Allison (Ali) Bragard has studied yoga, massage, and Pilates over the past twenty years and she is passionate about how we can truly change our bodies and our lives through these disciplines.

She is currently teaching Pilates mat classes at Yoga on Parker, having been certified as a Classical Pilates teacher in Los Angeles, California in 2004. Her classes are open to anyone, and will challenge students of all levels, focusing on strength, control and flexibility. Pilates exercises are incredibly efficient and focused, designed to strengthen the core as well as the entire body, improve flexibility and lengthen muscles. The exercises focus on core postural muscles, which help keep the body balanced and healthy. This results in a healthy back as well as a leaner, more sculpted, physique.
 
Ali approaches her classes with a love for Pilates, a sense of humor, and a desire to help each person find their centre, which will enable them to live a healthier and happier life.   

More info?  abragard@gmail.com

Antoine David

Camille Jeboult

Camille has been teaching yoga since 2002, holding a Teaching Diploma. She is a member of the Yoga Teachers Association Australia.

She completed 300 teacher training hours with Peter Scott and continues to undertake further training with Peter as well as Sue Scott, Pixie Lillas and Glen Ceresoli. ‘Yoga has given me a stability and consistency that I can refer to daily. I can better manage my tension-levels, and read the signs when I might fall back into unhelpful emotional patterns and attitudes. I try to grow with my yoga.’

She first began in movement arts in 1989 with the Korean martial art of Hap Ki Do at age 19, training intensively for 10 years to reach 2nd dan level. She taught Hap Ki Do in Brisbane from 1995. She shifted the focus from the strong martial style towards Chi Gung and Yoga practices.

In 2005 she had a son, Pierro. ‘Naturally practice focus had to shift to accommodate my new friend! Less time on the mat and cushion, more time practicing patience, selfless service and rejoicing in the abundance of loving kindness and compassion! Happily, daily practice on the mat has been restored for the past couple of years and how much more I appreciate it now!’

She has been a practicing Buddhist in the Tibetan tradition since 2002. ‘I find the mind science of Buddhism very practical in my day to day life. It provides a structure that I can work with when I find myself going off-track’.

In addition to a dedicated parenting role and teaching yoga, Camille co-ordinates events in the form of film fundraisers at Langri Tangpa Centre. She also is in business as bookkeeper with her tree worker partner, Teja.

She currently teaches 2 classes a week at Yoga On Parker, which include a beginners course, and an open class. She also offers yoga intensives and workshops and hosts Peter Scott Iyengar Yoga workshops.

Camille imbues her classes with warm-heartedness. She encourages students to work within their present capacity only challenging themselves into stronger work once the foundations are stable. Students are entreated to move deeply inward to find alignment that includes physical, mental and emotional balance, learning to connect with and direct the energies within.

FOR FURTHER DEATILS ABOUT CLASSES & WORKSHOPS PLEASE VISIT:  camille@sattvayoga.net.au

Malcolm White

Sophie is a Nia Brown Belt instructor who connects with people of all ages and backgrounds, guiding them to access their own body-wisdom through the joy of movement.

She began teaching Nia in Boulder, Colorado in 2003 and introduced classes to Queensland the following year.

Sophie weaves experience in corporate staff development, group fitness training and raising three lively children into her practice and presentation of Nia.

She creates a class environment that is inspirational, fun and playful.

Her Nia classes emphasise creativity, conditioning, community and connectedness.

Nia is an expressive movement and awareness practice that blends dance arts, martial arts and healing arts with funky, uplifting music in a fun non-judgmental environment.

For all ages, and fitness levels, Nia empowers students to focus on how their body feels, to tap into their creativity and discover new ways to move, express and heal with joy.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NIA PLEASE VISIT: www.NiaAustralia.com.au

Narelle Carter-Quinlan (BAppSc Biomed, HMS) has been passionately engaged with Yoga, dance and embodied movement practices for over 40 years. An anatomist and scientist by academic training, she has taught Yoga since 1988. Her ongoing signature inquiry and that which she ignites in her students, is of the body as felt, known, poetic space; the Embodied Ecology of our interior terrain. Her teaching is infused with a rich experiential anatomy.

Narelle is formally trained in the Iyengar method of yoga with Alan Goode with whom she Teacher Trained and Apprenticed from 2001-2009. Alan Goode was her Teacher since 1993. Her current teacher is senior Iyengar teacher, Genny Kapuler in Manhattan. Inhabiting a scoliotic landscape, Narelle’s work is oriented towards and offers deep insight into practising Yoga within scoliosis and with backcare issues.  Narelle has studied with and now assists Elise Miller in the US. She regularly guest presents at Yoga Union Center for Backcare and Scoliosis in New York City. Narelle has assisted, and taught Spinal and sacroiliac Anatomy and Pathology for Donna Farhi within her Teacher Training and Intensives. She also guest teaches in New Zealand, Europe and the United States and has recently returned from living in the States for 3 months during which time she had the joy of twice dissecting in integral anatomy intensives with Gil Hedley.

 Narelle is renowned for her radiant Powerpoint presentations and deep, yet playful teachings on Spinal Anatomy; the complex illuminated! She has presented her scholarly and movement research in Yoga and scoliosis at many international conferences, most recently, at the World Congress for Low Back and Pelvic pain in Los Angeles, November 2010. For seven years Narelle served as senior tutor and lecturer in anatomy, histology and physiology at the Queensland University of Technology and The Endeavour College of Natural Health respectively. She experiences the body as a physical hologram; vibratory, resonant, and utterly interconnected with our larger ecology.

In addition to currently researching and writing two books, one on yoga and scoliosis, the other on dissection, Narelle is in the process of researching “House of the Broken Wing”, a performative, film and written exploration of moving in a scoliotic environment. This work is a collaboration with renowned NYC visual artist, Laura Ferguson.

For further information, please visit http://sites.google.com/site/narelleyogascoliosis/home or phone Narelle on 0434 862 088

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