Our Hatha Yoga Teachers Bring You the Benefits of Yoga

We offer you our deep knowledge, experience, personal attention and understanding of your body's needs.
We have a total and continuing commitment to the wondrous depth and breadth of yoga.

Elizabeth Kraefft
Dip IYTA, Dip Teach, B. Ed.

Liz had her first yoga lesson at the age of 17 at a local school, returned to yoga again in her early twenties and has been practising ever since.

She has a background in teaching and hospitality where the frantic and crazy pace of work was, and is, balanced by attending frequent yoga classes.

Investigating further yogic studies and encouraged by her IYTA yoga teacher, she completed the teacher training course in 2002 – 2003, and now owns, manages and teaches at the Kuring-gai Yoga School.

She develops and instructs new yoga teachers as a lecturer for the IYTA Yoga Teacher Training Course along with colleague and yoga teacher Margaret North.

Liz continues to stay current with her yoga studies by attending courses and workshops and continues to learn from her fellow teachers.

Liz believes that yoga is the path to happiness, contentment and a healthy mind and body.

Margaret North, IYTA, B. Bus

“This is your time to nurture yourself” …
those words spoken 40 years ago by renowned yoga teacher, Sally Janssen, struck a deep chord for Margaret. She was the unfit, stressed mother of three small children, suffering 15 years of chronic back pain.

Six months later, her back pain noticeably reduced, Margaret realised that yoga offered all the tools necessary for personal evolution - a healthier and fitter body, mental and emotional calmness and understanding, and access to our soul’s strength, wisdom and peace.

Evangelistic about these benefits, Margaret commenced her full time yoga teaching career in 1979. Her personal growth and growth as a teacher comes from her continuous learning from world-renowned and local yoga exponents such as Andrè von Lysebeth, BKS Iyengar, Swami Satyananda, Swami Satchidananda, Philip Jones, TKV and Kausthaub Desikachar, Karyn Chapman and many others.

Margaret also teaches hatha yoga and meditation in the IYTA Teacher Training Course being one of the compilers of the Asana textbook for that course.

Amanda Muirhead
Adv.Dip Of Yoga. Nature Care, YTAA

Since her introduction to yoga 14 years ago, Amanda has increasingly experienced the overall sense of wellness and inner calm that yoga brings, along with the recognition that to achieve greater balance in life, a yoga practice should ‘fit the person’ not vice versa. With this in mind, Amanda encourages her students to take the responsibility to work at their own pace - guiding them to practice in a way that meets their individual mental, physical and emotional needs.

Her Hatha yoga classes simultaneously nourish body (asana), breath (pranayama), and soul (meditation).

Amanda is deeply committed to her personal practice and continues to immerse herself in ongoing professional development, guided through workshops by Judith Lasater, Donna Farhi, Marc St Pierre, Flo Fenton and Mary Louise Parkinson – alongside a weekly mentoring programme with Sindar Kaur and Marguerite Wetton.

Melissa Skjellerup
IYTA, B.HSc M.O.T

Melissa has been a devotee of yoga for 12 years and with her IYTA training has taught for the past 8 years with the Kuring-Gai Yoga school.

With a keen interest in health and wellbeing Melissa combines her love for yoga with the knowledge she has gained from Batchelor of Health Science and Masters degree in Occupational Therapy (MOT). This allows her to provide to her classes a deeper awareness and understanding of the physical and mental benefits of yoga.

Rita Humphries, IYTA

Rita is a fully qualified International Yoga Teachers Association teacher and has been studying yoga for over 10 years, both in the UK and Australia. She has been a long time student of the Kuring-gai Yoga School.

Rita believes that through the practice of yoga all students can gain enormous benefits physically, emotionally, and spiritually. With a combination of Asanas (postures), Pranayama (breathing practices) and relaxation she encourages her students to get the most out of their practice believing that yoga is for everyone.

Cathy Young, IYTA

For fourteen years Cathy has been studying yoga, five of these with our School. She is a fully qualified International Yoga Teachers Association teacher. Cathy is passionate about yoga and the benefits that the practice brings to the mind, body and spirit. She is particularly aware of the transformative benefits of yoga in combatting the effects of stress on the body and mind. Cathy believes that yoga is for everyone and caters for all levels of students.