David
David Morley (owner and headteacher)
David is a caring and approachable teacher who marries precision, detailed explanations and challenges for his students with light-hearted humour.
He succeeds in sensitising students to new details of asanas and enabling them to enhance their lifestyle with a safe and stimulating yoga practice.
Credentials:
- Practicing yoga since the late 1980s.
- Has been teaching yoga in Newcastle continuously since 1994.
- Commenced his Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training in 1995 with Senior Iyengar yoga teacher Pixie Lillas of the Balmain Iyengar Yoga Studio, Sydney.
- Certificates in therapeutic and remedial massage therapy, 1995.
- Founded his yoga school as the very first Iyengar yoga school in Newcastle in 1996, previously called 'Novocastrian School of Yoga', now operating as 'Hamilton Yoga - Iyengar Yoga School'.
- Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certification in 1999.
- Studied in India with B.K.S. Iyengar at his 80th birthday celebrations in 1998, and Geeta Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar in 1999 and 2006 at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune.
- Ongoing personal development and attendance at workshops with senior Iyengar yoga teachers and the Iyengar family.
Personal notes:
- Loving father and husband in an Aussie/German household
- Electrician by first trade
- Co-founder of Cooks Hill United Football Club with continued active involvement in management
- Time permitting, electric and double bass player
- Speaks German, best when talking about his other love, Football.