Katie is director of Samadhi Yoga, she is the first Certified Advanced Jivamukti Yoga teacher 
in Australia. She has also studied extensively with Simon Low from the Yoga Academy in the UK. She is a Sadaka-In-Training with the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and has studied personally with Mother Maya. Katie's broad background is reflected in her classes which are as much about atmosphere as they are about asana (postures). Her classes incorporate music and inspirational readings as well as elements of breathing practice and meditation. Katie has trained in the UK, U.S, India and Australia. Her book, 'Spiritual Survival in the City' and her new book 'Yoga off the Mat' is on sale now. Katie is mother to two year old Christos and 4 month old Ziggy. She is also a trained doula (birth companion).
Sarah Trestrail is a certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher who infuses her teaching with the very authenticity and devotion that defines the style. Sarah began practicing yoga 10 years ago as a way to help manage pain from injury and found it was everything she was looking for. When she discovered Jivamukti she was hooked, and travels regularly to see her guru’s Sharon Gannon and David Life, the creators of the Jivamukti system.
Sarah embraces the teachings of yoga as a way of life and a vehicle for spiritual activism, encouraging her students to overcome their limitations through mindful, dedicated and joyous practice. Her classes are challenging, dynamic and inspiring, incorporating asana, pranayama, meditation, chant, hands-on adjusts and assists and a rockin’ soundtrack to carry you through. Sarah also holds certifications in advanced Power Yoga, Thai Yoga massage and has studied anatomy and physiology at university level. She is a registered yoga teacher trainer and teaches workshops all around Australia and internationally.
Idit is a Samadhi trained teacher who has always been drawn strongly to Asia. She is a 500RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance and holds the "Advanced Diploma for Yoga teaching" by Nature Care College. Idit is also a part of the Teacher Training Faculty at Samadhi Yoga. Idit begun her practice of Hatha Yoga whilst traveling through Asia, since then she has studied different styles of yoga and regularly trains with varied well known international teachers including Donna Farhi, Sarah Powers, Simon Low, Seane Corne, Sharon Gannon, David life and many more, being inspired by their wisdom and their different techniques. Yoga has influenced Idit's life and she hopes to share this gift with as many beings as possible in the hope that it will benefit others as much as it has benefited her. The kind of yoga classes she teaches are varied and postures are adjusted to meet the needs of her individual students accordingly. Idit is also mother to beautiful Inbar.
Patty’s professional career has been eclectic and diverse. After travelling the world for many years, her career ranged from social worker to trained dancer. These days, Patty’s main passions lie in yoga, kinesiology and her thriving business as a marriage celebrant. A popular Hatha Vinyasa teacher for many years now, Patty’s fun loving expression is often echoed in her classes with her music, sequencing and meditation techniques. She is also dedicated to Kundalini Yoga, a beautiful practice which strengthens the endocrine and nervous systems.
Patty is one of the 3 main teaching staff for the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training across Australia and is mindful about incorporating all facets of yoga practice into her life. Her classes are open to all levels and Patty often encourages students to be open to hearing their body’s individual needs with kindness and compassion.
Richard first began practicing yoga as a child with his mother, later took up ice dancing, tai chi and karate before becoming a professional dancer. He returned to yoga in the later part of his international performing career that took him across the USA, Europe and Australia. Since the early 1990s he has studied with some of the world leaders in contemporary yoga such as Sharon Gannon and David Life of the Jivamukti Yoga Centre in New York. Richard has pursued a traditional pathway of learning the ashtanga yoga vinyasa series through workshops with Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. As well as pursuing his study of yoga, Richard is also an award-winning filmmaker and poet. He has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts, which focuses on yogic spiritual ideas in relation to art practice.
Aleta (Gurubala) is a Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher for children and adults who has studied and taught in both Australia, England and India. She has an active interest in Yoga as a vehicle for connection, as well as designing and teaching relaxation and meditation sessions for people in stressful situations and with chemical dependencies. Her classes are an explorative adventure of the infinite world within us all with a focus on meditation, sound, kriya, chakra and breath.
Since coming to yoga over 7 years ago, Mandy has been on a continual journey towards greater
awareness. Yoga has been life transforming. Australian born, she moved back to Australia over a year ago from England and found herself undertaking Kundalini yoga teacher training with Guru Jivan at Samadhi. She has not looked back since. With infinite love she encourages her students to work through their own individual journeys, getting what they need from strong physical practice, deep meditation and relaxation. She has recently completed the Hatha yoga teacher training at Samadhi and is further inspired to share this knowledge with her students.
Lynda has been working in natural health for twenty years, and she has been teaching yoga for six. She was one of the first students to graduate from Samadhi Yoga's teacher-training program. Lynda came to yoga through her experience as a Chivutti massage therapist.
Her passion and specialisation is in pre-natal and post-natal yoga, and she sees her classes as a place where mums can find compassion and community through the occasionally isolating experiences of pregnancy. Her students have often found friendship and companionship through her classes; nothing makes Lynda happier.
She also teaches in the community classes, and she incorporates an understanding of anatomy and physiology throughout all of her teaching. Having years of experience as a massage therapist, reflexologist and aromatherapist, Lynda's attitude toward teaching is caring, compassionate, and wholistic.
