Namaste, I  hope you are well.

my yoga room has flooded, I will not be reopening but I’m still teaching PRIVATES… for more info

please go to the ‘WHATS NEW’ page .

!or u can find me on utube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiJIrcZa44qY9WQ0LHuwFA

 

 under construction………MY HEALING JOURNEY     In 2012 I discovered that no dis~ease can exist in an alkali solution. I then began the very long exciting and grueling journey of changing my body acid alkali balance . Now 7 years later at 58 I’ve beaten osteo~ arthritis in my spine, long term high blood pressure, long term depression, long term lower back pain and lastly long term insomnia.The point is ~ when we are more alkali than acid we will eventually heal.

TREE CHANGE   Fitzroy was my favorite place in the world but its no place to raise a child. The pollution alone was bad, the soil was full of lead. I knew in my heart if I couldn’t feed  my child  organic food, I would find a way to do so. I began looking for towns with good soil. It was a simple as that. A few yrs later, I had bought  this  home in healesville , opened the yoga  school, studied permaculture, with the intent to keep us as healthy as possible & to grow  our own inoculating food.
Yarra Valley Yoga is my 2nd baby. My beloved daughter my 1st of course. It was created because I loved yoga and I loved teaching.

TEACHER ARCHETYPE     I began teaching when I was a kid, it came naturally . At 12 yrs of age I was teaching ballet to tiny totts, then later in my 20’s  I taught at John Morrey  School  of Hairdressing as a  hair color technician .

NEW YORK    It was my hairdressing world that led me to a very exciting 2 yr chapter in New York. Below is a Polaroid of a job as a makeup artist  when i was at FORDS. This a favorite because the Twin Towers  were alive with color in the background.The pick was  taken beneath the Brooklyn Bridge

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I worked at FORDS modelling agency as a make up artist  from 1986 -87. The obvious beauty myth scenario got under my skin, I truly couldn’t stomach it. I found my self a great part time job in a super funky hair salon in spring street Soho called SO HAIR.
That was then. It was a crazy time, I enjoyed a  life  style that might kill me now. Interestingly whilst I was at my most hedonistic  I discovered yoga.  I’ve mellowed now, 30 yrs of meditation  ~contemplation and yoga  will change anyone .

 2010  SPINAL INJURY  ~ wasn’t from yoga~ I was originally injured at 14 as a ballerina , whilst preparing for the ozzie ballet school.  The old injury  was compounded many times. Yoga kept me up right and strong .

The last L4L5 injury was  in 2010 ~I was   teaching makeup for photography at tafe, when one day my spine just gave up.  I was such a mess  they  put me on  a disability pension  indicating they believed at 50 yrs of age, there was no hope for me . That was  in 2010.

2017   THE BUTTERFLY emerges … in brief~~after  7 long years  on the floor~ living as a recluse ~ I have healed my spine and my legs but cannot feel my feet… Yet.

LATE 2017     fell  on a clean slippery floor and broke my left upper fema..aka my hip, tore right shoulder cough. that was 4 months ago no . its  all healed very nicely.

 

GRATEFUL    My healing journey  lasted 7 years, during which time my  my agenda altered dramatically HEALING was all that mattered…. the yoga school partially closed  I only  taught 3 or 4 Classes a week~ I visited  Magnetic Island  off the coast of Townsville many times  ~~as part of my healing process.

THE injury was my greatest alli. My life has changed in ways I could never have imagined . Now I’m committed to NEVER allowing any pain of any kind to persist.  I now know the injury occurred only because I  ignored the pain for 30 odd years. To make life tolerable I took pain relief everyday. I became an addict . The legal drugs destroyed my bone density . By the time I was 50 , my old injured spine just  rumbled.

NOW MY DAY consists of zero stress, eating really well, not working  for more than 3 hrs a day. I  garden ,  I dance and stretch  every day.   I walk everywhere , I have no mobile phone~I use a camera and a landline.

MY OLD OFFICE….the yoga room….due to 3 massive floods late 2017  it closed.. I am now living in it and i LOVE IT

PERMACULTURE

In 2001  I  studied permaculture ~ organic sustainable farming in 2001, with local permaculture guru , Graeme George.  Now i grow organic herbs for all of my  medicinal needs .

NATUROPATHY

1987-Whilst living in Washington DC, my hubbies home town, I began an on line Naturopathy course of which I completed herbalism and Iridology,  but it was  cut short abruptly when I decided to leave my hubby and come home. So even though I did not get a diploma I know alot and apply it all  daily. I hope I  can be of use to you.  I do know this , if we are to rely on our doctors  to usher us to  into old age we may be very disappointed.

