{"id":193,"date":"2026-08-28T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.stepintoyoga.com\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:13:34","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.stepintoyoga.com\/?page_id=193","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Meet Renate<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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I am originally from Germany, have recently become a \u201cDual-National\u201d, and have lived by now more years outside Germany than in. Places which have formed me are Australia, South Africa, France and different parts of the UK.  Yoga found me first in South Africa in 1999, but somehow the timing wasn\u2019t right. A second attempt in the UK, in 2001, was far more successful and led to me doing my Teacher Training with Yoga Vidya in 2002 in Germany. After having lived in the Yoga Vidya Ashram for 7 months, teaching and working,  I have been pretty much teaching since\u2026 over 20 years!

When pregnant, I found there was no antenatal yoga on offer in the area\u2026 which led to my teaching Yoga 4 Pregnancy (2004-\u2026.). I taught all through my 2nd pregnancy and after baby arrived I added Yoga 4 Mums & Babies (2006-\u2026.) to my repertoire.

After 18 months (2011-2012) in Australia we came back to Brentwood. Since 2013 I do what I have always wanted to do:

Teach Yoga to everyone! <\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n

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My Qualifications<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Yoga Vidya ~ Sivananda 200hr teacher training
Yoga Vidya ~ Additional intensive 90hr training
CamYoga ~ Pregnancy Yoga teacher training
CamYoga ~ Baby Yoga teacher training
Rainbow Kids Yoga ~ Kids Yoga teacher training
Relax Kids ~ Kids Well Being & Relaxation teacher training
Rainbow Yoga ~ Partner and Community Yoga teacher training
CamYoga ~ Art of Adjusting
CamYoga ~ Chair Yoga
CamYoga ~ Leslie Kaminoff Workshops

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