mel bennett

I absolutely adore yoga, tantra and ayurveda. I share practices and rituals that soothe your nervous system, expand your capacity to let go, alchemise the mind stuff that limits you, bring you into harmony with nature and awaken you to your true nature, which is innately luminous, peaceful and whole.

I had been working in the corporate grind culture in Melbourne for over 10 years, when a persistent feeling that there must be more to life led me to my first yoga teacher training in 2018. The ‘more’ was beyond beautiful and I devoted myself to my practice, studies (over 1,600 hours) and teaching (public classes, retreats and yoga teacher trainings).

The practices I share include yin yoga, pranayama, tantric meditation, yoga nidra, rest and self-enquiry.

These practices are rooted in the sublime wisdom of Sri Vidya Tantra (the wisdom of beauty) and the Himalayan Masters (a living tradition).

In a nutshell, the combined worldview of yoga, tantra and ayurveda is that the universe is an ocean of beauty and bliss and you are a wave in that ocean, a wave with a unique purpose in this world that only you can fulfil. Your journey is to remember yourself as that, and practice leads to this remembrance.

I live on the stunning land of Byron Bay (Australia), whose ancestors and custodians are the Arakwal people, the Minjungbal people and the Widjabul people of Bundjalung Nation.