About Us

Pamela Draycott

Educationalist

Pamela is an educationalist with a background in Religious Education, and an experienced tour and pilgrimage leader. As well as leading some of our tours, Pamela is also deeply involved in developing academic and educational tours for Soul of India, and in strengthening our partnerships with schools and universities.

REVD MARK WOODROW

Parish Priest

Revd Mark Woodrow is a Parish Priest in rural Suffolk and a self-confessed Indophile. Having visited India multiple times both as a tour leader with Soul of India and with his previous work in insurance, he fell in love with the people, the country, the culture, the colour, and the vibrancy of India's religious diversity.

ALEX REED

Yoga Consultant

Alex is Soul of India’s Yoga Consultant and tour leader for our yoga holidays in India. She holds a Level 4 Diploma in Teaching Yoga from the British Wheel of Yoga, and is passionate and experienced full-time yoga teacher, teaching group and private classes of Hatha Yoga to all levels of ability.

RABBI FRANK DABBA SMITH

PhD (UCL)

Rabbi Dr Frank Dabba Smith has served since 1997 at the Mosaic Liberal Synagogue in Harrow. His PhD (UCL) is concerned with the behaviour of the German camera manufacturer Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar during the Holocaust. He is very committed to multi-faith work in London and is a member of the International Advisory Committee of EcoPeace-Middle East.

CANON TONY FENSOME

Retired Anglican Priest

Canon Tony Fensome a retired Anglican Priest, has led many pilgrimages and tours including India, the Holy land, Turkey, Egypt and East Africa. He believes that the more we know of other cultures and belief systems, the more we come to value and affirm others’ devotion and spirituality, which, in turn, enables our own faith to grow and develop. He believes that travel does broaden the mind and sharing travel, adventure and experiences with others enhances our lives and those with whom we meet.

MARTIN AYLWARD

Meditation Expert

Martin Aylward has spent many years living and practicing in India, and has taught meditation and led retreats worldwide since 1999. He is founder and guiding teacher at the Moulin de Chaves retreat centre in Southern France, and co-director of US-based The Mindfulness Institute. Learn more about him at www.martinaylward.com.

LINDSEY PORTER

Yoga Teacher

Lindsey Porter, an Akhanda Hatha, Curvy Yoga and Special Needs qualified yoga teacher with 13+ yoga teaching years based in Scotland. Lindsey is passionate about sharing the benefits yoga can bring to all minds and bodies.Find about more about your host, Lindsey at yoganuu.com.

DR. ELIZABETH DAY

Buddhist Monastic

Dr Elizabeth Day experienced India at the turn of this century and it blew her mind. She journeyed on a four-week contemplation through the Buddhist sacred sites in Northern India. Soon after that trip she ordained as a Buddhist monastic, to deepen her meditation practice. Several years later she returned in robes for a 6-month pilgrimage through India, visiting a wide range of adepts, ashrams and Buddhist sites.

DANIELE RABOZZI

Yoga Teacher

Daniel began practicing yoga in 1981; over the years he trained as a teacher with direct students of Gerard Blitz and was later influenced by the Kashmiri Shivaite yoga tradition as transmitted by Eric Baret. Since the 1980s he has traveled regularly to India where, in 1995, he first met Vimala Thakar, a spiritual teacher and social activist. Vimala's friendship and teachings revolutionised his understanding of the practice by expanding yoga on the mat to every aspect of life.

He teaches in Verbania at the Kailash Yoga Study Center he founded in 1995, on Lake Orta at the Mandali International Center and in Locarno, Switzerland at the Annapurna Center.

He leads residential retreats in Italy, Switzerland, Holland and India.

He is a member of YANI (Yoga - National Teachers Association), whose Board of Directors he was a member from 2009 to 2015.