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RENAE WALTON
Renae has been practicing yoga for 10 years and first came to the practice as a way to steady her mind.
- I grew up in Brisbane and played physically demanding sport until my mid 20’s. I’d always seen yoga as gentle exercise that wasn’t ‘intense enough’ for the extreme yang lifestyle I was leading. It wasn’t until I moved to Melbourne in 2010 and was entering into a stressful job that I literally ran into a sign on the street advertising yoga. After my first class I was left with a sense of profound peace and a yearning for more. Having practiced at a number of studios across Melbourne it wasn’t until I started practicing at Yoke that I felt the desire to delve further into the teachings of yoga. I was curious about what I could learn and integrate into the way I approach my life. The wonderful Yoke family was the perfect place for me undertake my first 200hr teacher training in 2018. This ignited something in me and I developed an enthusiasm and passion for teaching and sharing yoga.
Renae has since gone on to study Yin with Bernie Clarke, Bhakti with Deborah Langley and Co, as well as further studies with Yoke and the Blissology collective.
“My own practice and classes are definitely slower and more contemplative then when I first came to yoga. I’m constantly interested in the sensations that are arising and how I feel in my body as I move and breathe and how can I create more ease in my practice. For me, yoga is an opportunity to feel freedom, to connect with myself, to breathe and to feel energy moving in my body.”
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WALLIS MURPHY
Through her classes, Wallis invites you to remember what lies beneath the surface of distraction and busyness, uncovering the layers of present moment awareness. With a world so deeply out of touch, Wallis recognises our deep need as human beings to connect, and belong to each other again.
Wallis has undertaken many yoga trainings since her initiation into teaching by the Barkan Hot Method in 2012. She is now a ERYT-350 with Yoga Alliance. Over the last 10 years Wallis has studied with teachers including Janet Stone, Jennifer Raye, Laughing Lotus NYC, Jason Crandall, Jennifer Crescenzo, Ella Cojocaru, and is now certified to teach the One Giant Mind Being Technique, a simple very practical way to meditate.
Wallis says, Learning to meditate has been one of the most fulfilling experiences, and has deepened my connection to my values and why I do what I do. It has taught me to be real and present with what is right in front of me, and to let go of the rest.
Wallis is founder and creator at Massoga® a practice that connects you with your essential nature through Restorative Yin, Massage and Meditation. Wallis is also co-founder at FORME Yoga, providing accessible online yoga and meditation content.
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MICHELLE SMITH
Michelle is a Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher who describes her style as authentic, challenging and approachable.
Michelle's Vinyasa classes are strong, playful and alignment focused - you can expect intrinsic core activation and an emphasis on pelvic stability webbed within creative and playful flow.
As a soon-to-be doctor of Chinese medicine, her Yin practice is steeped in Daoist philosophy and leans heavily on this school of thought. She loves creating space for a coming home to the body, the breath and the mind, with an emphasis on emotional regulation and relaxation.
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SOPHIE CLARIDGE
Sophie completed her training with Yoke Yoga; and continues to delve deeper into the world of Yoga.
Her practice focuses on investigating the different limbs of Yoga. With a belief that yoga is so much more than poses and is for everybody, Sophie’s classes aim to enlighten, challenge and fill you with contentment.
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GLENN TURNHAM
I teach more than to move the body. I teach to move with the heart and the spirit. My classes are crafted in a way that philosophy and a ‘real life’ teaching is woven through with each mindful breath and movement, so that everyone walks away feeling inspired, nurtured and elevated on a higher level.
Each day we show up on our mat to bend, to stretch, to relax, to be elevated, to be present, to be without ego, to recognise that which is true. Each pose, track, quote, cue, breath and movement play such a divine part in the entire symphony of the yoga practice. I draw my inspiration from yogic texts and legends, lessons from my teachers, music, nature, poets and philosophers.
I am devoted to teaching from the heart and strongly believe that this practice can have a profound, positive impact on the lives of anyone who is open to receiving and listening.
You can always expect a heartfelt playlist, a juicy sequence and mindful movement from the heart.
