Welcome to The Yoga Group.
We share yoga and mindfulness through trainings, retreats and public programs.
Become a qualified yoga teacher with our Yoga Alliance certified 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, join us on an upcoming retreat or bring the benefits of yoga and meditation to your community or workplace through a program specifically tailored for your needs.
Cecily Chun
Cecily Chun is a much loved and respected Naarm-based Yoga and Meditation Teacher. She is the founder of The Yoga Group through which she offers classes, workshops, retreats and yoga teacher training programs. Cecily’s positive attitude, upbeat teaching style and warming nature is welcomed by all.
With over 17 years of teaching experience and 10 years facilitating teacher trainings, she brings to her students a depth in Hatha, Tantra, Bhakti and Prana Flow vinyasa style yoga, having trained across the globe with internationally acclaimed yoga teachers such as Rod Stryker, Richard Miller, Shiva Rea, Indu Aurora and Lorin Roche. Her passion for teaching is evident and she never stops learning and loves to share her knowledge and experience to her students and aspiring teachers.
As a firm believer in the mind, body and soul connection, her desire as a teacher and trainer is to help people feel good in their bodies and inspire you to be the best version of yourself so you can navigate through life with a greater sense of compassion, steadiness, purpose and presence.
Lydia Richards
Lydia Richards has shared yoga and meditation across Naarm since 2017, and is a true believer in the clarity, confidence and calm these sacred wisdom practices can bring to your life. Lydia first came to yoga nearly 20 years ago, while working a stressful corporate job, turning to the practice as a method of both physical exercise and relaxation. Her love for the practice eventually led her to leave behind the corporate world and head to Bali where she completed her first teacher training. Lydia’s life was forever changed.
Since then, Lydia has undergone further study in yin and restorative yoga and meditation and in 2021, Lydia completed a further 300 hours of yoga training under the tutelage of renowned US-based teacher Janet Stone. Lydia has shared her experiences and learnings from the path on a number of teacher trainings and retreats, both in Australia and abroad, and in 2019 she was featured in Caroline Whitehurst’s international compilation book: “Down Under Yogis”. Recognising the human curriculum as our greatest teacher – Lydia loves to explore and share how yoga philosophy can be applied to our busy, modern lives.
Lydia shares a soulful, heart-led practice steeped in the Bhakti Yoga tradition and these days relates to yoga as more of a practice of remembering. That is, remembering everything we already are, and the unchanging soul/spirit aspect within.
“Melissa and Cecily have a wealth of knowledge and teach with so much love and kindness. Can’t recommend The Yoga Group enough.”
- Anzari, 200Hr YTT Graduate