Yoga Bum
Welcome to YogaBum!
Emma Dainton is the founder of YogaBum SA, a little studio and yoga community in the beautiful seaside town of Hermanus in sunny South Africa.
The YogaBum spirit manifests from many years of travel, adventure and life experience. Promoting happiness, body positivity, connection to self and a strong sense of community.
Emma Dainton
Yoga Teacher & Founder of Yogabum
Emma is passionate about teaching and sharing the wonderful practices and tools of yoga that have helped enrich her life. Body, Mind and soul.
Emma immersed herself into yoga in Thailand after living a fast pace lifestyle as a personal trainer in central London, months of travel and a few years of living in and managing a Backpackers in Hermanus, South Africa. It was a much needed journey of self discovery, healing and growth from the pressures of modern day life.
She spent a year learning and practising Hatha yoga, Kriya, philosophy, karma yoga and other courses at a Tibetan tantric yoga school, whilst living in a yogic community. After graduating with a red sash degree of 400 HRs, Emma eventually moved back to Hermanus with her fiance where she taught private clients and became a mother to their first son.
In 2017 she completed her 200HR Yoga Teacher training certificate at The Shala yoga school in Cape Town with the amazing Tamsin and Tom Sheely and Adila Groenewald.
Yogabum studio opened in Sandbaai, Hermanus shortly after Emma's second son was born and has thrived into a wonderful yoga community.
Emma has just completed her 300 HR advanced teachers training course in 3 modules at The shala Yoga school 2020 and is now a fully accredited 500 HR advanced certificate holder.
Emma is a student of Yoga for life and is dedicated to her beautiful family, her teaching and to her students
Loren
Yoga Teacher
Loren did a 3 year diploma in Somatology (Beauty Therapy), qualifying in 2013. After working on a cruise line and travelling, Loren felt she wanted to delve deeper into her love for yoga, which lead to her choice in 2016, to live in Thailand for 6 months and embark on a Hot Yoga Teacher Training.
Once completed, she went on to work at Phucket Cleanse a fitness retreat based in Thailand, in order to gain experience as a yoga teacher. Returning back to South Africa, Loren realised that her true passion was in health and fitness and therefore felt the need to acquire more knowledge and skills in this field. She went on to become a certified Pilates Teacher, completed a Personal Training course and also got certified in Specialised Nutrition.
In 2017 Loren added to her resume by becoming certified as a Usui Shiki Ryoho Advanced Reiki Practitioner, doing this not only to enrich herself but also wanting to incorporate the healing benefits into her yoga practice and teachings.
Loren teaches Yoga, Yogalates and Pilates, with her style being fitness orientated. Her philosophy is- in order to be truly happy, healthy and fulfilled, one needs to nurture body, mind and soul. Loren absolutely loves teaching at Yogabum, which she was fortunate enough to join a month after the studio had opened.