About us
Engaging Mind and Body Health For Schools and Families, Offering Yoga and Meditation Classes Both Online and Face to Face
International Experience
Fiona lived in Shanghai, China for 10 years between the ages of 22-32 where she founded, and later sold her dance company ‘Hai Arch Dance’. The company specialized in children’s dance teaching in both community venues and schools. It partnered with international schools, nurseries, cruise ships and yoga studios and produced bi-annual shows in theaters. Alongside this venture, Fiona learnt Mandarin and worked full-time at an international school to instill her love of dance and yoga in middle and high school students.
The Back Story
Fiona is from Cheshire, UK, where she spent most of her childhood outdoors, playing on the street and drawing. She later became a boundary-pushing teenager, then a dance graduate from DeMontfort University, Leicester. During her degree, Fiona studied Alexander Technique; the study of alignment, posture and balance. In the years following her studies, she found the significance of applying this knowledge to prevent injury when running, standing for long periods of time practicing yoga and sleeping.
A Path to Yoga
During her years in Asia Fiona had several influential yoga experiences including; courses in kundalini yoga, Sri Lanka, partner pose yoga courses in Shanghai, attending regular Reiki and gong healing sessions, practicing early morning sun salutations in 1:1 sessions, Kerala, India and following YouTube videos on the top of a boat with her bestie in Halong bay, Vietnam.
All these experiences contributed to her love of yoga and built up her knowledge around the versatility and benefits which led up to her kids yoga teaching training in 2012.
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The activities and exercises she learned within the course immediately struck a chord and began feeding into her dance teaching practice and later she focused her Master’s thesis on ‘The effect of mind- body exercises on students’ attitude in class and their physical exertion levels’. This study helped her to conduct short meditations with students and later discuss their feelings towards their school curriculum with meditation as a tool.
Bringing It All Home
In 2018, Fiona relocated to Austria from Shanghai. As the new PE teacher at the school, the first unit of work became yoga and she spent many hours in the nearby ‘Yoga forest’ letting nature help the students create new yoga postures and engage in fun, mindful and reflective moments.
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Between the birth of her first son, in China and her second son back in Cheshire, Fiona spent many mornings in her home town of Nantwich, attending local classes at Ministry Of Yoga with Shelly and Dan and hours breathing in lavender oils to calm my mind.
Since then, Fiona has been building Music Box Meditations online; working with local and international schools producing content that can be taught all over the world in an Education context; making the benefits of kids yoga accessible to everyone.
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In 2025 Fiona launched the ‘Music Box Meditations, Kids Yoga Teaching Training programme’ and released as series of Mindful stories made in collaboration with local primary schools.
Feeling strong inside and out is truly her happy place.
The Team
Meet the team behind the scenes of Music Box Meditations.
Fiona
Fiona is the founder, director and senior yoga teacher at Music Box Meditations. She holds the vision and drive to build a yoga curriculum online as well as face- to-face, making yoga accessible in Education and community contexts worldwide. Fiona has 18 years of teaching experience, alongside her degree and masters in dance and yoga. She has spent many years studying the body, its inner workings and its alignment. She loves making connections with people through her love of yoga and the arts.
Becky
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Yoga found Becky when she was 19yrs old, it had helped her deal with an Eating Disorder; It was a beautiful addition to her life at that stage.
Since then yoga has been very much the teachings of life for her and an incredible support physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Yoga is her purpose and she is passionate to share the importance of slowing things down and taking time with ourselves and each other.
Becky’s aim is to be able to help children learn to love themselves, help calm and regulate their nervous system and increase their awareness for themselves and each other.
Her true passion is to bring unity to all.”
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Janine
Janine is a qualified primary teacher who has specialised in social, emotional, mental health and behaviour difficulties, autism, adhd and anxiety. She is passionate in her belief that children should be aware of, and equipped to regulate their emotions so they can thrive in every aspect of their lives. Janine is excited to join the team as yoga teacher and looks forward to helping the children on their journey to mindfulness.
Izzy
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Izzy has worked with children and young people for over 10 years in variety of roles including as a teaching assistant, swimming teacher, and counsellor/psychotherapist. She has sound knowledge and experience working with neurodiverse children, and is confidently able to cater to those individual needs. Izzy loves getting crafty, creative and always ready to get stuck in!
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Nita
Nita is a certified yoga teacher originally from Mumbai, India and now based in the UK. She completed her RYT 200 hrs yoga teacher training in Yoga Institute, Mumbai, where she fell in love with the simplicity and power of mindful movement and breathing.
With a background of 17 years in the IT industry, she has transitioned from leading top automotive projects to helping people find calm, confidence, and connection through yoga.
When she's not on the mat, you’ll find her hiking, gardening, relaxing on the beach, sipping chai or creating unique handmade macrame hanging art pieces.
She found her own yoga journey to be truly transformational and now seeks to share these teachings and experiences to benefit children and adults alike.
