Kamini
OM-Kara Kriya® 2nd Year Diploma Graduate
Kamini has been studying yoga since February 1980, but later became aware that some of her childhood and teen practices are what you would call ‘yoga’. As an enthusiastic yoga student she attended four classes per week with different teachers in the first year, and was soon being asked to take classes.
She taught for the Adelaide School of Yoga in the city and did relief teaching for Iris Clutterham, who became her central teacher, mentor and major yoga influence in her life. Iris had founded the Clutterham School of Yoga in the 1950s and conducted classes and teacher training from that time, facilitating trips to India and visits by international yoga exponents.
The school was renamed the South Australian Institute of Yoga Teachers and was incorporated in 1980. The Institute’s service to the Adelaide Yoga Community has been immense, and was the only wholly South Australian Yoga teacher training organization for until 2004.
Kamini completed teacher training through the Yoga Teachers Institute of South Australia in the form of Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri’s 52 lesson course (1987) and Dr. Savitri Devi’s (N.Z.) yoga teaching and therapy course (1999). She mentored student teachers doing that course from 1997 to 2004 and the Institute’s previous teacher training course in the early ‘90s. She completed the International Yoga For Health Foundation’s Remedial Teacher Training in 1988 and is a Life Member and former State representative of that organization. In about 1990 she was initiated in the ‘TM’ style of meditation
Although she has had a long association with the Satyananda organization, she has not taken up their formal studies. However, she was initiated by their current lineage holder, Swami Niranjananda, and Kamini is the name given to her by him.
From 1993 to 1997 she mentored and trained student teachers in the then South Australian Institute of Yoga Teachers Yoga Course and has facilitated many workshops for the Institute and other yoga bodies over the years. During this time she was initated by Shibendu Lahiri into the Kriya Yoga first level practices of the Kriya Yoga Lahiri Mahasay and Mahamuni Babaji.
She has been a member of the YTISA since mid 1981 and has acted as a Committee member. She has stood again as a committee member this year, 2004-5.
Kamini’s current studies have brought her to the door of Dr Jonn Mumford (literally), whose Tantric course is rounding out and extending her knowledge and experience. Her previous studies have meant that this course contains many familiar elements and overlaps that are further coming together over the course’s duration. The information relating to correspondences, and the Kriya practices themselves, are most exciting to her, and the practical preparatory exercises are readily applicable to class situations.
The privelege of receiving Dr Mumford's instruction and distillation of many years’ study, work and experience, is not underrated and Kamini sees him as her current guru.
She is also a sought after exponent of the complimentary teachings and performing of Middle Eastern Dance. Her school’s name reflects her influences and coming together of her training in Mid-Eastern Dance and Yoga – ‘Raks’ means to her to dance, celebrate and revere and ‘Shakti’ is the divine feminine, dynamic, creative force within us all.
Kamini may be contacted at: 44 Ratcliffe Road,
Aldinga Beach, S. Australia, 5173
Phone: +61 8 8556 6563
Email: [email protected]
From 1993 to 1997 she mentored and trained student teachers in the then South Australian Institute of Yoga Teachers Yoga Course and has facilitated many workshops for the Institute and other yoga bodies over the years. During this time she was initated by Shibendu Lahiri into the Kriya Yoga first level practices of the Kriya Yoga Lahiri Mahasay and Mahamuni Babaji.
She has been a member of the YTISA since mid 1981 and has acted as a Committee member. She has stood again as a committee member this year, 2004-5.
Kamini’s current studies have brought her to the door of Dr Jonn Mumford (literally), whose Tantric course is rounding out and extending her knowledge and experience. Her previous studies have meant that this course contains many familiar elements and overlaps that are further coming together over the course’s duration. The information relating to correspondences, and the Kriya practices themselves, are most exciting to her, and the practical preparatory exercises are readily applicable to class situations.
The privelege of receiving Dr Mumford's instruction and distillation of many years’ study, work and experience, is not underrated and Kamini sees him as her current guru.
She is also a sought after exponent of the complimentary teachings and performing of Middle Eastern Dance. Her school’s name reflects her influences and coming together of her training in Mid-Eastern Dance and Yoga – ‘Raks’ means to her to dance, celebrate and revere and ‘Shakti’ is the divine feminine, dynamic, creative force within us all.
Kamini may be contacted at: 44 Ratcliffe Road,
Aldinga Beach, S. Australia, 5173
Phone: +61 8 8556 6563
Email: [email protected]