Emma's Yoga Classes

Emma has over 20 years of experience practicing and teaching yoga in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

 

At the age of 28 she took her very first yoga class back in the mid 1990's in a local Newtown Hall in Sydney with wonderful teachers Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss.

 

In 1999 Emma graduated with a Bachelor Of Design with first class honours. She worked as an interior designer in an architects office during her final year of university. This was an extremely demanding time, thankfully a yoga studio opened up right above the office she was working in Surry Hills. It was here, she discovered Iyengar yoga with esteemed teacher James Hasemer. She knew right away that teaching Iyengar yoga was what she wanted to do. She attended classes regularly for 3 years.

 

Emma moved to Melbourne after getting a design job and immediately signed up for a 3 year teacher training course in 2002 in St Kilda with senior Iyengar teacher Simon Marrocco. This changed her life, whilst working as a full time Interior designer, she graduated as a fully certified Iyengar teacher. Emma taught many classes at St Kilda Yoga school and Circus Oz in South Melbourne.

 

She attended the Geeta Iyengar workshop in Sydney and many other prominent teachers workshops from both Iyengar, Ashtanga and Kundalini lineages. 

 

She has been living in Brisbane for 15 years and now teaches online classes. 

 

Emma has since left the Iyengar association, but still teaches alignment principles, sequencing, timings and use of props. She continues to teach from the heart, her own unique style. She understands the importance of listening to your own body, the best teacher you have. 

 

Emma believes that yoga can transform the way you think, feel and live with more consciousness and vitality. She blends her Iyengar training with vinyasa (a flowing style of yoga) pranayama (breathing exercises), bandhas (energy locks), drishti (eye gaze points) mudras (hand movements) and mantras to heal the soul. Emma teaches real yoga for real people. Her classes are smaller so that you get a personalised practice to suit your body, mind and spirit.

 

She is a current member of Yoga Australia. Emma continues to learn and grow as a yoga teacher and student of life.