Charli Van Ness

Charli Van Ness (E-RYT 500, YACEP) has been teaching yoga since 2005, leading Classes, Workshops, Retreats, and Teacher Trainings with a heartfelt focus on accessibility, inclusion, and wellbeing for all. She is the Founder of Yoga Rhythm (est. 2005) and the Yoga Rhythm Teacher Training School of Excellence (est. 2007), and collaborates with The Shala School of Yoga on both their 200-hour and 300-hour Teacher Training programmes.

As a neurodivergent teacher with ADHD, and a mother of four children one with ADHD and Dyslexia, and another with Autism (Fragile X Syndrome) Charli brings deep personal insight, empathy, and understanding to her teaching. Her lived experience has profoundly shaped her approach to yoga as a tool for nervous-system regulation, sensory balance, and self-acceptance in neurodiverse minds and bodies.

Charli has taught both adults and children who are neurodivergent, creating safe, nurturing, and playful spaces that celebrate difference and encourage authenticity. Her Yoga for Neurodivergence approach weaves together mindful movement, breathwork, sensory integration, and sound to support focus, connection, and emotional wellbeing.

Beyond yoga, Charli shares her healing modalities including Sound Energy Medicine (VibroAcoustic Therapy) and Womb Mandala Healing, delivered in group and private settings. She also leads YACEP and CPD trainings such as KulaKids Yoga Teacher Training, Tibetan Sound Energy Medicine Teacher Training and Women’s Wellbeing CPD Training.

A passionate mover since childhood, Charli is also a trained dancer, acrobatics teacher, and climber blending creativity and embodiment in all she shares. Living simply and joyfully in South Devon with her husband, four children and two dogs, Charli’s ethos is rooted in compassion, community, and curiosity inviting everyone to meet themselves exactly as they are.