Amanda Ferris has been practising and teaching yoga for over 25 years. In that time she has taught hundreds of students, studied repeatedly in Mysore, India, and built one of Melbourne's most enduring Ashtanga programs. With decades of yoga practice in the wake, one thing feels clear and true.

It's about being human.

Amanda's teaching is rooted in the Ashtanga tradition; she is a Level 2 Authorised teacher, a direct student of the Jois family, and is recognised by Yoga Australia as a senior teacher. The lineage matters to her. And so does what happens when tradition meets a real person with a real life, a body that changes, a mind that wanders, and a tender heart.

She has practised through young adulthood, through motherhood, through loss and transition and the ordinary difficulty of being alive. Her students stay, often for many years, not because the practice is easy, but because of the quality of attention she brings. Those who know her describe her as warm, devoted, humble, and deeply intuitive. In and out of the yoga room, she leads with open-heartedness and has a gift for making people feel seen.

Amanda is currently undertaking a four-year Gestalt Psychotherapy training, deepening her understanding of how people grow and change in relationship. This sits naturally alongside her existing work as a yoga practitioner and teacher, where she has always been interested in integration: body and mind, practice and life, tradition and the living moment.

Born in the American Midwest and living in Australia for over 25 years, Amanda holds a degree from Sarah Lawrence College, NY and studied Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne. She is also a certified Tea Master. Amanda is a mother, a community builder, a salonnière, hosting regular music salons in her garden for 30 to 50 people, a deep thinker, and an occasional Zouk dancer. She feels life fully, and creates spaces where others can do the same.