Jane Maw

I started practicing yoga in the 1970s whilst living in the UK. It remained in the background until resurfacing after a pilgrimage to India in 1993. After this journey, my commitment to yoga strengthened resulting in my graduation as a Friends in Yoga teacher in 2003. I now teach Hatha Yoga and continue with my own personal practise and studies.

Maryke Loren

I experienced my first ever yoga class at the Ashram (in the original house) in 1977 when it first opened it’s doors to the community. Since then the Ashram has always felt very dear to my heart and was the catalyst for a lot of change to take place in my life.  During the years that followed, I practiced many forms of Yoga and with many wonderful teachers. In 2000 my path led me to the USA, where I completed a teacher training program with Spiritual Teacher Training. My desire was and still is to share with as many as possible what I have discovered through this wonderful practice.
Besides the wonderful teachings at the Ashram under the umbrella of Swami Venkateshanda, there were 2 main teachers in the USA who helped change my approach to my own personal practice and who  studied directly under Indra Devi and TKV Desikachar. I feel very blessed to have had such a wonderful opportunity. I now regularly attend workshops to help deepen my own practice, and am dedicated to teaching yoga in it's holistic form, and from the teaching of the Guru Krishnamacharya, ( father of Desikachar) I try to adapt the practice to the individual, rather then the individual work to a set structure. I feel forever a student learning each and every day a better way to serve.    Om Shanti

Bobi Ward

Bobi sought out yoga 18 years ago after receiving a serious spinal injury in a car crash. She did most of her classes supine. She practised in various towns through England with many talented teachers.

After arriving in Fremantle 9 years ago she began addressing more than the physical aspects of yoga, and in 2001 she completed the FinY teachers training course and has taught yoga since. Her style is sequences mindfully executed; flowing with the breath. Desikachar and Dru Yoga are her paths at the moment. Yoga Nidra (guided relaxation) is another passion and she likes to end most classes with it.

Donna Kirkland

I was first introduced to Yoga at an early age by my father who for that time was quite an alternative thinker and a believer in having a healthy body and a positive mind. I have been practicing Yoga for many years off and on and teaching now for 2 and a half years. By day I am a landscape designer and by night a Yoga teacher. I find they compliment each other nicely. I am interested in the physical and meditation side of yoga as maintenance for the body, and taking control for my own health. As my yoga journey progresses the spiritual understanding of myself and the universe are ever increasing. Motto—Have Fun.

Jill Christine Phillips

My Yoga background extends back to 1980 when I attended classes with a friend in North London. After emigrating to WA in 1994 and the birth of my 6th child, I became involved with IYA WA. My involvement at the Beacon Yoga centre began by attending classes when Lakshmiananda offered me to take her Saturday am classes, and then the Friday evening one. Over the last 5 years or so I have taught consistently at the Ashram, taking various classes. For me teaching at the Ashram is a true privilege and I know lots of people, some of whom I consider are good friends, other people I look forward to seeing and spending time with.

Yoga is a constant source of pleasure and help in my busy daily life, physically, mentally and spiritually, and to sum up, a truly good tool on my lifes journey, enhancing my faith in God. I hope I impart this at all times in different ways to the students I have the opportunity to meet and teach.

Ruth Barret-Lennard

I began my yoga journey twenty years ago and loved it from my very first class. The wonderful thing about yoga is that it encourages us to be in the present and this connects us more deeply to who we are—physically, emotionally and spiritually. I began teaching yoga in 1996 and with a professional background in midwifery, teaching and psychology I feel very dedicated to empowering women in their journey through pregnancy to the gift of motherhood. It is a most precious, important and life changing experience.

Julie Wilkinson 

I have practised Yoga for 39 years. The benefits to my health and well being were immediate. I became calm. Continued practise brought about thoughfulness and contemplation. In 1990 I enrolled in the first ever FINY TTC. It seemed long overdue to give something back in return.

I like to create a feel good class. A nice full body stretch, including classical asanas and pranayama to stimulate body, mind and spirit. Also to generate mindfulness. The students need to feel imput on a cellular level, some recharge to the whole system to take from the practise, however simple it may be.

Hari OM.

Tony Holmes

I first came to yoga early in 2002. I was looking for a means of stress management and stress relief from a fairly demanding job as a mining engineer. At that time I did not know how lucky I was, because yoga has since given me not only the stress relief I was looking for but much, much more. Now I find myself de-stressed and a graduate of FinY 2005 teacher training course.

My personal practice and teaching style have a strong emphasis towards grounding, balancing and centering restorative practices. I am really looking forward to teaching at the ashram and to sharing my practice and yogic journey, particularly with the beginning students of the wednesday night class.

OM Shanti

Ananda

A student of Swami Karmakriya's, Ananda trained at Bihar Yoga Bhirati (Yoga University, India) and Satyananda Yoga Academy Australia (NSW & Vic), and is an accredited Satyananda Yoga Teacher. Ananda lived with Swami Satyananda for the past year at his Ashram in Rikhia-India, and worked on his mission for the villagers of the area which is built on Swami Sivananda's edict: SERVE LOVE GIVE

Ananda now lives at the Beacon Yoga Centre.

Gail Marlow

I have practised Yoga on and off for 20 years. My first teacher taught Ashtanga at the Palmyra Recreation Centre which has since been demolished. About 7 years ago I searched for a teacher's training course but could only find Iyengar schools and few courses were available then.

A number of events lead me to undertaking the FINY course in 2004. Firstly, a dear friend spent some time in the Satyananda Gosford (NSW Central Coast) Ashram and commented on how wonderful it was: the lifestyle, the people and how he felt. It was then by luck that I attended a Bowen conference in Canberra and decided to spend 10 days in the Ashram. It was at the Satyananda Ashram that one of the Rishi commented that I could teach. Upon my return home, a friend suggested I sign up for the FINY course at the Beacon Yoga Centre. This was a wonderful experience that continues and the start of another journey. 

   Angela Perkins

I began practicing yoga in my late teens, and consider yoga to have been a wonderful gift in my life. Throughout the various phases of my life (studying, working and nurturing a family) my yoga practice has been a golden thread, linking me back to a peaceful, calm, clear state of mind.

I completed the FinY Teacher Training Course in 1998, which gave an introduction to the great big wide world of yoga! There is so much diversity and innovation amongst yoga teachers today, and I love the ongoing journey of learning that yoga provides.

In classes I provide the opportunity for students to connect with and explore their own inner yoga space – to stretch and ease the body, to flow with the breath and to calm the mind.

Jim is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner with over 10 years teaching experience. He also has additional experience and training in Neuron Linguistic Programming, Emotional release work, Eastern & Western Meditations, Ch'i Gung and Ericksonian Hypnosis. His practice is focused on orthopedic conditions, mainly back and neck injuries.

  Aileen

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