About

Our mission

To empower beginner yogis to get onto their mats — to give them the tools, knowledge and teachings they need to practise yoga confidently and safely. To help them get to know themselves and fall in love with who they truly are.

We truly believe that yoga is for everyone, for every B-O-D-Y. We believe that by using kindness, compassion and gratitude towards ourselves and others, we can choose the life we really want and find freedom in our lives. We believe self-love will change the world, and we're here to share all of this with you.

We've developed this online school to make the practices of yoga as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. Many years have gone into building these guides and we believe they'll inspire you to become firmly established in your practice.

About Dom

Hi! I'm Dom Catto. Yoga has been part of my life for 20 years and it has dictated the course of my life since the first moment I stood on a yoga mat. I first discovered yoga in a very challenging time. My dad invited me to a class to try to get me to stop crying for a bit, and I fell completely in love.

Over 18 years of teaching I've trained under truly remarkable teachers — two Vinyasa teacher trainings, the Jivamukti teacher training, and a Yoga Therapy training in India. I always thought I was shy and had a fear of public speaking until I took the seat of the teacher. I've taught yoga all over the world, connected with countless humans, and it is the most rewarding and satisfying thing I could possibly do.

My favourite thing about these practices is that they have re-introduced me to myself. They have allowed me to get to know my body and myself deeply and intimately. They've helped me move along a path of kindness, compassion and respect — for myself and for others — because we're all trying to figure this life out and we're all in this together. Yoga has taught me how to be unapologetically me, and I could not be more grateful for that.

Mansim Vula — what "Vula" means

My husband Nick and I have built this together — he's my student in the beginner modules. Our name comes from a very special place in South Africa. Both our families have holiday homes on the border of the Kruger National Park, literally two farms away from each other, and we've been going there all our lives. Mansimvula is Nick's family's farm, and it's where Nick proposed to me. Mansimvula means "to open the water".

In Xhosa and Zulu, Vula means open — to turn to, to become open, to open for each other. We thought this was the perfect energy with which to infuse our work: to encourage beginner yogis to be open to the magnificent practices of yoga.