Yoga, Pilates & Movement
Alex Farner
Yoga Teacher
Alex’s sense of care and intuition make her classes supportive, empowering and delicious. Alex is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher, having completed 500+ hours of teacher trainings in Australia and overseas. Since teaching in NSW and VIC, Alex comes to Hobart with a wealth of experience and knowlege.
Alex specialises in female health yoga, pre and postnatal, vinyasa flow and restorative classes. Her teachings are personal, unique and threaded with mindful cues to build focus and sense of immersive, moving meditation in practice.
Alex offers modifications to ensure all levels feel nurtured, challenged and always safe. Fostering mind-body connection, her classes guide intention and empowerment, self compassion and deep relaxation.
Tiara Volkmar
Yoga Teacher
Tiara Volkmar is a dedicated Yoga Teacher with a profound passion for helping individuals release tension and stress through the transformative power of movement, and incorporating more strength and calmness. With several years of experience teaching in Germany, India, and Australia, Tiara has cultivated a unique approach that integrates various movement practices, fostering both physical and mental well-being. Her methodology regularly incorporates breathwork, meditation, somatic exercises, and Reiki, providing a holistic experience for her students.
Throughout her career, Tiara has worked with diverse populations, skillfully tailoring her methods to meet the unique needs of each individual. Her deep understanding of the body’s mechanics, combined with her empathetic teaching style, allows her to create a safe and supportive environment where students can thrive and explore their bodies.
Tiara believes that movement is not merely a physical activity but a vital tool for personal transformation. She is committed to empowering others to cultivate a deeper connection with their bodies, promoting holistic health and resilience. Through her classes, Tiara continues to inspire those around her to embrace movement as a pathway to release and renewal.
In her free time, Tiara enjoys exploring new movement modalities and sharing her discoveries with her community. Her dedication to continuous learning ensures that she evolves her practice, always striving to provide the best experience for her students.
Jane Crosswell
Pilates & Yoga Teacher
Hi there! My name is Jane Crosswell, and I am wellbeing enthusiast focusing on the use of movement, meditation and mindfulness to create a lifestyle that fosters good health and longevity as we age. I believe that finding ways to move and keep active should be accessible and practical regardless of age, experience or skill level.
With over 10 years and 3000+ hours of teaching yoga, pilates, meditation and barre to a wide range of people, I bring a wealth of knowledge and a fun, supportive energy to my classes. I believe that yoga and pilates are for everyone, and I strive to create a safe and inclusive space for my students to explore their practice. I integrate elements of mindfulness, pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation and practical movement strategies into my classes to help students cultivate a deep connection with their bodies and minds.
My wellbeing qualifications are varied and include:
· 500-hour Level 2 Yoga Teacher (Byron Yoga Centre)
· AMRIT Method Yoga Nidra Facilitator (Dr. Kamin Desai & John Vosler)
· Y4C (Yoga for cancer) (Tari Prinster USA)
· Yoga for Menopause Wellness Teacher (Margot Porter, SA)
· Mat Pilates instructor (Pilates international).
· Integrative Nutrition Health & Wellness Coach (IIN USA)
· Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner (Dani Mondahl, QLD)
· Yoga Therapy for Brain Longevity (American Alzheimer’s Association)
Outside of my yoga practice, I love to spend time walking, exploring new recipes in the kitchen, studying whatever takes my fancy to keep my brain active and alive, and travelling when I get the chance. I look forward to welcoming you to a class soon!
Leonardo Canales
Alexander Yoga
Leo is an Alexander Technique Teacher specialising in movement, expression, breath and voice. His background in Performing Arts and Education supports a philosophy of respect, generosity and responsibility in his work.
His interest in human development led him to explore movement, expression and creativity in-depth around South America, Europe and Australia. His training and development include a degree in Theatre; Acting, in Chile, Vocal Performance and Choreographic Theatre in France, and Contemporary Dance in the UK, however, is The Alexander Technique that glues all skills.
The Alexander Technique offered him a way to cooperate with body parts, mechanisms, systems, and senses in the beautiful experience of being alive. Since he graduated as a Teacher of the Technique, Leo has been working with individuals helping them to understand the harmonic complexity of the human design using a process that promotes ease, spontaneity and adaptability.
In his private practice, Leo has taught barristers, nurses, gardeners, performers and NDIS clients. Since 2018 he teaches regularly at Melbourne University and Federation University, also he was the Alexander Technique teacher in the main acting studios in Melbourne before moving to Tasmania.
