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AUSTRALIA
Chelsea Benton
Melbourne, Australia
Chelsea Benton first developed a love for the practice of Yoga in 2003. Her Yoga journey has taken her through a variety of different practice styles and teachers. With appreciation for her certified training from Mark Whitwell (Heart of Yoga), Peter Cohen (ATYOGA), Stewart Allen (The Body Yoga Studio).
Chelsea received her Yoga teaching certification from The Body Yoga Studio in 2008 and has been mentored by Peter Cohen since early 2009. Her teaching experience includes many centres throughout Melbourne and The Dandenong Ranges, including Awakening Tree Yoga, Body Yoga Studio, Magpie House, Monbulk Aquatic Centre and various community centres.
Chelsea has been moving in intimacy with her breath & body for as long as she can remember. She has always felt a great need for connection, expression & flow from the earliest of times. Initially through dance and then Yoga. It is through the Heart of Yoga teachings that she has realized a deeper gratitude & connection with herself, the world and the gift of every day life. Chelsea takes this supportive connection of Hatha Yoga & allows it to enrich and fertilize the roots of all aspects of her teaching, life as a mother, and passion as a singer/songwriter, having also now successfully completed the ‘Foundations In Music Performance’ course with the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011.
Chelsea is currently teaching yoga privately in the Dandenong Ranges.
Contact Chelsea:
Melbourne, Australia
chelseabenton7@gmail.com
61 439 048 781
Shelley Cowden
Kory McAvoy
Megan Walsh
Malika Warda
Sarah Jessop
Nadine Fawell
Melbourne, Australia
“Yoga changed my life! I walked into my first yoga class depressed and …podgy, and from that very first class I have known that yoga is It for me. It is the best tool I have ever found to feel my connection with the outside world, with my body, and with my internal landscape. Ten years on, I’m still in love with yoga and teaching it all day every day. Also, I’m not depressed or…uncomfortable in my body anymore!
I am very interested in how the practices of yoga can help us experience the inherent pleasure of being alive.”
Contact Nadine:
Dockland, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.nadinefawell.net
nadine@nadinefawell.net
+61-404-025-041
Cecile Galiazzo
NSW, Australia
“The first Yoga book I read was Autobiography of a Yogi in 1978. Soon after, the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. Always interested in philosophy, it was not until the late 80′s that I met my first Yoga teacher – in the Iyengar tradition. Subsequently, I went on to study with the International Yoga Teachers Association and gained my diploma. I was very fortunate to meet Mark Whitwell who was giving teachings in Sydney in 1994. Things then became clearer. We talked about the Yoga Sutras. I met TKV Desikachar in 1995 in Chennai and witnessed the love and respect of teacher and friend.
The importance of teaching Yoga that is specific to the individuals’ needs was explored. I have continued my teaching, classes and one-to-one. If I can assist enquiry of the student through the simple yet powerful act of connecting body, breath and mind – something can change for the better.”
Contact Cecile:
South-Eastern Areas, New South Wales, Australia
cecilegaliazzo@hotmail.com
+41-394-3158
Melanie Green
Adelaide, South Australia
“My own practice, understanding and teaching of Yoga has been profoundly influenced by my teacher Mark Whitwell, who taught me what real Yoga is, and the teachings of TKV Desikachar as passed on from the great Krishnamacharya. The principle focus of my teaching is to convey an authentic and relevant Yoga practice that is perfectly adapted to fit individual needs, whatever that person’s current state and stage of life may be. If you can breathe, you can do Yoga! The simple yet powerful technology of asana and pranayama – body and breath- applied in an intelligent and holistic sequence of steps, results in a clear mind, equanimity, flexibility and strength. We are able to stand firmly in our own ground, receptive to and participating fully in our experience of Life as it naturally given to every one of us. We are intimately connected in our relationship to ourselves and others. This is Yoga taught from the Heart to the Heart.”
Melanie is a certified Heart Of Yoga Teacher and teaches private students as well as group classes and is available for retreats and workshops anywhere in Australia.
Contact Melanie:
Adelaide, South Australia
melanie-j-green@hotmail.com
+414-886-548
Liisa Halme
Sydney, Australia
Liisa has studied and practiced Yoga for the past 15 years with renowned teachers worldwide, including her long-term teacher and friend Mark Whitwell. Liisa completed her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2003 and since then has taught in various yoga centers and her private studio in London, on numerous Yoga retreats in Europe, Caribbean and Africa. She now shares her passion in Sydney Australia. Liisa has a very holistic approach to Yoga and is dedicated to helping people find their own personal practice, suitable for the individual. While living in London Liisa studied Yoga Therapy with the Yoga Biomedical Trust and began using the ancient practices of Yoga to help specific health issues. She is a member of Australian Association of Yoga therapists and a Registered Yoga Therapist #AD050842W.
