About Yoga Horizons
Yoga?
so tell me Kristel
“An integral process of how we move and breathe to connect to our life authentically. “
Kristel founded Yoga Horizons in 2010. She built three classes of 6 committed yoga students that stood standing for three years, all in different locations, one studio at her own home in Westfield, Hastings.
After 10 years of specializing in 1-1 classes both therapeutically and as tailored yoga sessions for entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, sports, music courses and Cooperate Clients such as SAP and Lego, Kristel moved to develop her skills and became apart of the Occupational Team at The Huntercombe Hospital, Roehampton. In 2018, She was invited by the Director to write a program for yoga on Mental Health and Wellbeing, having become a popular Teacher and Facilitator for both Doctors, Psychologists and Patients.
Lack of resources from public and private funding meant that the project reached proposal level. Kristel continued training, most recently before lockdown expanding into Yoga in nurseries and schools.
With the lift of lockdown Kristel began outreach Therapy using yoga and wellbeing tools developed through movement and Therapy training to enhance the lives of children under 18 suffering with Autism, Learning disabilities and epilepsy. Kristel works outreach to Guildford, Surrey and Surrounding areas.
In Sport, Kristel has been invited to be a visiting teacher at the Harlequins Women’s Rugby league team, bringing her practise to English National and International Women’s Sport as well as supporting the Young Mascots on Pitch side to Chelsea FC with their warm up to accompany the young footballers onto the pitch. She has facilitated primary level from Nursey classes to age 11.
« Being apart of Women’s International Sport and sharing in their Yoga Journey was truly magical » Kristel Seidler
Much of her work has been inspired by Teaching assisting children with complex mental health and disabilities on 1-1 basis in schools where she discovered this unique way of seeing through other’s perception of their abilities and cognitive function, to see something more profound which was vastly based using the approaches to yoga and movement. This was the same standpoint that sparked the change in her own self development and education in music as an Opera Singer when she embarked on a Yoga of Sound, Nada Sound Journey.
Sound brings connection to our bodies, connection to our bodies, brings connection to our breath and only then we can learn to communicate and express what we truly need and release blocks in our path.
These children showed her something magical, if we follow the resistance and listen to our intuition, maybe we inherently know the answer. It’s up to our educators to hold us in the space to guide rather than tell us where they think we SHOULD go.
Kristel now focuses her practise on the healing vibrations of Sound facilitating in Sound baths and Somatic Yoga one to one sessions, groups and retreats in Berkshire and West Sussex to enable her students to feel authentic, light and peaceful in their own pathway of yoga.
Photography by Hannah Lovell
“I’ve never experienced anything quite like it before, it was really very good.”
— Bryden Wood Architects