Paula Lay
Paula co-founded Yoginimelbourne with one of her dearest friends, Mischa, to share her love of yoga, mindfulness and wellbeing in an accessible, down to earth manner.
Paula has been teaching yoga for over 11 years and has a background in movement and dance and has been studying and practicing yoga for 20 years. Paula has been influenced by many different yoga and movement traditions and this comes through in the variety of yoga classes she teaches from dynamic vinyasa, therapeutic hatha, yin to mindfulness and meditations. Paula has studied with yoga teachers in India (Mysore) and in Australia across the traditions of Ashtanga, Iyengar, hatha as well as modern approaches to yoga.
Paula is also a qualified social worker currently working as a counsellor/therapist specialising in working with trauma. Paula has completed her level 1 qualification in Sensorimotor psychotherapy (talk based somatic psychotherapy) and has a deep interest in how these various frameworks and understandings can support people to connect to the body as a resource, place of wisdom, joy and deep healing.
Paula aims through teaching the practice of yoga to support people to develop life-long tools to live a life that is deeply connected, to yourself, others and the world around you.
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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