Françoise is a known pioneer of pregnancy and Postnatal yoga, developed Well Woman yoga in response to the needs of women who were not comfortable returning to their yoga practice after childbirth complications or when facing other reproductive challenges. The course was first offered as a module of the Yoga Therapy Diploma at the Yoga Biomedical Trust, London, before expanding into a diploma course accredited with Yoga Alliance Professionals (50 hours).

Kirsteen Ruffell is the coordinator for Birthlight’s land-based training courses and is one of the experienced Perinatal and Baby Yoga tutors. She is a registered senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals, has been teaching yoga since 1998, and began tutoring in 2008. Kirsteen is passionate about nurturing students’ professional development on every training course and enhancing their ability to use new understanding creatively to best serve the students in their own classes.