Meet our Team
Mandy Hewlett
She began her teaching career at The Wellness Connection (where she completed her first yoga teacher trainings) and moved on to teach at a few studios in and around Cape Town, before finally making the move to bring a more commercial studio space to Hout Bay.
Mandy enjoys being outdoors and connecting with nature whilst pursuing physical exercise, but Yoga is her true passion. Mandy has various qualifications under her belt including 500hrs of vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, aerial yoga and Budokon Yoga.
She teaches fun, strong vinyasa style yoga with an emphasis on listening to one’s body and finding what works for you.
Carla Collins
My love affair with yoga has lasted nearly 2 decades and it has helped me navigate the many twists and turns of life. This multifaceted practice has so much to offer, a deeper connection with our breath, ourselves, each other and the world around us. These are tools for existence, tools for resilience. I aim to teach breath focused, inquisitive classes, encouraging exploration, to move comfortably and confidently. Moving with awareness.
I love slow and focused classes and my training in Yin and Trauma informed much of what I teach. For me Yoga is a practice of wellness, feeling well, breathing well and being well.
Beverley Slauck
“I believe Yoga is the practice of discipline. Through this discipline our mind and body find synchronicity, our reality shifts and we are able to discover our true selves What we learn on our mats we take into our daily lives, and I believe makes us better at living positive lives I look forward to seeing you on your mat”.
LINDA GREEN
“To move is to be free and the joy that teaching has given me has been a true gift. It started with dancing, evolved into teaching ballet, contemporary, Pilates and Yoga at various studios and, over the years I studied, practiced and drew from as many sources of movement knowledge as I could. I opened my own studio in Pretoria in 2007, built experience and opened a second in 2014, before making a change and moving to Cape Town”
Lisa Kruger
She loves the inclusivity of yoga. And is passionate about sharing her love of the practice both physically and emotionally.
Andrew Parker
Andrew first started practicing for the physical benefits of yoga, but soon found that the mental benefits far outweighed the physical. He loves how the yoga practice gives him an opportunity to disconnect from the busy, outside world and constant mind chatter; and reconnect with his body and breath, even if it is just for an hour.
Andrew teaches flowing vinyasa and power yoga with the primary focus being the breath. His classes are strong yet balanced and are accessible to all.
“Yoga saved my life and I’d like to return the favour”
Kelly Scholtz
There is no other form of exercise that feels as good, or that provides the full range of experience that yoga does for me. It can be deeply nurturing and calming, but it’s also there for fun and a challenge when I’m up for it. In between, I use it as a routine and meditative form of physical conditioning. Yoga is really what you make of it. I was lucky to complete my 500hr advanced teacher training with Catherine Wilkinson in 2017 and now try to practice and teach whenever I can while I continue to learn.
I’m a registered dietitian, consulting chef and mom. Yoga helps me to keep the balance. I love the overall physical skill and the mental focus that develops the more I practice and I really enjoy sharing that when I teach.
Savanna Goldring
I would call myself an eternally curious student of life, I actively answered the call and chose to pursue the teachings of various wisdom philosophies like Yoga, Breath and Meditation when I started practicing yoga 9 years ago, 7 of which I have been guiding practice as a yoga teacher, facilitating workshops & held space.
I have studied Tantra Philosophy and Tantric Hatha Yoga in Bali, Indonesia ,then came home back to Cape Town to begin my studies in Kinesiology.
Using the tools acquired from my studies and via my personal inner-work journey (Somatic’s, Breath-work, Guided group work, Meditation, Vocal activation) I have gone on to hold space in the form of workshops, facilitating the co-creation of safe spaces where people can connect to and listen to the sacred wisdom and information of their bodies and hearts as a way to start cultivating a more unconditional connection to themselves and develop personal tools for connection, healing, and growth.
BUSI QOBO
Meet Busi. Everyone knows her as “Ma Busi”. Busi is hard of hearing, the result of TB medication taken years ago, she wears hearing aids, but still needs to lip read, she cannot hear much yet she still teaches because “this work is important, and people need it”.
Busi is the real deal, she has learnt and studied and lived the practice of yoga for many years. She lived in the Sivananda ashram in Trivandrum, Kerala for a year and travelled throughout the country, studying and practicing yoga daily.
On her return home, Busi moved into the Ananda Katur ashram in Rondebosch where she lived, learned and taught Sivananda yoga. Busi has subsequently spent years working across Cape Town teaching yoga from Phiiippi to Hout Bay. She teaches in church halls, community spaces, tiny rooms, creches and field and lives on a SASA grant. She does this for the love of yoga, spreading the joy, she does it with pure intention.
Jess van Goethem
Jess was born in Belgium and raised in South Africa, a traveler, a teacher and an eternal student at heart.
“Yoga isn’t something I simply practice on my mat, it is a way of living, breathing and being. I believe yoga is medicine for the mind, body and soul. Learning to breathe, move and explore the world and ourselves from a place of mindfulness and awareness is where the magic lies. Knowledge is something learnt, wisdom is when you embody that knowledge into your being. I would like to invite anyone to this platform. It is a space where you can feel safe to be yourself. To learn self love, self-acceptance and to be curious about yourself and the world. Ultimately to connect to your most authentic self. Happy and balanced.”