Annette Balsillie
Annette completed her 200-hour Teacher Training in 2017 with Ashram Yoga, Yin/Yang Yoga Teacher Training with Sarah Powers in 2018 and Contemporary Yoga 200hr YTT 2020. This has given Annette a wide understanding of Yoga from different perspectives. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and trained as a Mindfulness-Based Stillness Meditation Teacher with Gawler Cancer Foundation, Australia.
“I love being able to help people cultivate a nourishing and sustainable yoga practice, encompassing body, mind and spirit, that supports you throughout the ups and downs of life, a practice which guides you towards optimal health and wellbeing”.
Her previous 20 years professional experience as a Registered Nurse working with people with life threatening illnesses informs a caring and intuitive approach, her teaching style is thoughtful, informative and inspiring. She has a passion for the power of movement, stillness and mindfulness as a path for self-transformation and healing.
Annette teaches safe, functional and sustainable principles, along with mindfulness and breath awareness tools and techniques. She has completed Mental Health Aware Yoga training and has a special interest in mental health and the practice of Yoga as a pathway to wholeness and healing.
Annette is currently completing Level 3 of Somatic Movement Education in the tradition of Thomas Hanna. Her Yoga classes combine an element of Somatics.
Somatics is a form of sensory motor awareness, using the brain to recognise the way it senses and organises muscles and movement. Somatics helps us to target muscles that are holding tension when not in use, to teach the nervous system to release tight muscles, and to help us to move with more ease and comfort. This is a gentle, nourishing, balancing, and grounding class, suitable for all levels, including beginners.
