With 450 hrs of yoga teacher training in Vinyasa and Mandala Flow, Restorative and Yin, Madeleine guides practices in all these modes, with a particular focus on building creative confidence and nurturing authentic voice, for professional singers and non-singers alike.

Initially attracted by the physical support that yoga could offer to a performer’s body, Madeleine soon came to appreciate the spiritual and philosophical aspects of yoga, and undertook her 200-hr initial teacher training with Erika Shapiro at MoreYoga London during the Covid-19 pandemic primarily as an opportunity to deepen her understanding of the practice. 

Following her instinct that this was to be an important part of her ongoing portfolio career, Madeleine continued on MoreYoga’s advanced training, Yin training with Bernie Clark and further training with Charles Balogh in Mandala Flow, bringing together the practices of Yin and Yang. She is currently training in Yoga with Somatics with Trina Altman at Yoga International.

In the spirit of teaching what she most needs to learn, Madeleine’s practices focus on developing inner awareness, quality of breath connection and joyful integrity of movement. Greatly influenced by years of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration sessions with teacher Rebecca Meitlis, Madeleine incorporates aspects of other modalities including Hanna Somatics and Tai Chi in her practices, encouraging others to take a playful, curious approach to help people (as Bernie Clark says) ‘to fly their own plane’.

Madeleine combines her yoga and singing teaching experience to help singers inhabit their singing bodies and their song with greater freedom, authority and dramatic power in twice-yearly courses at Benslow Music Trust, and has taught yoga for musicians alongside song classes at Dartington International Summer School. Together with harpist Eleanor Turner she has developed meditative movement practices for the New Paths Music Festival, Beverley, and most recently convened the first holistic BodyVoice Festival of Wellbeing in conjunction with other singer-somatic practitioners.

A member of Yoga Alliance Professionals, Madeleine also teaches individuals online and in person in London and Suffolk. If you are interested in finding out more about one-to-one sessions or future workshops, please contact Madeleine here.