Our Approach to Yoga
Everyone comes to yoga with different bodies, different personalities and
different goals. Our day-to-day lifestyles are varied. This means your needs will be unique, and each yoga class will reflect this.
For the first part of your class, you will be provided with your own individual practice.
This can be adapted to suit your needs on that day. In the second part of the class, there is
individual instruction within the group. In the third part of the class, we instruct you in breathing and relaxation techniques. Each class goes for one and a half hours.
Everyone is different, so they want different things from yoga. We start at the level that you are at now, and build on it – so you achieve your goals. Sometimes a passive practice will be ideal for you, if you want to slow down and go inwards. Sometimes you may need to address a physical imbalance, such as a tight part of the body, a stiff back, or a problem area, and so your practice will target those areas to balance and improve functioning.
Sometimes you may like to do a vigorous, challenging practice, to develop strength or cardiovascular fitness. Just let us know and we will help you to adapt your practice. As you do your individual practice, your teacher will encourage you to develop more self-awareness, calm and insight. We draw your attention to the sensations in your body, your thoughts and emotions.This is an interactive relationship between the yoga student and teacher.
We support you in developing your yoga practice, so that it becomes integrated into your life. The skills from yoga can readily be used in everyday life and we help you relate these skills to your life. We encourage and support you to sustain an ongoing long-term practice, which will change as your needs change.>
Who We Teach
We don't see age is a barrier to learning yoga. For 15 years we have taught people from age 5 to 85. Men and women from 15 years onwards enjoy our day and evening classes, on a weekly basis. Some of our students have been with us for 10 or 15 years, and have been able to keep growing and developing in their yoga practice as well as their personal development.
Because of our individual approach in teaching yoga we have introduced many "beginners" to the benefits of yoga. They find it easy to move into the yoga classes with instruction and postures that suit their needs and their bodies. Those who have an established yoga practice, or who are looking to develop their yoga to a deeper level, also benefit from this individual teaching style. Your teacher will work with you to develop your practice.:
Our Profiles
Debbie Simpson
Debbie is a qualified Yoga Teacher who has been practising different styles of yoga and meditation for over 25 years. She has taught in schools and colleges, and offered her wealth of expertise at retreats and seminars. She created the method of individualised instruction within a small group, which has proven such a success in her yoga studio over the last fifteen years.
For Debbie, Yoga is a way of life, and an effective way of empowering people to take control of their health. She believes that Yoga skills help you deal with the ups and downs of life.
Denice Finnegan
ATMS Number 6435
Being healthy is easy ! And when you're healthy, you feel good - both
physically and emotionally. I feel strongly that we are what we eat . Hippocrates said :
" Let food be your medicine, and let your medicine be food".
Today we're confronted with new issues concerning our food, like genetic engineering, epidemics affecting animals that are part of the food chain, pollution, heavy metals and other toxins, and a reduction in the quality of food. I'm inspired by people like you, who care enough about themselves and those around them, to get information and then act on it, to achieve better health.
My role is to support you with information and ideas on how to become (and stay) healthy, and medicines that address the causes of illness, without the side effects.
Denice is a qualified Naturopath, Yoga Teacher and Aromatherapist. She holds Diplomas in Nutritional Medicine, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy and Aromatherapy from NatureCare College in Sydney. She also holds a Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training from the International Yoga Teacher's Association (IYTA), and a Degree in Social Work from the University of Sydney.
Denice belongs to the professional associations ‘Australian Traditional Medicine Society’ (ATMS) and ‘The National Herbalist's Association of Australia’ (NHAA). Denice has also completed a certificate course in Organic farming.