About

Flo Fenton

Has been practising yoga since 1991, and teaching since 1997. Born in the U.K, and a full-time resident there until the age of 23, she first started her yoga journey whilst travelling in India and Nepal in the early '90's. During several long pilgrimages to India, Flo studied various different styles of yoga from different teachers. Since settling in Australia in 1992, Flo has deepened her commitment to yoga as a lifestyle. She studied Iyengar yoga in Melbourne with Glenn Ceresoli and in Sydney with the Sydney Yoga Centre in the early 90's. In 1999 Flo completed the challenging Yoga Arts Nine-Month teacher training intensive in Byron Bay, taught by Louisa Sear. Since then she has continued to be an almost constant student, with Dena Weisman (nee Kingsberg) Matthew Sweeney, Clive Sheridan, and more recently the Satyananda Yoga Academy, among others. She has attended retreats and workshops with the world's best teachers.Flo is currently studying Yoga Therapy at post graduate level with the Vinniyoga Healing Foundation.

Due to the diverse knowledge of her teachers, and her continuing education, Flo has a wide range of expertise in yoga. Trained by masters of Iyengar, Astanga, and Satyananda traditions, Flo's focus is on finding our natural ease within the postures, and on cultivating an ever deepening awareness of the relationship between the body, the breath, and our state of mind. She teaches precise awareness of alignment in the postures, through the medium of graceful, flowing sequences in synchrony with the breath. Her style is both meditative and enlivening, balancing the active and the passive sides of our nature. As we focus within, developing the capacity to witness ourselves, the sessions themselves become a form of Yoga Therapy, which flows out into our lives beyond the class-room.

Due to Flo's own inherited spinal instability and unusual spinal curves, she has always had a keen interest in finding optimum ways of working to produce strong and pain-free backs and hips. Flo was a highly regarded Remedial, deep-tissue and trigger-point therapy massage therapist for fifteen years. Her skills in massage therapy and her long relationship with yoga have produced a special understanding of spinal misalignment, related postural limitations, and how to work in yoga to promote optimum results.

Flo has produced beneficial results working with students within a wide range of health and fitness, from quadriplegics to athletes, Chronic fatigue and M.S sufferers to eating disorder patients.

Flo has been a regular and consistent contributor to Australian Yoga Life Magazine since 2002 with more than 15 articles published to date. She also writes the regular 'Yoga Matters' segment for Nature and Health magazine. As of 2010, Flo offers her own levl one 200 hour accredited teacher trainings. She stil also guest teaches on the prestigious Yoga Arts Teacher Training, on which she specialises in teaching Yoga Therapy. Flo is currently registered with Yoga Alliance at the highest possible level of teaching expereince, ERYT-500.