Contact Liisa:
Private Yoga Sydney, Samadhi Yoga, Livingroom Coogee, Yogamama
Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
http://www.privateyogasydney.com
contact@privateyogasydney.com
+61-423-841-230
Steve Harris
Bowral, Australia
Steve has been teaching Yoga in Bowral for the past 17 years, the pleasure of the breath, non attainment Yoga, not imposing the will on the body, finding the Joy in your personal practice.
Contact Steve:
8 Cliff Street, Bowral, NSW, Australia
shnpath@gmail.com
Scott Helbron
Sydney, Australia
Scott has been studying and practicing yoga since 1997 and has since received professional training in various yoga styles and healing arts.
He teaches in the Krishnamacharya/Desikachar lineage, offering an authentic and appropriate yoga practice, that is relevant and respectful to each individuals situation and offers private yoga therapy programmes and yoga workshops to his students and clients.
Scott has also trained in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as indepth study of Qigong, Taiji quan, and various body therapies such as Chinese Massage therapy and Thai Yoga massage.
Contact Scott:
357 Cleveland Street (entrance on Young St) Surry Hills, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
http://www.yogasanga.com.au
scott@yogasanga.com.au
0431 230 024
Hamsa Hyder (BA, Dip Ed)
Albany, Australia
Hamsa originally qualified as an Integral Yoga Assoc. and International Yoga Teachers Assoc. teacher. Hamsa has 30 years study and teaching experience. She lived and taught yoga at Sivananda Ashram (Fremantle) for 9 years where she was a student of Swami Venkatesananda (disciple of Sivananda). After Venkatesa’s death in 1982, Hamsa continued her yoga studies with Sri TKV Desikachar and other senior teachers from the Krishnamacarya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai India, including the study of vedic chant and yoga cikitsa (yoga therapy). In the mid-90s she met and traveled to India with Mark Whitwell to study & has continued to study with Mark in Perth, Melbourne & Bali. “Mark ‘opened a window’ and allowed the fresh air in to flow through the full expression of the yoga teachings in my life”. Since then she has considered herself a Heart of Yoga teacher. Hamsa has also been studying meditation and compassion under the guidance of Buddhist master, Sogyal Rinpoche for the past 15 years. She is founder of the Heart of Yoga & Compassion School and the Centre for Wisdom & Compassion Studies in Albany. She is the author of two CD/books – The Healing Sounds of Vedic Chant and Do Your Yoga Bless Your Life.
Contact Hamsa:
Heart of Yoga and Compassion
Albany, AUSTRALIA
http://www.heartofyoga.com.au
hamsa@heartofyoga.com.au
+61-89-844-4798
+61-42-242-6042
Angela McGee
Melbourne, Australia
Angela is a Melbourne based teacher of 18 years. After 7 years teaching Angela feel deeply in love with the ancient yet contemporary wisdom of The Yoga Sutras as a map of the human heart and mind.
Through the kind teachings of Mark Whitwell, Angela began to teach with a close attention to the individual’s needs.
Angela believes Yoga practice needs to be accessible, enjoyable and a path to accepting ourselves, just as we are, right now.
She teaches group classes in the Prahran, Melbourne area and individually.
Contact Angela:
angela@kcmanagement.com.au
0431 51 21 66
Catherine Potter
Broulee, Australia
“The yoga I teach and practise is an eclectic mix of styles that have influenced me over the decades, including Heart of Yoga, Hatha, Iyengar and Vinyasa Flow. It incorporates conscious breath, energetics, inner focus, inner and outer strength, fluidity, flexibility, active and restorative poses, relaxation, connectedness, stillness and wellbeing. I trained as a yoga teacher as I wanted to share the joys and benefits of yoga with others. I have my own yoga studio on the south coast of NSW where I run regular classes and retreats.”
Contact Catherine:
Walirryuna - Radiant Sun Yoga
Broulee Yoga Shed,11 Banksia Street, Broulee, NSW, 2537, AUSTRALIA
http://www.radiantsun.com.au
catherine@walirryuna.com.au
0421 728980
Patrick Ryan
Sydney, Australia
“We are really living in exciting times, with amazing ancient technologies available to us for the first time. After more than a decade of exploring various explanations of Hatha Yoga, I feel the principles taught by Mark are simple, extraordinary, full of compassion, kindness, challenging, achievable and, I think, its ancient pure wisdom. Its an extremely effective form of Yoga and one that I love to practice daily.” Patrick travels and teaches all along the East Coast of Australia, in Fiji, and in Sri Lanka.
Contact Patrick:
The Living Room Coogee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
chilledmangostar@gmail.com
0449-900-568
Julia Tingulstad
Melbourne, Australia
Julia is a certified Heart of Yoga teacher, and has been mentored by her teacher Mark Whitwell over many years. Also a long-time student of Shiva Rea, she has studied yoga since her early teens and has been teaching classes and workshops since 2000 in her home country of Norway, and throughout Europe. She has also coordinated and taught retreats at her second home, Guatemala. She is currently studying chiropractic medicine at RMIT.
