Hi, I’m Anja — and my work is rooted in cycles, seasons, and Ayurveda.
I’ve been teaching yoga for over 20 years and qualified as an Ayurvedic practitioner (BSc and PGDip) in 2009.
From the beginning, I felt that yoga was meant to meet the person — not for the person to try to fit into a fixed sequence or a single “right” way of doing a pose. Yet much of the yoga world has become prescriptive: one-size-fits-all practices, the same sequences taught regardless of season, time of day, environment, or what is happening in the wider world.
Learning Ayurveda — often called the sister science of yoga — gave me the framework that finally made sense of this. It explains why yoga practices work, how to adapt them intelligently, and why rhythm, seasons, and individuality matter.
This perspective has shaped how I teach, practise, and live — and it continues to inform everything I share.
Through my studies and clinical training in Ayurveda — including a BSc, Postgraduate Diploma, and apprenticeships in Ayurvedic hospitals in India — I gained a language that brought yoga into real life. Not just on the mat, but in relation to digestion, energy, stress, cycles, seasons, and modern living.
Ayurveda didn’t make my teaching more complicated.
It made it more intelligent, responsive, and intuitive.
A Pathway for Teachers and Practitioners
If you feel there’s something missing in how yoga is taught or practised — a sense that context has been overlooked — you’re not alone. That’s why I developed:
Ayurveda: The Sister Science of Yoga
A live online course for yoga teachers and experienced practitioners who want to understand why yoga practices work, how to teach and adapt intelligently, and how to integrate Ayurvedic principles into real-world classes and practice.
This course offers a framework that supports your teaching — seasonally, individually, and with clarity.
I am the author of Teaching Yoga for the Menstrual Cycle - and ayurvedic approach, and I regularly teach specialist courses including pregnancy yoga, perimenopause, and teacher trainings.
Come join me for a workshop, a class, or a course
— and let’s honour your seasons together.
Long bio:
Anja Brierley Lange is the author of Teaching yoga for the menstrual cycle - an Āyurvedic perspective. She began her yoga teaching journey in 2005 in venues and studios across London. Whilst building her community through various classes, workshops and lectures, she became increasingly aware of the limitations of standardised yoga teaching and training. Specifically relating to menstrual cycle awareness, female anatomy and health.
With a strong ambition to better serve the individuals within her community, Anja enrolled at university studying for a four year degree in āyurvedic medicine. She found herself returning to India, apprenticing and working alongside several specialist doctors in hospitals across India. And in 2009/10 she graduated with a bachelor of science (BSc) and postgraduate degree (PGDip) in āyurveda.
Since 2013 she has been training yoga teachers including creating teacher training courses in pregnancy and postnatal yoga. Now after over 18 years of experience, it is in this space she continues to dedicate her focus and growth. Continuing to broaden her training beyond yoga, in order to obtain and guide a holistic practice, with women’s health at the heart.
Formal qualifications include
Female Pelvic Floor Training for birth and wellness practitioners 2018
Vaginal Steam Facilitator, Steamy Chick, 2018
Paramana Doula Course 2015
300 Hour Prana Vinyasa® Teacher Training with Shiva Rea September 2010-2015
Yoga Nidra Teacher training, Satyanand, London 2012
Postnatal Yoga, Birthlight, London, 2011
Post Graduate Diploma in Ayurveda, Middlesex University 2010
Perinatal Yoga Teacher Training, Claire Missingham, London - 2010
Apprenticeship at KLE Ayurved Hospital & College, Belgaum, SDM College of Ayurveda, Hassan and AVP, Coimbature in India 2009
BSc Ayurveda, Middlesex University 2006-2009
Seane Corn Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training, Exhale, Venice Beach, California - 2008
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training, Sitaram/The Life Centre, London - 2008
Advanced Aromatherapy for Pregnancy 2006
Bush Flower Essences 2006
Yoga Alliance Teacher certification, The Cambridge School of Yoga, London - 2005
Diploma in Life Coaching 2005
Clinical Aromatherapy 2002
Diploma in Anatomy, Physiology & Body Massage 2000
Reiki 1 and 2 1999
Sivananda Yoga Teacher, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Neyar Dam, India - 1998
Study, cpd, workshops and training with yoga teachers and Ayurvedic Doctors including Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr Robert Svoboda, David Frawley, Claudia Welch, Rebecca & Sascha Kriese. APA events. Ongoing.
