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His teaching style is precise, focussed, and also personal as he likes to treat each student with individual attention and help them work on specific areas of the practice that is unique to their struggles. He is also calm, funny and relaxed in his teaching, inviting questions and discussion when appropriate.
Ultimately his focus within his teachings is always on the students, you can see this in his own words:

“As a yoga teacher, my greatest desire and goal is to help each student find the knowledge and answers they seek, and with that the confidence to achieve their movement goals and aims. I prefer to ask the right questions of students, and teach them how to learn, how to think and feel in their bodies, and in doing so find their own beautiful revelations.”

Before becoming a full-time yoga teacher Caspian was a professional Aerospace Engineer, designing components for Aeroplanes and Formula 1 race cars. He understands what it’s like to live in a high-stress office environment, and loves to help people reconnect with their bodies and minds through yoga.

Lawrence Jay, an internationally recognized healer and yoga teacher, has devoted his life to the study of the human body, mind, and spirit. Born in Toronto, Lawrence now calls Bali home after extensive travels and studies in China, Russia, Hong Kong, Europe, and North America.

Lawrence’s healing journey has taken him through a range of disciplines. He completed craniosacral work levels 1-6 (twice) under Hugh Milne, immersed himself in the teachings of Leonid Sobolev and Ellen Heed, and accomplished a 200-hour somatics training with Tara Judelle and Dr. Scott Lyons. His path has also led him through advanced teacher trainings with Ana Forrest, and he is a certified Anusara yoga teacher. Lawrence’s varied experiences culminated in the completion of the Landmark Introduction Leaders Program, solidifying his holistic approach to healing.

His healing philosophy is built on creating a safe environment where clients can allow their bodies to heal in a parasympathetic state. He believes in paying attention to the intuitive messages of the body, giving a voice to the subconscious, and understanding the heart’s poetic language of metaphor and spirituality. His practices are as much about anatomical landmarks as they are about poetic and spiritual dialogue.

For over 17 years, Lawrence has specialized as a coach and yoga teacher. He is a facilitator of emotional release, helping people to overcome fears, move forward, and manifest their goals. His techniques incorporate breathing exercises, hands-on adjustments, and communication strategies, all aimed at establishing deep connections with his clients.

Lawrence has been practicing craniosacral therapy for 12 years, integrating this gentle technique into his yoga practice and teaching. One of his most memorable healing experiences involved a student suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, who, after working with Lawrence, was able to conceive. This success story epitomizes Lawrence’s belief in the transformative power of holistic healing practices.

Lawrence is affiliated with various professional organizations, including the Yoga Alliance, Anusara, and Prana Yoga. These affiliations affirm his commitment to professional development and maintaining high standards in his practice.

Craniosacral therapy, Lawrence believes, is not just a healing technique, but a way of life. It allows him to set aside his ego and bring his complete focus to his clients, fostering a sense of groundedness and contentment that pervades all aspects of his life. Outside of his healing work, Lawrence is a poet, a writer, and a performer. He is passionate about somatics and the body’s ability to hold invaluable information.

Lawrence’s vision for his healing practice is to share the power of the parasympathetic nervous system in both healing and learning. He sees it as a bridge from the body to the mind and vice versa—a bridge we often overlook, which he refers to as energy, or spirit. Through his work, Lawrence hopes to help others understand this bridge and tap into their own healing potential.

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, non-invasive form of bodywork that focuses on the bones of the head, spinal column, and sacrum. The primary aim of this therapeutic approach is to relieve tension in the central nervous system and promote a feeling of well-being by improving the body’s ability to self-care.

CST was developed from the principles of osteopathy and is based on the concept that our bodies have a natural, rhythmic tide-like motion, known as the “craniosacral rhythm,” fundamental to our health. This rhythm is created by the production and absorption of cerebrospinal fluid within the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

During a CST session, the practitioner uses a light touch – often no heavier than the weight of a nickel – to palpate the body and sense disturbances in the craniosacral rhythm. A practitioner can identify areas of restriction or tension in key areas such as the hips, psoas muscles, lower back, shoulders, diaphragm, heart region, jaw, and neck. CST specifically targets these areas to alleviate and release tension, helping to restore the natural rhythm and improve overall health.

CST also involves unwinding the tension in the muscle tissue – often referred to as the “webbing” of the body. This gentle release can have a profound impact on the body’s overall tension and functioning, allowing for greater freedom of movement and fluidity. The release of physical tension can facilitate a more efficient flow of electricity and energy throughout the body, promoting overall well-being and vitality.

A key component of CST is verbal therapy, which involves the practitioner guiding the client through dialogues or inquiries designed to surface and address underlying emotional, psychological, and spiritual issues. This approach helps facilitate the release of subconscious blockages, further supporting the body’s innate healing capabilities. This element of CST therapy makes it a holistic therapy, targeting not just the physical, but also the emotional and mental well-being of the client.

