Heather Mason
Heather Mason, MA, MA, MSc, is the founder of The Minded Institute, The Yoga in Health Care Alliance, and joint founder of the APPG on Yoga. She holds master’s degrees in Buddhist Studies, Psychotherapy, Medical Physiology, and has extensive education in Neuroscience.
Heather has been a yoga teacher since 2001 and specialised in yoga therapy for mental health since 2007. As a world leader on this topic, Heather has lectured at universities from Harvard to UCL and at an array of academic conferences around the world.
She was the first person in the UK to train with the Boston Trauma Center to offer yoga for trauma, launched a yoga programme at The Maudsley’s Traumatic Stress Service, and has been training others in yoga therapy for PTSD since 2012.
In 2023 Heather co-created the world’s first yoga therapy psychotherapy accredited training programme.