Yoga Therapy | Private Yoga Classes | Personal Yoga Session | Group Yoga |
Retreats | Chronic Illness | Mobility Issues | NDIS Provider
Byron Bay | Mullumbimby | Brunswick Heads | Northern Rivers | Online
"The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness" - Sakyong Mipham
Thank you for finding my yoga and yoga therapy page. I'm an experienced yoga teacher and yoga therapist with 990hrs of yoga and breathwork qualifications. I discovered yoga in 2006, as a powerful tool for managing chronic stress and anxiety experienced in my early life.
My first yoga class was spent with a strained neck trying to look at and keep up with what everyone else was doing. I've travelled far since then, beginning my teaching journey in 2020 as a Hatha Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher. Having discovered the magic and transformation of breathwork and pranayama, I became a Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner and pranayama teacher that same year.
I have deepened my yoga practice with the Ashtanga primary series and Iyengar yoga and I've trained in advanced hand balancing. My teachers have included Lance Schuler, Aimee Bracks and Dave Davy.
I have diverse teaching experience, teaching general classes at yoga studios, retreats and teaching groups and individuals with mobility and mental health challenges, chronic health issues and older person's who are unable to mobilise independently.
I really enjoy working as an NDIS provider to NDIS participants as a yoga therapist. Due to my mental health, trauma and somatic work experience, training and qualifications I am trauma-educated and developmentally informed, to support clients holistically on a physical , mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual level. I am trained in Polyvagal theory to create nervous system regulation, to build safety and support to rebuild the relationship with the body and mind by increasing interoception, proprioception, compassion, awareness, strength and vitality.
I see NDIS clients for a range of psychosocial disabilities, including chronic illness, syndromes, disease, mental health needs, mobility issues, nervous system disorders and trauma including developmental and attachment-based trauma.
What is the difference between yoga therapy and yoga?
Yoga therapy is a holistic, complementary therapy that works on the physical, emotional, energetic, mental and spiritual parts of the person and the whole of the person. The therapist draws upon Ayurvedic medicine frameworks, ancient yogic literature and current scientific evidence-based research.
Yoga therapy starts with a personalised assessment which considers the person through the lens of the koshas, doshas, gunas, samskaras, kleshas and prana vayus, to build a holistic picture of the client and the root cause of their presenting issues and needs.
A customised prescription of yoga medicine is developed with the client which may include breath, mantra, asana (postures) and meditation with the intention for the client to practice this daily for optimal results. Yoga therapy empowers the you to focus on what you can do, not what you can’t, as an active participant in your own healing journey.
The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) define yoga therapy as "the process of empowering individuals to progress towards improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practices of yoga".
General yoga is aimed at individuals and general populations. The student is guided in the practice by the teacher, the student's role tending to be more passive with a focus on the teacher and the teacher's instructions. An in depth assessment is not usually complete, although the needs of the client in an individual session would be explored and a class developed to suit those needs.
A general yoga class may focus on a theme identified by the teacher to suit the general needs of the class, with adaptations made for individuals with specific needs.
Retreats | Chronic Illness | Mobility Issues | NDIS Provider
Byron Bay | Mullumbimby | Brunswick Heads | Northern Rivers | Online
"The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness" - Sakyong Mipham
Thank you for finding my yoga and yoga therapy page. I'm an experienced yoga teacher and yoga therapist with 990hrs of yoga and breathwork qualifications. I discovered yoga in 2006, as a powerful tool for managing chronic stress and anxiety experienced in my early life.
My first yoga class was spent with a strained neck trying to look at and keep up with what everyone else was doing. I've travelled far since then, beginning my teaching journey in 2020 as a Hatha Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher. Having discovered the magic and transformation of breathwork and pranayama, I became a Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner and pranayama teacher that same year.
I have deepened my yoga practice with the Ashtanga primary series and Iyengar yoga and I've trained in advanced hand balancing. My teachers have included Lance Schuler, Aimee Bracks and Dave Davy.
I have diverse teaching experience, teaching general classes at yoga studios, retreats and teaching groups and individuals with mobility and mental health challenges, chronic health issues and older person's who are unable to mobilise independently.
I really enjoy working as an NDIS provider to NDIS participants as a yoga therapist. Due to my mental health, trauma and somatic work experience, training and qualifications I am trauma-educated and developmentally informed, to support clients holistically on a physical , mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual level. I am trained in Polyvagal theory to create nervous system regulation, to build safety and support to rebuild the relationship with the body and mind by increasing interoception, proprioception, compassion, awareness, strength and vitality.
I see NDIS clients for a range of psychosocial disabilities, including chronic illness, syndromes, disease, mental health needs, mobility issues, nervous system disorders and trauma including developmental and attachment-based trauma.
What is the difference between yoga therapy and yoga?
Yoga therapy is a holistic, complementary therapy that works on the physical, emotional, energetic, mental and spiritual parts of the person and the whole of the person. The therapist draws upon Ayurvedic medicine frameworks, ancient yogic literature and current scientific evidence-based research.
Yoga therapy starts with a personalised assessment which considers the person through the lens of the koshas, doshas, gunas, samskaras, kleshas and prana vayus, to build a holistic picture of the client and the root cause of their presenting issues and needs.
A customised prescription of yoga medicine is developed with the client which may include breath, mantra, asana (postures) and meditation with the intention for the client to practice this daily for optimal results. Yoga therapy empowers the you to focus on what you can do, not what you can’t, as an active participant in your own healing journey.
The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) define yoga therapy as "the process of empowering individuals to progress towards improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practices of yoga".
General yoga is aimed at individuals and general populations. The student is guided in the practice by the teacher, the student's role tending to be more passive with a focus on the teacher and the teacher's instructions. An in depth assessment is not usually complete, although the needs of the client in an individual session would be explored and a class developed to suit those needs.
A general yoga class may focus on a theme identified by the teacher to suit the general needs of the class, with adaptations made for individuals with specific needs.
