Meet our Graduates
Explore who our graduates are, learn about their offerings, the communities they serve and ways to support or work with them.
Lesley Pace
Lesley Pace (she/her). From the age of sixteen Lesley has held a deep affinity for yoga and meditation in her life. She began her practice after a sports injury left her with a torn ACL and MCL.
From there she continued to utilize yoga as a space of peace through challenging times in college and after.
Inspired by the strength and clarity she gained, Lesley chose to delve deeper into her yoga practice by becoming a certified yoga instructor in 2014 (500-Hour RYT).
Since that time she has been teaching various styles of yoga throughout the state of Colorado and beyond and is continuing to augment her yoga education.
Lesley has modeled for Yoga Journal Magazine and Lululemon.
She has also attended Prison Yoga Training with James Fox in Amsterdam and she has served as camp staff and faculty under Chelsea Jackson Roberts, PhD at the Yoga, Literature, Art Camp for teenage girls at Spelman College.
Currently, she is in pursuit of her Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification with Shakti School under the tutelage of Katie Silcox.
If you love podcasts, Leslie is running one - Soul Subliminal - for mindful meditations and conversations. Tune in!
Lesley desires to use her practice to spread love, light, and healing to those most in need and underserved.
In her free time you can find her co-developing Exodus Estate at Free Hill, a wellness retreat sanctuary in Jamaica with her husband Chaz, bopping around the world for leisure, uplifting her community through her beloved Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and reading bell hooks to children.
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Ntathu Allen
Ntathu Allen (she/her) is a meditation teacher, yoga nidrā guide, and writer based in London, with over twenty years of experience teaching across a diverse range of communities, from schoolchildren and young offenders to corporate teams, faith communities, and private clients from every walk of life.
She originally trained at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Kerala, India (2004), and has since completed Radical Darshan's Yoga Teacher Training (2022) and, most recently, the Peace in Rest Yoga Nidrā Teacher Training with Ayla Nova (August 2026).
After six years as primary carer for her mother, who lived with Alzheimer's, Ntathu is now gently returning to teaching, with a particular focus this season on yoga nidrā for grief and for exhausted caregivers, offering the same rest and permission to simply be that she has spent recent years learning to give herself.
She runs Yoga Inspires, where she writes and teaches on rest, grief, and gentle self-care, and is the author of Healing After Loss: 28 Devotional Poems and Meditation for Beginners: How to Meditate for People who Hate to Sit Still.
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✍🏿 Medium
Amina Dreessen
Amina (she/they) is a somatic speech therapist and facilitator who works with neurodivergent teens and adults.
She is currently hosting a series of "Unmasking Labs" at the House of the Lorde in Chicago, guided by the wisdom of disability justice and the words of Audre Lorde's essay, "the Uses of the Erotic."
She believes that through reconnecting with ancestral practices, integrating modern-day knowledge, and resisting extractive colonial systems, we are building a more alive and loving world.
Amina is deeply grateful for the Radical Darshan teachings on how to connect with the divine and create spaces of collective transformation.
She offers group facilitation, one-on-one coaching, and organizational consulting through her business, Embody Divergence.
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🔖 Substack
Caroline Morris
Caroline (they/she) offers simple, slow, more accessible yoga in community spaces in Nottinghamshire, at Love Yoga Hucknall.
They are committed to continually learning how to share yoga as a path to liberation, rest, and collective healing.
Each practice can be accessed from the floor or a chair, is rooted in yoga philosophy, with an opportunity to explore mantrā, mudrā, mediation and movement.
They are committed to inclusion: Love Yoga Hucknall Inclusion Statement.
They bring experience from other roles in holding therapeutic spaces and working with people with hidden and visible disabilities, to their 1-to-1 spaces.
Their hope is that these are a soft place to land for those living under oppressive systems, to make sense of their experiences and connect to the liberation practices of yoga. You can learn more about their 1-to-1 sessions here.
They also thrive on bringing people together: swimming under the moon; sommunity yoga for the queer community; grief circle for those impacted by the Palestinian genocide.
Their roots are in the boggy Celtic landscapes of West Ireland; South Wales, and Devon. They were raised with class and colonial privilege, yet always surrounded by whispers of rebellion, social justice, and a deep connection to the natural world. Brought up to nurture their own spirituality and surrender to that which is bigger than us all.
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📞 +44 7967 602710
Laura Mackenzie
Laura Mackenzie (she/her) first came to yoga aged 15 and it has been a constant source of support, connection and wisdom in her life ever since!
Passionate about social justice, she is involved in political activism in her spare time and works in digital communications in the women and girls’ rights sector.
She believes strongly in the power of yoga as a tool for social justice and collective care, and tries to keep these concepts at the heart of every yoga class she leads.
Her classes blend gentle āsana and movement with prāṇāyāma, meditation, and mudrā practices, and there are always opportunities for rest and reflection.
For her, taking things slowly is a small but important act of rebellion in a system that prioritises profits over people 💖
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dilber nurdinova
dilber (they/them) is a genderqueer human of Uyghur and Lithuanian descent, raised between Kyrgyzstan and Lithuania. Shaped by experiences of gendered violence, racism and systemic oppression, they are committed to deconstructing imposed roles and returning to a more authentic self through trauma-aware and community centred practice.
After confronting the realities of Western wellness spaces marked by spiritual bypassing, cultural appropriation and a lack of accountability to source cultures and marginalised communities, dilber turned toward the eduction on decolonising wellness and human rights. Completing Radical Darshan’s 300h YTT was an important step in their education journey in social justice, anti-oppression and intersectional equity.
They now support Radical Darshan in growing graduate community.
They have been guiding yoga for queers and Global Majority folks. This work is now growing into a wider movement in Barcelona, where they are co-creating a decolonising yoga community.
This emerging community will centre offerings by and for Global Majority folks, queer and trans, people with disabilities, elders and many others - creating spaces where practice can be reclaimed, shared and reshaped. Beyond practices, the intention is to cultivate gatherings for joy, learning, mutual support and collective organising, including fundraising and efforts toward dismantling systemic oppression.
If you'd love to be part of this work, dilber welcomes you to reach out via [email protected].
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🌍 Abyhāsa
Ines Neid
Ines Neid (she/they) believe in Yoga that doesn't centre the teacher and is truly inclusive to any body and any mind. Yoga has been the most effective way for them to stay sane(-ish) and resist grind culture, which is the resistance they want to facilitate. Radical Darshan has clarified for them the innate relationship between Yoga and social justice, which has been their guiding principle.
Professionally they fight for decolonisation in higher education and international relations and in their spare time they love crafting, swimming and hiking.
Ines has explored many styles of Yoga from a young age, but restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, meditation and Yoga Nidrā have remained their most consistent support. In London they guided Yin Yoga classes and led practices with Lumi Foundation bringing Yoga to youth centers, addiction support groups and retirement homes. This has taught Ines that the most valuable practice they can offer is an accessible one. They’ve done advanced training in size-inclusive teaching, neurodivergent facilitating, Sacred Activism and Embodied Yoga Philosophy.
Ines guides practices that pave the way to introspection and genuine rest through embodiment and mindfulness. They prioritise inclusion, particularly for neurodivergent people and different age groups. You can expect clear announcements of what is going to happen, gentle floor- and chair-based movement, supported held poses, and verbal guidance throughout -no pretzel shapes, no pressure, and no need to already be “good” at relaxing or staying still. Together with Ines, you find depth in simplicity and practise staying present(-ish).