Karen Chatfield

Axle Yoga

Please contact axle.yoga@gmail.com to register for a class. Space for 10 available. Karen welcomes you to Axle Yoga. She started practicing yoga over 20 years ago and has completed 350 hours teacher training with Tamara Yoga ISHTA Australia, a 2 year course of study. Karen is a Level 1 Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia.

Karen is also the founder of Axle Yoga and is passionate about all aspects of the practice. Yoga has become a part of her everyday life in helping find balance in all its ups and downs. Sharing the benefits of yoga with others gives her joy and she encourages you to join her at Axle Yoga and find your place on the mat. It has been said, sometimes the hardest part of yoga can be just getting yourself onto the mat. Karen says, “Once there though, the perspective is wonderous!” 

The lineage Karen follows is ISHTA yoga. Kavi Yogi Swarananda Mani Finger and his son Yogiraj Alan Finger created ISHTA Yoga in the late 1960s. ISHTA is an acronym for ‘Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda. It is also a Sanskrit word meaning, ‘that which resonates with the individual spirit’. Karen sees people as unique individuals and teaches classes to suit the needs of the individual by encouraging modifications and the use of props when appropriate. As Alan Finger explains, “Range is of the ego, form is of the soul”.