Gena Kenny – Melbourne
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT/PLUS) with Yoga Alliance®
Gena Kenny has taught yoga for almost 20 years; she has also authored the top selling ‘Gift of Yoga” book and DVD (amazon, amazon Australia). Gena created a yoga studio called Ohana Yoga, which has been running for 10 years. In addition to the yoga studio, she will be adding a focusing of restorative and yoga therapy continued education for yoga teachers, adventure and yoga retreats, public speaking and mentorship, as well as regular classes in South Melbourne.
Gena has developed 4 different courses combining both Restorative Yoga and Yoga therapy. These courses aim to teach the methods of healing that Gena used to overcome her chronic pain and injury. They are practices not only for other yoga teachers, but also for movement therapists, or yoga students who just want to learn more about themselves. Gena is now an assistant to Donna Farhi in her intensives and workshops.
Apart from her training with Donna Farhi over the last 10 years, Gena’s foundational yoga teacher training was in Geelong with the Gaia School of Yoga under a mentorship program with Jilda Liddicut from 1994 – 1998. The training was over a 4 year time period based on the Satyananda Yoga Teacher Training program which was made up of 500 hours of in house teaching time as well as self-modulated practice, home study and integration of the studies.