Meet the Kula Teachers and Healers

Our teachers and practitioners are here in the spirit of compassion and generosity to help keep the cost of event affordable and more available to the community.

Steffi Glasenapp

Yoga teacher, Transformational Coach and Bodyworker.
With a background in dance & teaching yoga, Steffi discovered Acroyoga in 2009. Being amongst the first certified in AcroYoga, she's a senior teacher in Australia.

With a decade of teaching workshops, classes & AcroYoga immersions, Steffi has supported people of all ages, sizes & body shapes in flying & taking the leap.

Technical ninja, super passionate about making Acroyoga accessible for everyone, anything complex she brakes down into intelligent buildings blocks.
She says "Everyone can play Acro when they train smart."

Julia Gusman

Julia has been playing in AcroYoga since 2011, and teaching since 2014.

As an experienced yogi, teacher and laughter yoga leader, she is passionate about all things fun.

With a corporate background, Julia believes finding space to accommodate play is vital in our busy lives.

To Julia, AcroYoga is about communication and human connection.
She says "Friends who play together stay together."

Join her for Acro Yoga on Saturday & Sunday

Shantell Shakti

Bliss Body Activist, Dakiki, Breathworker, Healer, Medicine Woman, Weaver & Sacred Feminine Arts Mentor.

Shantell was initiated into "energy healing" at age 10. Her life path has guided her to work holistically with the physical/emotional body, psychology and sexuality.  Breath, sound movement and healing touch are vital keys in her work with people.

She loves to create a sacred, loving, safe space for people to transform from one way of being, to another.

Join her for Polarity Yoga on Saturday & Dakini Yoga on Sunday.

Garry Luke

Garry is an original member of the Sound Samadhi Kirtan group that plays regularly around Sydney (last Saturday of the month in Brookvale).

As a musician playing bass guitar, acoustic guitar and percussion, he has performed with many Kirtanists over the last 15 years, i.e. Edo Kahn (Edo and Jo), Geeti and Gyan, Vanessa and Steve (Heartsounds), Kevin James and more. He also records and produces his own music.
We are in for a treat on Saturday night.

Bruce Scott

Bruce has 25 years of practice in Massage, Martial Arts, Movement and Acroyoga.

His ability to combine the essence of these modalities into a seamless bodywork experience is world class.
He has developed a finely tuned ability to sense where a person’s body is at, see the potential of where it could be & dissolve whatever is in the way.
Bruce’s approach is to support a person into their deepest state of relaxation, where the body can heal from the inside out.
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Rowan Classen

Rowan completed a number of massage course upon leaving high school.
At Confest years later he met Geoff Fisher, considered one the best physiotherapists in the world, and learnt a technique called Continuous Synovial Joint Mobilisation Technique.
During our Kula Yoga Festival, he is happy to teach this technique to others while he performs it.

Rowan is also the vision holder & creator of White Gums Community; a fairy tale, spiritual community, festival site & retreat center.

Chris Alleaume

Chris started yoga practice through a necessity to heal his body after many sporting injuries. Falling in love with the depth of the practice & the many benefits he received, he smoothly transitioned into teaching an array of styles ranging from a strong conscious flow to mindful static classes.

With over 1000hrs of training under his belt, yoga practice keeps him free of old injury pains & allows quality & range of movement with a new level of body awareness & inner strength. This is what he offers to you.

Chris's calm & easy going nature will get you to discover parts you’ve never experienced with the most subtle of invitations. Join Chris for Tantra Yoga classes on Sunday.

Liama Aesha

Liama completed her Zen Shiatsu training with Jack Marshall at the Zen Renaissance Healing Centre in 2001. She worked as a practitioner at the Zen Renaissance Healing Centre in Bondi Junction and opened up her own practice in Kiama, in 2008.
She has been teaching Yoga for over 10 years and in 2017, Liama completed her Yoga Therapy Training with Adore Yoga.

Liama's passion is working in the mental health field, particularly with Anxiety / Depression and PTST as the tools of Yoga can teach the life skills of self-inquiry, relaxation and self-soothing with breath practices to help balance the nervous system and calm the emotions.

Matt Hay

With a passion for surfing & the ocean Matt spends a lot of time in &
around the water. After a severe surfing accident that changed everything, he went to his first yoga class, “I was hooked, physically I healed & became stronger within months, but over time my attitude towards myself & life changed around me”.

Matt says, “Yoga is a movement beyond movement itself, we sense an inner calling to go deeper, deeper into our own practice, to practice, not harder but with more grace & intelligence, to feel more then body sensations”.
“Yoga is a dance that leads us deeper into the truth, the true nature of being, pure LOVE”.
Join Matt for Tantra Yoga, Sun & Moon classes on Saturday.

Chrissie Alexander

Chrissie is a Yoga teacher, Naturopath, Ayurveda practitioner & massage therapist. She teaches a Hatha Vinyasa flow linking movement to the breath, often starting with meditation & pranayama to bring students into the present moment & into their bodies.  Her practice & teaching has been inspired by teachers & practices including Clive Sheridan, Katie Manitsas (Jivamukti Yoga), Yogacharya Venkatesh, Simon Borg-Olivier & Mark Whitwell and she has practiced in different styles including Quantum Yoga, Ashtanga yoga & Zen Qi yoga.

Chrissie says "I love to use the breath to help bring balance to body & mind & to bring more awareness to the body to reduce the fluctuations of the mind.