Thank you one more time for teaching me the beautiful and powerful yogalates! I had been translating the method to spanish for the website and for a future first yogalates class in spanish!!!! And through this days of study I realize again and again how lucky I was to met you and to study with you. Yogalates is fantastic!

Namaste

Maria Escobar April 2010

Chile South America

Louise Lisa & Olive, you have inspired me to such an extent, that I actually feel safe, going home and teaching this method. It is such a wonderful tool to have and to apply it to clients and to my family and friends.

I am also so much more interested now on how our bodies function, how to use the right way to teach people how to use their bodies and also to be able to help and heal people in need! I have courage again to teach,!( Jutta had been teaching Yoga for 20 years)

I will keep studying and reading to broaden my knowledge; so I feel confident in making the right adjustments and the right sequences for people with special needs.

Thank you Louise for all your effort, love and hard work you put in to create this for us, to share it with others and to be such a loving, charming and conscious being!!

Lots of love to you - Namaste, in deep honour we are blessed to have you. I am blessed to be able to have had this experience, I will never forget – thank you!!!!

Jutta Simons April 2010

Vancouver, Canada

When I first came across Yogalates, I had been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Most of that time; I had also been involved in training Yoga teachers. When I met Louise Solomon, I was the Head the Yoga Faculty at Nature Care College in Sydney.

Prior to my work with Nature Care College, I worked for Satyananda Yoga Academy, setting up their Yoga studies and teacher training courses.

After many years in the same profession, I was finding it hard to keep motivated in my career.

In 2007, I was blessed to be able to train with the wonderful Yogalates team of Louise, Lisa, Maria and Peter at the Yogalates Centre in Bangalow.

The Yogalates training was inspirational and fun. It was also great for my health and well-being. During the training my posture changed significantly. I had results in postural re-alignment that had evaded me in years of yoga practice.

Yogalates is brilliantly conceived by Louise Solomon; It gives students a great workout, is great fun, it builds strength and confidence, and is extremely safe. Yogalates is now my passion and I love sharing it with my students.

I don’t need to advertise, because word of mouth is enough. New students tend to stay for years as their preferred style of yoga and exercise, and I can watch them change body shape, gain strength, stamina and flexibility.

I admire the Yogalates style, and am forever grateful to my trainers who passed onto me; their passion for and knowledge of Yogalates.

Thanks so much guys.

Student 2007- Clive Salzer
Yogalates Teacher
Central Coast
Australia NSW

Coming from a physiotherapy background I appreciated the high standard of training provided. The level of knowledge in anatomy, physiology and application to exercise, with the focus on special needs and injury prevention is meticulous.

The trainers are experienced, knowledgeable and inspirational teachers. They are also exceptionally open and wonderful personalities in themselves.

They all have a strong ability to apply functional anatomy to optimise functional movement and stability for safe exercise and to adapt the exercise to suit all body types, shapes, and dysfunctions/limitations.

The Yoga philosophy component is enlightening and incorporated well into the course with the involvement of a wonderful household yogi!!

Student 2009- Catherine
Physiotherapist, Yogalates Teacher
New Zealand

ATTENTION: POTENTIAL YOGALATES DIVAS/DIVANS

My name is Melissa and I cannot speak highly enough of the Yogalates teacher training in Bangalow which I completed Oct/Nov 2008.

I was unsure whether Yogalates and the fusion was the right path for me initially or whether I should do a straight yoga course. I did a lot of research and decided the safety aspects and the qualifications of the tutors in the Yogalates course seemed more thorough (and it was!).

The course was very in depth and covered everything from anatomy, functional assessment, special needs, contraindications and one on one assessment, always with a great emphasis on correct alignment and safety (OH&S).

I was encouraged to be creative and given the confidence to start teaching immediately which I found very satisfying and rewarding.

The tutors were very helpful, friendly and extremely professional. They took a tremendous interest in each individual student and can’t thank them enough for their time, positive feedback and energy.

I would not hesitate in giving the course my recommendation to any serious Yoga/Pilates student.

Yours sincerely
Student 2008- Melissa
Yogalates Teacher, Sydney, NSW

It was almost exactly this time last year that I decided to come to Australia for a year abroad.  While making my plans, I initially concentrated on finding work in the cities -- Sydney, Melbourne, etc.  My friend tried to urge me to come to Byron Bay but I was resilient about living outside of a metropolis, unable to further my career. 

I have always dreamed of  taking a yoga teacher training course as yoga has always been one of the greatest pleasures in my life.  My professional pursuits have always prevented me from fulfilling this dream as there never seemed to be a suitable time to take time off from my career-bound city life.  I decided to 'surf' the internet to find out what was on offer in Byron Bay and 'voila',  I came across Louise Solomon's Yogalates TM website.  I could hardly believe how perfectly suited all of the components of the training course were to what I was looking for.  Louise Solomon's course offers the ideal combination of theoretical and practical applications of her innovative Yogalates concept set in an ideal location next to the beach in a beautiful big studio. 

Once I finally arrived in Byron Bay to meet with Louise in person after much communication via email, I knew I had made the right decision.  Louise's kind and warm demeanor encouraged all of her trainees to follow our dreams and stay focused in the most challenging of times.  Taking this course has had a profound effect on my life -- I now have an exciting new career and live in Paradise.  Thanks Louise!

Student 2001- Anthea Parsons

Yogalates Teacher, Vancouver, Canada

The moment I read the curriculum for this teacher training course, I knew I had to do it! Here was a course that promised to be good for my own health and give me the qualification to teach others to improve and maintain their own physical and psychological wellbeing.

And Louise, this course has lived up to its promise. My arthritic joints have gained mobility; tight muscles in my neck and upper back (from years of computing and marking!) have been released. I also feel longer, stronger and leaner.

I have been involved in teaching and adult teacher education for many years. Louise, I recognize you as an exceptional teacher and teacher trainer of both practical and theory classes. Your calm, warm, encouraging style has been an inspiration. It takes a great talent to develop a concept such as Yogalates™. It takes exceptional skill to pass this concept on to others to teach.

Thanks for supporting us all through our individual trials and tribulations during this physically demanding and mentally stimulating course.

Regards
Student 2001- Ruth Llewellyn.
Yogalates Teacher, Sydney, NSW.

Ever since I have returned from Byron, I have been teaching with great joy both public and private classes in a small studio that I have been renting in the compound where I live. This way, I have been able to handle my classes just the way I wanted to and it's been going wonderfully.

I have had tremendous results with all my students. Yogalates has made such a difference for them. I can see their posture, their alignment, their strength, their stamina, their energy and their state of mind evolve throughout the months. They always come out with more integrity than they got in....it's just so beautiful to witness that! Unfortunately, I cannot provide for all the demand out here and I've got people on waiting list but I have come to realize that I cannot handle more than 6 public classes a week if I want to be really fully present.

The system you have come up with is so finely tuned, it's a perfect balance between the essential of Pilates and that of Yoga, erasing all the potentially harmful practices and it works absolute wonders. It is reliable, safe, gentle and yet deep and very efficient. I am so very honoured and deeply grateful for having met you and having been taught by the fantastic instructors that you managed to gather for us. There is not a week that goes by without one of them, one pearl they said, one concept they passed on to me, one principle, one technique, one value, one epiphany, one act of support and kindness which I don't pay forward to one of my students. They all inhabit me during every class that I teach and I carry them in my heart always. Please do forward all my love, gratitude and respect to each and every one of them. It's been an honour to have been taught by them.

So I just want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!
 

Student 2006- Dominique Solomon

Yogalates Teacher, Shanghi, China.