Katie Manitsas

Katie Manitsas: is a co-director of Jivamukti Yoga Sydney (formerly Samadhi Yoga).  Katie is the first certified Advanced Jivamukti Yoga teacher in Australia and has also studied extensively with the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda under the guidance of Swamini Mayatitananda, as well as being a qualified Kundalini Yoga teacher.  Katie grew up in the English countryside surrounded by nature and animals and at the age of ten became a vegetarian; today she is a vegan and along with her business partners opened Earth Vegan Café in Sydney in 2010.  Katie's first yoga teacher, who has now left his body, was an elderly gentleman from the Bahamas who taught classes in the local community centre of the village where she lived. She started attending those classes at twelve years of age and has been doing the best she can to practice yoga ever since.  Simon Low from Triyoga was the teacher who encouraged Katie to begin teaching.  Katie’s previous books are 'Spiritual Survival in the City' and the more recent ‘Yoga Off the Mat’.  Katie is mother to four-year-old Christos who sometimes likes to practice yoga but sometimes prefers to ‘fix cars’ with his Dad who is a mechanic.   She is also mother to little Ziggy who was born at home.  Katie is a trained doula (birth companion) and is currently studying the Montessori education method for pre-schoolers.