Glenda Gooding is a Senior Level 3 Yoga Teacher and has a Recognised Yoga Teacher Training School with Yoga Australia (YA). Glenda has been studying and undertaking her own practice of yoga since 1969, has been teaching hatha yoga since 1977 and teaching meditation since 1982. She has been training yoga teachers since 1987.  Glenda studied for 22 years under Margrit Segesman who founded the Gita School of Yoga in Melbourne, which included specialist esoteric tuition undertaken in Margrit’s home with a small select group for over ten years.   A Diploma was received from Margrit Segesman.   A second Diploma was achieved with the International Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA). Glenda has also been initiated in the Swami Rama and Yogananda traditions.  Glenda has also undertaken specialist yoga studies with eleven trips to India to various Ashrams.

Glenda founded the Sherbrooke Centre in Belgrave Heights, a center for yoga and meditation in 1990 where she was the Principle for fifteen years. The Centre continually employed six part-time yoga teachers drawn from her Yoga Teacher Training Courses and there were 200-300 students attending classes each week. This highly successful Centre was sold in 2005 in order to complete a B.A. with Monash University 2008. While studying, Glenda maintained teaching yoga part-time, working in corporate venues, community centres, gyms and in public venues before reopening a yoga centre on the conclusion of her studies.  The Surya Yoga and Meditation Studio was opened offering hatha yoga classes from beginner to advanced, meditation courses, Yoga Teaching Course and one day yoga workshops.

Teachers undertaking the Teaching Course with Glenda will benefit from her wide and lengthy yoga teaching career which includes the founding of two successful yoga and meditation centers and previous experience in teaching yoga in corporate venues, community houses, gyms, and public venues and giving talks in various venues.   Glenda shares her knowledge with students from her broad yoga experience.

Glenda specialises in courses of yoga teaching in small groups where teachers are taught to work at a high standard through supportive, positive and empathic teaching methods.   A very high number of those attending the course are successful teachers with some opening yoga centres of their own.  For example, all teachers from the course of 2011 were actively teaching their own classes of yoga within one month of the conclusion of the course.  Some graduates wished to pursue other career courses and found that they had gained the confidence to pursue further studies and embrace a new careers that they had previously thought not possible.  The Yoga Teaching Course with Glenda is a journey that will bring a high level of yoga teaching skills, personal development and greatly enhance your knowledge and confidence and opening to a yoga future where ever you decide to take it.

Glenda’s Qualifications

 YOGA:

1984 – Diploma of Yoga Teaching – Margrit Segesman, Founder of the Gita School of Yoga.                               Student of Margrit Segesman 1970-1993.

1986 – Diploma of Yoga Teaching – International Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA)

FURTHER FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS:

2008 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – Monash University.Two Majors: History/Politics and Sociology including study overseas:The Renaissance Period (in Florence) & The Ottoman Empire from Gazi to Gallipoli (in Turkey)

2008 Certificate IV in Business Management

2009 Certificate IV in Lifecoaching

2012 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

2016 Masters of Counselling (M.A. of Coun.)