About Justine

Yoga has been woven throughout all of Justine's adult life, like a common thread that links every milestone and transition, yoga has always been a guiding light. Justine has been a yoga practitioner for more than half her life, and she is very passionate about yoga and the support that it offers us in our everyday life!

Justine completed her initial teacher training through Swami Sarasvati's Yoga Society, continuing the yoga lineage passed down from Swami Sarasvati, who brought yoga to Australia in the 1960s. Justine has also completed formal studies in many other yoga modalities since her initial training, and is an constantly expanding her yoga knowledge and teaching skills.

Justine is passionate about incorporating yoga into our everyday lives, and how yoga can support all aspects and stages of our lives - this comes from her own personal experiences. Yoga has supported Justine through her late teenage years and becoming an adult, getting married and building strong relationships, becoming a mother and mothering her children, through life’s stable moments and wobbly moments - yoga offers consistent support.

Justine guides an intuitive practice, and encourages her students to attune to their own needs from each class. There is never any pressure to follow her class sequence, in fact Justine prefers to encourage all of her students to be guided by their own bodies. Justine can often be heard reminding students to take a pause if they need to throughout a class, or adjust a position if it doesn’t feel good in their bodies. One of her favourite reminders to weave into her classes is ‘listen to your body, and allow it to guide your practice, this is your practice - it doesn’t matter what the person next to you is doing - you don’t live in their body, you live in yours. Your experience is your own.’

Justine loves teaching fluid, breath-centered practices with an interwoven theme, and has accrued thousands of hours in front of students in the various styles of classes she leads. Justine draws on her extensive experience and knowledge to offer individual assistance during classes, and adapts her classes to suit the students on the day.