Jackie King

Jackie has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years. At school she enjoyed sports and ran for school and county in 800m and cross country. After leaving school there was a massive gap in her life so in 1998 she attended Morley College in London and gained her Exercise to Music qualification. Then moved to Milton Keynes where her studio career began; she gained many studio qualifications and enjoyed teaching Body Pump, Body Balance, Schwinn indoor cycling to name but a few.

In 2000 Jackie took on the role of studio coordinator for Esporta which eventually got bought out by Virgin Active. Her life was pretty hectic teaching 20 classes a week and running 3 studios. After attending many classes doing circuits she happened to join in with a yoga session. Loved it and never looked back. In 2003 she qualified in intermediate yoga followed by Hatha yoga through the British School of Yoga. Slowly swopped half her teaching classes to yoga or body balance style classes she then went on to qualify in Pilates in 2008 through the British School of Yoga. She was very fortunate to have a Pilates and yoga studio for her use and this allowed her to hold and attend many workshops and training courses in different styles of yoga and Pilates.

Through the years Jackie also enjoyed the mechanics of the body and importance of correct alignment and did anatomy and psychology many times 2002 when she gained her Massage, Anatomy and Physiology diploma at Dunstable College. Then in 2009 when she did Access to Health Level 3 at Milton Keynes College where she completed Biology, Psychology, and Sociology all at level 3.

Jackie is also on her yoga journey and enjoys attending other classes, retreats and workshops and feels you can never know enough about yoga meditation and mindfulness. This year alone she has been on 3 retreats with Lucia Yoga in Spain one of which she hosted herself, She also runs yoga and pilates retreat days and events in the UK with her brand jkyogaflow she has attended 3 Pilates work shops with body control and J Pilates. She has attended more than 5 yoga workshops , she has just completed her Insight Yin yoga course with internatinaly renowned Sarah Lo and "Beautiful Back Bends” with Melanie Cooper.And 'making adjustments' with Paul Fox. She enjoys the diversity of yoga and all the many styles and teachings. Jackie is also in the processes of working towards mindfulness master practitioner and has run several work shops on mindfulness for reading university.

Jackie is also a senior teacher for ”Yoga Alliance” and has over 6000 yoga teaching hours under her belt, member no #7032

She is truly grateful to be able to teach and share with others that what has inspired her so much over the last 20 years. She loves seeing positive and uplifting changes within her students. She also loves helping those with depression & anxiety, and joint & back problems to feel stronger and able to cope through their yoga practice, it is truly magical.