Charlotte attended her first yoga class in 1996 and immediately knew that it would be a large part of the route to overcoming her stress-related issues. She trained at the Vajrasati Yoga School in Brighton (500 hour Yoga Alliance training) founded by Jim Tarran who is influenced by Buddhism and brought a natural mindfulness aspect to practising yoga. This was the beginning of a relationship with yoga focusing on taking time and finding space to feel subtleties of the experience, energetics and responses within the practice and create full body awareness within postures.
Charlotte then went on to train in teaching yoga for people with ME and Chronic Fatigue with Fiona Agombar and teaching for chronic pain with Heather Mason, continuing her interest in yoga as therapy for anxiety, depression and stress states. She deepened her mindfulness practice as a result of a specific mindfulness course for yoga teachers with Cathy-Mae Karelse. She continues to study with teachers Tias Little and Joanne Avison as they combine her love of mindful, somatic practice, yoga as meditation, the contemporary anatomy of biotensegrity and an explorative and compassionate attitude – alongside attention to alignment with respect to the individual needs of students.
Charlotte is an author with many published books, including Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018), Good Mood Food (Nourish 2018) and The De-Stress Effect (2015). She is also an award-winning nutritionist, practising since 2000 and specialising in stress-related and fatigue conditions and burnout, and digestive issues.
Charlotte teaches classes in Brighton and London, workshops, UK yoga weekends and retreats abroad. She also runs courses and retreats specifically for yoga teachers to attend to their own self-care so they have the resources to support others. She is assisted by Leonie Taylor (500 RYT).
Upcoming Courses
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January 2023
FREE ONLINE TASTER: Teaching Yoga for Digestive Health
5th January 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
Teaching Yoga for Digestive Health
20th January 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
March 2023
FREE ONLINE TASTER: Teaching Yoga for Immune & Respiratory Health
1st March 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
Teaching Yoga for Immune and Respiratory Health
31st March 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
May 2023
Teaching Yoga for Digestive Health
19th May 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
June 2023
Teaching Yoga for Immune and Respiratory Health
23rd June 2023 - Online (Live) - Charlotte Watts
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Grounding movement for adrenal support and stress coping
Stress is a natural part of the human experience, but how we can regulate how we cope with its presence? Chronic stress and trauma create rigidity and tension within body tissues that leave our responses less adaptable and link them to inflammatory and structural issues. Add in that much of modern stress is within sedentary behaviour patterns that don’t allow us to physically express when we are angry, sad or in pain. Recent interest in movement as ‘body psychotherapy’ describes how we process much of our unconscious thought via our physical body. Read more
Digestive Health: Digestion & Movement
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