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 the coming year Fiona plans to launch the ‘Music Box Meditations, Kids Yoga Teaching Training programme’ and will continue to produce personalized online content for schools, families and communities.
Feeling strong inside and out is truly her happy place.
The Team
Meet the team behind the scenes of Music Box Meditations.
Fiona Sherwood
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.
Hannah
Hannah is a fun loving, grateful and caring person. She enjoys yoga, hiking in nature and childrens' crafts. She is a Mummy to her young boys, a doctor and now proud to be a children's yoga teacher at Music Box Meditations.
She is enjoys practising yoga at home, joins yoga classes during family holidays in St Ives and loves to unwind at her local community group with like-minded yogis. Hannah's flexibility is her go to party trick that impresses her Mum friends!
She has dedicated over 17 years caring for patients in our outstanding NHS, including 3 years looking after premature babies on NICU. In 2013 she began training as a doctor and has worked across multiple specialties within hospital, paediatric and community medicine.
More recently Hannah has chosen to take a step aside from clinical practice to explore other interests and spend more time with her family. She is enjoying a parttime role as a Nursery Assistant alongside childrens' yoga teaching.
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.
Andrew
Andrew, a dedicated yogi, embarked on a transformative journey three years ago, committing to daily practice. His passion for yoga extends beyond flexibility and strength, emphasizing injury prevention.
Andrew helps out on all things technology linked to Music Box Meditations and is keen to help in any way possible.
Hope
Hope is excited about the opportunity to work for Music Box Meditations as the admin assistant. From a young age she has always been interested in yoga. Lately, she have been reminded of the benefits, which are not just physical strength but also finding focus and calm; especially important as she moves into further education.