Leo is registered with the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (AUSTAT) as a fully qualified Alexander Technique teacher. His work incorporates dynamic elements from performing arts and the science behind the Alexander Technique.
Alexander Yoga brings the principles of the Alexander Technique to the yoga practice, combining resilience, balance and awareness of movement. This combination allows practitioners to explore minimum effort in the asanas to find maximum efficiency in the whole practice.
In this session, we practice simple yoga asanas to discover how movement habits affect life. This practice will provide clear guidance to develop better movement, breathing and posture.
This session invites participants to practice simple asanas like in a Hatha or Slow Flow session.
Alexander Yoga helps you understand how to find ease in motion and avoid strain in your practice, so you can apply that learning to your daily activities.
Alison Dawes
Pilates Teacher
Alison describes her mat Pilates classes as “a slow burn that sneaks up on you”. Always foremost in her teachings are the principles of good form, effective muscle activation, and maintaining mobility. Alison loves how the mindful practice of mat Pilates is beneficial for both our physical and mental well-being so you can expect a class that is energising and challenging but also leaves you feeling more centred and relaxed.
Alison has over 30 years of experience teaching people to move, originally as a ballet and dance teacher and in 2020 as a Barre fitness instructor. In mid-2021 she also earned her Mat Pilates Instructor qualifications and has been teaching mat Pilates, fit-ball Pilates, and Barre ever since. For Alison, Pilates has brought all the different movement disciplines of her own experience together into one cohesive and synergistic whole and she believes that the combined knowledge from all these forms of movement enhances and better informs her teaching overall. “It’s fundamentally about how we use and maintain our body to it keep strong and functioning well”.
Alison teaches classes in mat Pilates, barre fitness and dance (tap and ballet) in the general Hobart area and she would love to have you join her soon in her mat Pilates classes at Beach Road Body and Mind.
Daniel Spigelman
Traditional Chinese Rehabilitation, Qi Gong, Breathwork & Meditation
Daniel's passion for martial arts began early in life, studying a variety of different styles in his teenage years. A recurrent chronic shoulder injury stopped him from competing at a higher level in his twenties, but where one door closes another opens; having tried conventional methods of healing without success, Daniel turned his attention to traditional Chinese healing arts such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, Tai Ji and Qi Gong. His shoulder showed steady improvement as well as noticing changes in other aspects of his life.
This sparked in him the desire to study these arts further, enrolling in Chinese Medical school and eventually securing a scholarship in 2009 to study full-time in Mainland China at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. During this time he had the opportunity to study with a variety of well-known doctors, Daoists and martial arts practitioners in Beijing and throughout China, eventually becoming an inner door disciple of the Zhang Ce lineage of Wu Xing Tong Bei style of martial arts from Sun Xiang Yong in Beijing and receiving a 24th Dragon Gate lineage name from Li Shifu at the Five Immortals Temple in Wudang, as well as studying medicine closely with Wang Ju Yi and Andrew Nugent-Head.
Since returning to Australia, Daniel has placed his efforts into disseminating what he learned in China, in particular the various healing arts which had been so beneficial to his own health and well-being. He hopes to act as a bridge between East and West, having worked at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine, a joint facility of Westmead Hospital and the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, a joint facility of St Vincent's Hospital and the Garvan Institute, where he worked in a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of oncology patients. Daniel hopes to pursue this work in tandem with the medical community and continue to develop the knowledge and practice of Chinese Medicine in the wider community. Daniel is currently in the process of completing a Master’s degree at the University of Sydney researching ancient Chinese rehabilitative exercises.
Daniel is bringing his passion and knowledge to the Beach Road Body and Mind community with focused rehabilitative Qi Gong classes for anyone experiencing pain (upper body on Mondays & lower body on Fridays.
He’s also available for 1:1 consultations in Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture during the week. See our Traditional Chinese Medicine page to make an appointment.
Clare Sullivan
Yoga Teacher
Clare Sullivan is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and dietitian.
She is passionate about inspiring people to find peace in their relationship with their Food and Body.
She teaches in a style that requires no yoga experience; all you need is curiosity and a little courage as you embrace simple new practices. Her classes offer gentle movement for strengthening, balance and flexibility in addition to breath work and relaxation practices for calming the nervous system, improving your immunity, increasing your vitality, and giving you a sense of wellbeing; a little peace within.