Who’s coming to Wanderlust Sydney 2015?
Wanderlust Festival is coming to Australia for the second time! This large yoga/music/lifestyle festival is BIG in the US and has started stretching it’s horizons…this year Australia’s Wanderlust is on Cockatoo Island Sydney, NSW Australia (Feb 20 – 22).
Situated on the world famous Sydney Harbour, this World-heritage listed island steeped in Aussie history is newly gentrified and the perfect spot for an innovative festival.
Put it in your diary. Get your tickets! And if you can wait – and note – you may miss out on scheduling your favourite acts if you wait – you could win discount tickets by following me on instagram or Facebook:
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Wanderlust Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, NSW Australia
Friday February 20th – Sunday February 22nd
cockatooisland.wanderlustfestival.com
Teaching Update
I’ve relocated to the Byron Bay Region and am giving myself some time to settle in before I restart teaching.
Big love, namaste, Angela XO
Teacher Bio
I have practiced yoga for nearly twenty years when I took my first class in Bondi Junction, a hub of yoga since the 80s. I remember standing on my head in class and doing all manner of ‘crazy’ moves that at the time I couldn’t quite ‘get’.
The main thing yoga has brought to me, is a deeper connection with mySelf. It was not until I had been practicing for some time, that I realised I was an integrated being, where mind and body were one. Lying in forward bends, such as paschimottonasana meant I had to actually connect with my body and ultimately with my deeper self. This changed me forever.
Yoga always helps me reconnect.
I love pushing my own boundaries with yoga, particularly since recovering from a shoulder operation, re-learning to do handstands (why didn’t I keep them up as a kid?), backbends and so on, without fear that my shoulder will come out of the socket. I go through phases over the years, with periods of time relishing a more ‘yin’ style practice – holding poses for longer, deepening into the move with breathe and softening; but then I will bust out for a few months of intense power and strength, wishing I had joined the circus.
Humbling
Practicing yoga with an injury or a limitation of some sort has taught me humility. My shoulder injury has been with me for over fifteen years. Before I had surgery, it often sub-luxed (partially dislocated) in certain simple moves, even trikonasana (triangle pose), and took strict discipline and body awareness to stop this from occurring. Since the operation, I worked with yoga to lengthen the scare tissue and regain movement in the joint. I work within my limitations of this, speaking kind words to myself and my shoulder. We are both doing really well on our journey!
I completed Level 2 teacher training with Byron Yoga under John Oglivie and have undertaken additional intensive, training and practice with many skilled teachers including Simon Borg-Olivier & Bianca Machliss from Yoga Synergy, Rick Barnsdale from Dharma Shala, Jen Norman, Flo Fenton, Cat Kabira, Mark Whitwell & Mardi Kendell. Learning about, and through yoga is for life. I will always practice and integrate yoga in my life, and hope to inspire others to do the same. It is a wonderful gift we have been granted.
Certification:
- Yoga Teacher Training (Level 2, 500 hour), Byron Yoga Centre under supervision of John Ogilvie (500 hour), Byron Bay, Australia
- Senior First Aid Certificate
- Certificate IV Remedial Massage
- Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment
Angela is a valued instructor who is very much respected and liked by fellow staff members as well as class participants. Angela is definitely a skilled and experienced Yoga instructor and we were pleased to have her teach for us as long as she did.
Angela’s instructional skills are extremely strong. She is an excellent and motivating instructor with clear precise instructions, great physical execution and always ensures participant’s safety.
Katherine Smith, UNSW Sport and Recreation, Group Fitness & Recreation Coordinator
natureglow 
Really enjoyed your classes at UNSW!
Thanks Dave! Great to have you in class and keep going with it 🙂
Nice to meet you, I am going to make lunch now, though I will have a good read later.
I’ve had a nice read and I like your articles, I am familiar with the subjects though you write from a different perspective which made it all fresh, like I had missed something reading all of that permaculture design manual.