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| NELSON WELLINGTON TEACHER TRAINING MASSAGE THERAPY | | About your instructors Hot Yoga of New Zealand's certified instructors constantly do on-going training to bring you the latest advances in the yoga community. If they do not have the answer they will find the answer. | | 
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Lou Cassella (E-RYT) is a certified Barkan Method Hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa instructor having trained directly under Jimmy Barkan in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He has also studied with Baron Baptiste, Rolf Gates, Mary Jarvis and Bikram Choudury. Lou teaches hot yoga across the United States and now at Hot Yoga of New Zealand. He is registered with Yoga Alliance at the highest level of training.
Lou began yoga training after years of intense bodybuilding and competitive awards in the sport. Eight years later, he leads a compassionate, strengthening yoga session that enlivens the heart while toning and stretching the body. Prepare to sweat with a smile!
More on Lou through a recently posted interview with Prana Flow NZ. Read
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| Claire Szabo-Cassella (E-RYT, YTT)
A former motivational speaker, Claire's yoga teaching style instills a calming confidence in her students as she mixes humor and compassion with her extensive knowledge. A yoga practitioner for over 15 years and registered with Yoga Alliance, she teaches Yin Yoga, Hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa. Her love of yoga as "a life-long healing art" includes study with Kausthub Desikachar, Baron Bapiste, Paul Grilley, Donna Farhi, Jimmy Barkan and Bikram Choudury. As her own practice progresses, she finds continual renewal in the vast potential of energy and awareness yoga holds so quietly, ready and waiting to unfold year after year.
More on Claire through a recently posted interview with Prana Flow NZ. Read
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| Theresa Bowen
When Theresa found yoga, she immediately fell in love with having a practice that was a moving meditation. She believes, "Yoga enables people to become aware of the physical effects of different poses as well as subtler energetic effects. Combined with reminders of yogic philosophies, yoga provides a great basis from which a student explores healthy relationships to his/herself and the world." Theresa has also been a Primary School Teacher at a Wellington inner city school as Head of Physical Education and Head of Enviroschools. Her love of yoga has called her back to teaching yoga at Hot Yoga of New Zealand full time. She completed her teacher training with the Melbourne Integral Yoga Institute in 2001. She specializes in beginners courses, multi-level classes, kids yoga and office yoga.
Theresa's article The joys of introducing yoga to children Read
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| Stephanie Challis (Qi Yoga)
Stephanie began practicing qi gong in 1990 with Zhixing Wang in London. Over the years she has studied with four qi gong masters and has taught in the UK, USA and New Zealand. She has also practiced yoga for over 30 years. The combination of qi gong and yoga is a delight she always enjoys sharing, introducing spontaneity and fun into the classes and offering exercises and qi awareness that can be practiced at home or in nature. Stephanie will be holding a one-day special workshop at Hot Yoga of New Zealand - Wellington - on Sunday, Feb 1, 2009 from Noon - 2pm. Join us and her for this special afternoon.
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| Chaitanya Deva
Chaitanya is a firm advocate of Hot Yoga as his previous experiences of yoga always ended in injuries after a short time, where as in the heated environment this hasn’t happened. Chaitanya is also a Reiki teacher, and has been working as a Remedial Massage Therapist since 2001; he teaches Self Esteem Enhancement courses and is currently training as a Life Coach. Chaitanya has been on an intense spiritual journey since the early 90’s, which has taken him around the world to over 30 countries. He has had the privilege and honour of studying and living with several enlightened teachers both western and eastern. As a result of his life experiences and extensive training, he brings a wealth of esoteric knowledge and personal experience to his meditation and yoga classes, as well as a cheeky sense of humour! He is available for private sessions in any of these areas.
More on Chaitanya through a recently posted interview with Prana Flow NZ. Read
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| Thalassa Kawachi (RYT) Ante-Natal
Thalassa began her yoga journey in Hawaii. After obtaining a biology degree from Humboldt State University in California she went on to start her yoga training in Oregon with Yogafit. The intense training program effected her mental and physical being so profoundly that she became determined to share through teaching this newly found enthusiasm. Discovering Hot Yoga of New Zealand when she came to Nelson was like a dream come true for this warm blooded Hawaiian. As a certified yoga teacher she thrives on bringing something new to every class that she teaches and believes that “the benefits of yoga and its holistic lifestyle encompass a way of living and being that can change ones life”. Speaking of life changing ….she is also a new mum and very excited to start up the new comprehensive pregnancy classes with colleague Jane Dowd.
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| Jessica Latton, Wellington
Jessica Latton (Master of Theatre Arts - Directing) is a certified teacher from the Nicky Knoff School of Yoga, which marries the structural alignment of Iyengar with the internal heat of Astanga Vinyasa. She has practiced for 16 years, first with the Astanga Vinyasa series 1 and 2, then developing a different focus and intensity in a more Iyengar-based tradition.
Jessica originally hails from Dunedin where she ran her own Astanga studio. She and husband Rhys have two little children Margot and Demitrius, who really teach her what yoga is all about! As co-director of a theatre company she brings yogic principles to light by creating mythic, physical theatre and circus.
