world and have become a Yoga Instructor a lot prior to I may have anticipated.
The realisation got here that I used to be destined for one more path while learning on a Grasp NLP Practitioner Course. I used to be requested what was occurring in my life. I defined that I didn’t know what to do by way of my profession as my position was been made redundant. I used to be knowledgeable that unconsciously, I already knew. It was defined to me that after I talked about Yoga, I “lit up”, and after I spoke concerning the present position, the other occurred. It was so simple as that. In that on the spot, I made a decision that I’d full the Instructor Coaching course, then fly to LA to attend Sizzling Yoga Coaching.
What was to have solely been a nine-week journey morphed into six months of travelling and educating earlier than returning to London to proceed the yoga journey. Changing into a yoga instructor was by no means a part of my unique plan.
What impressed you to specialize in variety & inclusion, and physique positivity ?
I by no means set out with the intention of turning into a Physique Positivity advocate. My journey began with a easy want to share how Yoga had performed a transformative position serving to me heal from the trauma of Bell’s Palsy. As my journey advanced, I turned more and more the physique’s innate talents and needed to share my expertise of therapeutic.
One other key second was studying an article titled “Fats Women Do Yoga” by Deborah Coughlin in The Guardian (October 2014). The article chronicled her disheartening expertise as a yogi and left a profound influence on me. I turned so keen about this newfound perspective that my buddies discovered me tiresome in my enthusiasm. At this level, I confronted a selection: both keep shut up or do one thing about it. I selected the latter, resulting in the creation of Curvesomeyoga, geared toward making Yoga extra inclusive and numerous, exhibiting that each physique is a yogaBODY. Although I didn’t have all of the solutions, I felt compelled to succeed in these missed within the yoga neighborhood.
Quick ahead to 2020, I noticed a paradox within the yoga world: because it grew in recognition, it appeared to turn into much less numerous. An invite to take part as a panellist on the ‘Black Ladies in Health’ occasion was a novel and empowering expertise. Being surrounded by black girls who shared their tales and experiences led me to grasp that there was a urgent want for protected, judgement-free areas inside the black neighborhood. Little did I do know on the time that this expertise would finally result in co-creating the UK’s Black Wellbeing and Health Competition.
Moreover, I used to be approached to supply Variety and Inclusion modules on Instructor Coaching programs each in America and the UK, and this development felt fully natural.
My purpose has at all times been to make sure that as many people as potential are spared the discrimination and exclusion that I’ve confronted. Witnessing the dearth of variety and the invisibility of sure populations within the yoga neighborhood, I felt compelled to make a distinction.
Inform us about your ebook?
“Educating Physique Optimistic Yoga” is a information to spreading acceptance, and self-assurance via yoga. It ensures that each particular person who steps onto the yoga mat feels welcome to return simply as they’re. It’s the essence of yoga that rejoices in the great thing about each physique, each in and out
With sensible ideas, in addition to data on social justice and body-positive yoga off the mat, Educating Physique Optimistic Yoga is a well-rounded useful resource that provides yoga academics the boldness to host inclusive and welcoming courses for all.
This ebook celebrates all that yoga is. It breaks down all boundaries and reveals us that yoga has open arms for anybody who desires to practise. A liberating have a look at how anybody might be a part of what yoga has to supply mentally and bodily. Donna shares her knowledge and previous experiences to indicate us the origins of yoga, unconscious bias and the way we will all be extra inclusive in terms of yoga.
“A celebration of yoga for all.” — Fearne Cotton
It has been described as a ebook that each yoga instructor ought to learn!
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
I’ve witnessed how my college students acquire confidence and belief of their physique via their yoga follow. Studying to honour and hearken to their physique in addition to letting go of self judgement and appreciating the energy and resilience of their as they start to note all of the issues it does for them with out asking.
I’ve seen this by how college students realise their our bodies true potential. Seeing practitioners start to grasp that they’re extra than simply how their our bodies look and witnessing them appreciating their energy.
Yoga has helped my college students discover a sense of calm and steadiness of their lives. Permitting them to let go of stress, to hearken to their innate knowledge and to decelerate and be current within the second. They’re able to see past the bodily features.
Listening to how they take yoga off the mat into their on daily basis life as they admire that the true yoga begins off the mat.
Being extra accepting and seeing that every one they want is within them.
Seeing how they take the yoga off the mat into their on daily basis life.
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
“Variety is being invited to the occasion, and inclusion is being requested to bounce” – Verna Myers In actual fact, I like this quote a lot that I tailored it: “Variety is being invited to yoga, equality is having the ability to entry yoga, and inclusion is being allowed to follow” – Donna Noble
What developing for you in 2023 / 24?
I’ll be internet hosting a particular weekend Physique Optimistic Yoga Retreat from Could tenth to twelfth in Kent. You may get all the main points about this occasion at this hyperlink.
The continuing work on my second ebook.
Remaining open to new alternatives that come my method.
Prioritising extra time for pleasure and self-care to maintain a wholesome steadiness.
Exploring new journey adventures whereas persevering with the ebook tour.
Above all, staying devoted to the mission of being the change I aspire to see on this planet.
Discover Donna
Web site https://thenobleartofyoga.co.uk
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/donnanobleyoga/
