Kirsty’s passion for movement stems from her early involvement in dance and gymnastics throughout her childhood and into her early twenties, where she found herself teaching dance and gymnastics for a number of years in Singapore.
On her return to New Zealand, her creative nature led to an almost 20 year career working in the art department of the film and television industry.
After the birth of her two children, combined with the difficulty of maintaining long days on sets, Kirsty sought refuge through yoga and began to look at life through a different lens.
After twelve plus years of dedicated practise, and experiencing first hand the healing benefits to both her physical health and mind, Kirsty made the decision to dedicate the next stage of her life to sharing her love of yoga with others.
After completing her initial 200 hours, she was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to teach in her home studio and mentored by Nikki Harris, at East West Yoga.
Kirsty has over 500 hours training in Yin yoga and Vinyasa Yoga combined. Some of her teachers include Amy Ippolitti, Jo Phee and Tara Judelle.
She is a compassionate teacher, who crafts thoughtful sequencing with a focus on functional movement, in both Vinyasa and Yin yoga. Her passion for movement and yoga philosophy will encourage students to deepen their understanding of both their bodies and themselves.
Kirsty co-owns East West Yoga with the support and encouragement of her family and co owners Amelia and Sheryn.

Amelia grew up with both parents dedicated practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga. From as young as 3 she has memories of waking up early and lying in the yoga room dozing to the sound of their breath as they went through their practice.

In her teens Amelia went through a challenging period dealing with moments of depression and an eating disorder. Amelia can now find gratitude for this time as it put her on a new path, where finding peace and more ease in her mind and therefore her life became her number one priority. Amelia’s yoga practice and dedication to The Work of Byron Katie (workshops offered at Eastwest) are the two practices that supported her to work through these hard times, unraveling stressful stories and beliefs to find a real sense of love for herself, her body and her life. Amelia’s passion is to share these practices with others, as they have had such a profound impact on her life.

Amelia completed her 200hr teacher training in 2014 and in 2017 she completed her 300hr teacher training with Noah Maze and also became a co owner of Eastwest (alongside Sheryn and Kirsty). Amelia’s primary practice is now Ashtanga Yoga and in 2018 she began a 3 year training with her Teacher Dena Kingsberg. Over this training Amelia goes to Byron Bay for 3 months each year to immerse full time in her practice and studies of Yoga. Through this process Amelia has fallen in love with traditional Yoga Philosophy and Practices and will often incorporate Philosophy, Pranayama (breath work) and Mantra (chanting) into her classes at Eastwest.

Amelias classes are steady and dynamic with an emphasis on turning the attention inwards, connecting to yourself and your body, and focusing on the breath to bring more stillness to the mind.

Sheryn is a long time Yogi. She started Astanga Yoga 27 years ago and since has had a committed practice, studying under Sri K. Pattahbi Jois and world renowned Astanga teachers – John Scott, Dena Kingsberg, Lino Miele, Peter Sanson to name a few. She did her Vinyasa teacher training 8 years ago. She has been a teacher and studio owner of an Astanga studio and later a Vinyasa studio in Wellington, and now co-owns EastWest studio with Amelia and Kirsty.
Sheryns other love and dedicated practice for the last 12 years is The Work of Byron Katie..a practice for the mind, which questions the thoughts that are the cause of our stress. It has been life changing for her and after a 5 year training she is now a Certified Facilitator of The Work.
Sheryn believes that there is an innate wisdom and beauty within every one of us. As a teacher she invites people to trust the practices and to trust themselves – to go on a journey of self discovery. Building their strength, their ability to concentrate, their self responsibility and balancing this with developing flexibility, practising softening and acceptance of what is.
Sheryn is a mother, grandmother, dog lover, and enjoys reading, walking etc and laughing. She feels blessed to be part of the EastWest Community, to be doing work that is her hearts desire and for her sweet life.

Sheryn is a long time Yogi. She started Astanga Yoga 27 years ago and since has had a committed practice, studying under Sri K. Pattahbi Jois and world renowned Astanga teachers – John Scott, Dena Kingsberg, Lino Miele, Peter Sanson to name a few. She did her Vinyasa teacher training 8 years ago. She has been a teacher and studio owner of an Astanga studio and later a Vinyasa studio in Wellington, and now co-owns EastWest studio with Amelia and Kirsty.
Sheryns other love and dedicated practice for the last 12 years is The Work of Byron Katie..a practice for the mind, which questions the thoughts that are the cause of our stress. It has been life changing for her and after a 5 year training she is now a Certified Facilitator of The Work.
Sheryn believes that there is an innate wisdom and beauty within every one of us. As a teacher she invites people to trust the practices and to trust themselves – to go on a journey of self discovery. Building their strength, their ability to concentrate, their self responsibility and balancing this with developing flexibility, practising softening and acceptance of what is.
Sheryn is a mother, grandmother, dog lover, and enjoys reading, walking etc and laughing. She feels blessed to be part of the EastWest Community, to be doing work that is her hearts desire and for her sweet life.