Yoga, Pilates & Movement
Alex Farner
Yoga Teacher
Alex’s sense of care and intuition make her classes supportive, empowering and delicious. Alex is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher, having completed 500+ hours of teacher trainings in Australia and overseas. Since teaching in NSW and VIC, Alex comes to Hobart with a wealth of experience and knowlege.
Alex specialises in female health yoga, pre and postnatal, vinyasa flow and restorative classes. Her teachings are personal, unique and threaded with mindful cues to build focus and sense of immersive, moving meditation in practice.
Alex offers modifications to ensure all levels feel nurtured, challenged and always safe. Fostering mind-body connection, her classes guide intention and empowerment, self compassion and deep relaxation.
Nicolette Quinn
Yoga Teacher
Hello! I’m Nicolette, a yogini and recovered-workaholic. My yoga journey began when I was deep in a decades-long corporate finance career and yoga was the best tool I found to manage my mind. The yoga I practice and teach uses simple movements, breath and guided awareness to deliver specific energetic outcomes. Come for your body and stay for your mind.
My yoga lineage is rooted in the deeply authentic Himalayan tradition. I trained with Jim Harrington, South Africa’s foremost yoga teacher, and followed that up with a 500-hour qualification from Parayoga with Rod Stryker in the USA.
I believe yoga should be accessible to all bodies and my classes are suitable for all levels, from absolute beginner to experienced yogis wanting to access the subtle aspects of the practice. I don’t teach gymnastics and know that enlightenment has nothing to do with your ability to touch your toes!
Ana Marquardt
Yoga Teacher
Hi, I’m Ana Marquardt, and I’ve been working as a yoga and meditation teacher for over 6 years with students in Australia and Brazil.
I've completed my certifications in Hatha and Yin Yoga with Yandara Institute and a couple of years later I went to North India to study Yoga Life Coaching training with Akhanda Institute and develop further skills to have one on one classes and guide students to develop their own practice in a sustainable and independent way according to their unique needs and lifestyle.
Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2021, I applied on myself yoga tools that have helped me to cope with my physical, mental and emotional challenges. I then became increasingly drawn towards Yoga Therapy and completed my 300 hr training with Sangora in 2021 and the specialization in Oncology Yoga with the Y4C methodology in 2022 to work with those touched by cancer. My wish is to share this healing experience and give others the opportunity to experience the benefits of Yoga wherever they are in their journey.
I also have a certificate in Yoga massage with influences of Thai and Hawaiian techniques that I offer as additional practice for my classes, and I use Reiki, Qigong, and sound healing to provide a more profound physical, energetic and emotional healing experience.
Website: https://anayogacoach.com/
Leonardo Canales
Alexander Yoga
Leo is an Alexander Technique Teacher specialising in movement, expression, breath and voice. His background in Performing Arts and Education supports a philosophy of respect, generosity and responsibility in his work.
His interest in human development led him to explore movement, expression and creativity in-depth around South America, Europe and Australia. His training and development include a degree in Theatre; Acting, in Chile, Vocal Performance and Choreographic Theatre in France, and Contemporary Dance in the UK, however, is The Alexander Technique that glues all skills.
The Alexander Technique offered him a way to cooperate with body parts, mechanisms, systems, and senses in the beautiful experience of being alive. Since he graduated as a Teacher of the Technique, Leo has been working with individuals helping them to understand the harmonic complexity of the human design using a process that promotes ease, spontaneity and adaptability.
In his private practice, Leo has taught barristers, nurses, gardeners, performers and NDIS clients. Since 2018 he teaches regularly at Melbourne University and Federation University, also he was the Alexander Technique teacher in the main acting studios in Melbourne before moving to Tasmania.
Leo is registered with the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT) as a fully qualified Alexander Technique teacher. His work incorporates dynamic elements from performing arts and the science behind the Alexander Technique.
Alexander Yoga brings the principles of the Alexander Technique to the yoga practice, combining resilience, balance and awareness of movement. This combination allows practitioners to explore minimum effort in the asanas to find maximum efficiency in the whole practice.
In this session, we practice simple yoga asanas to discover how movement habits affect life. This practice will provide clear guidance to develop better movement, breathing and posture.
This session invites participants to practice simple asanas like in a Hatha or Slow Flow session.
Alexander Yoga helps you understand how to find ease in motion and avoid strain in your practice, so you can apply that learning to your daily activities.
Alison Dawes
Pilates Teacher
Alison describes her mat Pilates classes as “a slow burn that sneaks up on you”. Always foremost in her teachings are the principles of good form, effective muscle activation, and maintaining mobility. Alison loves how the mindful practice of mat Pilates is beneficial for both our physical and mental well-being so you can expect a class that is energising and challenging but also leaves you feeling more centred and relaxed.
Alison has over 30 years of experience teaching people to move, originally as a ballet and dance teacher and in 2020 as a Barre fitness instructor. In mid-2021 she also earned her Mat Pilates Instructor qualifications and has been teaching mat Pilates, fit-ball Pilates, and Barre ever since. For Alison, Pilates has brought all the different movement disciplines of her own experience together into one cohesive and synergistic whole and she believes that the combined knowledge from all these forms of movement enhances and better informs her teaching overall. “It’s fundamentally about how we use and maintain our body to it keep strong and functioning well”.
Alison teaches classes in mat Pilates, barre fitness and dance (tap and ballet) in the general Hobart area and she would love to have you join her soon in her mat Pilates classes at Beach Road Body and Mind.
Katerina Lebedev
Vocal Yoga Teacher
My name is Kat and I have a rage in my heart for singing, weaving, sculpting with sound and bringing people back to the remembrance that sound is deeply alive and accessible in their being. I am a singer-songwriter, facilitator, yoga teacher, and physiotherapist. I first sought out meditation and alternative forms of therapy/healing while travelling in India over 10 years ago. It wasn’t until I got back to Melbourne and stumbled upon the work of Vicki Roussel (“Lalawitika”) that I knew that working with sound would be my deep calling.
I have been practicing vocal techniques and embodied movement with Vicki for almost 10 years, participating in her creative retreats, and meeting regularly even at a distance. Schooled in her methodology, I have learned how to move more freely in my body, to find ease and pleasure when performing musically, and most of all to trust and fall in love with the landscape of my inner world. It is my hope and intention that I can guide you to stretch into more parts of yourself, to bring on your vivid imagination, and to find more ways that you can thrive with sound in your life!
Gayle Newbolt
Trauma-informed Yoga & Embodiment Coaching
Gayle has a background in classical Hatha yoga which she has practiced for over 15 years, and has been a certified teacher since 2017 when she completed over 300 hours of training at her school in India.
Because of her own history with PTSD and chronic anxiety she quickly discovered how beneficial and healing reconnecting to the body could be after a lifetime of living with stored survival stress. She has always studied and implemented trauma-informed practices into her work and has since completed training in several modalities, most notably a foundational training in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga, based on the pioneering work of David Emerson at the Centre for Trauma & Embodiment in the US. Gayle’s facilitation draws from this evidence-based, body-first model of care for survivors of PTSD, complex trauma, and chronic stress. She also draws upon her many years in the healing practices of yoga and mindfulness, as well as integrating other somatic practices, nervous system regulation, and guided relaxation.
She is committed above all else to leading clients back into the deep and powerful connection to their body that is available to all but is so often profoundly impacted by the effects of trauma and chronic stress. Whilst working with a clinical intervention, she is proudly non-clinical in her personal, compassionate approach, preferring to meet each person exactly where they are in their journey, free from labels or diagnoses. Her job is simple, to empower her clients to discover their own potential for healing and recovery, through the most powerful resource they have, their body.