Our Teachers & Staff
Our teaching family is small, and we like it that way! It means we can get to know you and support your practice on a friendlier and more personal level. We love hearing how we can craft classes that serve you better so come and have a chat with us. We often host other guest teachers at the Barn too.
Ashley MacDonald
Ashley’s yoga practice has been evolving for more than 20 years. She’s explored a confetti of styles over the decades, and is passionate about all forms of movement. Her training has ranged from Restorative and Pregnancy Yoga to a more specialised focus on Trauma Sensitive Yoga with the Centre for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute.
Ashley MacDonald
Ashley’s yoga practice has been evolving for more than 20 years. She’s explored a confetti of styles over the decades, and is passionate about all forms of movement. Her training has ranged from Restorative and Pregnancy Yoga to a more specialised focus on Trauma Sensitive Yoga with the Centre for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute. She is currently studying with the Institute for Integrative Body Work and Movement Therapy
In her teaching, Ashley weaves her expertise in movement and anatomy with her interest in psychology to help others unravel the connection between body and mind. She gently encourages us to honour where we are in each moment, to learn from the body’s wisdom, and to move in a way that is mindful and authentic.
Deeply committed to accessibility, Ashley’s teaching extends beyond the Barn to secure facilities and clinical settings where she offers a brave space for patients, prisoners and staff to explore their inner and outer experiences through yoga and movement. She also trains and mentors yoga teachers with Barefoot Body Training.
Ashley lives a stone’s throw from the Barn so you’ll probably see her running around with her two kids and dog Fortinbras, baking sourdough or curled up with a book of poetry (one of many stacked on her bedside table!).


Georgie Barnes
Georgie has practised yoga for over 14 years after initially seeking something to ease persistent back pain, and it absolutely worked! She was hooked on the physical ease a regular yoga practice gave her along with both the buzz and calm she felt from each class.
Georgie Barnes
Georgie has practised yoga for over 14 years after initially seeking something to ease persistent back pain, and it absolutely worked! She was hooked on the physical ease a regular yoga practice gave her along with both the buzz and calm she felt from each class.
In 2010, Georgie completed her 200hr teacher training with Allie Hill at Yoga Haven and more recently her Pregnancy Teacher Training with CamYoga in Cambridge.
Georgie is also a busy mum to three young children and is often found traipsing around Bourn with children and labrador in tow. She has a strong interest in the growing arena of women's health during and after pregnancy and labour.
Melanie Thompson
Melanie has been practising Pilates for over twenty years. Although she started postnatally, her practice has continued to support her through post-run niggles and lower back pain. She loves how Pilates can be tailored to suit anybody and gets great satisfaction from seeing people improve in fitness and strength and being able to alleviate pain and discomfort.
Georgie Barnes
Melanie has been practising Pilates for over twenty years. Although she started postnatally, her practice has continued to support her through post-run niggles and lower back pain. She loves how Pilates can be tailored to suit anybody and gets great satisfaction from seeing people improve in fitness and strength and being able to alleviate pain and discomfort.
She has a qualification in Level 3 advanced mat Pilates with the FutureFit School of Pilates, including orthopaedic, antenatal and postnatal conditions. She has also undertaken courses and workshops with Body Control, Stott and HFE Pilates.
Melanie is currently completing her 500 hour yoga teaching qualification. She is a mother to three practically grown-up daughters and lives in nearby Caldecote with her husband, cat, and a loony Weimaraner dog.


Katherine McKenzie-Baxter
Katherine has been facilitating accessible community-based yoga classes and bespoke 1-2-1’s since Sept 2018 and completed a 3 year Diploma with the British Wheel of Yoga after initial training in London 2013. Her ongoing 23 year long yoga journey started with vrkasana (tree) age 12, but was drawn to the physical practice as a teenager to deal with crippling anxiety.
Katherine Mckenzie-Baxter
Yoga was a revelation for Katherine in terms of the sense of joy that came with being able create simple forms to unwind tightly-held tension within the body. With a 1st class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from Brighton University and experience in her 20’s living & working within the Arts in London, Katherine’s influences are wide ranging & eclectic. She has equated her experience with giving birth to a daughter with a birth defect and the challenges as a Mother, as fundamental to her teaching with experience of postnatal depression and PTSD. Experience informs practice and vice versa. You can find out more about Katherine and her teachings at YokingIsYoga.com
Tara Blackaby
Tara has been teaching Fitness and practicing Pilates and Fitness Pilates in her local community for over 8 years. Tara’s passion is to make Pilates accessible to all. Her classes are run in a supportive environment encouraging students to improve their everyday functional movement, strength and mobility, and boosting their confidence in an enjoyable way.


Willow - Virtual Assistant
Willow runs Satori HQ: A virtual provider offering online business management / virtual assistant services remotely. Her background is in Information Management: She has a love of all things data (yes, really!), 3D visualisation, creating standards, methods and procedures for processes and machine learning/AI. She enjoy reading, nature and spending time with loved ones and even rolls out her yoga mat from time to time