About Heather

Heather Mason offers Yoga Therapy for the mind and the body based on her extensive training in psychotherapy, yoga therapy, and mindfulness-based practice. Having suffered from both depression and anxiety Heather offers an approach that is both experientially and scientifically based.  She integrates the benefits of yoga postures, breath practices, mindfulness techniques, and psychotherapeutic principles to help people alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression. Through this combined approach Heather is able to work with both the mind and body meeting both the psychological and physiological aspects of mental-health through a process of mutual cure. Heather holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from SOAS University London, and completed an MA in Clinical Buddhist-Based Psychotherapy, she is now enrolled in an MSc in Neuroscience at Roehampton University  with hopes of conducting research on how Yoga therapy and mindfulness can positively influence the brain. 

This educational journey is an accompaniment to a three year meditative and yogic exploration in South East Asia where she resided in Buddhist monasteries and learned how to transcend her own emotional suffering.  Heather has been teaching yoga since 2001 after completing a teacher training with Guruji Sunil Kumar in Varanasi and later qualified as yoga therapist.  Heather also trained as a Lifeforce practitioner with Amy Weintraub in the United States.  Lifeforce Yoga specializes in for Yoga for Depression.  Recently, she also became a teacher of  Mindfulness-Based-Cognitve Therapy after completing a TDR with Bangor University.

Additionally, Heather is the only person in the UK to have trained extensively with the Boston Trauma Center Massachusetts on how to use yoga as a complementary treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD.  Further, Heather is in the process of certification in Trauma Incident Recovery.

Heather's special approach combines insight from her own practice, the support and holding of a trained psychotherapist and yoga therapist, with the academic acumen of neuroscience student.  She develops mind-body techniques based on this overlapping of skills to provide gentle, compassionate, and scientifically sound teaching.