Overview
With over 30 years of practice, 25 years teaching, and 12 years of teacher training experience including mentoring, Flo is now a registered mentor with Yoga Australia. Mentoring is a required part of many teacher trainings. You can use these sessions towards the mentoring hours required to complete your Level 1 or 2 registered Yoga Australia teacher training. Or, as a post graduate student, deepen your expertise, answer questions, and gain required CPD points as a registered Yoga Australia teacher.
Specialities:
- Teaching of asana in intelligent steps-modifying asanas, use of props, adjusting skills
- Teaching of pranayama-progression, working with prana in asana, pranayama practice yoga as therapy
- Meditation techniques Yoga Nidra-practice, mantra practice
- I am happy to do either open or curriculum-based sessions.
Mentoring sessions can take many forms:
- Small group classes are offered to Post Graduate students in which we practice together, enhance our asana and pranayama, refresh our prop use and teaching techniques, and afterwards discuss the practice with time for questions.
- Private sessions of a practical nature which can focus on anything that you are having difficulty with in teaching or in practice
- Private sessions (face to face or via zoom, phone or email) which may be simply to ask questions and receive ideas about any issues that may have come up as a teacher
- Assisting in classes or on retreats where you get ‘on the job’ training.
Class Schedule
Small group classes for Post Graduate students. Refresh your practice , enhance your asana and pranayama, revise your prop use and teaching techniques, and afterwards discuss the practice, and any other issues coming up regarding teaching and/or practice!
Wednesdays –8.30am-11.45am around once every 5-6 weeks
Fridays-9am-12.15pm-around every 5-6 weeks
(Suffolk Park address supplied on request).
$40 – In person
$25 – Live online or receive recorded practice.
Next Practice:
Friday Oct 17th 9am-12.15pm AEST
Wednesday Oct 29th 9am-12.15pm AEST
The Three Gunas.
Primal nature, or prakriti (the potential in all things), contains within it three main qualities, or the three gunas. These are;
- Sattva- Neutral, balanced
- Rajas- Movement, change
- Tamas- Passive, obstructive/stable.
When prakriti becomes manifest, the three qualities emerge, and differentiate.
- Sattva relates to MIND. It is the quality of light, love, the higher spiritual force. It imparts dharmic virtues of faith, honesty, self-control, modesty and truthfulness.
- Rajas relates to LIFE FORCE. It is the quality of twighlight, passion and agitation, the intermediate or vital force that lacks consistency or stability. It gives rise to emotional fluctuations, attraction and repulsion, fear and desire, love and hate.
- Tamas relates to FORM. It is the quality of darkness, non-feeling and death, the lower material force which drags us down into ignorance and attachment. It causes dullness, inertia, heaviness, emotional clinging and stagnation.
- The gunas are intertwined and ever fluctuating.
- Once one guna has dominance, it will remain in dominance for a certain period.
Both yoga and ayurveda emphasise the development of Sattva.
- In yoga, sattva is the higher quality that allows spiritual growth to occur.
- In ayurveda, sattva is the state of balance that makes healing happen.
