Maya Hansajati

As the Principal Teacher at the Hampton yoga Centre, Maya Hansajati has been a practitioner of Hatha Yoga for 25 years. She has formally trained as a classical ballet dancer and has a keen interest in Indian Philosophy and art.

Maya completed her Yoga Teacher training in 1994 with the Australian Yoga teacher Training School and further complemented that training with studies in Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic Healing and Yoga Philosophy. She is currently undertaking further studies in Yogic Sciences. Maya has a diverse background in yoga practice covering a number of different styles of Hatha Yoga whilst maintaining a classical approach incorporating the philosophical and spiritual teachings of yoga.

Maya has been an active member on the committee of the Vivekananda Yoga Education and Research Institute. She has designed and developed all of the Yoga Teacher Training Programs for the Victorian Institute of Yoga Education and Teacher Training.

Maya: "If I have one wish, I wish that I could share with each one of you, even just a tiny bit of the beauty and the grace that has been bestowed upon me through the practice of yoga . When I know this to be true, my work will be complete."

Sally MacGowan

Sally has completed the VIYETT Diploma of Yoga Teaching Course,whilst working full-time in Funding and Development at a Melbourne charity.

Drawn by the warmth, openness and subtlety of Yoga, Sally began practicing ten years ago to help manage the stresses of daily work. She hasn't looked back since. Sally' has been inspired by her former Yoga teachers, on-going studies and fellow students, who helped her to deepen her understanding of ‘Self' and open her heart to others.

With a background in dance and performing arts, Sally enjoys bringing breath synchronised movement (Vinyasa) into her classes to flow through Yoga sequences smoothly and energetically, whilst incorporating Bandha and Pranayama to deepen the practice. Sally's methods bring a fresh approach to Yogasana and Vinyasa styles of Yoga.

Sally believes that through the practice of Yoga, each of us can develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and of others, and awaken our individual capacity to love and share joy with all those around us.

Jackie McKerrell

Jackie teaches both Dynamic Yoga and Hatha Yoga at the Centre. Her initial training was with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in London, and she qualified as a yoga teacher in 1983 at the Sivananda Dhanwanthari Ashram in Kerala, India, where she also taught for some time. She is also a graduate of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy in Rishikesh, India, where she studied under renowned yogi and scholar, Swami Krishnananda, and the VIYETT Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching in Melbourne.

In more recent years, Jackie has undergone extensive training in Iyengar yoga which has strongly influenced her teaching. She is passionate about pranayama and meditation and is also pursuing studies in Kashmir Shaivism and self enquiry under the guidance of Swami Shankarananda of the Shiva Yoga Ashram, Mt. Eliza.

Carol Lawrence

Carol is a graduate of the VIYETT Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching and has over 20 years of yoga experience in the UK and Australia. She teaches both Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Mother and Baby Yoga at the Centre. Carol holds a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Chemistry and teaches Pranayama, Anatomy and Physiology at VIYETT.

Carol's own personal development is leading her towards further research and study in two areas: the process that leads to dhyana (meditation) and the ability of a still mind to heal and sooth the physical body, and yoga science - furthering the wealth of positive neurophysiological outcomes of pranayama and dhyana.

Carol would like to share with all the enormous part yoga has played in her life and how it has changed the way she sees life.

Regan Tessier

Regan teaches Hatha Yoga at the Centre and is a certified teacher and graduate of VIYETT. She has a deep interest in classical yoga philosophy and it's potential for bringing health and peace of mind as we age in this busy Western world. Regan also has a personal appreciation of the challenges faced in corporate life through a long career in Information Technology working for leading IT firms.  Regan also has a wealth of experience in teaching Yoga to mature aged students and students new to yoga.

Belinda Reimers

Belinda has being practicing yoga at Hampton Yoga Centre for ten years and is a graduate of the VIYETT Yoga Teacher Training Course where she specialized in Children's and Teenager's Yoga. Belinda's inner child comes to life when she teaches children's yoga and the whole room is filled with joy and happiness. Her passion is to help children to enjoy their childhood and to impart some of the knowledge and values that have enriched her own life through yoga.

Belinda is also interested in ayurveda, pranayama and organic cooking. Belinda feels her studies with VIYETT have taught her to respect herself, others and the environment, and to embrace Yoga as a way of life.

Belinda also teachers Children's Yoga and Yoga for Teenagers to Students undertaking the Graduate Diploma of Yoga Teaching and the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching (VIYETT).

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