Balanced Practice Yoga

Balanced Practice Yoga Yoga Classes by the Ocean at Warriewood Surf Club and online. Yoga Retreats, Yoga Teacher Training, WELCOME
YOGA CLASSES FOR ALL BODIES AND ABILITIES.

YOGA HELPS YOU TO CONNECT MORE DEEPLY WITH YOUR BODY AND BREATH, ALLEVIATES STRESS AND INCREASES STRENGTH, BALANCE AND FLEXIBILITY. WE TEACH YOGA IN A SAFE, CALMING WAY.EVERYONE IS WELCOME. SO CLOSE TO THE OCEAN YOU CAN ALMOST FEEL THE SEA SPRAY. TAKE SOME TIME OUT FOR YOURSELF AND REDISCOVER YOGA.

VINYASA JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHAKRASTUESDAYS 7:00AM - 800AM at WSLSC. We are so happy to have begin her own regular clas...
06/03/2026

VINYASA JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHAKRAS
TUESDAYS 7:00AM - 800AM at WSLSC.

We are so happy to have begin her own regular class at Warriewood Surf Club.
Iolanda is a heart-led yoga teacher and somatic guide offering gentle and energetic embodied practices that nurture self-connection, emotional healing, and inner calm. Rooted in the belief that the body holds our stories, her classes combine mindful movement, breath, and stillness to create supportive spaces for release and renewal. Her approach blends body awareness and relaxation to support overall wellbeing—inviting students to slow down, soften, and reconnect with themselves.

Especially suited to those seeking balance, calm, and a deeper sense of connection, Iolanda teaches both dynamic, high-energy vinyasa flows and slower-paced, soulful yin-inspired practices. Her classes at Warriweood Surf Club are guided with warmth and authenticity, inviting students to move, breathe, and reconnect with their inner rhythm. Each class offers a space to unwind, recharge, and feel more grounded, open, and present.

You’ve shown up for everyone else. Now it’s your turn.Some places offer a break. This is something different.Join Liz an...
19/02/2026

You’ve shown up for everyone else. Now it’s your turn.
Some places offer a break. This is something different.
Join Liz and Amelia March 15-21st 2027 at Neelashwar Hermitage for a week long India retreat.
Nestled in the heart of Kerala where the backwaters gently meet the ocean, our luxury yoga retreat is designed for those who understand that fulfilment begins with deep restoration.
This is not an escape from your life — it’s an investment in the clarity, energy, and presence that elevate every part of it.
Expect elevated yoga instruction, personal wellness experiences, and the kind of unhurried luxury that reminds you what it feels like to be fully alive. Sun-warmed mornings on the mat. Nourishment that heals from the inside out. Evenings that belong entirely to you.
Allow us to share Neelashwar Hermitage with you for a week of yoga and Ayurveda, and beautiful curated local experiences including a houseboat cruise, sunset concerts and cultural walks. You cannot pour from an empty vessel. Let yourself be truly restored.
Dm us for booking details.

Sequencing intelligent and creative yoga classes is a subtle art that evolves with practice and intentional refinement. ...
03/02/2026

Sequencing intelligent and creative yoga classes is a subtle art that evolves with practice and intentional refinement. Yoga is a lifetime practice, so you don’t need to pack everything you know into one class.
A great yoga class will always cultivate a journey beyond the mundane, and beyond the ordinary workings of the body and mind. In our workshop this Sunday, Amelia and Liz will share their sequencing wisdom, give you a clear framework for how they build classes so that you can offer a yogic experience in every class, cultivate the kind of transformational journey that can bring “a-ha” moments and surprise achievements whilst still nurturing your students with careful planning, providing choice and guided pathways.
You will leave with two complete class sequences that you can use in your classes - one that is provided, together with a practice video, and discussed in detail and the other that the workshop students will design together, with our guidance and feedback. So we are really going to get into detail on the process of planning and editing a class, together, bit by bit, with lots of time for questions and ideas.
This will help people refine their class planning process, potentially build a yoga course and help you confidently teach your students key skills for more challenging postures to achieve over time.
It’s a supportive and interactive workshop and we can’t wait to share it on Sunday 8th February. Join us online 3pm - 6pm AEDT. Pm or book via the website/ story link.

