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<p>She’s also a great singer and a very witty lyricist and songwriter 😏</p>


<p>This is my Daughter  I’m so very proud of her she is and has always been a real trooper and succeeds in all she does because she always puts her heart and soul into everything.</p>


<p>Sounds good. Must get to the Medicine garden if only for the yoga!<br />
Still want to find eateries that serve small portions for people who don&#8217;t have a huge appetite.</p>


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<div><strong>Okay, so what&#8217;s the quick Alexandra Legouix backstory?</strong></div>
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<div>I was born in a little village in South Wales called Caerleon then moved to Berkshire when I was 6 and my parents still live there now but for the past 10 years I have bounced around various parts of Surrey from Thorpe to Virginia Water to Chertsey to Weybridge! I am currently just on the outskirts of Weybridge and I imagine we will probably stay here for the foreseeable future as we love it so much!</div>
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<div><strong>You’re a TV presenter. Are you still working in telly, or is it all about the yoga now?</strong></div>
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<div>Yes &#8211; I&#8217;m still presenting. I trained in musical theatre and spent a few years working as an actress and singer. It was a tough industry to crack so I spent more time teaching performing arts, than actually doing it myself! I got so exasperated and I was about to throw in the towel and stick with full time teaching when I was offered the job of presenting <em>Miss Great Britain</em>. That was the best, irrational decision I ever made and day one of what has turned out to be a very enjoyable career. I&#8217;ve since done presenting from music to art to fashion, then moved into motorsports and I now present the World Touring Car Cup for Eurosport and Fox Sports. Sometimes I work as a presenter for F1; I often host the likes of the London Boat Shows and Farnborough AirShow, and then I do a lot of launches, festivals, live events and corporate events.</div>
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<div><strong>And you’ve also made yoga DVDs?</strong></div>
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<div>I am working on my third DVD as we speak. The first release was 2017 &#8211; Y<em>oga Made Simple for Beginners &amp; Improvers &#8211; 4 Bitesized Workouts</em> and then my 2018 release is part of the same &#8216;Yoga Made Simple for Beginners &amp; Improvers&#8217; series but is <em>4 Daily Compact Workouts</em>. Both are 80 minutes total divided in to four 20 minute chunks that can be done in whichever order you choose &#8211; or altogether for a full body workout.</div>
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<div><strong>So, you’re also a qualified fitness instructor, PT, dance coach and yoga instructor. Do you ever actually sleep?</strong></div>
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<div>Actually I am rubbish at sleeping! So the short answer is &#8220;no, not enough&#8221;!! But on the whole, I guess I have just always been someone who had her hands dipped in all sorts of pies, even from a child, and so I am used to that juggling act feeling and thrive off it. I get bored impossibly easily and so it does suit me well &#8211; despite being very hard some days!</div>
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<div><strong>I’ve read that you don’t shy away from challenging yourself &#8211; I may even go as far as to say you’re a bit of an adrenalin junkie? Could this be right? </strong></div>
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<div>Haha&#8230; I do enjoy adrenalin. I have always had a very strong &#8216;life is short&#8217; approach to the world and I have had a few health issues over my life, so I decided a few years ago to do one thing off my bucket list every year. The scariest thing would have been my 2016 Wingwalk. Strapped precariously to the top of a plane with no helmet and nothing to hold on to with a pilot who decided that scaring me was a fun challenge and so did full 360 degree loop the loops was a pretty strong adrenalin releaser! Great fun!</div>
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<div><strong>What brought you to Cobham and the Medicine Garden to set up Konasana?</strong></div>
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<div>We moved back to Surrey in December. My boyfriend is the Performance Coach of Carlos Sainz, F1 driver &#8211; he travels the world with the F1 circus and therefore also spends a lot of time at the airport, so being close to both the McLaren Technology Centre and Heathrow were important factors for us. I had no intention of hunting for a studio to take on specifically, I simply contacted all of the local studios and asked to be put on the yoga teachers cover list.</div>
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<div>But, having said that, owning a studio called Konasana has been on every vision board and wish list for the past 6 years, so when Paul from the Medicine Gardens contacted me and asked if I would consider taking over the dome, my interest was piqued. All I then needed to do was take a look inside the beautiful bubble and that was it. It is the most unique space ever and I have never come across anything like it in the UK &#8211; in Bali yes, UK no! So it felt like the Universe was saying &#8216;Well Legouix, you&#8217;ve been asking for this for years so come on&#8230;&#8217; And it felt like a bit of a no brainer&#8230;</div>
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<div><strong>And it all happened pretty quickly?</strong></div>
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<div>Yes I agree to take it over in January and I launched in February. So the speed I had to get it going was ridiculous. But I am an all or nothing human and the pressure worked well for me. We currently have 19 classes on the timetable.</div>
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<div><strong>Favourite yoga pose?</strong></div>
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<div>Tree &#8211; Vrksasana. If I am feeling &#8216;off kilter&#8217; in life I find this balance really helps me mentally and physically to calm, focus and ground myself.</div>
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<div><strong>Celeb life? You’ve worked with Joanna Lumley &#8211; did you get her doing the downward dog?</strong></div>
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<div>Haha&#8230; Oh Joanna Lumley&#8230; what a lady she was! She was incredibly humble, full of fascinating stories and an absolute pleasure to work with. I didn&#8217;t get her to do any yoga but she did say that she meditates and has been known to do a bit of yoga herself.</div>
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<div>And yep, other than her, I have been fortunate over the years to work with or meet some very interesting personalities. Bill Nighy and Hugh Bonneville were two of my favourites &#8211; both great characters and exactly how you&#8217;d expect them to be. I presented the London Boat Show with Nicole Scherzinger one year &#8211; that was quite an experience! And most recently I worked with &#8216;Jet&#8217; from Gladiators (Diane Youdale) which was great. She has a youtube show called &#8216;Jet Loves&#8217; and she is keen to come and do a joint workshop with me at the Konasana Dome so hopefully I can get her in sometime in June.</div>
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<div><strong>Anyone else? Anyone you’re particularly keen to work with?</strong></div>
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<div>I would love to meet Anthony Hopkins. I have no idea what I would say or how our paths would ever cross but I love him and I absolutely love Olivia Coleman &#8211; but they are pie in the sky dreams! I did get to go to the BAFTA&#8217;s recently and sat very close to Olivia so that was cool in itself so I imagine I will have to make do with that! I would also love to meet Adriene Mishler of &#8216;Yoga with Adriene&#8217;. She has been a big influence for my teaching over the years and has a fantastic ethos.</div>
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<div><em>The Konasana Dome at the Medicine Garden offers a variety of yoga classes including Hot Vinyasa Yoga, Beginners Yoga, Pre &amp; Postnatal Yoga, Mumma &amp; PreSchool Yoga and Fairy light Yoga. There&#8217;s also Baby Massage, YogiJuniors and YogiTeens. There are also sessions of Pilates and Meditation each week, and a monthly workshop / retreat.  </em></div>
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<div><em><a href="https://www.konasana.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">konasana.co.uk</a></em></div>


Muddy meets Alexandra Legouix

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