Teachers
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Grant Wolf Grant Wolf comes from Rockhampton, Queenland, where he began his athletic career as a swimmer. Adept and successful swimmer in competitive surf-lifesaving, Grant shifted to singing and dancing in University and soon found himself accepted into the Australian Opera Ballet and Meryl Tankards' Dance Theater. A successful career in musical theatre where he found himself in the casts of Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Aspects of Love and Pageant. He also began training as a platform diver, then into television script editing. Grant enjoys a wide variety of creative expression and this creativity flows into his teaching style. Drawing in years in Hatha yoga and the studies of Ayurveda and the Vedas, East Indias sacred texts, Grant style is filled with motion and poise. He believes that moving by from the heart and learning the instrument of the body one can find the music of life. |
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Waran Karl Originally from San Diego, California, Waran Karl worked profesionally in Los Angeles and New York as a singer/dancer. He began studies in Astanga in 1991 at the Open Center in Tribeca, NY. His yoga studies continued through his time living in Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. He evolved over to Hatha as a more tempered practice that suited his free-flowing style that smiles and moves like a dance. A sense of humour and lightness are the key to his teaching style that can be both dynamic and strong, yet fluid and graceful. He is a fully-qualified teacher of Deepak Chopra's Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and Primordial Sound Meditation. |
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Cassandra McCann Cassandra has been practising yoga since 1988 and teaching since completing her Yoga certification in 2002 at Yoga Arts in Byron Bay Australia. Cassandra's style inspires and motivates as she takes you through the step by step process of bodily change and awareness that is yoga. She draws from her experience as a professional dancer and choreographer to make her classes dynamic, expressive, precise with an emphasis on mindfulness. She teaches a blissful blend of vinyasa yoga, and the practices of pranayama, mudra, bandha, meditation and relaxation. "I started practicing yoga initially to complement my dance training to increase my strength and flexibility, yet it went far deeper than I could have imagined. Yoga has unveiled the many layers of my personality showed me self acceptance, compassion, direction, and my true inner nature which is love. As a teacher I want to share my knowledge and experience with my students and to encourage and support them on a challenging and exciting journey. Yoga is like a meditation to me, brings me back home to the self." |
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Jeanette Lloyd Jones Jeannette has been teaching Hatha Yoga for over ten years. She studied with teachers such as Mark Breadner and Karen Schaefer of Nature Care College. Her classes are flowing, gentle, nurturing and suitable for beginners and seniors. |
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Claudine Claudine comes to Sydney from New York and brings an abundance of experience and training.She received her first Registered Yoga Teacher certification from the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has had the opportunity to study with teachers such as Shiva Rae, Seane Corne, Rod Stryker and Patricia Walden and is grateful to all the teachers she continues to meet in her life. She has practiced and studied various styles of yoga over the past ten years, such as Iyengar, Vinyasa and Ashtanga. Her current style is a unique blend of her various practices. She earned a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Albany in New York and is also a Certified Holistic Health Counselor. Since arriving in Australia, she has also become a Cranio Sacral Therapist and Certified Personal Trainer through Fitness Institute of Australia and has begun a thriving business at Goodlife Health Club in Martin Place. Through her own transformation, she brings a loving approach and attention to detail within her classes and her work with clients. Her focus is to create a safe space where her students can feel comfortable to be themselves, explore the joys of movement within their own bodies and to reach for their full potential. Her yogic path has been one of opening and learning that in order to create positive change in the world outside of ourselves, we must first go within. |
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Tanya Voges "Be the change that you want to see in the world- Gandhi" Tanya is a professional dancer based in Sydney and has performed nationally and internationally over the past 16 years. Her love for yoga was born out of this passionate journey towards a moving meditation practise travelling away from life’s grasp of attachment and ego. Tanya’s own studies include Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the VCA, Yoga Teacher Training Certification from Samadhi Yoga, Anatomy and Physiology of Hatha Yoga from Synergy Yoga, workshops with Simon Borg-Olivier, Alana Kaivalya from the Jivamukti style of yoga, Art of Living course, and classes with numerous teachers both here in Australia and in India. She has taught group, private, corporate, and specialised classes for dancers and athletes through Yogabowl, Dancing Warrior Yoga, Yoga Essentia, Ausdance and Tasdance throughout Sydney and Australia. You’ll find Tanya’s classes use the thread of breath to link the body and the mind, in a Flowing Hatha Vinyasa practise, grounded with her knowledge of anatomy as well as Yoga Philosophy. |
