The Behind the Scenes Team
Managing the studio is your Ace team! Whether it’s managing the schedule, cleaning the mirrors, finding your lost water bottle, adjusting your pass, penning a newsletter or posting on Insta we have it covered! We even pay the bills sometimes
FOUNDER of Bikram Yoga & Wellness
Jodie Petersen
Jodie is one of the most highly regarded yoga instructors in Australia. Teaching since 1998 she was solely responsible for bringing Bikram Yoga and Ghosh Yoga to Australia.
Her experience spans several decades and includes her global role as judge at the International Bishnu Charan Ghosh Yoga Championship in the USA from 2004 – 2018, founding president of the YSAA(Yoga Sports Association) and a key player in the drive to have yoga included in the Olympics.
As the founder of Bikram Yoga & Wellness, an independent Aussie-owned yoga and wellness centre on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Jodie continues to teach yoga to all as passionately as when she began almost 30 years ago.
From small beginnings in 1998 in a crammed yoga room on Lawrence St in Harbord, Bikram Yoga & Wellness is now one of the largest and longest running yoga studios in the world, evidence of the power of Bikram Yoga in changing bodies, minds and lives.
Jodie has a unique ability to see where an individual mosts needs help. Her teaching style is deeply intuitive and compassionate, combined with an extensive applied practical knowledge of yoga asana and their healing benefits plus a lot of humour (although she still doesn’t think she’s funny).
The studio rings with laughter on a daily basis. Together with her team, Jodie has created a space that is renowned to be hugely welcoming, inclusive, buzzing with joy and a true sanctuary for many.
Whatever your gender, age or experience Jodie and her team would love to welcome you!
Customer Experience, Content & Technology, MindBody Master
Kim MacKechnie
In April 2001, I did my first ever Bikram class. It was 6 months after my first child was born and I wanted to start exercising again, but needed to avoid any jarring as I’d seriously damaged my knee in a ski accident in 1999 and it hadn’t been right since.
I had no idea about the benefits of Bikram Yoga when I started, I just knew from that first class that I loved it. It was hot, it was hard, but afterwards I felt like I had had the best workout ever. I felt incredibly calm, centred, and ready to take on anything! I also found my knee pain was disappearing, and the flexibility of the joint was improving hugely.
I kept on coming. I did no other form of exercise, except of course, pushing a pram. I talked about this yoga I’d found to everybody, I felt so blessed to have found it. I couldn’t believe how it helped me on so many levels.
The more I came, the more I loved it. I learnt a little something about myself, or about my postures, my life outlook, in every class. Although I rarely love being in class, I loved the challenge that it presented. Besides making me physically stronger, it has definitely made me emotionally stronger. And here was the meditation I’d always felt I needed to calm my monkey mind, wrapped up in a yoga class.
I started working in the office at the Bikram studio in March 2007, but become a teacher? No way – too hard, too hot, too difficult. Hang on, isn’t that a Bikram class defined? Isn’t that what I love about this yoga……
So I can honestly say I didn’t consciously make the decision to become a Bikram teacher. One day in July 2009, I simply was going to teacher training. That was it. No questions, no doubt. If you don’t make the decision, the universe finds a way of doing it for you!
I love this yoga. I love the honesty and truth that it brings you. I love the community that we have. Bikram Yoga is different for everybody who walks up those stairs. We often start coming for one reason, and all sorts of other things start happening.
Bikram Admin Member
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