Makai Yoga Collective draws local teachers & community from the Bellarine Peninsula who have a shared passion & love of yoga. What we bring to the mat is inspired by tradition, experience & soul.
Andy Broadbear
Co-owner & Yoga Therapist
As a high school drama teacher, Andy relied on her yoga practice to get through many a school production! She finally took the leap and completed her first teacher training in 2009, later finding her yoga home on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Andy has trained in yin, pre/postnatal & kids yoga, as well as somatic movement, Ayurveda & Qi Gong. In 2015 she gained her qualification as a Yoga Therapist and is a senior registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia. After naturally gravitating towards a passion for women’s health, she now offers a 350HR Women’s Yoga Teacher Training at Makai.
Andy loves the meditative nature of somatic flow, which feels like a soothing whisper to the nervous system. When she’s not on the mat or with camera in hand, Andy is shaping young lives in the classroom and enjoying the coastal life with her children!
“Life is about balance ~ so walk barefoot along the beach, each chocolate & drink read wine, and know what it means to feel good in your body.”
Jo
Co-owner & Teacher
After dropping in and out of Yoga for many years, Jo finally began to fully appreciate its benefits at the end of 2016. The penny had finally dropped, she was addicted! As her youngest child grew, Jo wondered if she could take Yoga from being my passion to being my job.
In 2018 she decided to start my TT in Pranaa Yoga at Prana House in Melbourne. Pranaa Yoga is a mixture of dance inspired flow and long held postures with a huge focus on the idea of Meditation in motion and connection to the Third Eye.
Jo’s practice and teaching embrace the breath/movement connection and cultivation of Prana in the body. Trying to evolve her teaching through reading and study is a constant, there is always something new to learn.
“When not practising Yoga, I am raising two young girls along with my partner by the beach. I’m learning to love cold water swimming and enjoy a delicious Australian sunset!!”
Kirsten
Qi Gong Teacher
Kirsten has personal practice in Qi Gong of 5 years and her Teacher Hang Nhan lineage is with Lohan (Shaolin) Qi Gong and Kung Fu system at the root school of Choy Lee Fut.
Join us for Qi Gong to balance energy with slow movement, breath practice and meditation. Providing an opportunity for deep listening and connection to the present moment.
Each session we will welcome the changes of the seasons with a Qi Gong sequence and insights into a 4000-year-old ancient Chinese wellness practice. Qi is life force energy breath and Gong is the work that builds fire in the body. Qi gong is movement with breath. Following Chinese Medicine principles that restore vital energy meridians and keep Yin-Yang forces in balance.
