Yoga
We have a range of classes and sessions for beginners and advanced students. Classes follow the school term dates. Teachers run their own businesses out of Lazuli, class prices are under each Teachers profile
For more information call Melina on 0422 814 385.
Our Yoga Teachers
Melina Strachan
Melina is a Massage Therapist, Naturopath and Yoga Teacher bringing her 25 years in the health industry to her Women's hormone balancing Yoga class, Yoga Therapy and Yin/roll and release class.
Cost $20 casual $180 for a 10 pass card
ph 0422 814 385
Kellie Youl
Kellie has spent years immersed in the healing arts of meditation and herbal medicine, her dedication to a sustainable lifestyle internal and external shows through in her teaching style. Teaching both dynamic and a slower paced hatha class.
Cost $20 casual $180 for a 10 pass card
ph 0427 537 166
Annshar Wolfs
We are so excited to have Annshar join the Lazuli Yoga Team teaching in both Daylesford and Ballarat. she brings with her love, passion and experience for Iyengar Yoga.
Iyengar classes are $23 per 1.5hr class
ph 0432 505 463
Brydie Mineo
Brydie is a yoga, movement & healing sound facilitator with over 15 years experience in teaching movement and dance. She has been practicing yoga for 10 years and has a passion in sharing and providing a safe space for people to delve into a meditative state through Yoga, Movement & Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls.
Brydie loves both the physical and spiritual side to yoga & feels inspired about the ancient philosophy & teachings of yoga on & off the mat in her life. Brydie’s teaching style likes focus on the union between movement and breath through playful Vinyasa yoga sequencing. Holding the space for others to release & encourage a sense of self inquiry amongst an inclusive community environment is what makes Brydie’s heart sing!
She has been teaching movement/structured dance styles for many years and due to this experience she has a love for alignment within the postures and teaches the physical and spiritual benefits of this ancient practice in a relatable and practical way.
She teaches vinyasa yoga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, pranayama (breathing techniques), womb yoga, Mums & Bubs yoga and is always attending trainings and workshops to learn as many new skills as possible!
Brydie believes yoga is accessible to everybody and feels that the practice brings us a sense of connectedness to ourselves and the world around us.
Cost $20 casual $180 for a 10 a pass card
0423 101 936
Travis Hobbs
Travis has always had a desire to remain strong and flexible and found this through practicing Yoga. Travis Yoga journey started nearly 20 years ago to building strength back in his knee after a knee reconstruction from playing sport. Travis found that not only did Yoga provide a physical outlet, but Yoga also built a mind and muscle relationship he had not experienced in his years playing sport and working out. Travis also found the other components of Yoga, such as breathing, and mediation helped provide a deeper sense of calm and helped with concentration during and after practicing Yoga.
Travis is a RYT qualified Yoga instructor and has been teaching for over 9 years and enjoys all styles of yoga however predominantly focuses on Vinyasa. Travis incorporates mindfulness and gratitude excises into his practice and his classes are fun and aim to increase flexibility, strength and concentration.
Travis is a life-long-lover of education and knowledge and constantly seeking to incorporate his broad learnings into his classes. As well as Travis’s Yoga qualifications, Travis’s formal qualifications include a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Information Systems and Diploma of Project Management.
Cost $20 casual $180 for a 10 pass
0403 506 997
Riki Edelsten
Riki has been practicing yoga for nearly twenty years and teaching for the past seven years. She is a certified 500hr Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Pre/Post-Natal Yoga Teacher and has completed a Diploma in Oriental Therapy and Shiatsu Massage. Riki integrates Meridian and Five Element theory into yoga classes, along with Vipassana and Mindfulness meditation techniques, and her love of dance and music. Riki is passionate about sustaining natural ecosystems and sees yoga as a pathway to create healthy people, communities and environments. Cost $20 casual $180 for a 10 pass card
ph 0414 375 798
Class Descriptions
Yin
Yin Yoga has its roots in China, unlike the more popular and active yoga disciplines, which originated in India. It was founded on the Taoist theory of yin and yang – opposite concepts that, together, represent balance. Yin is stable and passive, while yang is changing and active. The yin poses, therefore, are passive and performed while seated or in a reclining position. The poses are held with the muscles fully relaxed, allowing time and gravity to deepen the stretch and target the fascia. The time spent holding these asanas is similar to meditation.
Womens Hormone Balancing Yoga
A gentle nourishing Yoga Therapy Style class that promotes the flow of blood and Chi into the specific endocrine glands and organs that play a key role in hormonal balance.
Whilst simultaneously reconnecting us to the more feminine aspects of our "being" nature, inherent in embodying, feeling, sensing and intuiting on the mat.
Assisting the alleviation of menstrual and menopausal discomfort, such as mood swings, fatigue, PMS, lower back pain, cramps, heaviness, hot flushes, irritability, anxiety and depression.
Helping to cultivate tools that restore a calm and stable connection to our centre, throughout the changing cycles of a woman's life.
Vinyasa Yoga
Connecting breath to movement....The focus of this practice is on synchronising fluid movement to the rhythm of the breath. This works to draw the mind to a deeper focus and open to internal body awareness. The breath slows down and deepens, muscles soften, joints open, blood, flows and the cleansing purification process begins. Intro is aimed at those just beginning their yoga journey or those wants to slow things down and hone their practice. These classes can be both offered as dynamic and in a more gentle versions, check the timetable for one that suits your needs.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha is a very broad term that encompasses any of the physical practices of yoga. It can be used to describe every kind of yoga asana practice from Iyengar to Ashtanga and everything that falls between and beyond. In fact, any of the many types of contemperory yoga that are popular today can be accurately described as hatha yoga.
Given that the word has such an open meaning, what should you expect if you attend a hatha yoga class? Today, Hatha is most often used to describe gentle, basic yoga classes with no flow between poses. Expect a slower-paced stretching-focused class with some basic pranayama breathing exercises and perhaps a seated meditation at the end. Hatha classes are a good place to work on your alignment, learn relaxation techniques, and become comfortable with doing yoga while building strength and flexibility.
Yoga Therapy
While any type of yoga can bring health benefits, yoga therapy involves employing a variety of yoga practices to try to improve a health condition or to ease a natural process, such as pregnancy or menopause. Among the yogic tools used therapeutically are asana (the physical postures), Pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, and guided imagery. Although many people don't realize it, yogis also consider diet an integral part of yoga and therefore of yoga therapy. Melina brings all of these ideas together as well as using the seasons and the elements of chinese medicine meriidan system to inform her sequencing.
Iyengar
Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, is a form of Hatha Yoga that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of posture (asana) and breath control (pranayama). The development of strength, mobility and stability is gained through the asanas.B.K.S. Iyengar has systematised over 200 classical yoga poses and 14 different types of Pranayama (with variations of many of them) ranging from the basic to advanced. This helps ensure that students progress gradually by moving from simple poses to more complex ones and develop their mind, body and spirit through a step-by-step approach.Iyengar Yoga often makes use of props, such as belts, blocks, and blankets, as aids in performing asanas (postures). The props enable students to perform the asanas correctly, minimising the risk of injury or strain, and making the postures accessible to both young and old.
Sound Medicine
A Sound Medicine Journey creates a time and space where one can experience a deep sense of wellbeing. Shamanic, Traditional & Contemporary musical instruments share frequencies to support opening through Healing Vibrations, directed towards regions of the body, clearing pathways for increased energy flow. Sound Healing uses Overtones and Harmonics to support restoration of our natural state of Resonance. As you receive, you relax into the present moment settling into stillness.