Iyengar Yoga Classes
Yoga West Footscray Melbourne
Classes are held at the Body Voice Centre 50 Wolverhampton St, Footscray
Classes run continuously with a break for school holidays. You can buy your class pass below. You do not need to book into every class you wish to attend. Class passes expire after 6 months except for passes bought for the Beginner’s Courses which expire on completion of the course.
Thursdays
New 5 week Beginner’s Course starts Thursday August 18th 6-7PM. Fee $100 buy a 5 class pass from the drop down menu below under Beginner’s and Yoga for Back Pain.
click here to do a full yoga class for back pain with Vanessa
Iyengar General Level Thursdays 7.15pm
Saturdays
Iyengar Beginner’s & General class 8am- 9.15am
Prenatal yoga and Birth Skills for all stages of Pregnancy 9.30am-10.45am
You can start throughout the term for all classes.
Send an email to vanessa.shribman@gmail.com to book into your first class.
Yoga class prices:
Fee for 5 weeks $110, 10 weeks 1x week $190 | 2x a week $340 | Casual session $25
Classes are not lost if you miss a week. You can carry them over into the next term. There is a 6 month expiry on your class pass. There is no refund on class passes.
Vanessa is an Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Physiotherapist and Birth Educator.
Beginner’s & Yoga for Back Pain
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Beginner’s yoga introduces you to 25 yoga poses and mindfulness. This is combined with back care yoga and is a good place to start if you have back or neck pain.
Buy your yoga pass
$12.00 – $340.00
Level 1 yoga Thursday & Begs Lev 1 Saturday
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Level 1 yoga assumes that you have completed a beginner’s course are and are familiar with basic standing and sitting poses. In this class we start to build upper body strength and work with balance.
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$12.00 – $340.00
Prenatal Yoga
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Prenatal classes include:
- Techniques for pain relief
- Getting the most from your health care provider
- Optimal foetal positioning
- Clarifying screening tests
- Creating continuity of care if you dont have it
- Dealing with fear
- And more…..
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$12.00 – $340.00
Iyengar yoga teacher Vanessa Shribman
Vanessa Shribman is an Iyengar yoga teacher of 30 years experience teaching Beginner’s yoga, Intermediate yoga and Advanced yoga in West Footscray, Melbourne. She is also a childbirth educator and teaches pregnancy yoga and birth skills. She is also a holistic physiotherapist. She came across Iyengar Yoga in 1987 in India and over the years has worked with senior teachers from all over the world including BKS Iyengar and other members of his family.
What is Iyengar Yoga?
Iyengar Yoga is an authentic, dynamic method of yoga based on the teachings of BKS Iyengar who died in 2014. It strengthens and stretches the body.
Each class is different. Classes are dynamic and exciting. There is a relaxation at the end of each class.
Your teacher will show you the correct alignment in each pose so that you are learning correctly
Poses are modified for you if you have an injury or medical condition.
Students progress methodically with strength and flexibility to master more challenging poses
Iyengar yoga is a practice accessible to all ages
Vanessa opened the Coast Yoga Centre in Glenelg, South Australia in 1994 and has directed it since. In 2019 she relocated to Melbourne to be closer to her 3 children.
She now teaches in Melbourne At the Body Voice Centre in Footscray.
The Body Voice Centre, 50 Wolverhampton St, Footscray 3012
Phone: +61423912452
Holistic Package
Vanessa combines her physiotherapy understanding and practice with her knowledge of yoga to help students who have had long standing pain to get back into moving safely. She works gradually with hands on holistic physiotherapy techniques and yoga to bring about profound and lasting change in the body and mind. Neuroscience tells us that chronic pain, felt in the body, takes root in the connections in the brain. The main way to resolve the pain is to exercise. In order to resolve the pain we must start to move again and reprogram those connections that tell us that the body is in pain, to feel pain free. The more ways in which we move the better. Yoga is a perfect medium for this. It can be slow and cautious but it introduces movement in many different ways and can be graduated to suit the individual. Vanessa will set up an individual program for you that you can practice at home. She will revisit this with you each week or two.
You can book into classes by clicking the link above
Combining yoga and birth knowledge
Vanessa has also developed pregnancy yoga and birthing skills classes combining yoga and birth knowledge. She trained as a childbirth educator and has taught Prenatal Yoga and Couples Birth Workshops for the last 30 years. Her focus is on keeping birth as normal as possible and finding confidence in your own resources for birth. Classes focusing on natural pain techniques and confidence for birth greatly reduces intervention rates, cesareans, perineal trauma and birth trauma.
Email Us
Contact Info for yoga
The Body Voice Centre, 50 Wolverhampton St, Footscray 3012
0423912452
Physiotherapy Bookings
Vanessa works at Pod Clinic Rooms in West Footscray on Wednesdays and at her home clinic in West Footscray on Fridays and Saturdays. You can book an appointment with her by clicking on the link below or by calling 0423912452. Please expect 60 minutes for your first appointment and come suitably dressed. Please check the FAQs for more information about your appointment or email me.
