About Christine du Fresne
Christine began a regular Iyengar yoga practice during her last year of art school in Sydney in 1986, and within three years had completed the teacher training requirements for Iyengar certification.
Making a decision to teach art and then travel for a while, she taught yoga in various studios and in high schools, and to whomever was interested on her global travels.
In 1999, on her return from a profoundly transformative film making expedition to Central Asia, she met Craig Sharp, her second influential teacher, and later commenced a 4-year Anusara Yoga® apprenticeship at his studio.
Teaching regularly and still travelling occasionally to soak up the knowledge of Tantra and hatha yoga from global teachers, she expanded her understanding of postural alignment and anatomy into therapeutic applications of yoga.
In 2005 she started her own yoga studio in Sydney, teaching immersions and workshops as well as regular classes.
She also found the time to build a straw bale house in the hills behind Bulahdelah, on the Mid North Coast of NSW, with her daughter.
In 2009 she was awarded Anusara Yoga® certification.
After surgery in 2013 Christine decided it was time to leave the city behind and move into her straw bale house permanently, a decision she has never regretted.
She teaches regularly in Bulahdelah, holds workshops, immersions and retreats in the surrounding communities, and has returned to her art practice.
Regardless of her 30+ years of teaching yoga, Christine is still a student herself, always grateful to her teacher, Carlos Pomeda, whose wise, generous and compassionate teaching of yoga philosophy has illuminated her own teaching, stimulated her appetite for home study and practice, and given her the tools and direction to impart the wisdom of yoga to others.