Registered Level 1 Teacher
Anahata has been practising yoga for 30 years and teaching since 2002.
Anahata teaches an integrated approach to yoga that explores yoga as an intimate embrace of the whole mandala of life. In 2013 she established One Heart Yoga and Meditation, a community-oriented sanctuary for authentic practice, located at The Abbotsford Convent.
Anahata explores a slow flow vinyasa style to deeply integrate natural ways of moving and being. We explore moving, breathing, standing, sitting and simply being as deep expresssions of our innate wholeness. Anahata offers dynamic, integrated, beginners, restorative and prenatal yoga classes, workshops and retreats.
She is passionate about prenatal yoga as a way to help women have empowering birth experiences and she runs twice-yearly the Yoga of Birth: Teaching Prenatal Yoga: Graduate Certificate training (Yoga Australia approved). She runs the Yoga of Sound Immersion trainings for yoga teachers throughout the year. She provides mentoring to yoga teachers. Anahata is also a trained yoga therapist and offers individual yoga therapy sessions to address specific needs with individualised yoga programs. Anahata is a member of Yoga Australia as both a yoga teacher and yoga therapist. She has completed teacher training Yoga for Depression and Anxiety with Amy Weintraub and Trauma Aware yoga training.
With a background in nonviolent activism and work as an activist and community development worker in the environmental, peace and domestic violence fields, she is passionate about practice as a foundation for social change.
Graduate Certificate in Yoga Therapy
Associate Diploma in Community Development
Diploma in Somatic Psychotherapy
Certificate IV Small Business Management
Certificate IV Training and Assessment
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Anahata Giri
For yoga classes with Anahata: For several years I have taken classes with Anahata Giri. Her yoga is inspiring. She has developed a style of teaching that often begins gently but builds to a very complete and demanding sequence, all in a gracious and gentle atmosphere. Her yoga is deep and engages one on many levels. She is a lovely role model, having a feminine, poised and generous manner, unaffected and helpful. For several years I and my partner have looked forward to a deep and sensitive yoga session on Sunday mornings with Anahata, who has been consistent and kind, while also extending our capacity both physically and inwardly. She is a very skilled, unpretentious and strong teacher and I recommend her work strongly. Julia White, March 2013 Anahata is a wonderful yoga teacher. I have been to her classes twice weekly since moving from NZ in 2009. I enjoy the way her classes integrate asana, pranayama, sound work and meditation, and dynamically combine strength, movement and deep connection to the breath. In class, she provides a beautiful balance between sensitive guidance, and holding space for a deep personal practice. Her own grounded and curious nature permeates her classes, and her regular following of students have become somewhat of an extended family. Jacqui Chan, March 2013 Testimonials for The Yoga of Birth: Teaching Prenatal Yoga: Graduate Certificate: "The prenatal training with Anahata was outstanding. As a woman who has never had children, this training gave me the opportunity to dive deep into exploring the experience of pregnancy, giving birth and yoga as a wonderful tool to support woman through this sacred process. The training was very thorough and flowed beautifully. Anahata guided us through prenatal yoga classes, provided factual information and a very comprehensive manual, opportunities for information sharing and growth as a group and as individual teachers. This training has enriched my teaching, my personal yoga practice and opened me up to new and wonderful ways of viewing pregnancy and birth." Ingrid Jolley, Yoga of Birth Training, 2012 Thank you Anahata for this great workshop! Your teaching style is down to earth, clear and practical. You offered safe & interesting sequencing, useful sound practices, along with simple yet potent meditations, all of which are invaluable tools for pregnancy and birth. Im very excited to commence teaching prenatal yoga with complete confidence thanks to this integrated workshop.