Bess first discovered Oki Do Yoga in 2005. Instantly taken by the spontaneity, joy and connection that it offered, she trained intensively at Zen Central Yoga Centre until she was able to complete her Teacher Training with Peter Masters in 2008. In 2008 she also travelled to Japan to spend a month training with Iishi and Hisea Sensei’s in their Family Yoga Centre. After a year of teaching in 2009, Bess returned to intensive training, completing the Yoga Presence Teacher Training with Kate Pell in 2010. This year long training included weekend workshops with Simon Borg Oliver, and other specialist teachers from the Indian Yoga tradition.

Peter, Kate and Simon continue to be great inspiration for Bess and she finds joy in combining the wisdom she has witnessed with these teachers, with her own intuitive understandings.

Outside of yoga, Bess works as a social worker in the Community Sector. Over the last 5 years she has worked in a number of areas including homelessness, asylum seeker and refugee support and mental health. Bess is grateful that this work offers an immense opportunity to practice the qualities she nurtures through yoga.