~ Michelle Allen ~
Training Certificates or Qualifications:
200 hour TT with Hot Yoga Auckland
Duncan Peak and Tiffany Cruikshank - Advanced Sequencing with Philosophy TT
Shiva Rea - Chakra Prana Vinyasa TT
Elena Brower - Luminous Listening TT
Yoga Influences: Elena Brower, Shiva Rea and countless other teachers I have encountered along the path that have touched my Heart in some way. But I have to say that the students who show up to class really would be my greatest influence, the collaboration of energies is really what feeds my guidance.
Inspirational teachers: Mother Gaia. My Children.
Background: My Yoga journey began in 2004 as a devoted student. Eight years later I delved into my first Teachers Training with a desire to deepen my own personal practice which led me onto my path of teaching. Many teachers have shaped how I teach today, both local and international. My offerings are steeped in the Vinyasa roots and as I wisen with age so too my classes evolve offering a slower, steadier more easeful asana practice married with sound healing and light language meditation. I am a true home body, you will find me spending time with my family and dearest friends, walking my beloved dog in the forest, brewing tea or sipping a hot cacao.
Why I practice: I practice to hear the language of my Heart, to connect deeper and deeper into the layers of my Soul so that my innate wisdom may be felt and heard - from there I am able to serve, love, live, breathe and Be.
Why I teach: It is the calling of my Heart. It is a deep privilege to co-create with each beautiful Soul who turns up to practice. Really we are all teaching and guiding each other….. In the words of Ram Dass “We are all just walking each other Home”.
Favourite quotes:
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves”
-Mary Oliver
