About Your Peak and Me
Hi! I’m Sami and I’m the founder of Your Peak Yoga.
I’m a yoga teacher based in Berkshire, UK and I teach a range of yoga abilities from advanced to beginner, but my main yoga practice is Power Yoga. My classes are mostly online teaching group classes and 1:1’s.
I have a passion for sharing the incredible yoga benefits to as many people as possible, through my classes and social media.
Yoga has supported me through my sports’ training, my hectic work schedule and through motherhood over the years and it’s become a huge part of my life.
I first started yoga when I was working in marketing in Richmond in 2006 and I was training for the London Marathon. I was constantly feeling injured during my busy training program and then I stumbled across a new hot yoga studio. I was immediately drawn to the wonderful feeling of stretching out, feeling super energised and building up a sweat from every class. I practised in the studio twice a week and it amazingly healed my injuries. I completed the London Marathon for a second time the following year and yoga became a part of my training and daily routine.
As well as a yoga teacher, I’m also a qualified Primary School Teacher and I privately tutor children in maths and English. When I was working in a primary school, I loved sharing my yoga sequences and relaxation techniques with the children. The teachers joined in too. Whilst on holiday with my wonderful friends and family, I started teaching yoga sessions. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching yoga and practising with others and so I decided to complete a yoga teacher training course in 2018. Your Peak Yoga was born that summer and I’ve loved every stretch since!
Every year my family and I visit my brother in Austria for a Christmas holiday. We’re all keen skiers and adore the fresh mountain air, the skiing lifestyle and taking in the beautiful landscapes. Viewing the mountains on a beautiful sunny day, right at the top of the ski lift in December 2017, gave me the inspiration to fulfil my dream of becoming a yoga teacher and I wanted to name my brand after my favourite happy place… the peaks.
Yoga is suitable for every single body and has incredible benefits no matter what shape you are. Your practice is about Your body and no one else’s. Get inspired and always aim to reach Your own peak.
What People Are Saying
Grace Jeffreys
“After wanting to start yoga, but being faced with uncertain times during COVID, I started a 1:1 class with Sami. She has guided me through practices each week that have met my needs, challenged me, and improved all aspects of my physical being, as well as my mental space. I love these classes, and have fitted them around children and work. Suffering with Diastasis Recti after my second child, Sami adapted my practice to ensure I was able to work only within my limits, while still meeting my requirements. Sami is a thorough, attentive and all round fabulous teacher, and I’d recommend her to anyone at any level or ability.”
Hannah Sim
“My greatest discovery of 2020. I have been a regular runner, and more recently cyclist for several years now. Yoga was the part of the puzzle I did not realise I was missing. Since starting I am performing better functional moves in gym training and recovering quicker on longer cardio days due to my core strength improving, the foundation of all training.
Sami guides through postures, stretches and flows through voice, modelling and encouragement. The right balance of access looking to progress and challenge each week. A part of my lockdown that I will be continuing with and maintaining beyond this year and into next. Nameste.”
Lloyd Spencer
“I have been attending yoga classes over the last two and a half years with Your Peak Yoga. I have really enjoyed the classes as Sami plans them extremely well and is always pushing you to reach your peak!
Yoga has helped my posture and my back pain immensely and I can really feel the benefits and would recommend it to anyone thinking of trying it with her.”
Anne Oke
“I was fortunate to have been introduced to Sami’s Your Peak Yoga on-line classes, at the start of Lockdown 1 (Apr 20) and was hooked from the very first session.
New to yoga, I particularly valued Sami’s concise and precise instructions and found her explanations easy to follow. I can now achieve positions I considered impossible at the start and am also thrilled to have rediscovered the flexibility of my younger years!
I have recommended Sami to a number of my friends, all of whom have loved her classes and committed to them. As a PE teacher myself, I can really appreciate how Sami’s gentle encouragement and motivational delivery is key to the success of her classes. She is modest and gentle and the polar opposite of an elitist gym bunny! Her yoga classes are just the tonic everyone could benefit from and I recommend them wholeheartedly.”
