Home of Yoga Teachers

Sam Weinstein (Yoga Sam)

Sam is the senior yoga instructor at the Home of Yoga and one of its founders. He has been teaching yoga for over 37 years and has trained with many famous instructors including five years with B.K.S. Iyengar. Sam runs regular workshops and retreats in Australia and abroad. He also offers a teacher training program through the centre called “Deepen your Yoga”. Sam has total faith in all of his students, their goodness and their beauty. It is with this faith that he encourages each student to discover themselves. Read more about Sam Weinstein...

Sydel Weinstein

Sydel is the cornerstone of our Yoga centre and community. She teaches our mindful yoga classes, including a cancer wellness class and she runs regular mindfulness workshops including 'De-Stress with Yoga’. Sydel also teaches children’s yoga, pregnancy yoga and parent and baby yoga. Sydel is a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor and runs our Mental Health and Well-Being program. Read more about Sydel Weinstein…

Our Teachers in Training...

Allan
Allan has a passion and enthusiasm for yoga that is balanced by sincerity, a caring nature and the grounding faith that practicing yoga is like a child growing, it takes time to mature. He was recently invited into our long-term teacher training program,  has begun to teach a few classes and continues to assist. He is fantastic with yoga props like bolsters and straps and finding new ways to use them and gives great attention to detail. He is also a partner in the Home of Yoga Shop and our IT guru. A great adventurer he recently returned from three months in India exploring and studying Yoga.

Jo
Has been training with us a few years now, is a mother of two beautiful children and has also experience teaching and assisting in our pregnancy yoga program. She has recently been training all over Australia and teaches many classes around the Perth metropolitan area. Jo brings to Yoga her skills as a dancer and a strong interest in Acro-Yoga. Recently Jo has begun to extend her adventures to Bali. Jo teaches for us as an associate teacher whenever she can.

Helen
Helen has been with us for over seventeen years and is a dedicated teacher and star graduate of our program. She teaches several classes in the hills and does relief teaching for us as often as her work and classes allow. She is the mother of two children born through our charity organization, the Family Nurturing Centre. One of which is in our big baby club - over eleven pounds and totally natural! One day Helen came to with a huge notebooks asking if she could train.  In the notebook were drawings and descriptions and notes from all the classes she had attended over the last five years.

Ryan
Ryan has been practicing yoga with the Home of Yoga for going on to ten years. He has almost completed the Deepen Your Yoga Program. He has been busy as a dedicated father of two young children and balances his time as a producer of an early morning radio show. He brings a freshness and fun nature to his classes that make him a popular teacher and assistant.

Susan-Jane
Susan-Jane is loved for her playful nature and the depth of her dedication to her own yoga practice (over seventeen years). As a nurse/midwife, Bowen practitioner and healer, Susan-Jane has extensive study and understanding of the human body. She has been a dedicated partner of our charity organization, the Family Nurturing Center’s pregnancy yoga classes and childbirth education for over seven years and she continues to be a valued member and teacher in our yoga community.

Kerry
Kerry is a great yoga teacher and support for our school. When she practices yoga she truly is doing yoga and totally in it. She is a much loved individual. She is currently working on furthering her studies. She supports the centre in any way that she can.

Kirsten
Kirsten has been on the other side of the yoga mat with us for many years now; teaching, setting up computers, assisting with our magazine and somehow finding the time to get married, have 3 babies at home and to top it off, home school her three boys. We value her dedication to yoga and to our school.

Julie
Julie is a new yoga teacher and mother of two. She has been practicing yoga regularly for over ten years. Combining a career and motherhood and a committed yoga practice takes a lot of organization and dedication. Julie has an enthusiastic, positive attitude and way of being organized that gives you the feeling of freshness and calm reassurance. Julie brings this quality into her teaching.

Nadia
Nadia is an artist and an art teacher. She has been coming regularly to the Home of Yoga for over eighteen years with consistent dedication to her practice. Her dedication is evident when she teaches, truly applying her artistic energies with a deep sense of the ‘Art of Yoga’. Nadia also attended our pregnancy yoga classes with her lovely daughter who is now eighteen.

Amanda
Amanda has an honorary place in our school and has been teaching the Wednesday night class for many years. Very loved by her students and the Home of Yoga we miss her and look forward to her visits!

Currently in our Deepen Your Yoga Program...

These new yogi’s are just starting to teach and assist in our classes. They each bring their own breath and style to our school;
Danika, Max, Christine, Nabilla, Nisha, Katie, Alexia, Jane Amelia, Ash, Kirsty, Sarah