Khadine Morcom

Khadine Morcom first encountered yoga in 1997 through a Buddhist meditation course with the Triratna Buddhist Order. From her very first class, she felt she had found something deeply meaningful and began to understand life in a new way. The practice quickly became a daily ritual, bringing greater calm, clarity, happiness, and a stronger sense of embodiment. For her, yoga soon became an essential part of life, supporting body, mind, and spirit.

In 2003, during a year-long journey through Asia, she spent six months in India exploring yoga in greater depth. Time at Yoga Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, along with practice with many inspiring teachers across India, deepened her connection to yoga philosophy and teachings beyond the physical postures. She returned to India again in 2008 for further study. This experience also confirmed her wish to teach, and after returning to the UK she trained with Jim Tarran in the Vajrasati School of Yoga. She began teaching in 2004, became fully qualified in 2006 with Yoga Alliance 500 hours, and is now a Senior Teacher in the Vajrasati school. She also co-runs the Vajrasati teacher training course with Jim Tarran in Brighton and London. A lifelong learner, she has continued her development through regular study with teachers including Judith Lasater, Sarah Powers, Donna Farhi, Cathy-Mae Karelse, Paul Grilley, Sally Kempton, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Andrew Holecek, and Charlie Morley. She also holds a Master’s degree with distinction in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS University of London, supervised by Dr. James Mallinson.

Her teaching is calm, focused, and grounded in breath awareness, energetic sensitivity, and connection with inner experience. She works with dynamic and restorative yoga, along with a wide range of practices in between, using both classical and modern postural forms to support integration. Her classes always include experiential yoga philosophy, as well as breathwork, meditation, and mantra. She draws inspiration from non-dual tantra, including Śaiva~Śakta and Buddhist traditions, traditional haṭhayoga, and the Pātañjalayogaśāstra. Her work is also informed by motherhood, her long commitment to the natural world, and nearly 20 years in the environmental sector following an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science.

Her classes are fully inclusive and welcoming to all, regardless of ability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, or age. She creates an open and supportive space where everyone is invited to participate. She teaches with deep respect for the roots of the tradition, acknowledging that as a Western woman she is borrowing from a culture outside her own. With that awareness, she remains committed to ongoing study and to honoring yoga’s South Asian roots with care and appreciation.