About the Author

Jilly Shipway is a qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher with more than twenty-five years of teaching experience. Over her long teaching career she has enthused hundreds of students with her love of yoga, and many of them have continued to study with her for many years and up to the present day. She has tutored foundation level, prediploma yoga study courses for the British Wheel of Yoga. She was very fortunate to have discovered yoga in her early teens and so has had a lifetime of studying and practicing yoga. Mindfulness is an integral part of her own yoga practice and her teaching.

As well as teaching general yoga classes, she also has many years of experience teaching specialist yoga classes to adults recovering from mental health problems. She trained at King’s College London as a motivational interviewing coach, coaching people caring for someone with an eating disorder, and worked under the supervision of Professor Janet Treasure and her team.

For over ten years Jilly has been developing a seasonal approach to yoga. In tandem with this she has been trying to solve the mystery of women’s involvement in the history of yoga. Her Seasonal Yoga courses and website have inspired thousands of yoga practitioners to integrate a seasonal awareness into their yoga practice. She has a BA (Hons) degree in fine art and believes passionately that yoga and mindfulness can really enhance creativity.

Jilly is a regular contributor to the international publication Yoga Magazine. When Jilly is not teaching, writing about, or doing yoga, she loves walking in towns, cities, and the wilds of nature. She lives in the UK in a small Welsh border town, surrounded by hills. She is married and has one grown-up daughter.

Visit her website at www.yogathroughtheyear.com.