Saturday 10 October, 9am–10.45am
Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga
With Roberto, Caroline and Madi
Self-practice supported by Roberto, Caroline and Madi.
Explore special weekend sessions, visiting teachers and opportunities to deepen your practice.
June Mitchell has been a full-time professional yoga teacher since the late 1970s. Her initial training in 1976/77 was in Hatha Raja yoga with William Mowat Thomson at his Scottish Yoga Centre in Edinburgh. William was the man who brought yoga to Scotland from his many visits and trainings in the Indian Sivananda ashrams in the 1960s and 1970s and was a truly wonderful mentor, teacher and inspiration.She followed this with regular Iyengar yoga workshops in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the late 1990s June came across Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga and was so enthused with it that she went to Koh Samui to do further teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga in the spring of 2003 with world-renowned Certified Ashtanga Tutor, Paul Dallaghan’s Centred Yoga. She followed this in the winter of 2004 with a trip to Mysore to the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute where she had the great good fortune to be taught by the guru Sri Pattabhi Jois and his family who were all teaching at the AYRI at the time.
In 2003 June set up the Chi Yoga School which in 2010 became the Classical Yoga School, a 12-month RYS200 Yoga Alliance www.yogaalliance.org teacher training programme which gives all CYS graduate teachers worldwide accreditation. It begins in September each year at Perth Yoga Studio and at her friend and colleague Judi Farrell’s Merchant City Yoga, Glasgow’s prominent yoga studio. June’s passion is always to guide all CYS students to become outstanding yoga teachers, bringing good health and wellbeing into our communities.
In 1981 June and her husband James, whose idea it was, established Perth Yoga Centre at 7 Barossa Place where weekly classes and weekend workshops were introduced into the community. In 1993 she then set up the Riverside Centre in Tay Street where yoga teachers and natural health theraepists offered holistic health awareness and which was twice shortlisted in the Perth Chamber of Commerce Business Excellent Awards as being innovative and influential in its field.