Introduction
Geoff Powell is a long established yoga teacher. Having trained in the Iyengar technique in the 1970's in London with Silva Mehta and Mr B.K.S. Iyengar, Geoff also taught at the Iyengar Institute in London when it first opened its doors to the public.
A change in lifestyle, however, took him to live in Snowdonia in North Wales 28 years ago where he has lived and taught since. In that time Geoff has also established a private complementary health practise (having trained as an Applied Kinesiologist and NLP practitioner) and made a specialism of stress management. He was for a number of years the facilitator of the Gwynedd Health Trust's Mental Health Care Unit's stress management courses.
His aim is to help people develop the ability to find balance in all aspects of life and to find a way to full physical and mental health. His work practice, called 'Optimum Health', sets out to achieve those aims.
Through his work as a kinesiologist he has a wide knowledge of nutrition, physical structure and mental ability techniques which inevitably colour and inform his yoga teaching.
Geoff also runs a number of local classes in the Bangor and Caernarfon area, as well as annual residential yoga courses in a number of different venues across Crete, the French Pyrenees, Turkey and, nearer to home, Snowdonia.