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Receptionist Job at Yogawest

Receptionist/administrator role

There is a job opportunity available at Yogawest and we want to offer it to the Yogawest community first, hence this mailshot. It would be a happy result indeed if a current ‘Yogawestie’ joins our wonderful admin team!

Yogawest was hit hard by the pandemic and the challenges continue with the current cost of living crisis. We are working hard behind the scenes so that we can continue to offer the finest classes with our excellent teachers.

We are proud that, despite it all, the Yogawest doors are still open: we run the best timetable we can with a truly amazing and loyal team of receptionists, teachers and students. A particularly big acknowledgement and a huge thank you goes to Helen Chope, Nicola Smith and Lou Sims who have been truly incredible in holding things together, largely behind the scenes, through some extremely challenging years.

We are continuing to evolve…

Yogawest is looking for a new staff member to join our administrative team
Initially this will be a receptionist role for around 3 hours a week, with an opportunity to grow the position and take on more studio management functions (with additional responsibility and hours) in the upcoming months.

Receptionists perform a crucial role at Yogawest and do a lot more behind the scenes than you might see front of house. We are looking for someone who is willing and enthusiastic; they will be able to work independently, with initiative and common sense. They will have good communication skills and be able to adapt to different challenges as they present. They will need to learn the many aspects of the job and to work as an integral part of the Yogawest team. Living locally would be an advantage, especially as the role develops.

Applications by 30 September 2023
Interviews first week of October
Start date mid October

If you are interested, please email helen@yogawest.co.uk in the first instance and she will send you further information.

Welcome to Helen

A warm welcome to Helen Chope, who has joined the Yogawest team.

Helen has taken on many of Diana’s roles while Diana is not physically in Bristol and is the first point of contact at Yogawest. (Diana is in Peru for a few months with her husband Michael, who is working there.)

Helen is a long term Yogawest student with many years of Iyengar experience. Coming from a restaurant background – most recently managing Prego, a local Italian restaurant, for a decade –  Helen is well qualified and is a great addition to the team.

Many of you know Helen already as a Yogawest student, or, this being Bristol, perhaps she is a friend of yours already!

You can contact Helen by email directly here or via the reception email here

New Yoga Year, Clean Equipment!

Many thanks to the whole Yogawest reception team for the amazing washing and cleaning exercise over the summer. Nicola, Andy, Jon and Meg have been busily deep cleaning the studios and changing rooms, washing the mats and blankets (they take a LOT of re-folding!), cleaning the belts and blocks and generally preparing the building for Autumn classes.

We say goodbye and thank you to Meg who is off to see the world: good luck in your travels!

Yogawest Staff Christmas party

Although there are around 16 of us working and teaching at Yogawest, we don’t get together very often. So we like to bring as many teachers and support staff together in December and usually plan an activity.

2014 party

SONY DSCLast year we had great fun decorating mini Christmas cakes at Cake in Gloucester Road.

 

2015 party

SONY DSCThis year the brilliant Jennifer Bell came to run a singing workshop for us. After some hilarious warm-up exercises, we had a crack at Jen’s adaptation of Silent Night. You can listen to the final version below, which for a 90 minute session of the hitherto untrained but enthusiastic Yogawest choir, we think is pretty good!

Yogawest receptionists – Andy

Yogawest-AndyBollandAndy has been working for Yogawest for a couple of years and is a big hit with the Thursday morning ladies!

As well as reception duties, Andy runs the admin on the termtime courses and deals with teacher admin too.

 

Yogawest receptionists – Rose

SONY DSCRose (who you may know from the Thursday classes) is doing some receptionist work for Yogawest: if you see her here, be kind while she learns the ropes.