Some Background…

 

Tom Harvey, better known as “Stretch” to his friends and community, co-owns Oceanflow Yoga Studio. Growing up in Cornwall, with Newquay’s stunning beaches as his playground, he developed a lifelong love for nature and the ocean. His journey into yoga began in 2001 while studying in Australia, where the vibrant outdoor culture inspired him to dive into the practice of yoga.

Stretch found that the more he practiced yoga, the more he wanted to learn and this opened up a whole new way of looking at both life and himself. He soon realised that he was on the wrong career path, guilty of chasing money rather than doing what he loved and adding value to peoples’ lives.

 Stretch’s main passion is with people starting out their journey into the world of yoga. He runs regular beginners courses in both yoga and meditation throughout the year.

 

Qualifications

Stretch decided to take his initial 200hr teacher training in 2014 immersed in the untouched jungles of Costa Rica, completely surrounded by nature.

He then went on to study a further 550hrs in Hot Yoga and Further Anatomy with Ethos Yoga in Cambridge.

He set up Oceanflow Yoga’s hot yoga studio in 2015 and loves nothing more than to sweat it out in the hot room followed by a plunge in the ocean afterwards. More recently Stretch has looked to other sources than the traditional yoga trainings to further his knowledge. This has taken him on a mind opening journey into the worlds of quantum physics, life coaching and psychology.

With this diverse knowledge base, his classes often incorporate some or all of these topics. 

“It is an honour to be able to share with people what I have learnt over the years and love seeing how quickly the body and mind start to respond to practising yoga”