ELEMENTS is run by Dr Lucy Tyler

As a movement practitioner & artist, Lucy’s work focuses on what it is to hold space & care for people in public settings, the arts, & education. Lucy is a registered yoga teacher, & has been practicing for half her life (20 years!). She teaches yoga & movement in a wide range of educational, community & studio settings in the South East of England (Oxford, Reading & London in particular). Lucy discovered somatics to support her own sense of self & repattern movement. Having experienced both yoga & somatics as life-changing, Lucy wants to support others on their own journeys.

Lucy holds space for anyone at Elements to practice affordable yoga & somatics in a supportive, safe and creatively-attuned space. Her offerings of are friendly, soothing, imaginative & inclusive.

Lucy is Associate Professor of Performance at the University of Reading. She works across different contexts to bring care & creative self-enquiry to a wide group of people. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, an MPhil in Drama, a BA, a PGCHE teaching qualification, and a range of yoga and somatic qualifications (some of which are listed below). Lucy is DBS checked, and has a current first aid certificate. Her practices are insured by Yoga Alliance Professionals. Lucy teaches across a wide range of Asana forms including Restorative & Yin, Hatha & Iyengar, Slow to Dynamic Vinyasa, and Elemental Mandala. She is a student of Ashtanga Yoga, & can hold safe space for Ashtanga practitioners with an established Mysore self-practice of the primary series and beyond. She is widely read in Yoga Philosophy & contemporary movement literatures. Some of her current writings engage with Yoga & Somatics in the context of performance development.

As a scholar of new performance development more broadly, Lucy brings a unique set of skills to working with artists across the fields of Art, Theatre, Performance & Dance. She is passionate about the possibilities of integrating yoga & somatic modalities into the creative process, &/or about making life more creative with the addition of yoga & somatics.

Lucy is a mother & an able-bodied white, cis-woman entering her 40s. She has experiential knowledge of the peri-menopause, embodied de-sensitisation & depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, pregnancy, complex birthing, dysphoria & ED recovery. She has experience of taking time off work for both parental & sick leave. She has excellent knowledge of supporting students from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and folks who identify as LGBTQ+. She is a Stonewall trained ally (2018).