TEACHERS

Kim Beaver - Yoga Teacher

Kim first experienced yoga at a retreat with Swami Sarasvati when she was 18, and can still remember the internal spark of excitement and wonder at what an amazing experience and how good she felt.

Since then she has studied Radiant Child Yoga Teaching with Shakta Kaur Khalsa, Level 1 Yoga Teacher training with Lifesource Yoga – Christina Brown, Anatomy & Physiology with Simon Borg Olivier.

Currently studying with founder of Yoga Coach - Mark Breadner Level 2 Teacher Training and the Yogacoach team. Bringing a whole new level of yoga understanding to the forefront which includes wellbeing at all levels.

Kim teaches an eclectic blend of hatha yoga – a flowing sequins with awareness to restore optimum wellbeing. Her style is to assist people to tune in to their own rhythm and explore their yoga.

With our fast paced lifestyles and stress accumulation in body and mind, yoga is like a breathe of fresh air sooothing body, mind and soul.

Peace to all

Victoria Campbell

My name is Victoria Campbell and I first began practicing yoga seven years in Christchurch, NZ which taught a form of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Recommended to me by a middle aged couple, I was at first unprepared for this strong, dynamic system of yoga! However, with regular practice, I quickly adapted and developed a solid foundation of strength, stamina and technique.

In 2007 I moved to Sydney and in Feb 2008 began my teacher training apprenticeship with Janet Catesby at YogaWest. Here I learnt a different style of Hatha Yoga, inspired for the most part, by the precision alignment of Iyengar Yoga and their use of props. Through my training with Janet and her association with body movement expert and physiotherapist, Gavin Fernandes, I was able to deepen my understanding of yoga poses and their execution and now, in my own practice, am guided by the principles of alignment, grounded-ness and range.

My Ashtanga-inspired class is suitable for those people who enjoy a physical challenge as it's a strong practise requiring mental tenacity and assumes a certain level of physical compentency. The classes are based around the Primary series of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga system, a dynamic flow style with a principle tenant being a synchronicity between breath and movement. The classes alternate between "flow" one week and "technique" the next, where we slow things down a little so that students can be more conscious of how they are moving and what it feels like.

Katie Goldhammer

Katie wants to experience liberation in this lifetime. She wants to share and expand feelings of joy, love, compassion and equanimity. In each class Katie hopes to further her goal of making the world a bit more positive through yoga. Katie teaches a flowing style of Vinyasa Yoga ('to place mindfully'); creating sequences of moving meditation. In class we will cultivate joyous energy, connect with the earth, flow with our breath and fill up with yin, meditation, pranayama, and sometimes chanting. Katie hopes to guide you to your inner teacher by connecting with breath and therefore, prana. She feels blessed by teachers Kim Groark, Christina Brown, Dr. Richard James Allen, Mark Breadner, and Nicole Goodwin who have inspired her eight years of hatha and flow practice and three years of teaching thus far.

Desikachar reminds us that the teacher is one who opens your heart. A guru is one who gives you the tools to go out, live your truth, and teach others. Katie's goal is to create a peace in your heart so after each class you feel full and whole as you are. Then we can take our yoga off the mat and meet all beings with peace and not react but respond to our environment. Good energy is contagious, thus we can exponentially create more happiness, compassion, and peace in the world – for the world, the earth, for us, and for consciousness. Jai Shiva!

Spring Chenoa Cooper Robbins

Spring has been practicing yoga since she reluctantly began attending classes at the age of 18 (in 1998!). She tried to like yoga for a long time before she suddenly found her love of it. Spring's personal practice has helped her find happiness and peace with her body; she recommends yoga as a life-balancing practice for everyone. She has been teaching fitness and yoga-based classes for 10 years, and completed her first official teacher training in the USin 2008.

Since then, she's continued to grow and blossom through her daily yoga practice and by working with mentor teachers to further her development. In the past year, she has also started studying Anusara yoga, a beautiful heart-opening practice, and is working toward her "Inspired" certification. Spring teaches a dynamic vinyasa yoga class, but there are always options for any level of yogi or yogini. Spring is a member of both Yoga Australia and Yoga Alliance.

Kaye Oakley - Yoga Teacher

Kaye has been exploring yoga for over twelve years, and has practiced a variety of styles including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, and a bunch she doesn't know the name of, but were lots of fun. She first became committed to yoga when she used it as part of her recovery from a back injury, and discovered a path to a happier, healthier, calmer life.

Kaye has completed her Level I Teacher Training through YogaCoach, and is about to commence Level II Teacher Training. She has also studied anatomy and physiology through Yoga Spirit Academy and Kids Yoga through Yoga To Go.

She aims to bring compassion and a down-to-earth attitude to her Hatha yoga teaching, and believes that yoga can lead to a greater experience of well-being for any body, no matter what challenges they bring to the yoga mat.

"If you can breathe, you can do yoga!" – BKS Iyengar

Yan

Yan discovered yoga 9 years ago in Malaysia. She practised Hatha Yoga at Mei Zi Yoga centre for 4 years. She decided to try a different form of hatha, called hatha flow. "This style of yoga impressed me, I found it a stronger form of hatha with more challenging poses. I studied many workshops with Irene Tan at Taiping studio. She also gave me the opportunity to teach in her studio my style of yoga, Vinyasa flow.

I have practised Hatha flow, Iyengar, Ashtanga and Vinyasa flow.

When I came to Australia I completed my Level 1 Yoga Teacher Training through Byron Yoga Centre with John Ogilvie.

I wish to share the benefits of yoga through the mind, body and spirit to everyone. Yoga has changed my life in so many positive ways, yoga is my passion and I am so delighted to be able to teach people. I hope my teaching can influence people to give some benefits to their lives.

Caelum (Cae) Arness - Meditation Teacher

In the recent past, Cae has completed his doctoral thesis in psychology, investigating the use of meditation as a method for recovery from mental fatigue. This process allowed him to explore his practices from a scientific perspective and has resulted in a more refined synthesis of traditional and contemporary views of meditation.

This recent work builds on a deep interest in the arts of the mind that has been with him for most of his life, with early experiences in consciousness raising practices in a number of Hermetic societies, combined with exploration of Qabalistic, Tantric, and Buddhist philosophy. Over the years he has developed a personal practice that blends ideas and methods of these three traditions. His guiding focus is to bring the insights and practices of meditation into everyday life.

Catherine Parsons

In 2009 Catherine completed Level 1 Iyengar Teacher Training with Glenn Ceresoli, senior Iyengar Teacher. From 2007 to the current date Catherine has been consistently practising Iyengar yoga under the guidance of Margaret Ceresoli an Iyengar teacher of 20+ years experience. Catherine brings to her teaching five years of solid Iyengar practise. Catherine will be teaching according to Iyengar principles of alignment, stability and integrated awareness.

Iyengar who brought Iyengar yoga to the west said 'Transformation is sustained change and it is achieved through practise.' (Light on Life: The yoga journey to wholeness, inner peace and uvltimate freedom.')

Catherine sees yoga as a pathway to sustained change. Through committed practise the body becomes relaxed, the mind still and the spirit luminescent. Yoga works from the exterior to the interior and from the interior to the periphery. The practitioner is required to come again and again to the mat with an attitude of surrender and a willingness to take on the shape of the asana. Through this opening the body regains vibrancy and the mind steadiness. (Light on Life: The yoga journey to wholeness, inner peace