Having taught yoga for 10 years Jessica is constantly amazed and humbled by the physical, mental and spiritual transformation a regular practice offers. She is a warm and generous teacher who loves helping people to find their freedom, honesty and strength through their practice.
Jessica is committed her own exploration and study of the vast cosmology of Yoga. | 
| Dana Morgan (RYT)
Anyone who meets Dana readily knows she truly enjoys serving people in wonderful ways. As a certified yoga teacher, Dana believes, “Yoga has heaps to offer us: It makes us strong and long, it calms the mind, heals the spirit and the power that gathers when people come together and practice like-mindedness through movement and breath inspires me.” With an extensive gym, weight training and sprinting background, Dana enjoys “analysing and understanding why we do a movement and what happens when we move”. A busy woman, she also runs a world famous coffee cart in the Nelson Market.
|  | Manu Moana
Manu has been practicing yoga since his late teens, and has found it to have a profound effect on the quality of his life. When the chance to train as a teacher with Lou and Claire arose,he saw the opportunity to combine his love of yoga with his desire to enrich the lives of others, and get paid for it at the same time! Manu is currently doing a diploma in therapeutic massage, broadening his knowledge of the body and techniques to encourage health. Manu seeks to bring peace, power and purpose into his classrooms which he hopes will flow on into people’s lives outside the studio.
|  | Karel Pavich
Karel’s passion for yoga began when she started practicing Hatha Yoga over 20 years ago. For her, it was a great way of training the mind, body and soul for the challenging sport of motorcycle road racing. It is this discipline and focus that Karel brings to her Hot Yoga classes as she inspires others to reach their own level within. “I have an extremely busy and demanding life,” says Karel “My yoga practice provides the sanctuary I need to keep me focused and grounded in my life. I just love it."
|  | Alice Popham (RYT)
Alice first found yoga in 2004. Then, upon returning to Nelson after completing a bachelor of arts in Gender and Womens Studies in Otago, she found herself constantly drawn back to the Hot Yoga of New Zealand studio for a regular practice. Alice took that practice once step further as she graduated from the Hot Yoga of New Zealand Teacher Training in 2008. As she enjoys taking time to balance body and mind in a comfortable, supportive, and non-judgemental environment, she endeavours to bring the same safe and nurturing exploration of yoga to her own classes, adding, of course, her own delightful touch of humour and striking personal honesty . Outside the yoga studio, Alice enjoys traveling around the world and works in Pharmacy with an interest in Natural Health . |  | Frances Rae (RYT)
Since Frances attended her first yoga class as a teenager, she has appreciated all her teachers and wishes to bring their spirits into her classes at Hot Yoga New Zealand. Frances practised Iyengar yoga for many years and finds this an excellent basis for her practice. Frances has worked in many different disciplines and at present chooses to work with behavioural change in addiction and the prevention of family violence in addition to teaching hot yoga. This combined work is demanding and requires a balanced lifestyle that her yoga practice provides. Frances has a great interest in the mind/body connection and believes, " That when the mind/body connection is approached with discipline and compassion, great changes are the reward." |  | Juliet Shelley (B.A, S.T.A.T (UK cert), Pilates International Cert.)
Juliet is a dancer and choreographer, a teacher of the Alexander Technique (UK cert.) and a Pilates mat work instructor. She offers workshops in Embodied Life and Pilates mat classes at Hot Yoga of New Zealand - Wellington. Her physical practise includes learning ways to inhabit the body, moving the body, body as a focus for consciousness, bringing awareness to our internal and external existences and our relationship to others, connection with the divine, and finding strength, flexibilty, expression and feeling in the body. In her experience, "It's the way we inhabit our bodies is the way we inhabit the planet." Juliet has been dancing since she was five years old and studied professionally in London at the Laban Centre and the Centre for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She trained to be a teacher of the Alexander technique in Oxford, England and in Pilates Mat work in Auckland with Sally Anderson. Juliet has been teaching mat classes for six years in Wellington, Hutt City, and Eastbourne.
For more info on Juliet www.danz.org.nz/julietshelley.php |  | Andrea Tutt (RYT)
Since moving to Wellington in September 2008, Andrea's favorite past time is exploring the shores of the city with her two-year old: "As we move at a pace slow enough for the fish to watch, I am reminded of how much one moment can offer. Yoga has helped me begin the continuing process of understanding myself. Through moments of humbling reality and enlightening silence yoga has revealed to me the beauty of living with fullness everyday. As a yoga teacher, my wish is to offer each of my students a gentle path to presence of self, truth, and contentment. I'm grateful to have learned from my teachers that yoga is not only a physical exercise, but also a practice that needs lightness, joy and laughter. Let yoga encourage us to open our hearts, engage in the love of life and shine." Andrea achieved certification with a focus in rehabilitation and pre/post natal with The Pilates Method Alliance in Toronto in 2005. She become a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200 hour level in Ohio in 2006. Andrea's teaching has been most influenced by her studies with Tim Millar, Ranjali Cobo, and Sianna Sherman.
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