Free Your Chi: Yin Yoga & Live Music + Soundbath

Karen Gunter BIO 

Karen is a yoga teacher, a local to Belair, and the soul of Yoga Garage. 

She began practicing yoga in 1986 to help manage chronic knee pain and found that practice not only cured her of any pain, but also improved her overall physical and emotional health. Karen’s health goals are to continue a yoga practice which teaches her to be patient, understanding and accepting without judgement or expectation. Her personal yoga practice cultivates feelings of strength, light, and energy; these feelings are infused into her classes.

Believing that every student matters, Karen has helped students in the Yoga Garage community to work towards increased health and wellbeing of body and mind since the studio opened in 2009. 

Karen teaches Yin and Yang approaches in regular classes at Yoga Garage 

In addition to her regular classes, she offers private classes for individuals and families in their homes, corporate workplace classes and runs weekend yoga retreats in luxurious locations around South Australia. She works with diverse groups, from assisting professional sportspeople to prevent injury and enhance their performance, to children from kindy to year 12 at Adelaide schools as well as weekly therapeutic yoga sessions for inpatients at Flinders Medical Centre. Karen believes that yoga is a gift for life – able to be practiced from 3 to 103!

MichelleShanti Bio

Michelle Shanti, creative director of Shanti Sound is a musician, singer & sound therapist. 

She has studied music and sound therapy extensively and been practicing and teaching since 2011- her formal achievements include Diploma Sound Therapy and Diploma of Music. She has deepened her experience through attending retreats with Jonathan Goldman (in USA), Deva Premal & Miten (in NSW), and has accompanied world-class international music artists such as Jai-Jagdeesh and Tina Malia on their Australian tours, and recently performed in Bali with Sacred Earth.