Join me over 4 mornings January 6-9th for a new year event designed to help you connect to inner wisdom so you can begin...
23/12/2025

Join me over 4 mornings January 6-9th for a new year event designed to help you connect to inner wisdom so you can begin 2026 with clarity and calm. Intended to be flexible but deeply effective, you can join from home ( online) or at Warriewood, and attend as many days as you like. Suitable for all levels of yoga expertise,
each class will bring together mindful flowing movement, pranayama and yoga nidra - moving our selves into stillness as the sun rises over Warriewood Beach.

JOIN SENIOR YOGA TEACHER AMELIA DISSPAIN AND YOGA THERAPIST AND PHYSIOTHERAPIST LIZ BENNETT ON A 7 NIGHT RETREAT IN NORT...
14/09/2025

JOIN SENIOR YOGA TEACHER AMELIA DISSPAIN AND YOGA THERAPIST AND PHYSIOTHERAPIST LIZ BENNETT ON A 7 NIGHT RETREAT IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL

🇵🇹 JULY 11th - July 19th 2026 🍇

Be guided skilfully through twice daily yogic practices including steady, balanced asana – energy gathering pranayama, mindful meditation and deep relaxation and learn about Ayurvedic lifestyle practices with two senior teachers.

We design our retreats to ignite a spark within participants that charges their very way of being into one that is more open, joyful and more connected to themselves, others and our beautiful natural world.

While you may choose a week of total escape at , the forest, flowers and sunshine give us the perfect reason to venture off and hike through the bordering national park. During our optional day trips, we will explore the beautiful Douro Valley, wander Guimaraes’ historic streets, taste high quality local food and wines and hike to a nearby local trout farm and restaurant for lunch. Check our websites for room availability and options.

We love running these workshops so much that Amelia and I wanted to find one more Assisting and Adjusting Workshop weeke...
14/09/2025

We love running these workshops so much that Amelia and I wanted to find one more Assisting and Adjusting Workshop weekend before the end of the year. This is it! Come stay in beautiful Bellingen for the weekend and develop and refine your yoga hands on assists with us. We provide lots of personalised teaching and supportive feedback, so you can work on the aspects of hands- on teaching that you find tricky or want more guidance with. You’ll leave inspired and with new skills to offer your students, and the confidence to start applying your learnings straight away. More info and bookings via website link.

It’s not too late to join our Full Moon Yoga Circle on Sunday. Come with a friend, bring Dad, or send your partner! Jenn...
06/09/2025

It’s not too late to join our Full Moon Yoga Circle on Sunday. Come with a friend, bring Dad, or send your partner! Jenny and Liz are bringing back all the full moon yoga vibes at Warriewood Surf Club. Flowing mandala yoga, pranayama breathwork and yoga nidra followed by chai and nourishing snacks. It will be a beautiful grounding evening ❤️

I’m really excited to be joining the team on Saturday mornings at their new Newport studio, which is just downstairs fr...
02/09/2025

I’m really excited to be joining the team on Saturday mornings at their new Newport studio, which is just downstairs from .
Pilates and yoga are a lifelong study & practice for me, woven into my life and my physiotherapy practice. My passion for teaching comes from the gratitude I have for my teachers and their craft. Yoga has helped me heal and find resilience through many injuries ( mostly from mountain biking!) through tough years of being a carer and business owner, through motherhood and through my 40’s. Yoga is transmitted through techniques - the asana and pranayama ( poses and breath work) as well as more subtle tools for the mind, which derive from the ancient philosophy and energetic secrets of yoga- this is what is transmitted from teacher to teacher. I can’t wait to share the beautiful tools of yoga with the Feels community in my Soothe and Unwind classes starting THIS SATURDAY AT 10:30AM!!🧘‍♀️ Hope to see some of you there ❤️

Jenny and Liz invite our community and friends to gather together to celebrate the full moon in the beautiful space of W...
23/08/2025

Jenny and Liz invite our community and friends to gather together to celebrate the full moon in the beautiful space of Warriewood Surf Club on Sunday September 14th 6:00 - 7:30pm.
You will be guided through gentle flowing yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, and deep relaxation.

Om Chandraya Namaha is the moon mantra.
It calls us back into perspective when life becomes confusing and helps us see things more clearly. It sharpens our intellect and calms our nervous system to restore balance & equanimity. Just as the moon appears to be in darkness throughout the month, our minds get clouded by the unfolding of our lives. But the moon is not in darkness. It’s simply our perspective. May the glow of this mantra lead you back to the truth that always lies within you.
The practice is suitable for everyone and all are welcome.
You are invited afterwards to gather together for chai and healthy snacks. Bookings via website + story links.

