TEACHERS

Our staff are all accredited yoga instructors with backgrounds in sports medicine, education and corporate fields.

Jannin Jacob graduated college from Victoria College with a Diploma of Education majoring in physical education. Jannin has always enjoyed sport and maintaining a level of physical fitness, discovering the benefits of yoga after the birth of her third child. Dedicated in her own practice for several years she decided to share her passion for and the benefits of yoga through teaching others about this wonderful tool for health and wellbeing, receiving her advanced diploma, yoga teacher training from the Australian Yoga Academy. Jannin founded HappyBeing in 2002 and is passionate about sharing the benefits of yoga with the wider local community through her classes with children and young adults. Those that come to practice in Jannin's classes are welcomed into a warm, supportive, sensory environment and will observe her hands-on approach to correct alignment, taking the time work to a level that challenges each student to what is appropriate for them.

Heidi Vial has been working as a social worker in between following her love for travel and the sun for eight years. Spending most of her younger life in Brisbane, she came to Melbourne 2010 to finish a post graduate degree. It was initially through tightness in her knees and hips that she started yoga in 2008. Heidi found that yoga is brilliant to practice no matter where you are and so it sustained her during her wanderings. Since moving to Melbourne she has had the opportunity to practice and learn more, completing teacher training in 2011 with Australian Yoga Academy. Through yoga she has had many personal revolutions on and off the mat that goes beyond the physical practice of asana. Treating yoga and life for that matter, as a joyful learning experience never focused not on the outcome but the journey. She tries to incorporate a sense of playfulness and openness in her teaching as her existence. Heidi convinced that through yoga the world is a better place. 

Kath Moir started her yoga life as a student of hatha yoga and esoteric studies; she then studied yoga at Gita International for 2 years and completed her yoga teacher training in 2001. Since then she has explored many disciplines of yoga including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram, Satyananda, Powerflow and has found a comfortable and inspiring home at Happy Being.  Kath also has a Bachelor of Education majoring in nutrition and continues to work in the health industry.
Kath believes that yoga is not just about what happens on your mat, it also incorporates the wish to saturate every cell, thought and action with the essence of yoga when we are away from out mat. This can be a difficult and challenging process and it is the reason we need to return to our mats regularly and join class to re-learn and remind ourselves about this amazing thing called yoga.

Margaux Lovett is an inspired yoga practitioner, yoga teacher/lecturer and Occupational Therapist and has worked in the health industry for more than 7 years. She is a professional member of both the Yoga Teachers Association and the Occupational Therapy Association.  
Margaux’s hatha yoga journey started 4 years ago in London where she made the decision to give yoga a go to balance out the fast paced city life and stressful job. Initially she noted the positive physical transformations to chronic ailments she had lived with for many years due to stress and poor posture. Starting with a traditional Sivananda teaching she completed courses in asana, meditation and yogic psychology. Once she returned to Australia after a detour to India to immerse herself in traditional yogic teachings she completed an advanced diploma of yoga at the Australian Yoga Academy and has continued her regular practice at the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Melbourne.
Margaux teaches a balanced class of flowing Vinyasa from traditional Ashtanga asana sequences as well as pranayama, meditation and savasana. Due to Margaux’s experience working in occupational health she also tailors classes to suit common occupational and lifestyle injuries and medical conditions. Margaux believes that everyone should be able to have access to the wisdom, knowledge and inner peace that is yoga. Margaux teaches from a western anatomical and physiological perspective with a weave of eastern esoteric philosophy.
Margaux has 7 years experience of working with orthopaedic, neurological, psychiatric and chronic pain related conditions as an Occupational Therapist in the workplace, community and rehabilitation centres.

Melody Jansz is a leading expert in the ever-expanding Health and Wellness Lifestyle Industry. 
Her journey began in the 1970's when she worked in her parents' Health Food Store, giving her a privileged exposure to alternative health and healing modalities. Since then she has followed this ever expansive path, embracing an holistic concept of well-being that encompasses Yoga, Health, Fitness, Nutrition and Personal Development.
A qualified Beauty/Massage/Spa Therapist and Counsellor, Melody finally completed her Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching at the Australian Yoga Academy in 2011, after 15 years of personal practice. During this time she has been immersed in the eight limbs of Yoga tradition, and has practiced such styles of yoga as Hatha, Iyengar, Astanga, Vinyasa Flow, Power Flow, Bikram and Dru Yoga. As she draws upon her training and experience, Melody brings a wealth of inside knowledge and expertise in a down-to-earth, user friendly manner.
It is Melody's key motivation to be of service to all her students, and to generously share her knowledge, as her teachers have done so for her; to mentor, encourage and inspire through example, positive attitude and continual learning. It is her passionate belief that Yoga is an holistic means of expression, that holds vital keys, leading to a deeper knowledge and awareness of self; physical, emotional, spiritual health and inner peace.

Natja Wünsch: After many years of fitness training, aerobics, step, dance, Thai Bo and others a teacher at my gym convinced me to give Yoga a go. My very first class was a classical Ashtanga class. My understanding of Yoga was relaxing and stretching but this was something completely different. I started a regular practice immediately and after a while tried a general class and enjoyed that as well. The teacher included some fundamental knowledge of postures. I was fascinated.
After moving to Australia and settling in well I picked up my practice again and realised that teachers here seem to know a lot more and communicate that to the students. The other limbs of Yoga were even more fascinating and I wanted to share this and learn a lot more about Yoga. One of my teachers at that time encouraged my intention to start a Yoga teacher training.
After enrolling my whole life changed and I’m a Yoga addict now. Exploring the different styles has influenced my practice and teaching. I belief Yoga is a life philosophy and science with many benefits to the body and mind. My studies will not end and teaching Yoga is such a pleasure that I really feel the urge to share that with my students.

Rosemarie Espenberger: My fitness journey stared twenty years ago when I enrolled in a Taekwondo class. Little did I know that within the next ten years I would achieve my 2nd Dan Black Belt, compete State and Nationally and become an Instructor. Still searching for more, I undertook Certificate 111 in Fitness and became a Gym Instructor and then Certificate IV, Personal Trainer.
Inbetween all of that, Yoga came in and out of my life, but it wasn't until circumstances changed that brought me back to Yoga Practice and HappyBeing. I then decided to enrol in Teacher Training with the Australian Yoga Academy. Martial Arts taught me discipline, Personal Training taught me strength but Yoga practice combines all of that and inspires me to live with Purpose, Passion and Peace. 
I know that I will inspire you too. Namaste