HannahMaya

I began practicing yoga in 2014; initially drawn to the physical benefits of the asana practice, but soon noticed the power of meditation and pranayama (breath techniques) which helped me discover some calm in my often anxious mind, and leading me to discover more about myself in the process. This experience, coupled with my keen interest in understanding life through the lens of other cultures and philosophies, ignited further during my travels across south Asia and the Pacific in 2018, lead me to seek more from yoga. Almost by chance, or perhaps with good reason, I landed up embarking on my 200hr vinyasa teacher training in 2019 with Yoga Beyond in Bali, Indonesia. This training, led by Claudine and Honza Lafond, and Adam Whiting (who I met at Power Living in Adelaide earlier that year), was a hugely transformative and rewarding experience; I deepened my knowledge of the philosophical roots of this practice, started to shift my approach to my own physical practice towards functionality, and began to cultivate the skills required to share this with others.