Dance of Life - Our Yoga and Dance Teachers
Johannes Mochayedi (director)
Johannes studied yoga from 1995 in Australia at the Dance of Life and Astanga Yoga in Mysore, India. He is a certified Bikram Yoga teacher, and studied at the Yoga College of India in L.A.
He also teaches Power Flow Yoga at the Dance of Life. He believes yoga is a powerful vehicle for healing emotional and energetic blockages, enhancing deeper levels of self-acceptance and understanding of others. Meet Johannes on Facebook. Or contact him on 0438 832 000 for a shiatsu treatment.
Jo Windred
Jo draws her inspiration for teaching from her years of Iyengar yoga practice at the Dance of Life studio and yogic studies at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, India, and shares her joy of yoga as the key to expansion and inner blossoming.
Elizabeth Bell
Elizabeth has studied yoga with Cosmologists Maggie Nimmo and Eugenie Knox, Swami Satyananda in Bihar, India and in the inspired system of Vanda Scaravelli through Diane Long in Rome. She completed her Yoga Teacher's Certificate at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta in Kerala, 2003. Elizabeth works deeply, intuitively and playfully with an emphasis on vital energy, fluidity, breath control and core strength.
Jean Forrest
Jean's passion for yoga was awakened at the Dance of Life Studio when she started practicing there 16 years ago. Trusting totally in the healing powers of yoga, Jean encourages her students through a gentle yet dynamic practice to soften their hearts, to calm and clear their minds and to enrich their Spirit."
Joanna Carroll
Dancer/choreographer/pilates and yoga teacher is also a qualified teacher of visual arts and sculpture. She has a graduate diploma in Movement and Dance with additional studies in Classical Ballet and contemporary dance forms.
Nina Alfers
Nina comes from a background of martial arts and yoga and practices as a massage therapist. Her style combines insights from these areas and focuses on balancing strength and intention with flexibility and growth in self awareness. The aim is enhanced alertness and appreciation of both of your body and mind. Nina's classes are versatile and detailed, enabling you to explore postures deeply and get to know better your body's needs and abilities. In this way, you become self-aware, strong and mindful – great conditions for a healthier life. Meet Nina on Facebook. You can find out about her massages here or contact her on 0438 538079 for a massage treatment.
Olivia Bryant
Olivia is an Anusara-inspired Yoga teacher. Anusara blends life-affirming philosophy with sound alignment principles to connect the body, heart and mind on the yoga mat to help inspire life off the mat! Olivia makes it her mission to help students express themselves in a joyful manner (even if the hamstrings protest), release unhelpful conditioning and think more deeply about the nature of existence. To aid her mission, she may read a poem or two or quote a wise person. Her classes are dynamic, creative, sometimes funny and sometimes serious but always full of passion. She wishes to acknowledge and thank her teachers including John Friend for their wisdom and guidance.
Felicity Steel
The mainstay of her class is Ashtanga, but is respectful and inquiring into yoga and its many disciplines. She has practiced Ashtanga consistently for 15 years and spent time in India studying with Sri K Pattabhi Jois. To Quote the man himself “Do your practice and all is coming” Her class’ work on form, mind concentration and flow, also some technical examination of poses to expand self reliance and attention to our actions....all our actions. “Through the practice of yoga, we gradually improve our capacity to concentrate, our self-reliance, our health, our relationships, in fact, all that we do”. T.K.V. Desikachar
Meet Felicity on Facebook
Michelle Giordmaina
Michelle began practising yoga in 2001 primarily at the Dance of Life and completed her teacher training at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala in 2008. Since then Michelle has shared her teaching, not only in Melbourne, but also in Malaysia, Malta and more extensively in Lebanon and India. From 2009-2010 Michelle joined staff at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, which involved training other student teachers as well as deepnding her own yogic studies and practises. During this time she also completed the Advanced Yoga Teachers Training Course. Michelle believes firmly in the holistic life-sustaining power of yoga.
Fee Klauser
Fee is a qualified prenatal yoga teacher from Berlin, Germany. She grew up with a midwife and is a young mother herself. These experiences allow her to have a deep understanding for pregnant women and their aspirations as well as having a fundamental knowledge about birth and pregnancy. Meet Fee on Facebook. Or contact her on 0414 343 566 for info about prenatal yoga and childminding services.
Jo Stewart
Jo has found that practicing yoga helps her to enjoy art and life, and produce to her full potential - while her background in art encourages a unique approach to respectfully reinterpreting yoga and pilates, ensuring her classes are never dull. Combining art and asana (physical yoga) helps to free blocked creative energy, bringing a meditative mindfulness to art and life, and creating a fun, fresh and creative approach to beginning or revitalizing a yoga practice. Each session is unique, as the practice evolves depending on the season, yogic philosophy, the response of the students and the creative flow of energy through the class. The breath is the thread linking each of the postures and Jo specializes in creative core strength work and adapting each practice to suit each students individual needs. Find Jo's blog here
Emma Power
Emma has travelled the world studying and teaching yoga for the last five years. Formally trained in Thailand at The Agama school of Yoga, she embodies the transformative effect that yoga can have on ones mind, body and soul. Certified as a Tantric Hatha teacher and following the traditional Hatha approach, she presents yoga in an accessible format for the modern practitioner, bringing depth and energy to her yoga classes. Emma encourages self-empowerment and self-awareness in her students.
Eugenie (Maheswari) Knox founded the Dance of Life Yoga Studio in 1974.