Meet the team

Scott Johnson

Director & Senior Teacher

Scott has been director and senior teacher at Stillpoint since he co-founded it in 2009 as Stillpoint Yoga London, with the late Ozge Karabiyik. He has dedicated himself to sharing the practice of yoga each weekday morning since then.

Scott has been practising yoga since 1998, and teaching Ashtanga yoga since 2003. He's one of only a few Ashtanga teachers to both be authorised in the primary and intermediate series by Manju Jois and be given senior teacher status by John Scott.

Scott is registered as a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and has also undergone extensive training with Clear Mind International, gaining their level 1, 2 & 3 certificate in Mindfulness and Compassion. Scott’s years of dedicated and committed teaching each morning has led Stillpoint to become a highly respected central London Ashtanga yoga shala. He meets everyone who comes and looks to create long-term relationships, integrating the practice of yoga and embodied mindfulness as a way of meeting the world.

Lee Monk

Senior Teacher

Lee began his yoga journey in 2009 when he practised one evening a week with an inspirational Ashtanga yoga teacher. At that time, balancing the demands of a family and the stress of a career, he soon discovered the practice was his key to reducing stress and achieving a much needed personal balance.

In 2009 he discovered Stillpoint and, through Scott and Oz’s combined deeply nurturing and non-judgmental teaching styles, was encouraged to deepen his knowledge and understanding of the truly authentic, traditional, Mysore-style of Ashtanga yoga. Encouraged by his teachers, Lee spent time with John Scott and Lucy Crawford and completed the John Scott Yoga 200hr Teacher Training.

Lee teaches as he practises: with compassion, patience, encouragement, authenticity and in a non-judgmental way. He has embraced the fact that we're all individuals with our own physical limitations, fear and self-doubt. He guides students gently along the Ashtanga path to empower them to discover their own journey and to nourish, strengthen and balance their mind and body.

Jayne Wilton

Online Ashtanga Yoga

Jayne has spent the last 20 years exploring the breath through both her art and yoga practices. She currently teaches Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, her training with Lucy Crawford Scott ensures that she creatively explores individualised functional movement to invite openness, flexibility and strength.

Jayne brings insights to what lies at the root of each pose physically and philosophically to enable an exploration of yoga’s roots and its transformative properties on and off the mat. 

Jayne teaches mysore, guided and restorative on Stillpoint Online.

Sushmita

Online Ashtanga Yoga Teacher

Sushmita was introduced to yoga at an early age, growing up with a natural connection to its physical and spiritual roots, from her home in Chennai. This early exposure led to a lifelong study of the traditional teachings and their relevance to modern life.

She undertook formal training in the Ashtanga yoga tradition at the Sharath Yoga Centre (SYC) and KPJAYI in Mysore, and at Kaivalyadhama, one of India’s most respected yoga research institutes. She also studied at the University of London, bringing an academic perspective to her exploration of yoga and philosophy.

Alongside her teaching, Sushi has worked internationally with United Nations and NGO organisations, and has taught yoga across different continents. Her approach bridges traditional wisdom with practical application, offering yoga as a tool for clarity, balance, and resilience in the midst of modern life.

Emma Burdon

Ashtanga Yoga Teacher

Emma started practicing yoga in 2012 when she moved to London. It has been an important part of her life ever since. She intially moved to London to study painting, which led to studying the history and conservation of Buddhist art, where she undertook a Masters degree in Buddhist Art. Emma is also a Thai Yoga Massage therapist. She was drawn to Thai Yoga massage because of its Buddhist framework. It is considered to be an embodied mindfulness meditation, but also the physical application of ‘Loving Kindness’, or metta. 

Emma has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga since 2016 and is currently studying on the MA programme in Yoga and Meditation at SOAS.  Emma qualified as a yoga teacher in 2019 (200hr RYT YAP) and began teaching that year.