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TOMMY KENDE
Tommy has embarked on a mission to fill life with love, abundance, happiness, and overall goodness. He has been on a journey of self-discovery for the last 40 years.
Since he was born, he has been a Musician, Reiki Master/Teacher, Life Mentor, Corporate Executive, Yoga Teacher, Meditator, Great Son, Bad Son, Best Friend, An Enemy, A Lover, A Hater, A Sick Person, A Healthy Dude, Happy, Easily Confused, Lucky, Rich, Poor, An Angry Dude, Fearful, Lazy, An Uncontrollable Crier, A Drug Overdoser, A Procrastinator, A Deep Thinker, and a Seeker.
Through his experiences, he has committed himself to allow others to step into their highest version of themselves. Tommy has an innate gift of creating a safe space and environment for people to share, grow and manifest a life that fills them with joy! His coaching programs give people access to their inner courage to dive into the magic of the unknown, and become masters of turning their dreams into reality. Also the host at “The BS Machine” podcast, as well as a keynote speaker on the power of intuition.
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CHRISTINA GAGNIER
Christina believes that movement can unlock opportunities for self integration and, therefore, better connection to the external world. She believes that the body holds the opportunity for awakening. For her, movement has been instrumental in recognising and shifting patterns that have prevented her from having greater freedom in her life. Through yoga and movement, she hopes to give people the tools to choose how they wish to shape their lives.
She is an ERYT 500 yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance who has been teaching since 2011. With more than 5000 teaching hours, she currently leads teacher trainings and mentoring programs in Australia. She is also an Embodied Flow Somatic Movement Therapy through ISMETA.
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RYAN MANNIX
200HR YTT FACILITATOR + TEACHER
Ryan Mannix is a meditation and yoga teacher based in Torquay on the Surf Coast of Victoria.
He has been sharing his passion for teaching meditation and yoga both in Australia and abroad since 2013. Leading workshops, classes and teacher trainings.
Ryan has always had a keen interest in movement and meditation. Before yoga he was a professional runner, representing Australia a number of times. After an injury that side-lined his running career, he began to practice yoga as a means of rehabilitation. He then went on to do his first teacher training in Bali and has since trained with many great teachers around the world. He is also the co-founder of ‘It’s all yoga’, his studio on the Surf Coast of Victoria and leads his own teacher mentoring program for new yoga teachers, which has had over 200 teachers across Australia go through the course.
He has a passion for yoga, teaching students and teachers and building community.
Ryan’s classes are dynamic, progressive and for everyone. His classes are also centred around mindfulness and breath.
His meditation teachings stem from Buddhism and he has trained extensively in mindfulness and meditation for over five years.
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NICKIE HANLEY
Nickie’s yoga journey began in 2005 when she did her first yoga retreat in Bali. This day was life changing. During that retreat she let go of old stories and stepped in to the life of a yogi and never looked back.
She completed her Teacher Training in 2010 with the Australia Yoga Academy (AYA) and has since completed multiple trainings with Power Living and Laughing Lotus in the United States (to name but a few!).
In 2013, Nickie created Disco Yoga; a fusion of powerful and soulful Vinyasa flow with a Live DJ. This incorporated Nickie’s previous life as a dancer with her love of yoga and music as a way for her students to connect more deeply to their own joy. A joy that they can take off their yoga mat in to their daily lives.
If that didn’t keep her busy enough, in 2015, Nickie began running yoga classes for kids involved with professional sports, donating all proceeds to the Green School in Bali.
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LUCIA D’ALESSANDRO
Lucia is a Contemporary dancer and Yoga practitioner for 20 years now. She has been teaching movement, somatics, Yoga and meditation for the last 15 years in South America, and now in Australia.
Lucia is passionate about the immense wisdom of the body and its self-healing capacity. Believing that a bodyful practice gives us the possibility to listen, know and feel into ourselves deeply. In that way we're able to embody the present moment and make choices from our authentic self, discovering our singularity and therefore share it with the collective, inspiring and being inspired by others in this interwoven connection of life that we are part of.
