Yoga can change your life!

My Yoga Awakening

Hello! I'm Caron Lindley, yoga teacher and founder of Red Hat Yoga & Wellbeing. My passion to pass on the gift of yoga to others led me to set up Red Hat Yoga & Wellbeing in January 2014. I share more in this video….

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Come home to yourself

Discovering Yoga is like coming home to yourself. If you're interested in starting or returning to a yoga practice, then do contact me. You might consider booking a private yoga session or perhaps dive straight in and book on a group class. My classes are friendly and inclusive. You’ll be warmly welcomed.

Life long learning

My personal yoga practice spans almost 50 years - I went to my first class at age 13! Yet it only in the last decade that I started my journey as a yoga teacher, following a long, successful corporate marketing career. Here are details of my studies and certifications in the field of Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation and Personal Development.

2020 Yoga Health Coaching (In training, Cate Stillman, Yogahealer)
2020 Ayurveda Health Coach (In training Dru School of Ayurveda)
2020 Pranayama Diploma (currently training, Divine Works)
2019 iRest Yoga Nidra Level 2 Certification (iRest Institute)
2019 Ayurveda 9 day Immersion Certification (Dru School of Ayurveda)
2017 Total Yoga Nidra Facilitator Certification (Yoga Nidra Network)
2017 Restorative Yoga Certification (Whitespace Studio / Yoga Alliance Professionals)
2017 Irest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Certification (iRest Institude)
2016 Yoga Natarani/Ayurveda Yoga Teacher Training Certification (Su Menon / Independent Yoga Network)
2016 Yin Yoga Teacher Training Certification (Sarah Lo / Yoga Alliance)
2014 Teen Yoga Teacher Training Certification (Charlotta Martinez / Yoga Alliance)
2014 Hatha Yoga Teacher Training (Whitespace Studio / Yoga Alliance)
2013 Part 1 of Yoga Teacher Diploma (British Wheel of Yoga)
2012 Yoga Foundation Course (British Wheel of Yoga)

NLP and Coaching Study

2018 NLP Modelling Intensive (Sue Knight Ltd)
2005 Coaching for Personal and Organisational change (Go Mad Ltd)
2003 NLP Coaching Skills (Performance Partnership)
2003 Life Coaching (Coaching Academy)
2002 NLP Master Practioner (Performance Partnership)
2001 NLP Practitioner (Performance Partnership)

A Personal Development Coach since 2003, I have work with people to transform their lives in one way or another.

With gratitude

I am grateful to the encouragement, guidance and wisdom of all my teachers, on and off the mat, including:

My family - Cherry Dolan, my mum, who introduced me to yoga in 1971; my husband David Lindley, writer, poet and translator of the Bhagavad Gita.

Ayurveda Life Style Coach and Teachers - Shona Sutherland and the wonderful Ayurveda Teaching Faculty at Dru Snowdonia.

Personal Trainer - Sarah Partington at Pose Fitness who’s saved me from a hip replacement.

Yoga Teachers - Catherine Annis, Kate Ellis, Su Menon, Diane Lee; Pamela Deal; Vicky Meikle; Natalie Wiltshire; Lizzie Giles; Sheila Baker; Andrea Newman; Kailash Mistry; Paul Thomson; Brigitte Riley; Charlie Merton.

Yoga Teacher Trainers - Lesley Isaacson; Mary Mills; Deborah Berryman; Dawn Wright; Charlotta Martinus; Sarah Lo; Katy Appleton; Caroline Suggett; Elizabeth Bourdin; Uma Dinsmore-Tuli; Nirlipta Tuli; James Reeve, Sujatha Menon

Authors - Sarah Powers; Elena Brower; Judith Lasater; Donna Farhi; Erich Schiffman; Anodea Judith.

And finally…my fantastic students who have supported me over the years - you’re my greatest teachers from whom I continue to learn and develop.xx


The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, the second best time is now.
— Anonymous