Principal Instructor
Halina Bitdorf (Hala)
Certified I.Y.T.A. Teacher
Hala Bitdorf is a Director of The Yoga Company. She has been teaching yoga for 20 years and holds an International Certificate of IYTA. For Hala every student is unique and special. Her compassion and dedication brings students of every level and age back to her classes.
Her motto of the class is:
“Your practice must be happy.
Your approach to your own body must be wise and with respect.
Then you will start to pick up the fruits of your journey.
Journey which never finishes and last forever.”
Other Instructors
Jeremy began yoga with teacher Sam Weinstein overlooking the Indian Ocean from Swanbourne Surf Club, the salutations to the setting sun instilling a deep meditative AUM to all of life. At the time he was playing professional football and at first the yoga brought an extra level of ease to Jeremy’s game. As the two continued to exist side by side over the next 3 years, yoga finally won out and he has never looked back. Jeremy has been practicing and exploring many different styles ever since, including Tai Chi and Qi-Gong. He has also explored food and nutrition and various forms of Meditation. He completed the FINY teacher training course in 2003 and have been teaching ever since. My favourite thing about yoga is that it instills curiosity.
Lynn Morris has been teaching yoga since completing Linda Healy’s 2002 teacher training course. He teaches Hatha yoga combining flowing and static styles. As a student of yoga, Lynn finds it a challenge to be willing to accept the journey the teacher asks him to take. As a teacher he finds the challenge is to present a journey the student will be prepared to take.
Demanding yet empathetic, Lynn caters to the diverse range of participants who come to his yoga class. Students return to his classes because they feel like they have had a workout and have released the tensions of the week. Many of his students have followed him from another centre where he teaches to the Yoga Company because of his unique energy and approach.
Kathy Rice
Kathy was introduced to Yoga after participating in a meditation course with little success. At the time it felt too large of a leap from having no kind of ‘practice’, to sitting and ‘watching the mind’. A friend suggested yoga and since then has never looked back! She has been studying and practicing Iyengar Yoga since 1998.
After completing a 3 year apprenticeship under John Leebold she gained certification as an Iyengar Instructor in 2003. She is a dedicated student and teacher of Iyengar tradition. Teaching in Perth, as well as abroad. Each year she travels to India spending valuable time with her teachers being a student.
Along with teaching Yoga she works as Massage Therapist & as a Social Trainer, working with people with disabilities.
Her definition of success: you are spending more time in life doing the things you love and less doing those things you do not, then you are successful!
She would like to thank the students for allowing her to do what she loves.
Andrea Wetzl-Tanzi
Andrea began to practice yoga 1995 as a way to manage back problems. She discovered the many benefits it brought to her life through calming her and uniting her mind, body and breath. In 2007 Andrea was certified as an IYTA teacher through an internationally recognised course of study. She enjoys sharing her love of yoga with students as a way of giving back the joy she has received. She draws upon her experience as a music performer to clearly illustrate the poses. She respects the wisdom of the traditional philosophy which bring goodness to life.
Amrit Kendrick
Amrit did teacher training with Linda Healey in 2002 and also participated in the Geeta Iyengar Workshop in the same year. Often taking the opportunity to learn from other Iyengar-style teachers, Anne Horsley and Donna Farhi, Amrit’s practice follows various Krishnamacharya traditions, including the Desikachar family. Amrit teaches regularly for people at various stages along their yoga journey. Experienced students and beginners enjoy her classes. Amrit was given her Sanskrit name as a baby. She continues her practice and development, incorporating the power, balance and harmony of yoga into her family, community and nature conservation work.
