09/09/2025
It’s finally happening! After many conversations and a shared interest in unpacking a contemporary and discerning approach to yoga, is joining us here in Naarm for 2 special offerings.
𝘋𝘠𝘕𝘈𝘔𝘐𝘊 𝘈𝘚𝘈𝘕𝘈 𝘊𝘓𝘈𝘚𝘚
Sept 20th , 11am - 1pm
𝘐𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘙𝘖𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘠𝘖𝘎𝘈 𝘞𝘖𝘙𝘒𝘚𝘏𝘖𝘗
Oct 4th, 11am - 1pm
𝘈𝘉𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝘉𝘌𝘚𝘚:
Bess Prescott is a yoga practitioner and teacher whose work sits at the intersection of yoga, human rights, history, ethics, politics and environmentalism.
After studying and practising law, Bess turned to teaching yoga full time in 2011, having practiced since 2001. In 2015, she co-founded Creature Yoga in Byron Bay, growing it to worldwide recognition over the following decade. Alongside teaching yoga āsana, she lectures in yoga history and philosophy for teacher trainings internationally. In 2021, she completed first-year Sanskrit Studies at ANU as part of an ongoing commitment to the critical study of yoga history and original texts.
Her curiosity about yoga extends to its complexity: how yoga has done and can do good in the world, and how it has contributed to harm. She is engaged in questions of tradition and ethics—how to be aware of heritage while refusing to uphold dogma, hierarchy, patriarchy or caste apartheid; how to grapple with the impacts of colonisation and capitalism; and how to navigate the dangers and superficiality of modern wellness culture. Her work explores the intersection of yoga and politics, debrahminisation and desanskritisation, and the question of cultural appropriation.
Bess believes the teachings of yoga are many—some transcendent, others abhorrent—and continues to ask: which texts and teachings align with ethics of non-harming, truth-telling and discernment, and which do not? For her, the only yoga worth practising is one deeply engaged with the world: looking inward as a way to become strong and steady enough to extend a hand outward to others. Her approach to teaching is always co-created with students, grounded in reciprocity and curiosity, and carried forward in community.
Link in bio to book (already half full!)
We hope to see you,
Albee x