Dr Sally SJ Brown PhD is an applied health researcher and Accessible Yoga teacher working with disadvantaged and under-served communities.

Sally is a 300-hour accredited yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY), a graduate of the Accessible Yoga School and the founder and director of Leeds Community Yoga running subsidised community classes for under-represented groups. Her initial YTT diploma was with Yogacampus and she has been teaching for nine years. She specialises in the slower, more mindful styles including Hatha, Gentle, Yin, Restorative, Nidra and Chair and has trained with Jivana Heyman, Norman Blair and Melanie Cooper and Jennie Wadston Sharma. Sally sits on the BWY Action Committee looking at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and is a member of the Community Yoga Association.

Sally is also a postdoctoral researcher working in the fields of Health Promotion and Sociology of Health examining equality, diversity and inclusion, Wellness and marginalised populations. Her PhD research examined barriers to yoga access for marginalised groups in the UK and her book The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga: Outsider Perspectives was published by Emerald Insight (Wiley), in Autumn 2026.

Before her PhD Sally spent over 20 years in government and NHS health communications and journalism. As an autistic researcher and practitioner, she brings this lived experience to her work