Ingrid Gravestein - Studio Owner & Senior Teacher

Regardless of whether it is a simple Basics class, or a dynamic Slow Flow class, Ingrid will provide and hold space for you to tend to yourself. With care, respect and hands-on assists, she will remind you to stay present and listen to your body. Each cue is specific to physical alignment, breath and your attitude of attention.

More about Ingrid

After visiting her family for the past 30 years Ingrid finally moved to Merimbula to look after her mother and pursue her dream of providing this beautiful place with a dedicated yoga space. Her teaching journey began in 2004 and she feels privileged to have worked for two great yoga studios, Mantra Yoga Crows Nest (a smaller studio boasting a big happy community) and Body Mind Life Surry Hills (the biggest yoga studio in Australia). Ingrid gathered an impressive depth of experience from both studios including teaching classes, training and mentoring teachers, and running workshops. She was also able to continually learn through further training which included international teachers.

Ingrid continues to learn and undertake training with highly esteemed international teacher Ana Forrest of Forrest Yoga. A famous game changer, Ana's 40 years of global teaching has already left a legacy of intelligent sequencing to guide you deep, safely, and sustainably. Sindar Kaur mentored Ingrid for several years and while not as well known as Ana Forrest, her intuitive guidance is born from her own truth-seeking of the rich yogic texts and many many hours of deep meditation. Having embraced their teachings Ingrid has liberated herself from many burdens and humbly offers this embodied wisdom to all that walk through her doors.

Trish Barbara

You’ll always receive a warm-hearted welcome when coming into Trish’s Class.  Trish teaches Hatha Yoga with a thread of Ana Forrest postures and sequencing.  Trish teaches Beginners to Basics & Slow Flow as well as her own unique Restorative Classes. She promotes kindness-to-self and others; encourages strength in both body and mind; includes thoughtful consideration to the neck and shoulders and fosters a deeper awareness of the breath and the importance of Presence. With generous attentiveness to all her students, she’ll help you understand how your personal yoga practice can transform your daily life, both on and off the mat.

More about Trish

During her 30+ years of practicing Yoga, Trish experienced many different styles of Yoga including Iyengar, Vinyasa & Hatha. When asked by her Yoga Teacher and Mentor in Sydney why she wasn’t a teacher yet, she asked herself the same thing and took a leap of faith into her Yoga Teacher Training through Inhale Life, Sydney, 2018 and has been teaching regularly at The Yoga Humm since.

From the time I walked into The Yoga Humm and got a taste of Forrest Yoga, my own personal practice changed forever. Forrest Yoga offered me more connection to breath, deeper access to healing of body & mind; it assists me building strength and stamina and aids the release of tension and stress, while improving presence. I’m genuinely excited as a Yoga Teacher, to be able to share this physical and internal exploration of self.

Qualifications & Certifications

Health & Wellness Coaching, Certs 1, 11 & 111, Wellness Coaching Australia, Sydney, 2015 - 2017.

Business & Marketing Certs 1 & 11, Basic Bananas, Sydney, 2016 & 2017.

350hr Yoga Teacher Training, Inhale Life, Sydney 2018.

Ayurveda Consultation Certification, Sunita Patil, Sydney 2021

Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra Certification, Sunita Patil, Sydney 2022

Diana Gleeson

Through Yoga, I am delighted to take you to wherever your hearts’ desire lies; coaxing you breath by breath as you slowly build the fire and ignite from deep within, ready to glow and shine.

Rise and Shine greets the day with breath, stretch and purpose; it sets your positive intention for the day ahead.  In a Basics class we touch on the fundamental poses, in a way that adheres to the teachings of Ana Forrest’s ‘Fierce Medicine’ attitude to yoga and life; you cannot build and adorn a temple if the foundation is broken. Once your knowledge progresses and you are ready to play with your edges, I invite you to Slow Flow which by design covers the basics and encourages you to further explore stronger poses. Come and explore them with me.

May you always walk in the glorious light of  your own divinity as you gently walk upon Mother Earth.”

More about Diana

The Accidental Teacher.  Diana’s ‘Esoteric’ journey began in 2002, following the death of her father, whilst seeking answers to her ‘whys?’ from the universe. It was while Diana attended several Master Classes with Ana Forrest, she told Ana that she didn’t really want to teach, she simply wanted to know the secrets of the universe. 

Ana looked at me, the way only Ana can and said, “you just might accidentally find yourself teaching one day.”

Ever the perpetual student, she wanted more, so from then to 2015 She studied many modalities including Yoga, where her transformation began. Diana met Ingrid at Body Mind Life Yoga Studio in Sydney. “It’s by her grace that I learnt to breathe and how the breath gave me so much more movement.”  Diana then entered into Teacher Training with Beth Borowski of Karma Kids and also completed 200hr Teacher Training with The Joy of Yoga in 2015 and quickly launched into teaching from, infants to teenagers & seniors and in the wider community for the next few years.

It wasn’t that long ago, during a yoga Body-Work Workshop with Jambo Truong, cocooned in that sacred space of learning, and whilst in her meditation practice, she suddenly sat up and spoke out loud “I am moving to Merimbula!” Having never been here before, it was an act of faith and with her burning desire to explore Forrest Yoga even more, she found herself her at the Yoga Humm.

Under the tuition of Jambo Truong, of Jambo Dragon School she has completed her Forrest Yoga Teacher Training and completed the short course The Origin of Movement.

Other Qualifications & Certifications

Vibrational Kinesiology, Level 2 | Maxwell Dobson

Advanced training with Doreen Virtue | Angelic Workshops

Master Teacher of Reiki, Level 7B |    2012

Meditation Training, 2014 |  Sindar Kaur

Specialised Dementia Carer, Cert IV | 2014

Karma Kids Teacher Training, 2014 | Beth Borowski

Yoga Teacher Training, 2015 | Marianne Bryant Physical Fitness Cert IV  | 2019