INSTRUCTORS @ myUTOPIA
JOELLE SLEEBOS
What is your teaching qualification:
Master degree in Economics
Qualified Personal Trainer
Qualified Group Fitness Instructor
500 hour Certified Yoga Teacher.
Your teaching disciplines
Vinyasa Yoga
Yin Yoga
Fly Yoga/Aerial Yoga
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Spend time in nature
Climbing mountains
Singing
Kitting
Listening to Alan Watts
TANYA SHIELS
What is your teaching qualification:
300hr Yoga Alliance (Reunion Yoga)
500hr Comprehensive Pilates (BASI – Equipment and mat)
50hr Creative Sequencing Course (Unraveled Yoga)
BalletRIP/Barre Teaching (Diane West)
SALT Aerial Pilates (Elena Calligeris)
CPR&AED
50hr Yin Yoga (Unraveled Yoga)
Your teaching disciplines
Yoga (Vinyasa, Yin/Restorative, Ashtanga-inspired and Power)
Pilates, Yogalates, SALT, Aerial Yoga, Barre and BalletRIP
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
I love watching the sunset with a glass of wine in hand and my cat in my lap.
CARIN DEAN
What is your teaching qualification:
300-hr Vinyasa teaching training, ReUnion Yoga, Cape Town
100-hr Aerial yoga teacher training, Trimurti Yoga, Agonda, India
65-hr Yin Yoga teacher training, TriYoga, London
35-hr Children’s yoga teacher training, Yoga4Kids, Cape Town
Inner Engineering, Isha Foundation, London
The Science of Happiness, Berkeley University
Fascia as a sensory-emotional response, Anatomy Trains
Your teaching disciplines
Aerial Yoga
Yin
Vinyasa
Trauma-informed yoga
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
I love to travel. Anywhere. Anyhow. Any time.
GARITH FLOOD
What is your teaching qualification:
Personal training [ETA]
Pilates teacher [New York Classic Method]
Equipment: Reformer, Cadillac, Chair and mat work
Your teaching disciplines
The principles of contrology, every breathe and every movement is mindful.
Stabilise before you mobilise
You are only as old as your spine is strong and flexible
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Music
LEXI BOSMAN
What is your teaching qualification:
300 hour Hatha
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Jim Harrington (ReUnion)
Your teaching disciplines
Vinyasa
Power Vinyasa
Sculpt Yoga
Yin
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Surf, cook delicious food with friends, anything to do with sunshine and being outdoors.
PENNY COOPER
What is your teaching qualification:
200h teacher training at the Sharla
300h at the Wellness connection
90h of extra training (top ups) from the Sharla
Your teaching disciplines
I love teaching Vinyasa, Yin and Bikram. I don’t have a favourite each style gives something special. Vinyasa for the creativity it allows me, Yin for the beautiful space it allows me to hold, and Bikram for the amazing sequence it is.
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
When not teaching I love doing my ceramics and interior design projects. I volunteer for Rape Crisis, this is important to me as gender based violence is so prevalent in our society.
CALMIN VALENTINO
What is your teaching qualification:
300hr teacher training with Jim Harrington
50hr Creative sequencing TT Unraveled Yoga
Practicing yoga ever since the age of 20
Your teaching disciplines
Vinyasa Yoga
HIIT Yoga
Power Yoga
Fitness Training
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
My passion is sports, running a specially and when I’m not teaching I love to participate in races, ultra, long and short distances.
I love all active things, hiking, cycling anything that keeps the blood rushing to my brain and heart. Wellbeing and fitness is my passion.
MAYA PRATT
What is your teaching qualification:
500hr Experienced YA Teacher and Lead Teacher Trainer
Your teaching disciplines
Dynamic Vinyasa
Mantra & Mythology
Vinyasa
Hatha
Bikram
Restorative
Power Yoga
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Running with Huckleberry & cuddling my kiddos
DARJA O’DONNEL
What is your teaching qualification:
200hr RYT Teachers training
15 years experience of practicing Yoga.
Your teaching disciplines
My teaching disciplines are Vinyasa and Power Yoga, I do introduce some Yin into my Vinyasa classes sometimes.
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
My favourite thing to do if I am not teaching is taking a class myself, going to the beach, cooking and camping in nature.
LEE-ANN ELLIOT
What is your teaching qualification:
200hr YTT shala
50hr Yin Wellness connection
Bikram training Yo Yoga
50hr Aerial yoga – Yoga Mala
50hr Yin Unraveled
300hr Advanced Teacher Training Unraveled
Your teaching disciplines
Vinyasa (slow flow and fluid dynamic movement)
Yin yoga
Aerial
Hot26
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Surf and play with my plants
JEAN-MARE GENADE
What is your teaching qualification:
BalletRIP certificate
20 years of formal Ballet training: RAD & Cecchetti Level: Advanced 2
Your teaching disciplines
BalletRIP
Ballet
Barre
Body Conditioning
Your favourite thing to do when you’re not teaching
Spending time with my family
journey@myutopia.co.za
+ 27 21 202 2271
WhatsApp: +27 79 959 4491
1 st Floor, The Cruise Terminal, Dock Road
South Arm Side, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa, 8002