THANKU BLESSU

If you managed to read all of this ~ thank you. MY intent is to be of use to you , to  build you up , to make you realize that you are amazing and that  you  can  heal your own body .The only thing that is missing is information. Once the body becomes more alkali than acidic we begin to think differently, we become smarter ! or a better way to say that is~ when we r alkali , we are simply the best version of ourselves.

If you are in any way interested below is my  cv.

MY CV.

EDUCATION: Formal
1996– 1998 formal teacher training with VALDA MOORE @CAE. Council of Adult edu. CBD. Melbourne

2001 formal teacher training with JANI BAKER @ AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF CLASSICAL YOGA Black burn. Melb

2005 formal teacher training with KIMBERLY GARLIC @ PILATES INSTITUTE OF   AUSTRALIA

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YOGA & PILATES SPECIALIST- RESEARCH CLASSES / WORKSHOPS  I WAS   ASKED TO RUN.

April -Nov 2002 “NARI” (National aging Research institute) Healesville Vic 2 Yoga classes per week for 26 weeks 6 female students. 50-70 years of age.

Sept-Oct 2003 “INERGISE AUSTRALIA” (veterans affairs) Healesville Vic 1 Yoga class per week, with Vietnam vets all with post traumatic stress disorder.

July-Sept2006 “HEALESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL” Healesville Vic 9 Yoga/Pilate‟s classes per term.

Sept 2009 RACV Healesville COUNTRY CLUB 3 Yoga / Meditation classes over the weekend with chef extraordinaire SHERRY STRONG. Complimenting her organic detox weekend.

2009 – 2010 INDULGE SPA  various one day yoga , pilates, and meditation  events at Indulge Spa for private  clients.

2009 Balgownie for ANZ  ~ 1/2 day yoga meditation events for ANZ EXECS , focusing on gentle de-stress hatha yoga and spinal care

2009 Yarra Valley Conference Centre for YOORALLA . YIN hatha yoga and breath work ~caring for carers.

  Jan 2009  RACV COUNTRY CLUB HEALESVILLE   2 HR Yoga /Pilates workshop held out doors

DROP IN CASUAL CLASSES / IYENGAR YOGA / YIN YOGA –  THERAPEUTIC PILATES TEACHING HISTORY

Jan 1998 – Feb 1999 “STKILDA YOGA SCHOOL”(“Skys”),Acland St St.Kilda Melb~~2 classes per week

March 1998-nov 1999 “BUSY BODY GYM” ~Johnson St, Fitzroy Melb ~~3 classes per week

July 1999-nov 1999 “HUNTS GYM” Johnson St, Fitzroy Melb ~1 class per week

OCTOBER 1999~~Moved from Fitzroy to Yarra Valley for a tree change ~IN TRUTH I WAS IN SEARCH FOR CLEAN AIR AND SOIL.

July 2000 – Present day~~Founded “YARRA VALLEY YOGA SCHOOL” Healesville

Up to 22 classes per week ~ yin Hatha yoga/Iyengar yoga/ theraputic pilates/Meditation/ dance

August 2003-04 REDHOUSE Warburton ~ 1 yoga  class per week

Sept 2006 – Dec 2009 BEACH HOUSE FITNESS CLUB Chirnside park ~~3 Yoga classes per week  /3 Pilates classes per week

Winter 2008  HEALESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL~~1 Yoga class for staff members per week

Autumn / Winter 2008  YARRA GLEN LIVING & LEARNING CENTER. ~~3 Yoga classes per week.

Sept 2008 – Dec 2009  YARRA GLEN LIVING & LEARNING CENTRE. ~~1 yoga class per week

2009 – 2009 HEALESVILLE LIVING AND LEARNING CENTRE~~3 Meditation classes per week / 1 high cardio dance class/ 1 Therapeutic Pilates class

 2009/10 HEALESVILLE LIVING & LEARNING ~~Tutor for cert 2 hairdressing cert 2 professional makeup services

2010 May – 2010 Nov  RACV COUNTRY CLUB  drop in weekly class  ~~ 1 Yoga /Pilates /Meditation class a week Sunday 10am – 11.30

my cv ends here~2010 I SUSTAINED A SPINAL INJURY and had  to semi retire. altho will continue with my easy drop in class.but all pilates and iynegar clases are impossible to teach now.

108 blessings