OUR TEACHERS
Hi, I am Sian Pascale
And I am the Founder and Lead Instructor at The Light Collective and an E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher.
I teach yoga in a way that is energetic, alchemical, intuitive and highly feminine. I work with tantric principles, hatha & kundalini movements and breath & meditation practices to teach yoga in a way that connects you to a feeling.
I teach because i love teaching and right now there is nothing else in the world I would prefer to do. I also love really teaching, that is, going into depth with real yogi practices and wisdom. It’s like there is an urgency within my karmic imprint that pushes the work out of me and I must share it in as much depth and with as many people as possible.
If you who are new to my work, you might like to read some of the testimonials to hear how people experience me and what I do.
THE BEGINNINGS
I began practicing meditation at 16. I was experiencing consistent migraines, so debilitating that I was in hospital almost every month. My high school English teacher gave me a meditation tape and I began practicing guided meditation every day for 40 minutes. My migraines stopped recurring incessantly and this new daily practice did something magic for me- it connected me to my energy body.
By 19 I was studying architecture, but I had pushed myself to burn-out. It was at this time I began to practice Ashtanga yoga and Ayurveda and these practices allowed me to understand how to balance myself and harmonise myself physically and mentally, through food and lifestyle. I became a dedicated ashtanga yogi and even though I couldn’t touch my toes, for over 10 years I found myself practicing yoga at home daily and heading to classes every week. Yoga was familiar to me, an imprint from many lives of previous work, and these years helped me to understand yoga through consistent practice and embodiment. It was just a part of my life.
MOVING TO INDIA
Moving to India, however was what really accelerated my spiritual path. Although I was an architect, I began practicing and learning under my teacher (and guru) Vandana Yadav. Her intuitive and eclectic teaching style incorporated ashtanga, vinyasa, yin, kalaripayattu (Indian martial arts), kundalini kriya, pranayama and meditation. It was like nothing I had ever experienced and those two years with her would turn me into the teacher I am today.
trainings & tantra
It wasn’t until I had been practicing yoga daily for 12 years that I became a certified instructor. By this stage I knew yoga in my body. In the years since I have trained with many teachers and studied Philosophy, Hatha, Yin Yoga, Himalayan Kundalini, Guru Mantra Meditation and the Yoga Sutras. But the path that impacted me most was the Tantric path- that which honours the Divine Feminine. I was fortunate enough to be initiated into tantric philosophy and pranayama in my YTT200 and in the year after I met my first tantra teacher with whom I practiced White Tantra for 2 years. Since then I have continued my own personal tantric practice and continue to train in Kula, Mishra and Taoist tantra, women’s sacred sexuality and embodiment, teaching what I know, have embodied and what I feel is safe to teach.
It is through working with the divine feminine
that I have discovered my body to be sacred and learnt
how to honour & connect with my own cycles & rhythms
teaching women & the light collective
I teach everyone, but I just seem to attract women. And the deeper I go into my own body and the study of yoga the more I realise the traditional spiritual road map was set up by men for men. Creating the Light Collective in 2017 has meant living in the principle of Shakti and allowing myself to be guided all the way in how this yoga school evolves- and it continues to push me towards redefining a yoga that is taught by women for women. My team and I have taught hundreds of classes for thousands of people and we continue to expand as the Universe pushes us forward, into the online realm and through our teacher trainings. I don’t know what’s next and know that all I have to do is show up on the mat with a devotion and consistency and allow the path to unfold.
THE LIGHT COLLECTIVE TEAM
Here is the team that is the glue, the inspiration, the Divine Feminine force of safety love and containment that is The Light Collective.
OUR SPecial Guest Teachers
We are, after all, called a Collective for a reason! We have trained so many teachers and bringing their unique voices to life through our online platform is what makes TLC so special.
