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Our Teacher Trainers

Meet our Yoga Teacher Trainers, dedicated to their practice and guidance of Yoga:

Carrie-Anne Fields - Principal Teacher Trainer
Sam Foster
Fiona Sorensen
James Maloney
Stacey Elmes
Trudie Edwards
Trey Williams
Tamara James
Kamala Devi


Carrie-Anne Fields - Principal Teacher Trainer

Carrie-Anne has owned and operated My Health Broadbeach since 1998, specialising in yoga, counselling, acupuncture, reiki, tarot and ka huna bodywork. She holds a Bachelor of Psychology, is a Reiki Master, and is certified in acupuncture, kinesiology 1/11, Swedish Massage and Ka Huna Bodywork. She is an accredited Level 3 Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Teacher's Association of Australia. Carrie-Anne has studied yoga for over ten years with various teachers in Australia and America, has taught full time since 1999, and has spent regular retreat periods in silent meditation. My Health Yoga now has a second studio in Woolloongabba, and run teacher training courses from Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. Carrie-Anne practices karma yoga by offering free counselling and healing services to anybody who is in need.













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Sam Foster

Sam has been a practitioner of yoga since 2001 and teaching since 2004. Specialising in Astanga Yoga, Sam has trained under Senior Yoga Teacher, Mark Togni from Gold Coast Yoga Centre. Sam has been involved with the My Health Yoga Teacher Training Level 1 course since 2005 and assisted in the writing and presentation of the first Level 11 Yoga Teacher Training with My Health in 2007. Sam is the correspondence course consultant for the teacher training. Sam also writes and teaches for the Queensland Academy of Sport and has taught yoga for a number of professional dance and theatre companies, including the Queensland Theatre Company. Whilst Sam's main profession is as a working actor and performer, he is a dedicated yogi who truly lives all four paths of yoga.











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Fiona Sorensen

Fiona has been studying yoga since 1999, and teaching since 2002. Fiona is a qualified Level 11 Yoga Teacher, Radiant Light Children's Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, has undergone a 10 day silent vipassana meditation retreat and holds a diploma in Healing and Metaphysics. Fiona teaches Children's Yoga in the course. She has trained with renowned Kundalini Yoga Teacher Shakta Kaur Khalsa from the United States, Martin Ray, Samadhi Yoga in Sydney and other amazing yogis. Fiona is also a working actor and performer, making her contribution to the kids yoga training truly creative and inspirational.









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James Maloney

James is a qualified My Health Yoga teacher, Naturopath, Acupuncturist, Kinesiologist, Bodyworker, Gestalt Therapist and Counsellor. His extensive range of skills makes him one of the most knowledgeable people in the natural health industry. James has successfully owned and operated 'James Maloney's Mind/Body Connection' in Broadbeach, Gold Coast since 1998, and also lectures at Gold Coast Academy of Natural Therapies. James teaches meridians, anatomy & physiology and nutrition in the course.








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Stacey Elmes

Stacey runs her own highly successful Yoga business, 'Rock-it-Fit' in Brisbane. She is a qualified yoga teacher with specialist training in Pregnancy Yoga. Stacey trained with Samadhi Yoga teacher, Katie Spiers, and also with My Health Yoga. Stacey is a very healing soul who teaches Pregnancy yoga in the course. Stacey carefully guides expectant mums through a practice that prepares them for their ever changing body and journey ahead. Stacey combines several years experience in yoga, dance, gymnastics and fitness to empower her students with a dynamic practice, which is balanced with the deeper aspects of yoga that allow her students to soften, breathe and take time out to "be".










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Trudie Edwards

Trudie is a specialist power yoga teacher who achieved her level one and level two teacher training through the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute - USA and more recently trained in Classical Yoga through My Health Yoga - Gold Coast. Trudie has successfully owned and operated 'Sunshine Coast Power Yoga' since 2006. Trudie is an assistant teacher in the My Health Yoga Sunshine Coast teacher training and is loved by all who share in her energy and wisdom.







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Trey Williams

Trey has been teaching yoga with My Health Yoga since 1999, making him one of the original My Health teachers. He has trained with Yoga Masters Martin Ray and Nicky Knoff in Australia and Saul David Raye in America. Trey has taught both in Australia and America and teaches Alignment and Adjustment in the course. His intensive training in the Iyengar tradition means he has depth of knowledge and understanding of postural precision for this area of the teacher training.







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Tamara James

Tamara teaches anatomy in the My Health Yoga level 11 teacher training and holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (University of Qld) 1993 Diploma of Yoga Teaching (British Wheel of Yoga) 2001. Tam has been practising yoga since 1993 and teaching since 1998. She has studied yoga with senior level teachers in the United Kingdom, India and Australia and has studied Yoga and Vedanta beyond her yoga teacher training with various teachers in India, spending regular retreat periods in guided and self directed, silent meditation. Tam has been practising physiotherapy since 1994. Tam brings professional expertise and extensive asana experience to workshops on anatomy and physiology. These are suitable for teachers and experienced yoga practitioners and have specific reference to yoga, and focused on improving students personal practice and teaching skills.












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Kamala Devi

Kamala (Pattie Angel) is a Sivananda accredited Yoga Teacher who has been teaching in Katoomba (Blue Mountains, NSW) since 1989. She commenced her practice in Sydney in 1977 with respected Yoga Teacher Acharya Upendra Roy, and taught at Acharya's Yoga Meditation Centre in 1979 under his guidance. Kamala completed the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course in 1981 and the Advanced Yoga Teachers' Training Course in 1988 under the direction of renowned Yoga Master Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati.

Since 1999 Kamala has been cataloguing Swami Vishnudevananda's archives - personal papers, lecture tapes and photographs - in preparation for his Biography. In 2003 she edited the Autobiography of respected Vedantin and Sanskrit scholar, Swami Chaitanyananda of Uttarkashi. In 2006 Kamala edited Vishnudevananda Upadesa, a collection of extracts from the existing transcripts of Swami Vishnudevananda's satsangs, talks and lectures. She is currently editing Swami Vishnudevananda's teachings on Vedanta and the practice of Jnana Yoga. Kamala has been giving workshops to Level I and Level II Yoga Teacher Trainees since 2006.


















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