KALI~MA SHUB ~The Propreitor and Teacher trainer of YAHA Is qualified as a Master Teacher 500 with A.Y.I ~ The Australasian Yoga Institute. She has been practicing yoga for over 35 years and teaching for about 25 years. Kali also trains our student Teachers. Her first introduction to yoga and massage was after breaking her back as a teenager. She was to be hospitalised and put in traction ~ not taking to this idea she sought alternative healing methods ~ there were very few Australian yoga teachers at that time. Yoga felt like a homecoming and sparked a lifelong passionate interest in yoga, spiritual growth and healing. She has trained with most of Australia's top teachers with the Satchinanda and Ananda Ashrams and various International teachers. She brings profound spiritiual wisdom, compassion and integrity to all her classes. She is also adept at chanting and many forms of Nada Yoga, sacred sound and meditation. Her classes are a creative and alive fusion of Hatha, Vinyassa Flow, Yin and Nada Yoga and meditation. She is a qualified Spiritual Healer, Clairvoyant Counsellor and a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Voice Dialogue Therapist and Meditation Instructor. She is a Teacher and Master Practitioner of Thai Yoga Massage a Spiritual Artist, Writer and Radio Announcer. She sees Yoga as a way of life an internal knowingness~ that unites all in a space of truth and peace.
	JOSEPHINE ITALIANO Qualified as a yoga teacher with Alex Armstrong in 2000. She had been a extremely promising student of Kali's and had a dedicated practice of yoga for a decade. Prior to yoga Josephine was very much into gym workouts and aerobics. Finding Yoga opened new realms to her in the way exercise can be performed to not only increase fitness, flexibility but to nourish the soul. She is a talented Massage and Beauty Therapist and also a Bowen Practitioner. She is a very gentle soul and her calmness and compassion radiates to all her students. She is very interested in flow and shadow yoga and all healing techniques. She is a mother to two boys and very busy with her Karmic Yoga ~family life. She teaches in situ to the corporate sector, and sporting clubs as well as teaching her own personal classes.
	LARINA DOWNEY Larina is Kali's valued assitant in the studio and for all her workshops and retreats. She has almost completed her teacher training. She has been aiding in the Mumma Yoga classes for a couple of years; in the process she has discovered a love for working with the new mums and their babies. She offers small intimate groups that are full of joy and helpful imformation to the new mums and their wee babies I hear they will not let a class go by without partaking of one of her fabulous cakes. The chat and the connectivity are an important function of this class as new mums often feel disconnected. Larina also offers and teaches babies massage and wonderful Reiki sessions.

Namaste From Kali, Josephine and Larina
Yoga classes traditionally commence and finish by repeating the Ancient Sanskrit word NAMASTE'-.which is a common greeting used in India and Nepal. It has many definitions the most common one being “The Divine in me recognizes the divine in you”…………… Namaste' acknowledges mutual respect between teacher and students
WE ARE ALL ONE!

At YAHA ... we view the human body as a sacred vessel directed by our spirit. We believe we are all creators and that the creative force flows through us all. Yoga is not purely a form of exercise although it can be used as such; yoga can and should be a moving joyous meditation . Yoga creates balance, wholeness and unity.

At YAHA we have an eclectic approach to yoga drawing from many fields and branches of yoga. Josephine and I (Kali) both have backgrounds in healing professions, Robi comes from a Martial art background and is also very interested in Chi or pranic flow we all see yoga as therapeutic for the whole being..Recently I heard the term coined Fusion Yoga perhaps that is our approach - a fusion of all that we Love and are, within our yoga teaching. Yoga that's ever changing and growing- a living form of an ancient art. We like to think that our academy embodies our catch cry of "YOGA FOR EVERYONE!"

Recently it has come to our attention of Yoga competitions being held in the USA and India this truly saddens us both. True yoga is totally non-competitive and not attached to outcome in anyway, neither is Yoga affiliated with any religion yet it can be a deeply spiritual experience and lead to heightened states of consciousness. It can be invigorating and or deeply relaxing; it is a joyous healing celebration of all our diversities and similarities.

At YAHA we encourage you to commence yoga in whatever physical state your 'e presently in! Even the bedridden or wheelchair bound can participate. Yoga is not restricted to just young rubber like"gumbbies"! It is a commonly mistaken belief that yoga is only practiced by the slim fit and flexible. Whatever size or shape you are, there is a yoga approach suitable for you. If you are hesitant we can even teach private one on one sessions until you feel comfortable enough to commence a class with other participants.Yoga is therapeutic for the physical body and the mind because it gently transforms old painful emotions trapped in the cellular level of the body. After you have physically released the stresses held in the body it becomes far easier to be guided into meditation . We always use the yoga form of guided relaxation "Yoga Nidra " this is like a deep sleep state where you are relaxed from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. Yoga nidra prepares you tobe able to meditate, in meditation you aim to reach a state where you experience a sense of release from everything impeding peace. .Deep meditation / mantra or Nada sound Yoga is included in each class to assist in elevating you to this peaceful state. Our approach is that as the mental and physical aspects of self become freer from pain, less rigid and more flexible that your whole being will become less rigid and more flexible. A dedicated Yoga practice aids you to spontaneously flow with life and gradually to realize we are conscious spiritual beings experiencing a human existence! Each time you move into the sacred space of your yoga practice the experience is unique to the present moment. I have found Yoga always pays multiple dividends to the energy and discipline I have given to it! Yoga unites the physical with the spiritual, bringing you to face your self and to live more fully in the NOW. Yoga experienced in this manner is love in action!. A moving Meditation. Our instructors come from diverse backgrounds with varied levels of training and experience, yet they all teach with a wise compassionate approach.

YAHA also offers a selection of healing methodologies which are compatible with yogic principles. We believe our therapies aid your own inner healer to activate. Y.A.H.A’s path is one of love, laughter, creativity, health and healing.

YAHA’S MISSION –Is to provide a sacred space for the community to experience the joy of yoga, to heal and join together to celebrate their creativity .

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