Sunny Peta

Sunny Peta is a yoga teacher, writer, somatic life coach and workshop facilitator. She has 30 yrs of an on-off love affair with yoga and has finally committed to gaining her teaching certification.  She also has a 25yr practice of Chi Kung.

Teaching Style

Sunny's teaching style is an eclectic combining facilitation with movement, energy work, and individual attention. Her aim is to empower everyone to embrace yoga by demystifying the aura of 'mystery' that surrounds it without losing connection to the depth of experience yoga offers.

Your Yoga Your Body - She has a particular interest in functional anatomy inspired by Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley,  and Thomas Myers, and the concept that because of the way our bodies are uniquely structured we will only benefit from yoga when we drop the 'end gain' of an asana or series of movements and work within our own body's framework. 

Even though everyone can develop more strength and flexibility, some of us have body structures that will never be able to bend over backwards in a wheel or cross their legs in Lotus pose.  It doesn't matter. That's not what Yoga is about.  Yoga is about exploring and using your own body well, and gaining as much benefit from this as those who can do all kinds of twisty pretzel shapes.

Her favourite areas of yoga practice are Yin Yoga: for the link to TCM meridians, the work on  connective tissues and the slow deep experience, Energy Yoga for it's connection to the meridian system and its effect on the lymphatic system; Restorative Yoga for the ultimate relaxation and iRest Yoga Nidra a therapeutic deep yogic sleep technique that also facilitates powerful experiences of awareness and awakening.  Her personal experience of being 66, glaucoma, and arthritis has led her to modify her own practice and enabled her to understand better the unique challenges many people face, whether they are older or debilitated by illness at a young age.  She wants to encourage and assist you to explore yoga within your limits. 

There's no such thing as 'being good at yoga'

Yoga can benefit everyone who sticks with it.. and who is willing to let go of the need to be perfect.  In yoga there is no good yoga or bad yoga. there is just your yoga.  Your yoga is good when you are in your body, feeling what's going on and being present to the experience... It's bad when you're outside judging, wishing, beating yourself up, striving no matter how easy it is for you to 'get into an asana'.  

Be your own guru! Question everything and check it out for yourself.   - Sunny Peta