Teachers

 


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.

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.

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."

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.
  Beata Alfoldi-Askew

Beata started dancing at the age of four and began practicing yoga at the age of eighteen whilst completing an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Dance). After receiving a dance scholarship to train in America, Beata spent eight years in various theatrical productions in London's West End. Upon returning to Australia, Beata pursued an international choreographic and directing career through the medium of theatre, film and television.
 A chronic back condition was the catalyst in Beata exploring human potential through various healing and teaching modalities. This was her calling to deepen her understanding and awareness of the body-mind connection through movement, yoga and dance. It was through this understanding that a deep and transformational healing took place.
Beata has studied yoga with Simon Borg-Olivier at Yoga Synergy, Donna Farhi, Shandor Remete and completed her yoga teacher training at Samadhi Yoga. Beata has created her own style of yoga called ~ Dynamic Movement Yoga and
has a passionate interest in spiritual growth, shamanism, healing and transformation. She believes that when we live our lives consciously from the heart allowing Spirit to empower us, we are free to embody our own unique creative expression and potential. 
Beata is delighted to be teaching at Yoga BC again after an amazing journey to Peru with her husband Tom, where they studied with indigenous shamans and healers of the Amazon and Andes.


Cecilie Farrar

I discovered the ancient practice of yoga eight years ago and am constantly surprised how this age old artform is so relevant to our world today. Intially I expected the practice to complement my professional dance career by improving strength and flexibility. However, I soon discovered it's deeper and richer benefits. Whilst living in New York in 2005 I completed my teacher training at Shri Yoga, Tribeca with teachers Sadie Nardini ( Anusara ) and Brendan McCall (Ashtanga) . My classes are inspired from the beautiful heartfelt practice of Anusara and Vinyasa yoga. I enjoy encouraging my students to gracefully move from one posture to the next instigated by the breath. An emphasis on safe postural alignment and connection to core strength energy is evident in my class flow.

 
 
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.