Lead Trainer – E-RYT500, RYT200 Kundalini

Steve’s approach to teaching yoga focuses on cultivating physical, mental, and emotional balance for his students in a supportive, non-competitive environment. He leads from a student-centered perspective, honoring each individual’s unique abilities by offering multiple variations of each asana. This approach encourages students to express movement in ways that feel natural and accessible to them, fostering a deeper sense of connection to the practice.

For Steve, yoga is all about connection—awareness, breath, and movement. He ensures that his classes allow students to explore the full range of spinal movement and to feel the unity within the body as it moves as one integrated whole.

Steve is especially passionate about the fascial system and its role in whole-body movement, emphasizing somatic awareness and the importance of internalization. His teaching is rooted in promoting spinal and nervous system health through free, full movement of all joints, fostering vitality and resilience in his students.

With over 20 years of yoga experience and nearly a decade of involvement in teacher trainings, Steve holds the highest Yoga Alliance E-RYT500 classification, is a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and an Aerial Yoga Teacher. He has taught more than 13,000 hours of classes and brings a wealth of experience from various traditions, including Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar, Yin, Hatha, and Power Yoga, having studied with teachers around the world.

A naturally curious and open person, Steve is continually expanding his yogic knowledge. His teaching journey has taken him across the globe, including 17 years in Bali, as well as teaching stints in Thailand, Spain, London, and Pakistan. Since returning to his home in New Zealand in 2018, he continues to inspire students with his relaxed yet thorough teaching style and his passion for yoga anatomy and philosophy.