Sumiya is the founder of Love & Lentils Yoga and a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. 

Following many years practising law in a high-pressure, corporate environment in London and Sydney, she qualified to teach yoga 13 years ago. Her teaching experience began in earnest when she decided to share what she was learning.

Sumiya has spent much time in India exploring the roots of the yogic and Ayurvedic systems and is particularly drawn to traditional and ancient forms of wisdom from around the world. 

Sumiya is professionally trained to teach breath work techniques that help restore balance and harmony to the mind and body, and has also partnered with Re-Balance to provide specially-tailored sessions for corporate clients. 

With more than a decade’s experience guiding students as they blend yoga practice into their daily lives, Sumiya’s teaching style is accessible and aware, both light and carefully supportive, and always student-led. 

She encourages students to cultivate an approach to their own practice that is both mindful and curious, to explore their own connection with yoga and what it means to them, and most importantly to “see what happens”. 

Sumiya teaches what she herself practices every day, working intuitively with her students to explore the possibilities inherent in allowing the breath to guide the way. 

Poppy Jaman OBE is British Bangladeshi and one of the co-founders of Re-Balance.  She started her career as a community development worker and her passion for supporting the growth of healthier, empowered communities is still very much at the heart of her work. One of her many passions is empowering underrepresented and underserved black, indigenous and women of colour.Poppy has been practicing yoga for 12 years and values the different aspects it brings into her day-to-day.  She feels a deep connection to her practice where it plays a key role in her continuing journey of well-being restoration and recovery.

She has also experienced many different retreats around the world and really attunes to the power retreats can have on general wellbeing, physically, mentally and spiritually. Her love for music, colour and movement certainly comes through when she’s dancing in her many sarees!

Poppy is an internationally respected mental health advocate, national policy advisor and social entrepreneur. A global ambassador for mental health in the workplace, CEO of the City Mental Health Alliance and Trustee for The Centre for Mental Health.

Poppy also founded Mental Health First Aid England and served two terms on the PHE Advisory Board.

Jaan is co-founder of Re-Balance.  He thrives on meeting and working with people.  His career has followed a belief in the necessity for healthy environments, working both with the individuals that make them up and communities as a whole. 

He started learning valuable skills and knowledge as a youth worker, now many years later, he still approaches all his roles from a desire to understand people’s experiences and support them in finding their voice. 

Jaan loves nothing more than spending time outside, there’s never a wilderness too big or too small to explore. He is also known to do some open water swimming, running and experiencing new wellbeing techniques such as mindfulness, laughter yoga and loves to share his experiences to help others find their sanctuary of self.

Jaan became interested in yoga through watching the positive impact it had on 2 people close to him - his younger daughter and wife, Poppy.  It took time for him to try it for himself, but when he did, he came back for more. 

More recently he has grown a deeper interest in developing his own practice to explore how yoga helps to connect him physically and emotionally, as well as a vehicle to share those moments with others.