About Us

Qualified L3 Personal Trainer and Nutritionist, Lorraine Russell (@misslalaworks) decided to pursue a career in the fitness industry after turning her life around after years of battling with her own weight issues.

Coming from a very sporty family, Lorraine always had a love of sport, taking up many varied sports as child into her teens years, ranging from swimming, ice skating, judo, dance and running track. However, like many teenagers, once puberty hit, and being left to her own devices to eat unlimited unhealthy foods during her time in secondary school, Lorraine’s weight began to spiral out of control.

Weighing her heaviest at one point (around 17 stone), she struggled to lose weight, even though she was still very active in her sporting activities. After a number of years dissatisfied with her health and fitness, Lorraine decided to make significant changes to the way she trained and ate.

She started documenting her progress via her social media platforms, gaining attention from followers who asked if she could train them. The requests soon helped her reach two significant decisions in her life. One was to qualify as a personal trainer, the other was to compete in a body building show.

She managed to reach both goals set within a year and a half, competing for Pure Elite (Bikini category) and the PCA (Physical Culture Association) in their bikini trained category.

Now Lorraine uses her knowledge and experience to teach her clients about making fitness a part of their lifestyle.

Donna  a passionate yoga and initiative living coach who helps individuals to think differently about their bodies. She has been practising  yoga  since 1999 and has been a certified yoga teacher since 2011. She is also a Certified NLP Master Practitioner. As well as teaching Internationally, she teaches all around the UK at studios, festivals and at wellbeing events, alongside running body positive workshops, retreats and online classes.

This yogi was made redundant in 2011 but instead of staying in the corporate world she jumped ship. She is the Founder of CurveSomeYoga (promoting body positive yoga). Yoga has enabled Donna to heal and has changed her life in some many ways, which is why she is so keen to inspire others to live up to their full potential.

Her aim is to show that everyBODY is a yoga body, so that individuals regardless of their size, shape, gender or ethnicity, or level of ability will be inspired to experience yoga and its numerous benefits. Donna incorporates the best wellbeing techniques into her yoga sessions to encourage self-love and self-acceptance. This is very important for Donna – making individuals inspired to try yoga, and making all body types within yoga normalised.

She is also a blogger and writer and has written for and appeared in HuffPost Om Yoga and Lifestyle Magazine, The Voice Newspapers, Sainsburys Magazine, Yoga Magazine and Yoga International.  

Donna also had her own show the Noble Art of Wellbeing on Natural Health Radio. 

She is on a mission to make yoga more accessible and diverse. You can find out more about Donna at her website www.thenobleartofyoga.co.uk