✨ Our hearts are so full after hearing from our recent teacher training graduates! ✨“I haven’t gone into a space like th...
22/08/2025

✨ Our hearts are so full after hearing from our recent teacher training graduates! ✨

“I haven’t gone into a space like this before. Now I realise the learnings from yoga will actually never end. That was nice to come to realise.”
“The course was so detailed and the group we had were just so supportive... I felt very safe, like safe to make a mistake or safe just to try.”
“I’ve gone from feeling it was about just the perfect posture to realise it’s holistic - your mind, your breath, balance, stability, and it includes everyday life.”
“Everyone had taken away really different things from the course and brought their own kind of style and personality... there was a lightness to it, which was really nice.”
“It was way more interesting than I expected... I never actually thought that I would learn to write up a class. It’s so much more cool making up your own class!”
“The sense of compassion towards my own personal practice... it’s not just about asana practice. Through the course, we’ve been really encouraged to embody that.” -

Watching each of you discover your unique voice as teachers while deepening your personal practice has been deeply affirming.

The journey of learning yoga truly never ends, and we’re so grateful to be part of yours. 🙏
If you’d like to discuss joining our next 6 month, 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, get in touch over the weekend. Payment plans are available. Monday is the last day to join!

Over 20 years ago I moved to Sydney with one purpose, to learn the wisdom of yoga from physiotherapists Simon Borg Olive...
24/05/2025

Over 20 years ago I moved to Sydney with one purpose, to learn the wisdom of yoga from physiotherapists Simon Borg Oliver and Bianca Machliss. Thanks to University of South Australia, I had been able to create my own “ Yoga” elective in the final year of my Bachelor of Physiotherapy, with Simon as my supervisor. Back in 1998, there were only 3 physios I could find in Australia who were yoga teachers. We were all way before our time.
At Yoga Synergy I met Amelia, who was also in the process of a 3 year apprentice style teacher training with Bianca and Simon.
We watched and assisted countless hours of classes, through which our eyes were opened to the connection between body and mind in new ways. We learned how to gently guide people beyond limiting habitual patterns, help them to re-discover ease in movement and breath, re-discover the stillness at their centre.
Every student still offers us more to learn about assisting and adjusting, which is why we need to always look and ask for feedback when we offer hands-on teaching in classes. Amelia and I share our combined 40 + years of yoga teaching in a 2 day course in Sydney this weekend. Integrating physiotherapy knowledge, subtle anatomy and anatomical understandings in a trauma and pain sensitive approach so teachers can build confidence in hands-on assists in group classes and beyond.
Link in story+ website.

Happy Birthday to gorgeous woman who I first met at Newtown way back in the early 2000’s. Inside that dark hall, Amelia...
21/05/2025

Happy Birthday to gorgeous woman who I first met at Newtown way back in the early 2000’s. Inside that dark hall, Amelia had this light that always shone across the room. When Nico gave me an opportunity to start our Bali yoga retreats at Jeda, I was so happy we could work on our venture together doing what we loved!
There’s no way I would have believed that over 20 years later we would be inspired to keep creating and learning and laughing together, that we would have developed our yoga teacher training, traveled the world teaching together and sustained our yoga businesses side by side in Sydney and Bellingen while raising our beautiful sons. I’m so proud of you Amelia, your gentle resilience, your willingness to risk and to grow, you are the most peaceful, clever and funny human and you have built a beautiful community and space at . You are a treasure and I love you infinitely 🌸

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Essentia (e sen' she 'a) the nature, spirit, essence of... Yoga Essentia offers Yoga classes on the Northern Beaches at Warriewood Surf Club. Liz Bennett is a physiotherapist and yoga therapist who teaches group classes and 1:1 individualised and therapeutic yoga sessions.

Minutes drive from Mona Vale, Collaroy, Narrabeen and Elanora Heights for beach-front yoga. Space to move and unlimited fresh ocean air. Yoga to have you feeling stronger and living your life with vitality. Our passionate, experienced teachers strive to accommodate the needs of each individual, from complete beginners to practiced students. We do not have a "one sequence for all" approach. Yoga is accessible and beneficial to all people when taught responsibly. We offer smaller group sizes and individual yoga therapy sessions, assess the needs of our students and modify postures to provide so you can consciously and safely build your skill in the lifelong practices of yoga.