Conditions that may benefit from CST include migraines, chronic neck and back pain, stress and tension-related disorders, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, chronic fatigue, and many others.

A Global Movement facilitator with Shamanic, Tantric Earth Goddess roots, Malaika is of Canadian Jamaican Ancestry who spent years living amongst different indigenous cultures from Africa & Australia to South America.

Malaika brings a wealth of Earth wisdom for personal and planetary awakening having walked the Shamanic path for a lifetime dedicated to creating sacred space in ritual and ceremony embodying ancient wisdom and creating relevant ceremonies for our contemporary people to help restore balance.

Malaika has been dancing and practicing yoga for over 18 years. She combines her background in Elemental Shamanic Earth Wisdom, ISHTA Yoga, Tantra & Ayurveda, 5 Elements with her love ot African Rythym to provide her students with tools for joy, self-transformation and awakening.

Malaika has regularly taught private and group classes in Australia, Bali, Canada, Hawaii and Sri Lanka. Her teaching style is unique and encourages full body awareness, builds core strength, cultivating grace and beauty to overflow into one’s life, while bringing the individual deeper inside to a still point of inner contentment and connection with the Divine.

As a Music Academy coordinator, devotional singer and multi-instrumentalist, she helps people who are disconnected from their voice learn how to express their true voice with purpose and clarity through intentional breathing & vocal encouragement, so they can fully connect to their hearts.

She has journeyed around the world on back-to-back music tours, offering live performances, improvisation experiences, high-energy workshops and immersive retreats. With a growing festival presence, she is a powerful voice in the world of ‘Ceremonial/medicine music’ and the rising global community of people who are committed to residing in harmony with the Earth.

After her deeper dives into the workings of the voice, under the guidance of Indian teachers and Bobby McFerrin’s students such as Guillermo Rozenthuler, she is known for her circle singing facilitation, choral ensembles and RISING VOICE vocal activation workshops + retreats. In world music, spiritual & handpan festivals, she usually creates improvisational sacred Experiences with other musicians, or generates a full-band sound using only her voice, a variety of instruments, and her loop pedal setup.

Residing in Bali for the last 2 years, the connection to vocal alchemy has become even stronger, as she continues to train people in private or group vocal activation sessions how to unlock their throat chakra and return to speaking their truth.

Nadine McNeil’s twenty-odd year career within the United Nations, serving at locations across the globe, is what guided her towards yoga, primarily as a necessary tool for self-care while serving in volatile, conflict scenarios.

Her current mission includes designing and implementing a yoga module that especially supports those who tirelessly serve others through their daily work.

For over a decade she has deepened her knowledge through consistent practice.

Devoted to the “democratization of yoga,” she facilitates workshops to varying demographics, imploring yoga’s rich benefits as a viable tool for peace; from a cellular to a global level.

Noel invites you to come explore the subtle path of movement, meditation and mind body awareness in ways you may have not felt before. Unlock the vast untapped potential of your true self while building mind, body and spirit awareness, inner strength, coordination and balance.

Noel has studied Martial Arts and Yoga since 2007 and is a certified White Crane Silat teacher, and a RYS 200hr & 500 hr certified Yoga teacher from One Song Yoga School.

Come move, play, laugh, sweat and go inward on a journey into pure presence.

Tanya Kaps is a Yoga and Vedanta teacher with over 25 years of practice, study, teaching. She also has an academic background in Integrated Science and Transpersonal Psychology. Tanya’s first ten years of teaching modern Hatha Yoga included the styles of Hot, Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin and Power. Her deepening continued through pranayama and meditation and then Jnana Yoga with her revered Guru Swami years who then initiated her into teaching Vedanta (Jnana Yoga).

During this time of deep sadhana she experienced a Kundalini awakening which led her into intensive integrative sadhana and study in Kundalini Tantra and ultimately leading to the simple and deep ‘pathless path’ of loving surrender. Tanya has been a long time faculty member of The Yoga Barn famiy for 13 years. She offers long-format deepening programs to bring forth deep and lasting shifts in people’s lives. These programs are rooted in the traditional systems of Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga (Yoga of Selfless Action) Samadhi Yoga (Meditation), Kundalini Tantra and Jnana Yoga (Yoga of Self Knowledge / Vedanta), as well as Ayurveda (Knowledge of Life/Healing).

Tanya offers both a technical and an embodied understanding of the natural unfolding stages of the spiritual awakening process and offers the appropriate guidance to meet students where they are and lovingly guide them forward. Bridging both science and spirituality, the eastern traditional and the western contemporary, the universal and the personal; Tanya brings a warm and loving presence to support her students in skilfully engaging with yoga as a spiritual practice that reveals the essence of who we are: already whole, already holy, already free.