I first received yoga from my history teacher in high school. To this day I am still so grateful to her as she gave me a gift I have been able to use since a young age. I remember that day so vividly, I felt so alive, nourished and free and also relieved to discover a tool that would help me live my life fully. And so my extensive yoga journey began and from school I continued through many years of studies: Satyananda, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Oki Yoga, Vipassana meditation and in the last 9 years Svastha Yoga with Krishnamacharya's students: A.G Mohan, Indra Mohan and their son Dr Ganesh Mohan. My studies with Mohan began with the Sutras (sacred scriptures, chanting and sound meditation) in Chennai India in 2008 and I have continued on with Svastha yoga and yoga therapy. I also took the opportunity to study Meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh (a Vietnamese zen master) in the south of France.
\n\nIn 2000 I completed a 9 month teacher training with Yoga Arts in Byron Bay and am Cert IV trained.
\n\nI've travelled to India several times.
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I love Yoga because not only does it support the health of my body, mind and spirit, but also because it has been there for me and continues to be there through all the challenges I come across in life.
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\n\nKrishnamacharya said “Breath is central to Yoga because it is central to life…and yoga is about life’.
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\n\nI'm a registered qualified and experienced Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation teacher. I've been teaching meditation for approx 26 years and asana (postures) for approx 20. I've also worked extensively as a Kiniesiologist, Hypnotherapist, energetic healer and in grief support for many years in Sydney.
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\n\nI'm a qualified and experienced E.S.L (English as a second language) teacher for people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
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\n\nI have taught on several Yoga teacher trainings in Byron Bay (Yoga Arts/ Inspya Yoga) and run classes and workshops in Byron, Sydney and Norfolk island and spent most of 2011 travelling and teaching yoga in Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
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I have taught yoga and meditation extensively in remote Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land.
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\n\nIn 2011 I spent time at the Tao Garden with Master Mantak Chia in Thailand and returned there again this year(2016) to complete the 'Back to the source' course.
\n\nIn Sydney I had the opportunity to teach meditation in maximum security prisons and with Palliative care patients.
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\n\nI see clients individually as a facilitator for wellbeing and change.
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\n\nI'm a registered member of Yoga Alliance (ERYT-E500 T500) in America and a senior yoga teacher of Yoga Australia.
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