About Sue Woodd
Sue began her yoga and holistic healing journey when she was 30 and worked in the antiques and restaurant industry. Her work at the time demanded early mornings, night shifts and being on her feet for long hours at a time, which eventually took a toll on her health. Sue kept falling ill, so her GP offered pain killers and anti-depressants to deal with her symptoms. However Sue wanted more of an understanding of her body and why she kept getting sick. It was in her search for answers that she met Dr Wajed, an Indian Ayurvedic Doctor who introduced her to acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Taoism. It was here that Sue began to discover she was living against her body’s natural clock and started her journey of healing and education.
The noticeable changes Sue felt with a traditional eastern approach to healing and medicine led Sue to leave her full-time job and begin studying health and alternative holistic living. The tools she learnt changed her life. Throughout the 1980’s, in a quest for a deeper understanding, Sue trained in Tai Chi and Shiatsu with inspirational teachers such as Tew Bunnag, Wataru Ohashi, Michio Kushi and Ray Ridolfi. With a sincere desire to share this life changing information, Sue founded her own branch of the British School of Shiatsu in Hampshire in 1991 where she taught Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Shiatsu.
In 1995, following the tragic death of her husband, Sue decided to leave the UK and move to India to grieve, heal and give back. It was in the Northern mountains of Karnataka, Sue started a Safari Camp business. For 3 years, Sue took tourists off the beaten track and out into nature to give people a self-exploration journey and give people a true sense of the beauty of India through traditional food, yoga, hiking and living in nature. She was inspired by how the local people used exercise, food, herbs, massage and meditation to enhance their health, relationship and lives.
In 1998, Sue returned to the UK where she taught Chi Ball and travelled around the world teaching yoga, energy work and Taoism. It was here where she met Tina Hedren and Julie Hanson and together, they decided to form and spread the concept of Seasonal Yoga through their school.
The first Seasonal Yoga Teacher Training school was founded in 2010 which combines Yoga with traditional elements such as energy lines (nadis/meridians) and a harmony with nature’s seasons. Sue was passionate about incorporating and teaching this alongside yoga, as she found that there were very few yoga teachers who were combining ancient energetic elements and nature practices to their yoga asana training.
Since then, Sue has taught and graduated thousands of yogis all around the world. She teaches regularly in Surrey and runs 200-Hour and 300-Hour Seasonal Yoga Teacher Training programs throughout the year in Surrey, Scotland and Sweden. She also founded children’s seasonal yoga programmes: Club Morgan and YOCHI. Sue is passionate about sharing Seasonal Yoga with children and teenagers and her wish is that we can all grow up with a greater conscious and understanding of our bodies, movement and the world around us. Sue also specializes in Seasonal Yoga for senior students, she works with Julie Hanson on the Wise Ones senior yoga classes to give inspired independence to older adults. Her mission is to support the NHS health system in every way she can through mind, body and dietary awareness and education in her yoga classes.
Over Sue’s 30-year yoga and wellness career, she has travelled and taught extensively around the world including The Yoga Show at London Olympia, Mind and Body St. Tropez Fitness Convention, Network Fitness Convention Australia, T’ai Chi Union of Great Britain, Shiatsu Society Endorsement Panel and is a continuing education provider with Yoga Alliance (YACEP) and advanced registered yoga teacher (RYT 500) and senior teacher with Yoga Professionals.
To learn more and connect with Sue for teaching, appearances and speaking opportunities, contact: sue@suewoodd.com