The Future Sound of Yoga
The Future Sound of Yoga is a sensory experience involving music and movement. The movements are a combination of traditional yoga poses and freeform dance. A live DJ creates the soundtrack, which is drawn from electronic dance music (e.g. Ambient, Trip Hop, Progressive, Tech House) and atmospheric band/artist albums (e.g. Bjork, Sigur Ros, Radiohead). The album covers below show some of the music we have used in past events. Rather than strict instruction or striving to achieve complex yoga poses, [...]
Mark Whitwell
Mark is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar, with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark’s teachings clarify the profound passion and relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life. Mark has taught yoga for over twenty years throughout the US, Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Mark was the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s book, “The Heart of Yoga,” [...]
Simon Borg-Olivier
Yoga teacher, shiatsu masseur, physiotherapist, and more, Simon has run one of Sydney’s most successful yoga schools for the last 20 years. At the age of six, he was introduced to yogic breathing (pranayama) by his father George who taught him to swim underwater, and the main bandhas (internal locks) through a family friendship with Rhodesian Olympian Basil Brown. At the age of 17, he met a Tibetan Lama who introduced him to the philosophy and practice of Tantric Yoga. [...]
Julie Smerdon
Perennial student, proud wife and mum and lover of life, Julie has been sharing her passion for yoga with students on two continents for over a decade. A casual student in the early 1990’s, her yoga practice became pivotal in 1999 when a medical crisis nearly cut her life short. Julie credits yoga for the reassembly of her shattered body and spirit following back-to-back, life-altering surgeries. With an unmistakable calling to share the power of the practice, after more than [...]
Byron Spirit Festival
Join us in creating The Byron Spirit Festival, an artful celebration in service to the liberation of mind, body and spirit, so multitudes of beings may benefit even more from your living and loving. Inspired by the growing community around conscious living, Byron Spirit will empower us to create the vision that we all share. Byron Spirit will take place in the NOW on Feb 17-19, 2012. The Byron Spirit Festival will bring together leading yoga teachers, tantra masters, musicians [...]
