Annemaree Rowley

Annemaree Rowley is a yoga and meditation teacher based in Melbourne, where she has run her practice, Cool, Calm & Collected, for more than fifteen years. She first trained in the 1980s with the Sivananda yoga schools in Europe and India and has kept studying ever since, more recently in Shanti Yoga with Shanti Gowans. Before teaching full time she worked at executive level in the corporate world, which shapes her down-to-earth way of helping busy people slow down.

She teaches classical Hatha, Yin and Restorative yoga, along with mindfulness, meditation and yoga nidra, which closes every one of her classes. Her emphasis falls on easy, unhurried breathing, steadiness of mind and kindness towards oneself, and her classes welcome complete beginners and people of every age. She holds weekly classes at Happy Melon studio in Armadale, which can also be joined on Zoom, gives private lessons and online sessions, and has led small-group yoga tours and retreats in India, Vietnam and elsewhere. Her Insight Timer meditations and two ten-part Pathway to Peace courses explore one quality at a time, such as patience, letting go or silence.