Before sharing her work world wide, Lucia owned a Yoga & Healing Therapies studio in Argentina for eight years. Lucia is also a Thai massage therapist, an energetic healer and a Tarotist.
Teaching and sharing is one of Lucia's main passions and purposes in life, she strongly believes that it is not only the knowledge that heals, but the sacredness that emerges from the space co-created by both giver and receiver.
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CLAIRE BRADSHAW
Claire has been practicing Yoga on and off for 10+ years but consistently for over 7 yrs since her first yoga teacher training in India in March 2014.
"I'd not planned to be a yoga teacher at the time, I was just deeply curious by the alchemy that happened during the practice. During this immersive training, yoga captured my heart. It helped to remove the layers of beliefs, and thinking patterns that had kept me stuck, revealing something so profound that I knew I had to teach and share this practice.
Yoga has helped me find inner self and bring all the lost parts back."
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EMMA StREMBICKYJ
Emma has been practicing yoga for more than 18 years, coming from a ballet back ground, she found yoga to be a beautiful crafted movement and breath connection that helped reconnect her back to her inner self as well as accepting her physical form. Over time this practice became a moving meditation and it became a joy to keep getting on the mat and practicing such freedom.
In 2012/13 Emma completed 500YTT at Byron Yoga Centre and has since completed many hours of training, including the likes of Yoga nidra, Pranayama & meditation, 50hrs Ana Davis (prenatal) Level 1 & 2, 200hrs Yin Yoga, anatomy & physiology with Mysan Sidho and recently completing 50hrs with Elon Finn Blissology training. Dedicating herself to not only her own self practice and mindfulness of yoga/meditation but also in the way she lives allowing her to share authentic offerings to students so they can experience stepping beyond the thinking mind and move into the feeling body. Trusting all you need is within you!
Teaching at studios and drug and alcohol recovery housing, corporate and high schools Emma offers classes from beginners to advanced.
Emma classes are a combination of mindful flow and strength, creative flows but also a space to be still, mostly its an opportunity to feel the experience of energy in ones body through loving awareness, and always sprinkled with a sense of humour.
This physical form that houses our soul is such an incredible vessel to get to know, there is always a great gift to learn when we step onto 4 corners of your mat and I hope to invite you there.
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CHRIS WILSON
Dharma Dad, Founder, Yogi, Surfer
Chris has been sharing a love of yoga by leading powerful classes, teacher trainings, workshops and retreats since 2007. He was co Owner of Power Living Melbourne, and is the founder of Yoke Yoga.
Alongside sharing yoga and getting tubed his dharma is to be the best dad and husband he can be.
Chris promotes a relaxed yet engaging energy in class, he uses intelligent alignment and fluid sequencing to sharpen our listening so we can move more wisely from the feeling within.
Expect a heartfelt journey!
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JANITA DOELKEN
STUDIO MANAGER & TEACHER
"Get in to nature, connect, feel, laugh, dance and yoga." Jani's recipe for a balanced and happy life.
With this in mind, the intention in Jani's teaching is to encourage each student to approach their mat and every shape with an openness to connect, leading to self-discovery, inner peace and personal growth.
Jani’s Vinyasa classes offer creative and strengthening yet gentle sequences that keep your mind and body anchored throughout.
Her Yin classes focus on targeting meridians and the connective tissue, breathing techniques during long holds, allowing space for meditation and deep relaxation.
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Mariano González
Mariano was born in a small city in Uruguay and his adventurous spirit has moved him from place to place around the world until he arrived to Melbourne in 2012; one year later he discovered the yoga practice.
Mariano is passionate about movement, along with yoga he has an extensive background in martial arts, capoeira and dance.
Mariano’s classes reflect his deep understanding of body & movement.
His classes are supportive and engaging, with a strong level of guidance into proper alignment. This enables all levels to access poses in a safe way.
His playful and passionate approach also reaches out to all levels, whether you are a beginner or more advanced practitioner.
In his free time, Mariano loves playing the hang drum, dance salsa, slackline and kitesurfing.