Meet Your Incredible Yogic Guides 😇
Our teachers come from all over the world - Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina and of course New Zealand - Amazing!
Natasya (Tash) Yusoff - Chief Yogi, Sound Healer and Transformative Coach
I have had an on again off again relationship with yoga since my late teens when I found a VHS tape in a bargain bin at a local supermarket while living in Malaysia. Yup you read that right VHS... 🤣
The tape was my first real introduction to yoga and it kicked my butt, but I loved it, I discover muscles I never knew I had, a new found strength, flexibility, confidence and freedom to just be me.
After a few years of following that one VHS tape (Kathy Smiths New Yoga Challenge). My mum introduced me to a new kind of yoga practice; The Cosmic Fountain of Youth, a series of 3 salutations available via cassette tape.
Over the years I had a few requests to teach yoga and always politely declined, knowing that I didn't have the right knowledge to teach safely and effectively. But the thought stayed in the back of my mind.
As the years passed friends started to take yoga teacher training courses, people I had never even guessed would be interested in yoga let alone train to become a teacher, and that little voice in the back of my mind ignited, "if they can do it, so can I!"
I hold a NZQA tertiary level Diploma in Yoga Teaching and Lifestyle Management from Wellpark College. This was a year long intensive teacher training course that fully immerses you in the art of living a yogic life, and exposes all your demons.
I am constantly up-skilling and looking for ways of improving my practice, but I know that this is a life long journey with still so much to learn. Yoga is not just a physical practice, it's those deeper energetic and philosophical aspects of the practice that draw me in and hold my curiosity.
If we all just had a little yoga in our lives, the world would be an immensely better place for all life on this planet.
I love teaching, be it dance, acting or yoga, I love seeing that light switch on in my students eyes, and the transformations that take place are truly amazing to watch.
It is an honour and a blessing to be part of such magic in peoples lives. And I am blessed to have a beautiful team of yogic guides to co-create with.
Namaste
Natasya is the founder of The Yoga Pantry as well as a certified Breakthrough Life Coach and Abundance Coach.
She specializes in transformational coaching and intuitive guidance training as well as intuitive sound healing and sound scape journeys.
Click here if you would like to book a personal coaching, private yoga session or sound healing session with Tash.
Francesca (Sattva) Tomasetig - Helping you push the reset button 😴
A Light seeker of Italian origins, who’s forever curious about human connections and what makes thriving communities.
Madly in love with the good things of Life and the Journey itself, I came to Yoga in my twenties and evolved with its reliable support ever since.
I started my teacher training at Ashram Yoga in 2012 and never stopped; I have been teaching a variety of classes first in the Bay of Islands and then in Auckland; it was here in the city that I realised the need for Yoga Nidra in our modern society. More than a relaxation practice that ends on the mat, Yoga Nidra is an effective method of deep restorative support that can last well beyond the time in class and can impact all aspects of one’s life. I fell in love with the subtle transformation it affords, while being non-confrontational and incredibly effective.
Furthering my training with the senior teachers of Ashram Yoga, I delved deeper to explore past the physical relaxation aspects of it and discovered tools to transform the conditioning of the mind. I learned to see what does no longer serve and how to release it from one’s life. With 3 levels of Yoga Nidra training and the constant support of my own teachers, I can truly offer one of the best tools for deep, restorative relaxation and help people incorporate these techniques into their daily routines. Yoga Nidra supports people into achieving rich lives, lived with full awareness and balance.
In light Sattva ॐ
Karryn Miller - Empowering you to find presence and power 🧎♀️
Karryn started teaching yoga in 2008 after completing her first teacher training at Sun and Moon Yoga in Tokyo.
She has lived and taught in North America, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan and has run retreats in South Korea, Thailand, Bali, and Italy.
In Washington, DC she taught at Yoga District and volunteered through Yoga Activist, where she helped bring yoga to communities that have limited or no access to the benefits of the practice.
During her time in Vietnam she completed her second teacher training and also gained her STOTT Pilates certification, while teaching several classes a week at Zenith Yoga Hanoi.
She ran her first retreat in South Korea in 2019.
In 2021 she co-founded Mother Wild, a global community of mothers. Through Mother Wild she has run retreats, workshops, and virtual courses over the last three years.
Prior to moving back to her hometown of Auckland in July she was living in Sapporo, Japan, where she ran monthly yoga and meditation workshops at a local studio.
