About Louise
How did your yoga journey begin?
“I think I have always had a connection and a link to yoga even though at the time I didn’t know that is what is was called.”
Returning from an overseas trip, Louise took her yoga journey more seriously and enrolled to study and teach.
She received her Diploma Health Science-Yoga from NatureCare College, graduating in 2003.
Louise began her teaching career at Cronulla Yoga Centre in 2001. She has taught beginners, pre-natal, seniors (oldest student 95yrs), to Mum’s N Bubs, dancers/gymnasts and elite athletes, to everyday general, vinyasa classes, energetic sequences and meditation classes. She has taught in various locations around the Sutherland Shire during this time, including her own businesses and commenced In Motion Lifestyle Centre in 2007. In January 2010, she closed the In Motion Lifestyle Centre at Taren Point and was teaching at Masonic Hall in Cronulla and City Community Tennis in Surry Hills until 2020. Her learning’s evolve from teachers and students alike, enhancing her own yoga practice and teachings. Her depth of integrated somatic knowledge is passed on to students.
Currently she is teaching LIVE yoga classes via Zoom and a few face-to-face classes from Gunnamatta Pavilion.
Louise is a Senior Registered Teacher with Yoga Australia and has been more involved with The Yoga Foundation and teaching classes with a mental wellness focus to a wide range of groups including:
- St Vincent’s Hospital,
- The Forensic Hospital
- Community based organisations throughout Sydney.
What study, practices and classes have you completed?
During 2020
- The YOGA Foundation – Contract yoga classes focusing on Mental health and Well-being in the community; including St Vincent’s Inpatient and Outpatient classes.
During 2019
- The YOGA Foundation – Contract yoga classes focusing on Mental health and well-being in the community; including St Vincent’s Inpatient and Outpatient classes, Buckingham House
- June – Restorative Yoga Workshop – 2 days
- August – Yoga and Activism Teacher Training – Jasmin Tarkeshi – 25 hours
- September – Master Class with Nikki Knoff – 1 day
- September – Mental Toughness with The Pi Institute – 1 day
During 2018
- The YOGA Foundation – Contract yoga classes focusing on Mental health and well-being in the community including:
- St Vincent’s Inpatient and Outpatient classes,
- Buckingham House,
- Redfern Health Centre
During 2017
- August – Jasmine Tarkeshi – Lotus Flow Bhakti – 1 Day
- June – Sound Healing Workshop – 1 Day
- The YOGA Foundation – Contract yoga classes focusing on mental health and well-being in the community; including St Vincent’s Inpatient and Outpatient classes, Buckingham House, Redfern Health Centre, Forensic Hospital
During 2016
- June 26 – Trauma Aware Yoga Teacher Training by Trauma Sensitive Yoga Australia
- May 14 and 15 – Yoga Therapy Conference: Sydney – Enlightened Events
- The YOGA Foundation – contract yoga classes
- School classes at De La Salle Caringbah
- Positive Psychology Certificate: The Wholebeing Institute, 2015-16
During 2015
- Calligraphy Health with Master ZHEN HUA YANG
- The YOGA Foundation – contract yoga classes
- School classes at De La Salle Caringbah
- Positive Psychology Certificate: The Wholebeing Institute, 2015-16
During 2014
- October – Calligraphy Health with Master ZHEN HUA YANG – 100 hrs Intensive
- The YOGA Foundation – contract yoga classes
- School’s – De La Salle Caringbah
During 2013
- November – Calligraphy Health with Master ZHEN HUA YANG – 100hrs Intensive
- School classes at De La Salle Caringbah
- Teach the teacher’s class at TAFE St. George campus
During 2012
- October – Calligraphy Health with Master ZHEN HUA YANG – 100hrs Intensive
- June – The Essence of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – Jasmin Tarkeshi
- May – Awaken to Delight – Clive Sheridan
- January – Clive Sheridan – Opening the Heart retreat in India – 3 weeks
- Feb/March – Ashtanga Yoga Shala – Mysore, India – 1 month practice
- School classes at Kirrawee High School and De La Salle Caringbah
- Teachers class at Gymea campus TAFE and St. George TAFE
During 2011
- Fascial Fitness with Thomas Myers
- Clive Sheridan – Opening the Heart
- 2 week intensive in New York to practice with teachers from a variety of yoga schools and backgrounds – July/Aug
- Jasmin Tarkeshi – Laughing Lotus Floetry and Rock the Chakra’s weekend workshop @ Jivamukti Newtown in Sept
- Calligraphy Yoga – Master ZHEN HUA YANG
- Yoga Synergy – Simon Borg Olivier
- Ashtanga Yoga Space – Fiona Parker, Paul Frechtling and past and present teachers
- Classes at De La Salle Caringbah and Kurnell Public School.
During 2010
- Contracted with Ashtanga Yoga Space – Paddington: Teaching and adjusting the Ashtanga primary and second series
- Workshop: Deena Kinsberg at Ashtanga Yoga Space, Sydney
- Louise studied and worked in conjunction with James Walsh for Core and Corrective Exercise and anatomy & physiology.
During 2009 and prior
- Yoga Moves – Eileen Hall and teachers
- Practiced with the Ashtanga Sanga in Rushcutters Bay with Sharath Ramasgway in 2009.
- Cronulla Yoga Centre with Yvette Standen – Vinyasa/flowing sequence
- Mark Breadner in Cronulla where she was introduced to the Ashtanga discipline of yoga and adjusted
- Ayurveda Lifestyle Counselling I, Ayurveda Elements –Rama and Caroline Prasad
- Workshops: Eileen Hall and Manju Jois – in Bali
- CHEK Nutrition and Lifestyle, Level 1 – CHEK Institute
- Thai Massage Practitioner
- Reiki Master
- Crystals & Colour therapy, and psychotherapy.
- Crown St Yoga – Eve Grzybowski – Iyengar focus,
Louise has practiced a variety of yoga styles – Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Hatha, Synergy.
What do you teach at In Motion yoga?
- Flow
- Go Slow Flow
- Seniors
- Meditation
- Ashtanga
- Surfers Stretch
- Bolster & stretch class
- Hatha
- Private Yoga Sessions
What is your favourite type of yoga and why?
I love YOGA – It’s the practice of being centred and calm and having time to myself and being on my mat is so healthy and healing bringing me back to me and in balance for my journey in this lifetime! I do practice ashtanga though and love the flow I get from the practice. However, like any practice some days I have more energy so I go with the flow and do what I do on each day being responsive and in the moment!
What is one piece of advice for In Motion yogi's?
Stay with it, after 20+ years of practice and teaching, we all have our ebbs and flows of energy. But if you can stay with yoga it makes the life journey so much more understandable, breathable and connected! Maybe not easier but alive, helping us to stay on our paths and in our hearts and knowing we are ‘be’ings!
Tell us a little something about yourself.
I love tennis – I play comp every so often with my team – I lose nearly all the times that I play as it’s mixed and the guys whack the ball back at you when you get close – but they’re there for the fun of it!! Yeah right!!! They don’t like to be beaten by a woman and one that’s older than them too!! Haha!! But I still love it. I had one guy say to me – ‘I’ve never met someone so happy even though you’ve lost!’
Catching up with family and friends and having a good time and good old belly laugh! Laughter is one of the best medicines around! I went to a beautician years ago and she commented on the lines on my face – I told her they’re my laughter lines!
Blessings peeps xoxoxox
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