JOHN OGILVIE, founder and director of Byron Yoga, has been teaching yoga for over eighteen years and leads the Byron Yoga Centre teacher training courses. He encourages a light heartedness in our approach to yoga and to ourselves. John teaches regular classes as part of the regular Byron Yoga weekly timetable. His classes are both challenging and dynamic, and integrate the different yoga styles of Iyengar and Astanga, as well as the softer Sivananda and Satyananda practices of yoga and the energy principles of Aikido.

CONSTA GEORGOUSSIS, started with Astanga Yoga in Byron Bay more than 10 years ago. His main aim in teaching is to help students develop consistent self-practise that is guided by gentleness and awareness of their own needs and rhythms, so that they may realise their inner light. Consta has extensive experience with instructing yoga teacher training courses.

JUDY KRUPP, is a senior certified Teacher who has been practising yoga for twenty-three years and has studied Iyengar Yoga in Sydney. She has extensive experience with instructing yoga courses. The style of yoga taught by Judy Krupp incorporates work from the Iyengar principles of alignment and the therapeutic potential of asanas, combined with vinyasa flow work from the Astanga practice and the viniyoga philosophy of T.K.V. Desikachar.

STEPHAN KAHLERT is a trained psychologist with over twenty years experience as a yoga and meditation practitioner. He has facilitated many international corporate workshops and seminars on stress management and travels regularly to India to deepen his practice. Stephan sees meditation as a scientific approach in the mind as well as a deep relaxing in the present moment. His teaching style on the teacher training courses is both engaging and fun.

KARA GOODSELL, is a senior certified teacher and has been trained in dynamic Vinyasa flow style Hatha Yoga by John Ogilvie from the Byron Yoga Centre, as well as regularly attending yoga workshops by other senior teachers. She has been teaching beginners, general and intermediate classes for 2 ½ years after her 4 year apprenticeship with John.

Kara explores yoga asana, pranayama (breathing techniques) and Dhyana (meditation) in a safe and joyful class, offering students the opportunity to deepen their awareness and practice with integrity and fun. She is constantly updating her skills and expanding her yoga teaching experience. Kara is part of the teacher training staff and also teaches a general class as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

DAVINA KRUSE is a senior certified yoga teacher trained by John Ogilvie at Byron Yoga Centre. Davina has been practicing yoga for over 10 years practicing both in Australia and overseas. Davina has experience in Ashtanga, Iyengar and Hatha styles of yoga. Davina’s classes are gentle Hatha yoga with a focus on breath awareness.

Davina uses the breath to allow her students to go deeper in to the asana. Exploring the practice of the spiritual principals of yoga in her daily life and affairs Davina hopes to pass this on to her students. Davina’s passion is to bring her students deeper into their own self practice and to pass on her love of yoga. Davina is an assistant on the Yoga Teacher Training courses and also teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

ANNE-MARIE EDDINGTON, has been practicing yoga for the last 14 years. She apprenticed as a teacher with Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss at their yoga school in Sydney and then taught full-time at Yoga Synergy in Bondi Junction for 6 years. During this time she continued to partake in yoga and workshops study alternative therapies such as Remedial, Deep Tissue, Chinese and Swedish massage, Shiatsu, Macrobiotics, Cranio-sacral therapy and pilates, Ayurveda and panchakarma.

In 2005 Anne-Marie started teaching at the Byron Yoga Centre. Her classes are a conglomeration of many different styles of yoga including Ashtanga-Vinyasa, Hatha, Iyengar and Synergy style yoga. Her teaching is both flowing and dynamic focusing on body alignment, internal muscular control (bandhas), energy flow, breath, concentration and meditation. Anne-Marie teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

BETTINA trained 20 years ago as a fitness and Pilates instructor and teaches yoga since 1997. She completed 4 different yoga teacher trainings ( Iyengar, Shivananda, Byron Yoga ) with two trainings being in India. She travels yearly to India to deepen her spiritual and yogic lifestyle, where she just produced her own yoga nidra cd.

Bettina has been on the yogic path for 25 years and her emphasis is in moving through strong asanas to the quiet still point within! With her husband who is a meditation teacher she travels the world trying to embody the essence of yoga. She teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

DANIELLE SHERLOCK is a Naturopath and Remedial Sports Therapist. Her experience of yoga spans 14 years, traditionally trained in Iyengar. Spending some time in Sri Lanka practicing and working with TCM in Columbo Hospital, Danielle’s teaching incorporates a well rounded approach to assist your awakening into a deeper experience of yoga. Danielle is passionate about chanting and meditation and teaches Anatomy and Physiology on the Yoga Teacher Trainer courses. She also teaches a general class as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

MICHAEL NAZAR is a senior certified teacher completing his training with John Ogilvie at Byron Yoga Centre. Michael teaches a Dynamic Vinyasa Flow style class and uses his background as a fitness leader and Remedial Massage and Sports Injury Therapist to guide his class.

Michael has a deep interest in the Philosophical aspect of yoga and incorporates Pranayama and Meditation into his teachings. Michael continues to further his studies into the 8 limbs of yoga with a special focus on Pranayama. Michael is an assistant on the Yoga Teacher Training courses and also teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

MARIA KIRSTEN is a senior Yoga teacher with many years experience teaching on several different Yoga Teacher Trainer courses, she covers applied Anatomy and Physiology within the asanas.

JACINTA MCEWAN has been practicing the healing arts for over twenty years. Initially trained as a nurse in the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she went on to become a naturopath, herbalist, massage therapist, yoga teacher and Ayurvedic practitioner. Jacinta teaches Ayurvedic principles on the yoga teacher training courses.

EMI is a certified yoga teacher. She has been constantly exposed to many great teachers from various backgrounds and traditions in Australia, Bali and Japan. With an emphasis on therapeutic yoga, Emi invites you to go deeper into asana on a journey through body, mind and spirit. She teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable, these classes generally include asana, followed by pranayama and meditation.

STAR teaches general classes as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.

ALEX teaches a general class as part of the weekly Byron Yoga timetable.