Ashlea Wilken

Ashlea came to Yoga in the early 1980’s. Since then, Yoga has been woven into her life as a valuable tool in managing the many joys and pains that life presents. After moving from Sydney, Ashlea helped found the Yoga School in 1985 and started teaching whilst pregnant with the third of her four children. As well as managing the School she has been coordinating annual yoga retreats in Bali since 1994 with various teachers. Ashlea has been attending classes on a regular basis at the R.I.M.Y.I. in Pune, India, since 1995, as well as yearly workshops with senior teachers.

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Sue Edwards

Sue has practiced different styles of yoga over many years and has chosen the Iyengar style to follow as it gives her a great sense of wellbeing and strength. She is a Certified Iyengar Teacher and travels to India to study with the Iyengar family. Her yoga journey has taught her that “Yoga is the golden key which unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy”.

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Paula Handley

Paula has had a committed yoga practice for over eight years and has studied in England, Australia and India. She became a certified Iyengar teacher Introductory Level Two in 2007 and still undertakes teacher training in India and Australia on a regular basis. One of Paula’s favourite places is her yoga mat where she finds beauty and experiences joy and well being. She says it is a daily choice to live within yoga, a unity of body, mind and soul. Of this she says that yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar and family have been of great influence. ‘They are my spiritual teachers who act as a guide and example.’

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Kathy Elwell

Kathy began yoga in 1984 completing a teacher training course at Sydney Yoga Centre Surrey Hills in 1999. In 2000 she started on the Iyengar path with Pixie Lilas at the Balmain Yoga Studio and Caroline Coggins at Kings Cross Yoga Centre. 2002 Kathy began a teacher training course with Pixie receiving her Level l certificate in 2004. After moving to Perth in 2005 she attended classes with John Leebold at W.A.School of Yoga upgrading to Level 2.

Yoga, Kathy feels is her foundation for life to bring about equilibrium in all the trials and tribulations of daily living whilst at the same time penetrating the vastness of spirituality.

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Paul O’Sullivan

Paul started learning Yoga 20 years ago in Adelaide with Shandor Remete, and began teacher training with John Leebold in Perth in the 90’s. He is continuing his teacher training when family life permits.

Paul’s background is in dance, but his first study was in Physical Education at the Queensland University of Technology in 1981.
After a year teaching in Singapore, he ran his own yoga school in the sunshine coast hinterland in QLD in 2008, and returned to West Australia in 2009. Paul lectures in dance at the WA Academy of Performing Art at Edith Cowan Uni.

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Kathy Rice

Kathy has been studying and practicing Iyengar since 1998. She was introduced to yoga after participating in a meditation course. At the time it felt too large of a leap from having no kind of ‘practice’, to sitting and ‘watching the mind’. A friend suggested she tried yoga! A bi-product of the practice was healing and rehabilitation following a full knee reconstruction. The practice played an important role in regaining the strength and full range of movement in the knee.

Kathy is a dedicated student and teacher of Iyengar tradition. She has been teaching since 2000, gaining certification in the Iyengar Method in 2003, under John Leebold. When in Perth along with teaching Yoga she works as a Massage Therapist and as a Social Trainer, working with people with disabilities.

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