experience something positive
Movement for your body and stillness for your mind
experience something positive
Movement for your body and stillness for your mind
About Kefi Yoga
Who am I?
I'm Kim Ryan. I'm a woman in my fifties. I started developing a consistent yoga practice in my late forties and over time found myself transforming - becoming calmer, kinder, bendier, stronger and more persistent than at any other time in my life, and possessing a completely new sense of who I am and what I can achieve.
I believe the asana (postures or poses) element of yoga is merely a portal to a richer, deeper world of going within to find the best version of you there is. It's a path you walk for life, on the mat and off. I want to assist as many people as possible to experience the positive changes that adopting a regular yoga practice can bring. This led me to completing my vinyasa teacher training in June 2023, yoga for seniors training in December 2023, and yin yoga and yoga for beginners training in January 2024.
What is Kefi?
Kefi is a Greek word to honour the fact that I completed my yoga teacher training in the beautiful country of Greece. I also love living on the edge of one of Melbourne's most established Greek neighbourhoods, Oakleigh.
On the surface, when a Greek mentions the word kefi, they are referring to joy, spirit, passion, happiness, triumph, mojo, excitement, feeling good, having fun or loving life. Overall, you can see that it is simply a word for experiencing something positive. Yoga is just that - a completely positive part of my life and something I just want to spread everywhere.
Acknowledgement of Country
Kefi Yoga acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Country I am based on, the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nations, who have strived to retain their identity and cultures through more than two hundred years of dispossession and colonisation.
Kefi Yoga practices across Naarm (Melbourne) and I pay my respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures represented in Naarm and to Elders past and present. I extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I acknowledge their living connection to the Country, their relationship with the land and all living things extending back tens of thousands of years. I also acknowledge that the people of this land hold knowledge about health and movement that has been practiced for generations.
My vision for reconciliation is a united, equitable community where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ voices, experiences and ideas are heard and respected, and where there is a deep understanding of the wrongs of the past and their impact.
It is a privilege to be practicing on Country and I hope that my practice in some way supports true custodianship of this land.