Over the last two decades she has taught yoga to all ages from preschoolers to adults and completed numerous additional training to broaden her skills including in Yoga Nidra and teaching yoga to children with diverse abilities.
Camila (Cami) Bisio - Bringing tradition into the present 🙏
Cami acknowledges the wise teachings, ancient traditions and Indian origins of Yoga. She pays her deepest respect to her teachers and teachers of her teachers. It is with the utmost respect, love and gratitude that she shares these teachings in this community with a Universal approach aiming to be accesible to all.
She commenced her studies in 2017 at Rishikul Yogshala, India where she completed a 200 hrs teacher training. This School follows Indian traditional teachings, Iyengar Yoga principals for approaching physical and mental wellbeing and the holistic path of Swami Satyananda's Bihar School of Yoga practice.
Since then, she completed a 800 hrs Certificate in Yoga teaching, 500hrs in Purna Yoga, 50 hrs in Yin and 50 hrs in Restorative Yoga.
Additionally, she participated in an Ayurveda diagnosis and lifestyle practices course.
Ingrid Winants - Helping you bring more balance into your life🤸♂️
I have been a lifelong learner of movement. With a background in competitive gymnastics and dancing I have come to understand the importance of mind and body control. I have found Pilates an amazing method to feel energized and yet relaxed.
I have a Masters degree in Health Sciences, certifications & diplomas in Mat & Reformer Pilates plus Group Fitness, Gymnastics coaching and dance.
I have taught and teach a wide range of classes from Green Prescription to rehab to professional sports teams.
I love making my classes interesting and fun!
I use equipment like Stability Balls, Thera Bands, Foam Rollers, Power Circles, Balance disks and Swiss Balls.
Since there's an overlap between yoga and Pilates, I find most yogis pick up Pilates quite quickly and easily.
See you on the mat!
My offerings are grounded in the style of terra soma™ which is a blend of hatha yoga practises, non-dual tantric insights, somatic inquiry, and embodied nature awareness. I love to incorporate movement, meditation, and rest, with a focus on both our inner experience and our connection to the wider world. Finding ways to deeply rest and feel fully supported to find ease has been a true gift for me and my life and is one I love to share with others. My approach is warm and invitational. I thread the spiritual insights of the yoga tradition into my offerings as well as poetry and stories from around the world.
I have been teaching in studios across Auckland since 2021 and have been practising yoga over a decade. Over the years, I have become more aware of my own patterning and found greater comfort in being with myself, in this body, and in the wider web of the world. What started as a largely physical practice for me, has transformed into so much more. It has supported me through times of challenge and times of joy. As an avid learner, I continue to attend trainings as well as read books and the latest research to expand my knowledge and experiences. I aim to both live and embody the teachings of yoga. I also love to go hiking, enjoy pole dancing and do my best to keep my house plants thriving.
Eleonora(Ele)Crotti - Guiding you to find freedom in movement 💃
Ciao Everyone
my name is Ele born and raised in Italy, adopted by the beautiful country Aotearoa in 2014. My Yoga journey started here in Auckland.
After exploring different styles and places, I fell in love with the school of Embodied Flow. I found that its principles and messages spoke to me deeply and I wanted to know more and more, to keep exploring and continue to heal.
Becoming a teacher wasn't my goal. I was looking to reconnect with my deepest Self, to acknowledge and face my wounds and traumas and to accept and finally embrace the Whole of me. Year after year I felt inside a desire growing and the courage to share with everyone the beauty of this transformative practice.
We are all trying to navigate these waters, all with different starting points, all with different vessels and different ideas or tools, but we all want to reach the Infinite Ocean.
If you'd love to share this journey with me, I can offer you a safe space to meet, accept and express your whole Self through the freedom of your unique flow. At your own pace, in your own time.
With deepest gratitude and love to all my teachers, to who came before and who will come after and to all the people that make me grow daily on and off the mat.
Forever at service,
Ele
My Yoga journey began under the guidance of the amazing Adele Kinghan - Rise in Movement. This introduced me to the principles of Embodied Flow and the philosophy of nondual Saiva Tantra.
I further deepened this learning with the wonderful Tara Judelle and Dr Scott Lyons, where I completed my RYT 500hrs in Ubud, Bali.
I also studied Yin Yoga with my beloved teacher Daphne Luke (senior teacher under Paul Grilley) - Yinyoga NZ.
