Melbourne : Chapel Street
Amrei Newcombe
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amrei@aboutavatar.com
Amrei Newcombe, 29 year old mother of two, is a Melbourne based Bikram Yoga teacher. She was one of the leaders at the Melbourne Yoga Aid challenge in October 2008 and part of the lululemon team.
Amrei won second place in the women’s' division at the Australian Bishnu Ghosh Yoga regional championships in November qualifying her as one of two females to represent Australia at the International Yoga championships in Los Angele's in February 2009.
She has just returned to Melbourne filled with even more inspiration and enthusiasm to share yoga with more people and connect people through yoga.
She is one of the very few Bikram yoga teachers in Australia leading the Bikram yoga advanced class containing all 84 Patanjali asanas (plus variations) and is excited to share her new and refreshed learning from her time with Birkam and other senior teachers in LA with the yoga community.
Before her life as a yogi Amrei used to be a professional dancer.
Rehearsing and performing a work by Gideon Obarzarnek (Chunky Move) until she was 7 months pregnant with her first daughter was only the last of many works she performed in.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at Victorian college of the Arts (University of Melbourne) in 2004.
She danced freelance at “Tanzquartier” in Vienna in 2002.
Amrei came to Australia with a Scholarship from the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne in 2001.
Before that she studied dance at the University for Music in Cologne( Musikhochschule Koeln) from 1998- 2001 after she entered and graduated their secondary school program with a scholarship from her teachers there from 1996-1998 while finishing her a-levels with excellence.
Amrei has always been passionate about moving, travelling, connecting with people and the mind-body-spirit connection which inspired her to do the international self- development course Avatar and become an Avatar master.
Recently she has also been part of events at the Lululemon store at Chapel street ( Melbourne) like demonstrating her routine for the yoga world asana championships in the store and doing yoga on a podium to advertise the yoga expo.
She loves lululemon clothes and wears it every day to teach and practise (and inspired most of many of her students to wear it, too) and so far everything has survived year and years of use and still look new
She also loves the lululemon philosophies and activities in all the stores.... it makes such a difference to feel that lululemon is not just a clothes store!
Amrei performance at the International Bhishnu Ghosh Yoga Asana championships in LA in February this year can be seen at www.yogacup.com (klick on women, she is first one up)
If you are interested here is an excerpt from her sponsorship website http://sponsor-amrei.globalbusinesssolutions.com.au/ about my goals etc:
Recently Lululemon Athletica in Melbourne asked Amrei how she uses goals in her life:
So, Amrei, how did you come to set your goal to successfully attend the Bishnu Charan Ghosh world yoga championships in February 2009?On the 9th of February this year I heard that my dear friend Stefanie Ngai had come 5th at the International Bishnu Ghosh yoga championships the day before.
Between happy flashbacks of how I used to practice next to Stefanie every day at Teacher Training and feeling elated for her success I could also detect a little bit of sadness....
At first I thought it was jealousy....but then a few hours later while I was feeding my youngest, two week old baby daughter, I realised it was something deeper.
From my first Bikram yoga class nine years ago I knew it would be part of my life forever.
It has always been my dream to inspire people to become more....to create the reality they prefer. In my very first class I could instantly feel the power a regular yoga practice gives you to create the health, body and mind you desire.
Every day I learn from and love teaching and practicing yoga more.
However, in that moment feeding my daughter, I had to discover the deep rooted belief that after having had a baby I would physically never be capable again to inspire people to do yoga. I was convinced that I would never be able to live as an example for what the human body can achieve like my friend Stephanie had done the day before demonstrating grace, flexibility and strength as a finalist in the yoga championships.
And then I remembered a little quote by Harry Palmer :What you think of as an impossible dream might be reasonable if you thought differently.
So I decided to kick out all those old beliefs that i was carrying around with me; all those beliefs about what happens to a woman after she becomes a mum, like Your body will never be the same again after you have given birth It will take years till you feel like yourself again." Your back will always be sore...to be honest...it was pretty easy to kick those beliefs out! In the end Bikram yoga has already helped me to experience things that are supposed to be impossible...
Even though I had to have an emergency caesarean with my first daughter I had a wonderful pregnancy and a two hour home birth with my second girl. I was able to practice yoga all the way through my second pregnancy until the day I gave birth and with the help of my wonderful hubby....I came back to class three days later...I feel so blessed for this opportunity to follow my dream!
By going to the international yoga championships in February 2009 I want to inspire people to go for their dreams and believe that they can live them. There is nothing you cannot achieve if you really believe it’s possible. And having kids doesn’t have to be anything to hold you back...it may just help you grow and experience your dreams
Amrei Newcombe, 29 year old mother of two, is a Melbourne based Bikram Yoga teacher. She was one of the leaders at the Melbourne Yoga Aid challenge in October 2008 and part of the lululemon team.