350-hour | 12 months
live and breathe yoga
level 1 teacher training program

Do you want to train to become a yoga teacher, or deepen your personal knowledge and practice of yoga?

Our 350-hour, Level 1 Yoga Teacher Training course is a Yoga Australia registered program in Townsville for people seeking to:  

• become successful yoga teachers,  
• develop their individual yoga practice,  
• strengthen professional yoga teaching knowledge and experience, or  
• embed yoga practices into their existing clinical work.  

Our unique, student-centred, in-person course combines traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, Yoga therapy, evidence-based functional biomechanics, and ancient yogic philosophy.  

Our aim is to develop you into a resourceful and respected yoga practitioner or teacher who shares yoga with compassion, integrity, and experience, by delivering a comprehensive, scientifically-based, and practical program. 

Allison Dearling

Principal Teacher and Owner | Live and Breathe Yoga

• Senior yoga teacher with Yoga Australia (2020)
• Graduate Certificate of Yoga Therapy, Yoga Therapy Institute (2019)
• 200-hour teaching certificate Chi Yoga School, Glasgow (2006)

Allison is a leader in the industry and is best known for her down to earth compassion and big-hearted teaching. Her ability to adapt the practice to be inclusive, accessible, and transformative has meant she is highly regarded by her peers and well-loved by her loyal following. Her unwavering dedication to her own staff and students and her ability to make everyone feel safe, seen and supported is rare and incredibly special.

Allison has been practicing yoga since 2000 and teaching yoga in Australia and the UK since 2006. She has studied in India with several yoga teachers for extended periods of study (including but not limited to Sharath Jois, Sharath Yoga Centre in Mysore). Allison has continued her studies with many senior ashtanga yoga teachers in the UK, US, and Australia.

She opened her studio, Live and Breathe Yoga (Townsville) in 2010 and teaches group, corporate, private, virtual and community classes, and has mentored several new teachers. Allison specialises in the therapeutic application of yoga practices with particular focus on making yoga accessible to all. Her teaching is therefore collaborative, as she aims to design a practice that supports the specific needs of each of her students and clients. Allison is passionate about building a sangha in her local community and has been involved in many community and fundraising events since 2010.

Harry Normand

Senior Teacher | Live and Breathe Yoga

• Diploma of Remedial Massage Therapy, London School of Sports Massage (2003)
• 200-hour teaching certificate Chi Yoga School, Glasgow (2006)
• Integrated Movement Science and Holistic Lifestyle Practitioner, Chek Institute (2008)
• Registered Level 3 Fitness Professional, Fitness Australia (2009)

Harry’s ability to deconstruct complex dysfunctional movement patterns and re-engineer them to support his clients to thrive using massage, corrective exercise and yoga has made him highly regarded in the health and movement industry. He beats (and dances) to his own drum, has completed thousands of clinical treatment hours, and a sneaky engineering degree combined with his biomechanical knowledge means he has always been well ahead of his time. His passion for healthy movement patterns and posture comes through in just about every conversation he has.  

Harry has taught yoga in Scotland and Australia since 2006, and has travelled to India, the USA, and the UK for intensive periods of study under various yoga teachers since his initial teaching certification. As a senior teacher at Live and Breathe Yoga since 2010, Harry has taught studio, corporate and community classes, and used his functional anatomy knowledge to help students modify their practice around structural and postural issues.

As a remedial massage and exercise therapist for over 15 years, Harry teaches yoga postures to improve functional mobility and coordination which provides the foundation of many of his clients’ rehabilitation programs.

Tracey Uber-Cook

Senior Teacher | Live and Breathe Yoga

Teacher Trainer & Guest Teacher | Ekhart Yoga

• Trauma Aware Yoga Teacher Training with Shirley Hicks (2017
• 200-hour teaching certificate, Sivananda (2004)

Tracey’s teachings are wise beyond her years and profoundly lifechanging. She speaks from her heart and has a beautiful ability to share ancient philosophy and practices for modern times all with intelligence, a twinkle in her eye and a wonderful sense of humour.  Through the transformational tools of chanting, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, self-inquiry, and silence, Tracey encourages students to reveal the profound truths, which reside deep within their own hearts. 

Tracey has lived and shared the practice of yoga since 2004 in South East Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. For 5 years in India, she studied at the Sivananda Kuir in Uttar Kashi and in Vashisht with a swami in the local ashram before moving to Thailand and teaching for 12 years on the island of Koh Tao. Since 2008, Tracey has studied pranayama, meditation, and philosophy with Clive Sheridan. Tracey has regularly co-taught with Esther Ekhart on the Ekhart Yoga Hatha Flow YTT in Spain and Portugal and is a regular guest teacher on the Ekhart Yoga website. In 2015 and 2016 Tracey taught philosophy and transformational experience on the Akhanda Yoga Australia YTTs, and in 2015 she co-developed a Kids Yoga Training called Mindful Seeds with Akhanda Yoga Australia. Tracey has lived in Townsville, Australia, since 2016, where a core focus has been community yoga for seniors. Here in Townsville, she is also a Program Leader with Yoga Tools for Schools, and Tracey teaches classes and workshops centred in the deeper and more subtle aspects of yoga, such as Pranayama, Yoga Nidra, and Yogic Philosophy.