Maya Pratt

Maya is the co-owner of The Yoga Loft.  She has over 10 years of experience teaching yoga, facilitating teacher trainings and operating yoga studios.

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Maya loves to teach a fluid style of yoga with emphasis on and inspiration from myths of the asanas, mudras of the hands and creative movement of the body.  Get ready to be challenged, be playful and have fun!

Myles

Lets strive together in a well-rounded free flow power vinyasa that incorporates a variety of balancing postures and holds. Learn to surrender and relax as we replenish spirit, body and mind in our restorative Yin classes.

I look forward to seeing you out on your mat!

Namaste

Ellen Anderson

Ellen has been teaching yoga since 2015 and the way she has taught and practiced yoga over the last decade has continued to evolve and change. She co-founded Manifest Yoga Studio in 2018 and has run teacher trainings and retreats around the world.

Ellens classes are a practice of presence - not just a practice of postures and breath but the spaces in between. She loves the soft, still and strong parts of the practice and more than anything, the art of paying attention.

Dominique le Roux

Dom found a sense of peace and grounding on her mat years ago when life felt difficult and unbearable. It was the only place that brought consistency and a feeling that everything was going to be okay.

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Once realising that yoga seemed to be the answer to all lifes problems, she decided to deepen her practise and dive into a teacher training, in order to be able to share her love of yoga and the benefits it clearly had.

After completing 500 hours of training, she hopes to show all that attend her class that being in your body and breathing is a beautiful thing we all have the privilege of experiencing. Dom's flows are dynamic and creative, created to take you out of your mind and into your beautiful body.

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Gemma Trehearn

The intention Gemma puts behind her classes is to practice the discipline of focusing the mind through strong postures whilst surrendering to meditation during movement and flow. 

Gemma believes in cultivating a practice to be strong and feel powerful in one's body, which ultimately helps you find freedom.

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"Expect to work hard, but also to flow and get expressive and playful.

Style craves line. So let's explore both!"

Sasha Dom

Sasha has been teaching yoga for the last 10 years. With a focus on holding a container for anatomically safe movement and building strength Sasha offers a powerful dynamic flow without the risk of hypertension/ injury. She draws on her profession as a psychologist to build a holistic approach to mindful movement and overall body autonomy. Sasha has 800 hours of training and specialises in inversions and arm balances and body rehabilitation.  
 

Lucy Ker

"Every day I am inspired by the dedication of students and the powerful group dynamic of practicing in a community, and I'm particularly passionate about the dynamic flow of power vinyasa and aim to teach
clearly structured, well-rounded classes with an emphasis on the harmonious movement
of body and breath.

My yoga practice is a reliable constant in a chaotic world, and my mat is my safe space to explore my body and my mind."

Beverly Slauck

The love of yoga was instilled in Bev from an early age as she grew up practicing yoga with her gran, who taught yoga well into her 80s. With Bev’s background as a pharmacist and her keen interest in health and the body, teaching yoga was an easy transition for her. Bev has been teaching yoga since December 2016, completing teacher training with Yo Yoga and Catherine Wilkinson.

Mark Bland

Mark’s training is deeply rooted in classical hatha yoga with elements of depper enery work, tantra, kundalini and vinyasa. His teaching focuses on the essence of yoga and the opportunity to expand from there into depth.

Areas that influence him deeply are philosophy, pranayama and the effects on prana (your life force or energy), and the spiritual aspects of the practice. “I like to try and instill a sense of conscious connection and intention to a class but whilst allowing for a light, open and humorous space allowing students the opportunity to let go, smile, explore and share the beauty of breath and movement together”.

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"Teaching allows you to connect to people on a completely different level. Within the studio space people who are so used to putting up walls share with you their vulnerabilities, emotions and laughter. They move, breathe, sweat and meditate together on a common journey. And for me this is what it all comes down to - the beauty in creating this yoga community together".

Will Lindeque

Since his first teacher training in 2014, Will continued to expand on his knowledge through workshops and training course led by various International teachers as well as working with various teachers and studios in Cape Town.
In 2019 he started working full-time with physiotherapists, chiropractors and biokineticists developing a therapeutic approach to his teaching style.
With his extensive anatomical knowledge and awareness of bio-mechanics in the body he draws inspiration from traditional asana yoga styles as well as other modern movement disciplines when putting sequences together.
His goal with this process is to help his students gain knowledge of their own bodies to advance their existing or new movement practices.