Julia’s interest in yoga was nurtured by her yogini mother at an early age and together they developed Tempel Yoga, a studio and style of yoga drawing on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and the healing system of Ayurveda. Combined with international travels and exposure to many cultures and environs, Julia adapts her classes to each teaching environment and to meet the individual requirements of her students, thus inspiring them to enrich their lives through the practice of yoga. Julia often incorporates the components of dance, flow and music into her classes.
Since 2004, Julia has managed the development of the Tempel Yoga business in Norway, coordinating and delivering teacher training programs, workshops, business yoga and private yoga consultations. Integral to her family’s businesses centered on multi-faceted holistic health services, she has extensive experience and understanding of the benefits achieved through combining yoga with traditional and alternative methods of healing and health improvement.
Contact Julia:
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.tempelyoga.no
julie@tempelyoga.no
NEW ZEALAND
Vanessa Hollebone
Andrew Raba
Barbara Coley
Auckland, New Zealand
Having practiced many styles of yoga over the years, Barbara’s own practice and understanding of yoga has changed and deepened as she has come to understand the Yoga of Krishnamacharya, both through her dear friend Mark Whitwell and her teachers A.G. and Indra Mohan of Svastha Yoga & Ayurveda, Chennai, India.
Barbara is the director of Svastha Yoga New Zealand located in Mt Eden, Auckland where she teaches a range of classes and presents an IYA registered 200 hour Teacher Training program. Barbara has a deep interest in Yoga Therapy particularly in the area of women’s health.
Contact Barbara:
Svastha Yoga New Zealand
1A Kelly StreetMt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
https://www.svasthayoga.co.nz/
barbara@svastha.co.nz
+649-630-0962
+64-21-170-2640
Anna de Zeeuw
South Island, New Zealand
Anna was introduced to yoga in 1998 and subsequently practiced and trained as a teacher in several of the contemporary styles. However, meeting Mark in 2006 and feeling the resonance of the ancient and timeless teachings that he shares, deeply touched Anna and completely transformed her Yoga. Mark now visits the South Island of New Zealand annually, where Anna lives with her partner Steve and daughter Charlotte. What has grown beautifully over these years are nourishing communities that come together and practice, and individuals who lovingly embrace their home practice.
Contact Anna:
Pure Yoga
http://www.pureyoga.co.nz
anna@pureyoga.co.nz
+64-3-942-711
+64-27-545-9283
Steve White
Auckland, New Zealand
Steve’s yoga journey started in the late 70′s when everyone was illuminated by BKS Iyengar’s book “Light on Yoga”. In the late 90’s he embraced K Pattabhi Jois’s Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and finally found his path when a friend invited him to join a Shiva Rea Yoga Flow Retreat in Greece in 2005.
He is a Registered 200 hr Yoga Alliance Teacher but has gone on to complete over 550 hours of Teacher Training mainly in Ubud, Los Angeles, Santorini, Fiji and Costa Rica. He is continually amazed at how much he doesn’t know.
His honoured personal gurus are Mark Whitwell, Shiva Rea, Daniel Aaron, Edward Clark, Simon Borg-Olivier, Kathy Budig and Emil Wendel… his deities are Ganesha, Shiva and Lakshmi.
Steve discovered the Yoga Sanctuary in 2009 and liked it so much that he bought into it in 2010. He describes his style as “moving meditation with breath and a smile” or more seriously as Krishnamacharya Prana Vinyasa (Flow) but he honours all styles and all teachers of Yoga.
Contact Steve:
The Yoga Sanctuary NZ
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
http://www.yogatech.co.nz
surgeblanco@hotmail.com
+64-21-665-556
Nick Wilson
Auckland, New Zealand
“Nick has unearthed the essence of yoga practice. In his commitment to teaching an authentic yoga, he has explored and investigated various avenues including the sincere students of the great Krishnamacharya; TKV Desikachar, AG Mohan and Srivatsa Ramaswami. His work in developing “The Heart of Yoga Teaching Manual” provided the basis for the technical section in my book. He really cares about people and understands how to apply yoga practice to each individual. He can help you, no matter your situation, practice an authentic, pleasurable yoga.” Mark Whitwell / Director of Heart of Yoga Association International & author of “Yoga of Heart.”
Contact Nick:
Yoga for Healing at Dorje Chang Institute for Wisdom Culture
6 Powell Street, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.yogaforhealing.co.nz
yogaforhealing@gmail.com
+649-27-370-2142
INDONESIA
thofan mendino
amanda noga
mark laws
chris walker
leah santa cruz
Akasha Yoga Academy (Burkhard, Kirsten and Dev Das Sahaja)
