Donna is considered the “teacher of teachers” and one of the most sought after guest teachers in the world. Her approach to Yoga is informed by the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie safe and sustainable Yoga practice.

Donna is the author of four contemporary classics; The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness and Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living. Her fourth book Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship is a curricular text for teaching trainings worldwide. She has been profiled in four separate publications on exceptional contemporary teachers of our time, including Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga. After nearly four decades of practice Donna believes that Yoga is about learning to befriend our self and to be in friendship with others as a means to building greater fellowship with all of humanity.

• Respected Author of Letters From The Yoga Masters: Teachings Revealed Through Correspondence from Paramhansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda and Others
• Graduated from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre as a Yoga Acharya in 1978
• Teaching since 1978

For the past 20+ years he has been practicing Ayurveda internationally. He runs courses and consultations in most large cities in Australia. He was the keynote presenter at various international Ayurveda and Yoga conferences including the 2006 one at Madras, India along with Dr Chopra and Dr Svoboda. He has been involved in the organization of over a dozen international conferences in Sydney and India over the past 10 years.

In his clinic Rama uses Ayurvedic and Yogic wisdom that he gained from university and his village. He has identified over 2,000 Ayurvedic herbs that are native to Australia. His future plan includes health villages in Australia and India. His passionate classes are fun-filled, simple and clear. He believes ‘the more you give, the more you learn’.

June first studied yoga with Ailsa Gartenstein in Brisbane. She undertook her initial yoga teacher training in Melbourne with Margrit Segesman of The Gita School of Yoga, and with Thea Mangiamele in Yoga and Creative Movement, becoming a full IYTA Member in 1969. She worked with Roma Blair in Sydney, and obtained additional yoga teacher qualifications with Dr Jonn Mumford, of Samkhya Scientific Yoga Teaching Assnociation Sydney, following which she undertook residential yoga teacher training in India at Ananda Ashram, Pondicherry, The Yoga Education Centre in Santa Cruz, The Govt. of India Goraksia College of Yoga and Cultural Synthesis, Lonavla, and The Bihar School of Yoga, Munger. June’s experience teaching yoga led her to pursue her interest in yoga in the context of health care, and to become a registered psychologist.