A live & raw foodist, she feels that living foods connect us to the earth, and eating becomes good not only for our health, but also for the planet's. Her yoga practice and teaching involve a whole understanding of health, compassion, and care.
Sarah De Graaff began practicing and her journey with yoga while still at school doing her HSC. Initially completing her teacher training at Samadhi Yoga she has recently become a Certified Jivamukti teacher. Sarah has also studied Pranayama (breathing practices) as therapy in Yoga.
Her grounded, calming approach mixes with an uplifting and dynamic style for a balanced class.
Sarah Owen completed the Level 1 Teacher Training at Samadhi Yoga in 2006 and is currently 
undertaking Samadhi's Mentoring Program. She has studied extensively with Katie Manitsas of Samadhi Yoga, and has also studied internationally with Sarah Powers (Insight/Yin Yoga, USA) and Debi DiPeso (Jivamukti, USA). Sarah lived in Mexico for 3 years from 2002 to 2005 and she has traveled to Guatemala and Peru. She speaks Spanish and holds Undergraduate degrees in Primary Teaching and International Studies. In 2007, she completed a Master's Degree in International Social Development, and hopes to combine her work teaching Yoga with working in the field of Social Development. Sarah's classes are down-to-earth and encourage the student to use inner knowledge to guide the Yoga practice for deeper personal insight.
Cath’s interest in Yoga began while studying a Bachelor of Dance at Queensland University of Technology in 2001. In 2004 Cath completed the Samadhi Teacher training program and since then has gone on to study with Clive Sheridan, Donna Farhi, Glen Ceresoli, Simon Low as well as a teacher training with Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss of Yoga Synergy. Cath has also studied Tibetan Buddhism on her travels around India in 2006.
David has been practicing yoga since 1994. He admits to having been more committed at some times than at others. David believes that if you work at a regular practice, it will change your life! David has studied yoga all over the world, including India, America, England, Germany and Australia. He gained his teaching qualification at Samadhi in 2007, and his yoga career has blossomed since then. David teaches Kids yoga at Samadhi as well as Friday evenings 6pm and 7.30pm.
Jessica began practicing yoga almost nine years ago during an intense period of illness. Her personal practice involves the full spectrum of yoga, from dynamic to restorative as well as enjoying the study of yogic philosophy. Jessica undertook her Yoga Teacher Training at Samadhi and has studied with Donna Farhi, Sarah Powers and Simon Low. She aims for her classes to be fun, inspiring and accessible to all levels of yoga student. Jessica teaches mornings at 8am at Samadhi and is also an artist.
Justine teaches a dynamic style vinyasa yoga as well as restorative yoga, pranayama and meditation. A certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, Justine travels regularly to New York to study with Sharon Gannon and David Life. Her other teachers include Mark Whitwell, Katie Manitsas, Yogeswari and Jeffery Cohen. Justine’s approach is vibrant, creative and uplifting with a focus on the breath. Her classes will assist you to bring strength, flexibility, balance and stillness to body and mind, and to take your yoga off the mat and into the world. Justine has a special interest in Nada yoga and in her classes you will explore how sound vibration and intention can deepen your practice. Justine is a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne and The University New South Wales where she studied music and law. As well as being a yoga teacher, Justine is a singer, lawyer, artist and mother of two. Justine’s aim is to inspire you to discover how yoga can transform your life.
Keith was born in the year of the rabbit. In his teens, he practiced yoga in the Ananda Marga tradition as a way to deal with adolesence. Throughout his career as a musician (including a long time gig as house pianist and musical director at legendary jazz venue, side-on cafe; and playing the Rhapsody in Blue for six pianos at the Gershwin centenary) and dancer (favourite roles include Prince Rama in the Ramayana and The King in The Firebird) he felt creatively satisfied but spiritually hungry. Then whilst backpacking around Thailand he discovered jivamukti yoga in a girlie bar in Chiangmai. He practiced religiously with jivamukti teacher Casey Gramaglia. In 2005 Keith gained certification from samadhi yoga through advanced certified jivamukti teacher, Katie Manitsas. In 2007 Keith realized his divine dream of becoming a jivamukti teacher, gaining certification from founders Sharon Gannon and David Life, and mentored by advanced certified jivamukti teacher Alanna Kaivalya. Keith currently spends most of his time teaching future enlightened anarchists music, yoga and religion (sometimes all at once) at Xavier college. His students are his inspiration. Keith often deejays for special Jivamukti workshops at samadhi and he regularly leads Kirtan with fellow jiva teachers Sarah T and Justine G.
Chris started practising yoga over 10 years ago as a way to balance the pressures of his international finance career, but instead awoke in himself a new passion ... one which provided him with the clarity of mind to reignite his inner teacher and let go of an unsatisfying career. His teaching commenced with the Samadhi certified teacher training in Sydney, and more recently he has completed trainings with world renowned teachers such as Simon Borg Oliver (Aus), Donna Fahri (NZ), Simon Low (UK) and Alanna Kaivalya (US). Chris believes that yoga is not only a series of postures but rather a practice that unifies body, mind and soul. His inspiring classes combine dynamic sequences, breathing techniques and restorative poses with unifying yogic themes to not only allow individuals to increase strength and flexibility but also to bring about balance and inner calm.