Mimi

A few years into her yoga practice, Mimi stepped into her first Yin class. While she loves Vinyasa and other Yang practices, in Yin, she found the deep resonance of a practice that comes naturally. Guided by this innate connection, she brings a sense of ease and warmth to each class.

She completed her Yoga Alliance 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Cape Town in 2019, and her Yoga Alliance 50-hour Yin training in 2020, both with Unraveled.

Anna

Anna was introduced to Yoga from a young age by her mother, an Iyengar teacher. During her travels in 2016, she started to connect more deeply with the practice & decided to further her knowledge through her first teacher training in India. 

Although since trained in & influenced by many Yoga styles, Jivamukti Yoga, a Hatha Vinyasa inspired practice, based on a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings - is where Anna has found perspective, passion & purpose.

Yoga has helped Anna overcome many personal challenges and has allowed her deep self-exploration, which has changed the way she perceives & moves through life. On the mat is where she feels like the best version of herself, and she aims to serve others in this way - creating a safe but dynamic practice that enables others to strengthen their understanding of & relationship with themselves. 

Anna’s classes have a slower pace & have a strong focus on the breath and alignment, shining awareness on & honouring the body's physical capabilities & needs. Her objective is for the class to leave one feeling balanced, grounded, connected & present.

Tana Trzebinski

"Yoga is the ever-evolving path home to self."
With a background in dance and performance, movement has always been at the heart of everything Tana does – a medium through which she connects and experiences the world around her.
Tana found yoga at a very turbulent time in her life, and the solace she found in the practice helped her feel rooted in the present moment. "My desire to share the practice with others through teaching was birthed organically out of my own inner transformation – it is a privilege to share this practice every day."

Michelle

Michelle has stumbled into a reality in which she studies brains, bends bodies, and is a friend to animals. She's passionate about teaching safe and accessible yoga for everybody and every body. Since her study of yoga began with Jim Harrington in 2016, she's committed to constantly learning, accruing over 350 hours of certified yoga teacher training and constantly learning. Also in 2016, she established Downward Dog for Dogs, a registered nonprofit organisation that supports animal shelters through yoga-based events. Her teachings are rooted in sound anatomical theory and creative flow, and her qualifications in Psychology (Honours) and Neuroscience (PhD Candidate) greatly inform her approach to connecting the mind and body through yoga. She loves to teach a (usually slow and) strong vinyasa class as well as restful and restorative yin. Michelle's favourite element of being a yoga teacher is being part of the process of people discovering their personal experience of yoga.

Elana Scott

Elana started practicing 11 years ago and has been teaching for 8 of those years. She obtained her 200h YTT in her hometown of Cleveland Ohio, USA where she then graduated and began teaching in a studio in Los Angeles while obtaining her Bachelor's degree in Religious Philosophy and Fine Arts. After four years of study and teaching, she said goodbye to L.A., and moved to Berlin, Germany. During her interim period of not teaching due to COVID, she furthered her education increasing her credentials to 350h YTT. 

Her classes are strong and creative. She believes in laughter, fun, and discipline. She focuses on the breath offering dynamic sequences to keep practitioners challenged, and engaged. She is interested in the mental and spiritual domains of the practice as a philosophy to understand the Self. Her passions are rooted in meditation, yin, and the more subtle dimensions of the practice.

Jamie Fuller

Jamie was introduced to yoga as an alternative to not having made the the cut for the soccer squad in high school. Luckily she grew to love yoga and went on to complete two teacher trainings, in France and India. 

What often starts out as ‘just a sport’ inevitably develops into a comprehensive philosophy for compassionate living. Yoga is a wonderful way to stay fit, calm and connected no matter your stage or age.

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Julia Kausch

Julia started her yoga journey over a decade ago in her hometown of Berlin. While her practice served as an escape from those cold, dark winter days, she quickly noticed that yoga did not only enhance her physical practice and flexibility but also helped calm her often anxious mind. In Cape Town, she has found a new home and an appreciation for the natural beauty that surrounds this place: the mountains, the ocean, seasonal wind and rain.

Julia’s classes progressively build up to strong poses to achieve a meditative state through flow and repetition that is enhanced through the palpable energy of bodies moving through space, to collectively instil intentionality through mindfulness on and off the mat.

Shelby Kleynhans

Shelby is a 300hr Vinyasa, Yin and Aerial teacher and co-owner of Show Up & Flow - Cape Town Beach Yoga.

Her classes focus on flowing with the breath moment to moment, moving with intuition and intention. She is passionate about holding a space to cultivate joy and offering practitioners an opportunity to journey into self discovery.