I completed my Teacher Training in 2023 with Yoga Sports World, hosted by Bikram Yoga Fitzroy.

I’ve been practising Bikram Yoga since 2015, and it has completely changed my life. It’s taught me discipline, patience, compassion and the power of acceptance, and ultimately gave me the opportunity to teach this practice.

Bikram Yoga has strengthened my health, improved my longevity, and brought balance to my body, mind and spirit.

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Favourite quote: “For things to get better, you have to get better.”

I’m the Teaching Director at Hot Yoga Gladesville. I’ve been practicing yoga for 19 years and teaching for over 15, with national and international competition experience (ranked 1st place at the Australian National Yoga Championships in 2014 and 2015, and competed and qualified in the top 10 at International Yoga Competitions in both 2014 and 2015).

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In my role at HYG, my focus is on upholding the integrity of the Bikram method and maintaining the high teaching standards expected of accredited Bikram Yoga teachers. At HYG, we aim to create a positive, inclusive, and supportive environment where students and teachers alike can grow.

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I personally believe every class offers a chance for deep physical and mental introspection and personal growth. This practice is truly a journey of the self, through the self...to the self (Bhagavad Gita). That is why this practice remains a meaningful lifelong commitment.

Favourite quote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

In 2009, in a Dunsborough public restroom, I met a radiant young lady with a firm and well sculpted body. In reply to my admiration for her body, she said,

” It’s Bikram Yoga. Just turn up with a mat, towel and water.”

Back in Sydney, I dragged her husband along and signed up at Darlinghurst Bikram Yoga for a $17 pass for ten days and never stopped there. My initial goal was to be toned and well sculpted, but I got more than what I came for. The practice taught me compassion, and that no one is more superior than others.

I love to share all that I have learnt about Bikram Yoga hence on 15th September 2014, I graduated as a Certified Bikram yoga teacher from 9 weeks Teacher’s Training in Phuket.

I exude positive and powerful energy through the dialogue that inspires my students to make attention to detail corrections. Students also love my words of wisdom through the motivational stories that I tell while they rest in savasana.

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Favourite quote: “Put your whole heart and soul into everything you choose to do. Refinement is key”.

My name is Joy Amano and it is an honor to teach in this beautiful studio.

I completed my Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in the spring of 2011, an experience I will never forget. It was the most challenging and transformative time of my life. The training was tough, but it gave me lifelong friends who shared the struggle and achievement. Nothing compares to the joy of overcoming it together.

I began practicing Bikram Yoga as a teenager, at a time when I was not in good health and not truly looking after myself. My very first class was the hardest experience I had ever gone through. Yet, from that moment, I felt my blood flow, my body, and my mind being cleansed and renewed. I walked out of class feeling reborn. Without thinking too much, I simply kept coming back—day after day, for three months straight.

Bikram Yoga has given me health, clarity, and a sense of purpose that continues to shape my life today.

See you in the hot room!

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Favourite quote: “The best is not in the shape, but in the feeling.”

I became a Bikram Yoga teacher in 2019 and love the practice because the sequence stays the same but we change every day—it keeps me humble and always learning. Bikram has transformed my physical and mental health, and I believe my biggest life successes come when I’m practicing regularly. For me, it’s about training the nervous system to stay calm under pressure and carrying that strength into everyday life.

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Favourite quote: “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”

I love Bikram yoga because it is a consistent discipline that revitalises and renews my body and mind. I always feel amazing after class. After 22 years of dedicated Bikram yoga student I became a Bikram certified teacher in Fall of 2025 in Thailand. 

Bikram has helped with my health in so many ways. Apart from feeling younger, healthier and more happy, the focus on spinal health, strength and flexibility means you have more mobility in life and more energy to move through it. 

As someone that is obsessed with music I see a Bikram Yoga class like a symphony: Bikram is the composer, the dialogue is the composition, the teacher is the conductor and the students are the orchestra. There are movements, peaks and valleys with tension and resolution. 

I stumbled across Bikram yoga almost 10 years ago when a friend asked me to try something new- which I’m always up for.
Didn’t know what to expect, I only just survived the first class but kept coming back because for the whole 90 minutes I was able to regenerate my mind, body and soul without one through of the outside world entering my mind.
I felt the health benefits instantly, walking out of that room stronger and lighter at the same time- every time.
Now, every time I need to unplug out of my daily chaos, I enter the hot room and go on the journey to strengthen myself mentally and physically.
I’ve always been into health and wellness and in 2025 decided I wanted to be apart of the community that contributed to my growth so I completed my TT with Yoga Sport World hoping to give back my love for the practice to others.

Favourite quote: You change your mindset, You change your life.

Ness discovered Bikram Yoga over a decade ago and was drawn to the way the practice strengthens the body while calming and focusing the mind. After eleven years of dedicated practice, she completed Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in Thailand in 2024. Inspired by the resilience, discipline, and emotional balance the practice gave her, Ness now teaches to give back and create a supportive space where students can challenge themselves, build confidence, and grow both on and off the mat.

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Favourite quote: “What you believe is what will become.”

Dhara Oza is the founder of Soma Yoga Flow, a yoga teacher, retreat facilitator and sound healing practitioner passionate about creating spaces for rest, reconnection and wellbeing. With over 500 hours of yoga teacher training, her teaching draws on Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative and alignment-based practices, alongside meditation, breathwork and sound healing.

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Dhara takes a grounded, intuitive and inclusive approach, supporting people to slow down, reconnect with their bodies and find balance amidst the demands of everyday life. Her sessions blend movement, stillness and therapeutic sound to support relaxation, self-awareness and nervous system wellbeing.

Through studio classes, private sessions, workshops and retreats, Dhara is passionate about making wellbeing accessible and meaningful, helping people reconnect with themselves and create more space for what truly matters.

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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott