The only thing i enjoy more than facing my own fear and achieving things i never thought possible, is celebrating and supporting other people doing the same….
Known for my focused but playful style, i believe that with the support of others we are able to develop physically, mentally and emotionally more rapidly than training alone. By embodying yoga as a living expression of this understanding, i teach it as a powerful vehicle to create balance within ourselves and our relationships.
With over 20 years in the creative and healing arts, I am a certified adults and children’s yoga teacher, acroyoga teacher and acroyoga fit coach, australian sports commission coach; theatrical circus performer, manager and trainer who also runs a successful circus entertainment company, Outrageous Entertainment.
My Studies over the last 25 years include teacher trainings in India, Australia and Barcelona; studies in yoga therapy, chi gung, reiki (master level), dance, chinese medicine, naturopathy, shiatsu, nutrition, circus, ethics, “trauma” sensitive yoga, acrobatics, costume design and face / body artistry.
Extended Bio
Zoe Braithwaite has been learning and practicing yoga for 20 years after her introduction at high school . Now aged 41, her experience in Hatha and Iyengar Yoga and her training by Sydney’s most renowned teachers, Eve Grybowski and Simon Borg –Olivier of Yoga Synergy, Sydney, is extensive. She has twice completed the thirty-six hour Yoga Synergy Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga course.
In 1998, Zoe completed the 200 hour yoga course at Vishwaguru Yoga Vedanta Academy in India and a few years later returned to study Ayuvedic Medicine, living with Indian families and spiritual teachers. With her love of Indian culture, Zoe integrates eastern knowledge of the mind and spirituality with her western training of the body to produce a balanced understanding of the holistic nature of yoga.
Her second 200 yoga teacher training qualification has been with Annie Carpenter from Yoga Works, Los Angeles.
Over the last few years, she has received Foundation, Advanced and Yoga Therapy Certificates in teaching Children’s Yoga with Loraine Ruston from Zenergy Yoga.
Over the same time, her love of bodywork, acrobatics and yoga brought her to Acroyoga.
Following numerous immersions and workshops, she qualified as an Acroyoga teacher in 2012, then an Acroyoga Fit instructor in 2014
For more than fifteen years Zoe has also worked in the entertainment industry as a performer, manager and circus trainer. Her wide range of experience and study in the circus arts (including the study of Dance at Lismore Conservatorium) has been informed by her continuous study and practice of yoga.
Inspiring herself and others to work towards a greater sense of peace and interconnection motivates Zoe and she acknowledges how fortunate she is to be in professions she loves and which allow her to achieve many of her life’s ambitions.