Jasmine
Jasmine is head honcho and principal teacher of At Work Yoga.
Jasmine was brought into the yoga world via a knee injury and she decided to stay and take up teacher training because initially she just wanted to learn more. She went into teaching full time despite her mild phobia of public speaking ... Her first class may be a black hole in her memory with feelings of anxious disbelief attached, who volunteers to stand in front of people and talk anyway!
Jasmine trained at the Yoga Arts Academy in Melbourne for four comprehensive years and she has been teaching yoga since 2005. With a lot of experience teaching within the corporate sector. She has continued her study with a lot of functional movement education and has been training for several years with the Mohan family moving more towards the balanced Svastha Yoga approach so she can offer more to her students and herself.
Michelle
Michelle learned to appreciate the grounding and one-pointed focus of karate at the age of ten. Reaching black belt at 16, she gave it all up at 17 to be, well, 17. Life continued with uni, travel, living and working abroad and, when she returned to Melbourne in 2002, a deep sense of disconnectedness. This inspired the search for grounding again, which she found in regular yoga practice.
Michelle completed her initial teacher training in India in March 2007 and later that year founded At Work Yoga. After almost 3 years of dedication, Michelle recently completed a Yoga Sadhana apprenticeship in Ghatastha Yoga, specialising in personal tuition, at Melbourne's Yoga Arts Academy. She is dedicated to her daily practice and studying Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Her classes are sincere, playful and aim to establish a sense of centre, build strength and eliminate tension with full breath, correct alignment, a calm mind and a cheeky grin.
Pamela
Pamela believes that yoga is the most effective process available to create personal transformational change. In 1992, she fractured her pelvis, right hip, sacrum, and ribs in a car accident. She was completely immobilised for a period of time, and even after physical therapy there were still many daily movements that were difficult. Yoga was the one thing that restored her body to total movement and strength. As she became more and more immersed in the practice of yoga she noticed the positive impact it was having on her overall health and wellbeing. Not only was she feeling great physically, she was feeling better mentally and emotionally.
Pamela has been practicing yoga for more that 20 years and became a yoga teacher in 2005 and a yoga therapist in 2009. Prior to teaching, she was in corporate work first in banking, and then as a facilitator in leadership and cultural change programs for corporations. She understands first hand the challenges and obstacles that a corporate job involves. Her teaching emphasises a breath focused practice of functional postures and movements done with inner awareness. The emphasis is on ease of movement and integration of body and breath.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth’s reputation rests on 20 years of learning, practice and study. Since 1999 she has been sharing her learning with private students, corporate clients and at conferences and festivals. Yoga is the love of her life.
In 2003 she received the award of Yoga Siromani ‘for training and meritorious service rendered in the field of the Propagation of Yoga’. She also holds a Masters of Visual Art and this thread of art infuses her yoga teaching with an unquantifiable zest.
Students have said that her classes and workshops ‘are whole, and full and beautiful, kind of like artworks in themselves’. At the same time, they are challenging and rigorous. No one is left to feel inadequate or excluded because of age, experience or level of fitness.
Her primary aim is to cultivate mindfulness, reduce stress, increase health and generate a sense of wellbeing and purpose in her students. Her ultimate goal is to liberate the student from the teacher – to help students find their intrinsic motivation and place yoga at the centre of their lives. Thus, she is constantly reassuring both herself and the student that, ‘It (yoga, life, love, work, self, family, what you will ...) is only a series of attempts’.