I'm excited to share this journey of transformation with you...  yoga is a practice, an incredible science and a way of life.... watch the spark become a flame!

Teaching yoga for more than 20 years, and practicing for longer, Lila's yoga classes are held with experience in a strong yet heartcentred and supportive way.  Lila also teaches yoga philosophy and shares the joy of kirtan, meditation and chanting in her specialist classes, retreats and trainings internationally.

Meet Lila

Yoga Prema School of Yoga (Registered Yoga School)
Yoga is a journey from the outerworld to the blissful inner world... the core of everything that exists is consciousness and pure divine love ('prema').  Lila embodies yoga as a way of life and her dedication inspires and encourages others to commit to their own practice and journey into the deeper layers of being.  She brings an understanding that the practice of yoga is not complete without finding balance in the body, mind, heart and spirit.  We work with the outer layers (the body) to access the subtle energies, to calm the busy mind, to find a heart centred inner tranquility and wellness from within.  Practices range from being strength building and alignment based to long held deep releasing practices.  Lila in her vast experience teaches and trains teachers in the full spectrum of yoga including meditation, breathwork, mantras and chanting, kirtan, yogic studies and more.

Lila Conway - Founder
In 2001, Lila first qualified as a yoga teacher in India.  She has been practicing and studying yoga since the mid 1990's.  Lila has always been a seeker and thanks to a stressful London life in the corporate fashion industry, Lila decided to give it all up in 1999 to travel to Asia & India.  This is where her yoga journey deepened and the spark became a flame...  she never looked back!  Arriving in India was a homecoming and where she stayed to live in yoga ashrams in Kerala & Delhi, teaching yoga, meditation, chanting, philosophy and studying for a further 6 years.  Lila founded Yoga Prema on her return to the UK in 2006.  She was approved as a Yoga Teacher Trainer in 2007 and went on to train over 500 yoga teachers internationally for Yoga Prema and also the Sivananda ashrams in Uttar Kashi, Himalayas, India and Canada. Lila inspires and guides practitioners and teachers of yoga in their practice and teaching.

Lila continues to travel to India annually (until the pandemic!) to study with her teachers in Raja Yoga / asana (Iyengar yoga) and also the rich and sweet path of Bhakti yoga which has become a way of life for Lila.  She has had the blessing of receiving initiation into the Bhakti Yoga tradition with her Gurudev Sri Raman Bihari Das Babaji in India.  She is guided and inspired deeply in her life and sadhana practice of Bhakti yoga... the path of love.  Lila's passion is not only asana practice but kirtan and mantra chanting... she continues her study and mantra meditation sadhana on a daily basis.

Q:  "Why Practice Yoga?
A: ​  To kindle the divine fire within yourself...  everyone has a dormant spark of divinity within themself which has to be fanned into flame"- BKS Iyengar
Welcome to Yoga Prema.
The aim of yoga is to realise that we are all connected, we all share one heart, one consciousness, and one Divine source. The practice of yoga takes us on a journey through the different levels of our being, providing experiences to help us connect to the Divinity within and fan the spark into a flame!  'Prema' is the highest form of divine love

"....this was thanks to Lila, who I experienced as a very special yoga teacher. She helped me and inspired me in ways she may not even be aware of. I have been able to make some positive changes as a result. I found in her an unusual blend of pure essential yoga combined with wisdom, experience, spirituality and grounded humour" - M

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