|
|
| NELSON WELLINGTON TEACHER TRAINING MASSAGE THERAPY | | WELLINGTON
About your instructors Hot Yoga of New Zealand's certified instructors constantly do on-going training and study interdisciplinary hot yoga methods and yoga techniques. If they do not have the answer they will find the answer. | | 
|
Lou Cassella (E-RYT) - Wellington
Lou began yoga training after years of intense bodybuilding and competitive awards in the sport. Still strong and vibrant in his late 60's, he leads a compassionate, strengthening yoga session that enlivens the heart while toning and stretching the body. Lou has taught hot yoga to a variety of top athletes including members of the South African Rugby League, young Olympiads, dancers, marathon runners and folks just wanting to strengthen, sweat and transform with an appreciation of the Now.
Together his wife Claire, Lou co-directs the Hot Yoga of New Zealand Teacher Training bringing a passionate dedication to the instruction of appropriate asana for varying physical conditions.
Lou is registered with Yoga Alliance at the highest level having trained directly under Jimmy Barkan, Baron Baptiste, Rolf Gates, Mary Jarvis and Bikram Choudury.
More on Lou's personal journey into yoga in a recent interview with The Yoga Lunch Box. Read
| | 
| Claire Szabo-Cassella (E-RYT) - Wellington
A former motivational speaker, Claire's yoga teaching style instills a calming confidence in her students as she mixes humor and compassion with thoughtful insights into The Journey. A yoga practitioner for over 16 years and registered with Yoga Alliance, she primarily teaches Yin Yoga, usually with notable yang elements for strength and balance. As a person living with muscular dystrophy (FSHD), Claire's practice and teaching reflect her belief in the vast potential of healing energy and awareness yoga holds so quietly and readily for any body.
In recent years Claire has tumed much of her attention to expanding the Hot Yoga of New Zealand Teacher Training, now in it's fourth year, and coaching others on successful ways to create sacred space with yoga studios of their own.
Claire study of yoga as a life-long healing art includes trainings with Kausthub Desikachar, Paul Grilley, Donna Farhi, Jimmy Barkan, Baron Bapiste and Bikram Choudury. Her most inspiring teachers being the students themselves: Their dedication, courageous self-inquiry and evolution through the good work of yoga - on and off the mat - continually expanding the answer to the question: Why yoga?
Both Claire and her husband Lou have been featured in several articles and publications throughout New Zealand, including The Dominion Post, Prana Flow NZ, Mudcake and Roses, Stuff NZ, The Nelson Mail, Pink Magazine, and The Capitol Times.
More on Claire's personal journey into yoga in a recent interview with The Yoga Lunch Box Read
| 
| Theresa Bowen - Wellington
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 training with the Melbourne Integral Yoga Institute in 2001 and teacher certification through the Hot Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2009. Theresa specializes in beginners courses, multi-level classes, kids yoga and office yoga.
Theresa's article The joys of introducing yoga to children Read
|  | Helen Ellwood - Wellington
Helen began practicing Astanga yoga in 1999. While living in the USA in 2005, she melded into a Baron Bapiste vinyasa yoga and 6-month training. Helen believes those who attend yoga classes should be able to have their own experience and find their practice, whether it be for purely physical reasons, a spiritual experience or simple relaxation. Her classes provide students the openness to find their "heart's path" through the practice. Given her background in energetic healing, she offers hands-on assists to encourage depth and openings in poses while being mindful of personal space necessary to embody the practice on one's own. Living a well-balanced life is of great importance to Helen, now in her mid-40's and an energetic delight to be around.
| 
| Fiona Liu - Wellington
Fiona worked as a risk analyst in China. She randomly walked into a yoga studio after work one day. And that changed her life! She practises yoga regularly since then. Through Yoga, Fiona has a chance to look inside herself, and courageously pursue a lifestyle and a career that she loves. Through yoga, she gained more confidence and self- contentment, and learned the universal unconditional love .She has never felt so strong and free ever. As a graduate from Hot Yoga Teacher Training Program, she feels blessed that she was trained by wonderful teachers like Lou, Claire and Andrea. Fiona believes yoga is about relationship to oneself and to others. She is passionate about bringing peacefulness, calmness and strength to people; and helps people awaken their body and mind through yoga.
| 
| 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. |  | Manu Moana - Wellington
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.
Read more
|  | Juliet Shelley (B.A, S.T.A.T (UK cert), Pilates International Cert.) - Wellington
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) - Wellington
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.
Read more
| |
|
|
