Paula Lay
Paula Lay is an experienced yoga teacher and trauma therapist. With over 13 years of teaching experience, Paula’s work draws on a rich blend of traditional and contemporary approaches to yoga, movement, mindfulness, and somatic therapies. She believes in the transformative potential of yoga as a tool for self-connection, healing, and personal growth.
Paula brings a mindful, trauma-sensitive approach to her yoga classes and her offerings range from dynamic Vinyasa, Somatic yoga, therapeutic Hatha, Yin and mindfulness based meditation. Her teaching philosophy emphasises creating a safe and nurturing space for students to reconnect with themselves in a way that honours an individual’s needs and experience.
In addition to her yoga training, Paula is an accredited mental health social worker and has extensive experience working as a counsellor/therapist with a focus on trauma, anxiety, and depression. Her therapeutic approach is grounded in the body, informed by Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a modality that integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and simple body-based experiments to help individuals release habitual patterns of behaviour, thought, and emotional experience. Paula’s unique blend of expertise in both yoga and therapy allows her to offer a compassionate, holistic approach to healing that honours the wisdom of the body.
Through her practice and teaching, Paula hopes to help others develop lifelong tools for living deeply connected lives—rooted in awareness, compassion, and a sense of belonging to oneself, to others, and to the world.
Mischa Baka
Mischa holds a Masters by Research degree from the University of Melbourne in “Writing Dialogue: Stance, Space, and Emotion” (2018). His practice-led research incorporates dance, linguistics and screenwriting. Mischa also holds an undergraduate degree and honours from the Victorian College of the Arts film school, where his graduate film, Last Beautiful Friend (2009), was awarded Most Daring and Innovative Production, Best Achievement in Editing and Best Achievement in Sound. The film was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award in 2010. In 2011, Mischa attended the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where Last Beautiful Friend screened as part of the international program.
Mischa was an editor of Tau Seru, a short film that premiered at Cannes Critics Week in 2013 and won the award for Best Australian Short Film at the 2013 Melbourne International Short Film Festival.
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