Angela Farmer, now in her eighties, was born in London England UK, but just before her father was enlisted for WW2 her parents moved to the countryside. During the war years she spent many hours with her three brothers in the magical surroundings of an overgrown, wild and wonderful garden. The relationship she built with the trees she climbed, the plants  she knew as friends, her beloved rabbits, chickens and the birds that she fed and sometimes perched on her shoulder gave her the  foundation for a love of Nature and lifelong sense of identity and freedom that  she has now returned to in the Olive valley of Eftalou on the Greek Island of Lesvos. As a physical education teacher she taught in many schools and enjoyed a wide age-range of students from college graduates to Kindergarten and loved them all. She became one of BKS Iyengar's  first students  in the UK and with her passion for teaching, was the first to introduce it to London schools.

After studying with him in India she taught in the USA, Canada and Europe, joined together with Victor Van Kooten whom she later married and together they taught worldwide. On her visits to India she had the good fortune to meet some enlightened Yogis who were pivotal in opening more doors to her practice. Eventually she released herself from the restrictions of a man-made system, leaning back into her love of Dance and deep connection with Nature. She offered Retreats for women and a wide community of  powerful, wise and beautiful women have formed across the world .... breaking free from imposed  restrictions to discover both their own personal practice and become vital, unique teachers of life and yoga.