Jane Craggs
Jane came to yoga in her late twenties, during a six-month recovery from glandular fever, a pause forced on a life built around theatre design and, later, stand-up comedy. Regular practice while living a nomadic life in Spain led to teacher training in Madrid, and on returning to the UK in the late 1990s, she realised she was no longer returning to theatre. She was living her yoga practice.
In 2001 she opened Manchester's first independent yoga studio in the Northern Quarter, followed by the teacher-run Manchester Yoga Shala, which supported many now-established teachers in the city. She studied with Sarah Powers and Donna Farhi before a book by A.G. Mohan set her on a different path: in 2010 she began studying Svastha Yoga in Tamil Nadu, and has continued with the Mohan family ever since.
Jane runs Svastha Yoga Manchester with Louise Tanner, and was a board and faculty member of the Yogacampus North teacher training programme from 2012 to 2022. Her teaching spans HMP prisons, people living with HIV, cancer recovery, young women at risk, and adults with additional needs, alongside two days a week dedicated to one-to-one yoga therapy clients.