Hatha Yoga focuses on Body, Mind and Breath to create balance in your whole being.
Hatha Weekend Wakeup
Start your day right - Hatha Yoga blends breathwork, movement, and meditation to balance body and mind, reduce stress, and boost your overall health and wellbeing
75 mins
BEGINNER
Hatha Yoga is a classic style that involves the incorporation of Breathing practices (Pranayama) to help strengthen lungs and build general health, Physical Body Postures (Asana) that assist in building strength, flexibility and coordination in the body and move us towards better health and wellbeing, Additionally various meditation and relaxation techniques are offered to assist in our busy lives to minimise stress and anxiety. Each Yoga class is taken with a mindful meditative focus.
How Hatha Yoga Helps
Hatha yoga is the physical aspect of yoga. A hatha yoga class will usually incorporate the practice of physical postures (asana’s) to develop strength and flexibility as well as various breathing practices (pranayama), meditation and relaxation techniques.
Your Class Instructor
Learn with confidence - our instructor bring years of experience and care to every class.
Liz Kraefft
HATHA YOGA INSTRUCTOR
30+ years
Yoga has not only helped in meeting life’s challenges, keeping the body and mind strong and healthy but has also provided Liz with a wonderful community of yoga students, friends and colleagues from which to share the mutual love of Yoga.
Liz feels strongly that there are no barriers to practicing yoga and each individual, within personal limits, can enjoy the many benefits
Member of
- IYTA (International Yoga Teachers Association)
- YA (Yoga Australia)
Experience
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SINCE 1984
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Attended Kuring-gai Yoga School
After attending regular classes from 1984 with various teachers things changed when in 1994 began attending Yoga in Pymble at Kuring-gai Yoga School. This was the beginning of the realisation that Yoga was a wonderful modality for healing and growth as well as a pathway to happiness, contentment and resilience.
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2003
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Graduate Diploma of Yoga Teaching
Since graduating from the IYTA Diploma of Yoga Teaching 2003 Liz has been continuously teaching yoga and exploring the depths of the Yoga teachings. There is much to learn and so this will be a wonderful journey and evolution.
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Graduate Advanced Diploma in Yoga
In 2014 Liz completed the IYTA Graduate Advanced Diploma in Yoga and in 2018 completed a 50 hour teacher training course in Yin Yoga, which has further enriched her Yoga training.
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2021
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Currently Studying
Currently studying a year long IYTA Pranayama and Meditation Teacher Training Course due for completion in September 2021 which has consolidated her own Meditation and Breathing practice. As well as teaching class in Pymble, Liz lectures on Adult Education and Class Planning as part of the IYTA Teacher Training course, and is a member of the Curriculum Committee.
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Our Yoga Studio
Ku-ring-gai Yoga School was established in 1979 and has been delivering Yoga in the Upper North Shore of Sydney consistently during this time.
Transport information
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By public transport
Exit Pymble Railway station to the Pacific highway and turn left. Cross the road 70 metres along the highway at the traffic lights at the intersection of Livingstone Ave.
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By car
Approach along the Pacific Highway and turn into Livingstone Avenue at the traffic lights by the group of shops adjacent to Pymble Railway Station.
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Studio Parking
Everton Street and Livingstone Avenue provide plenty of parking. If you travel from the north, park in the 2-hour carpark alongside the railway station and walk across the highway. Please do not park in Church grounds except in the 7-space covered area off Everton Street.