Media Kit
For immediate release
September 5 2007
Charlotte Dodson – the preferred yoga teacher to Australia’s top models.
Australian born Miranda Kerr may have adopted New York as her home, but the svelte Victoria’s
Secret still chooses to practice yoga with Australian-based yoga teacher Charlotte Dodson.
Why you ask? Because Charlotte Dodson customizes yoga routines to suit the model’s
busy lifestyle and often hectic international schedule.
As a dynamic hatha and kundalini specialist, Charlotte Dodson says eight years of training have
shown her the many benefits of private one-on-one consultation.
With a background in yoga teaching and study from India and London to Sydney and New York,
Dodson’s qualifications and experience have helped her attract a high –profile clientele.
“Rather than students sitting in a pose on automatic pilot, I like to progress people,
I always like to keep my classes creative and challenge my students to be present and mindful at
all times,” says Dodson.
This approach has hit a chord with top supermodel Miranda Kerr, who cited Charlotte Dodson as
her favourite teacher when she was in Sydney to shoot a Portman’s campaign in early August.
“With yoga I believe it’s really important who you have as a teacher, to me Charlotte
is the best - her energy is really grounding and nurturing, it has become a part of my
life,” says Miranda Kerr.
Dodson says her business based in Sydney is booming, while her private lessons have taken off
with professionals from the fashion, film and media industry. Thrilled to have a continuing
association with Miranda Kerr, Charlotte emphasizes her holistic approach to the yogic systems
she teaches.
“Once I have established a relationship with any client, I am always keen to keep working with
them.”
“With Miranda I have followed her progression both professionally and in yoga practice. I have
taught her in New York and now I teach her every six weeks when she returns home to shoot
campaigns.”
“But with all my private clients I offer home consultations, I travel abroad with my clients, I
prescribe what they need. I guess you could say I’m flexible!” Dodson says with a smile.
For images, interview or a full biography on Charlotte contact www.charlottedodson.com.
BACKGROUND:
Charlotte Dodson provides bespoke regimes to people of ages, levels and medical backgrounds.
Each class is a whole within itself and classes are designed to be light, playful and refreshing.
Charlotte is a certified yoga teacher who has be practicing yoga for 8 years in London, India,
New York and Sydney.
Charlotte brings a wealth of experience to every class having practiced, hatha, ashtanga and
kundalini yoga with teachers across four continents. She has completed a 3 year International
Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching at Nature Care Sydney and Charlotte travels regularly to
update her knowledge.
Working to develop sincerity and mindfulness in her students, Charlotte’s classes are designed to
inspire and uplift. The student teacher relationship is one that encourages individuals to find their
own meaning in their poses and in their practice.
PHILOSOPHY
‘Be true to yourself and become that which you are’, this phrase govern Charlotte Dodson’s
teaching practice. The calm environment at Charlotte Dodson encourages students to accept,
trust and believe in themselves.
YOGA
Hatha
Cleansing, nurturing and restoring the body, hatha is about working with gentle but dynamic free
flowing movements (vinyasa) and postures (asanas) to control vital energy, the breath
(pranayama). Overtime hatha integrates the body, mind and soul, to achieve stillness and
wholeness.
Kundalini
Working to awaken and balance the body’s subtle energy bodies, the kundalini yoga systems is
integrated at Charlotte Dodson with the specific purpose of raising consciousness and is
prescribed into a regime as set designed to purify and cleanse.