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JESSIE CHAPMAN & FACILITATORS
Your Radiance yoga wellness retreat hosts are Jessie Chapman and a highly attuned team who have been sharing Radiance Retreats in Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Europe since 2002. Jessie and facilitators love creating space for people to deepen in yoga practice and to be inspired in beautiful natural surrounds. They continue to develop and refine the yoga and wellness offerings and to explore new and inspiring retreat locations.
ABOUT SOME OF THE RADIANCE TEAM
Jessie Chapman - Radiance Retreats Creator, Yoga Teacher & Author
Australian yoga teacher Jessie Chapman lives in Byron Bay with her family where she offers Radiance Retreats along with Byron Bay yoga classes. Jessie has been teaching yoga for 27 years and offering Radiance Retreats since 2002. Jessie loves to share the transformational power of yoga practice, restoration and stillness and creating the inspirational yoga wellness retreat journeys for people to relax, connect within and develop their yoga practice in beautiful natural surrounds.
First introduced to yoga and yoga nidra by her mother growing up in the rainforests of Northern NSW, by 1991 Jessie began attending regular classes and workshops until yoga became a natural and everyday part of her life. In 1997 Jessie completed a 9-month Yoga Teacher Training Course with Yoga Arts and became Yoga Alliance RYT500 certified. From 2000 Jessie lived in Ubud where she taught yoga classes and on the Yoga Arts Teacher Training courses; wrote the bestselling ‘Yoga Postures for your Body, Mind & Soul’ (HarperCollins Publishers) and launched Bali Yoga Spa Restore Wellness Retreats with her sister Judy, combining their loves of yoga and Bali’s unique holistic spa wellness therapies. In 2003 Jessie returned to live in Byron Bay where she offered Byron Bay Yoga Wellness Retreats followed by retreats in Thailand, Spain, Italy, France and New Zealand. Jessie went on to publish 3 more yoga books with HarperCollins and Ulysses Press USA ‘Yoga Sequences for your Body, Mind & Soul’, ‘Partner Yoga for your Body, Mind & Soul’ and ‘Yoga for Inner Strength’; wrote on yoga for various publications including Australian Yoga, Wellbeing, Nature & Health, Asia Spa, Singapore Times, Virgin Inflight and created a series of 3 Radiance Yoga DVD’s for at home practice filmed on the beaches around Byron Bay.
Lee Purdie - Yoga Assistant & Yogadance Teacher
Lee has been a part of the Radiance Retreats journeys since 2006 and loves to support and connect with all she meets on the retreats. Lee gives yoga adjustments in the yoga classes and guides some of the walks during the retreats. Lee is a dancer and dance teacher and after completing a Yoga Teacher Training course in 2004, went on to combine her two passions of dance and yoga to create uplifting Yogadance sequences, which she offers on some retreats. Set to beautiful music, these short, choreographed sequences relax the body and mind, open the heart and are accessible to everyone. Lee has certificates in Yoga Therapy and Kids Yoga Teaching and lives between Byron Bay and Adelaide with her family.
Anthea Amore - Yoga Assistant, Radiance Spa Therapist & Author
Anthea has been assisting on Radiance Retreats since 2005 in the yoga classes with yoga adjustments and coordinating the guest’s spa services. Anthea began practicing yoga from a young age and completed a Yoga Teacher Training Course in 2004. Anthea is a passionate and qualified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, Ritual Creator and Natural Beauty Therapist with over 30 years’ experience in the holistic therapies. Anthea is the author of two vegan cookbooks ‘Organic Passion’ and ‘Hungry’ and designs the delicious, abundant, all-organic plant-based menu for our Byron Bay Retreats.
Jacinta O'Leary - Yoga Assistant & Mindfulness Drawing
Jacinta adjusts and teaches yoga on some of our European based Radiance Retreats. Her yoga classes cater to all levels of practice and experience with particular focus on developing the foundation of the yoga postures and breathing well. Her classes are of great benefit to beginners as well as more experienced practitioners wanting to refine their practice combining gentle sequencing with dynamic asana work, pranayama as well as deeply restorative yoga for relaxation, healing and stillness. Jacinta is a certified and experienced Iyengar Yoga teacher who also guides Mindfulness Drawing sessions on some retreats. A natural educator, Jacinta writes and tutors in Design for Distant Education in Melbourne where she lives with her family.
Oles - Chanting, Bhajans/Kirtan
Oles has been chanting Sanskrit chants ever since he first visited India over 3 decades ago. Using his experience and training as a professional musician and music teacher he leads the chanting/kirtan/bhajan sessions on some of our Byron Bay Retreats. “Chanting is an ancient and important part of yoga practice. Just as music sometimes allows us to access parts of ourselves that sometimes we can’t so easily reach, chanting mantras gives us the opportunity to lose ourselves, to open up, and in doing so it can allow us to transform ourselves.” Oles. In the retreat sessions there is the option of chanting, sitting in stillness or lying down and simply absorbing the wonderful sounds. Oles lives near Byron Bay with his family and travels extensively to India and beyond.