TOTAL YOGA

BIOGRAPHY

After spending time In Miami, Florida U.S.A. studying Psychology, Vanessa began practicing yoga in 2000, at the suggestion of her mom. She began practicing with Lyn Jones in Kensington and knew early on that she had found a home in yoga that she had never before felt

Yoga gave her a means to profoundly and lovingly connect with her body and heart, and under the loving guidance of her teacher she realised that teaching was to become her life's work

While completing her studies in Psychology at what was then Rand Afrikaans University, she began studying yoga in earnest. After training in Bihar method, she completed a teacher training in Ishta method under Magda(Durgana) Inglethorpe, who was at the time the chairlady of the Yoga Teacher's Fellowship. Her teaching career began in 2003, at first teaching friends at home and shortly after Total Yoga was born

It is Vanessa's sincere dream to share the infinite possibilities that yoga, in its philosophies and practices, can unearth. To this end Total Yoga continues to grow and provide sanctuary to its founder and students