Yakoa Yoga

Yakoa Yoga is a welcoming space to connect to yourself, to community and to this moment.

Each class is an invitation to pause and reconnect, release tension and care for your nervous system.

Yakoa Yoga offers Vinyasa Flow, Yin and Restorative Yoga, with classes shared between Carly Sheldon and Christy O’Brien

Carly Sheldon has been practising yoga since she was a teenager, teaching for 4 years and is qualified across Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Accessible and Children’s Yoga (350 hours).

Christy O'Brien has been practising yoga for 30 years and teaching for 3 and is qualified in Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga (250 hours) with training in Mental Health Aware Yoga and Yoga for Menopause.

Both Carly and Christy are Yoga Australia Certified and hold current insurances.

Currently teaching at the Back Nine Golf Course - corner of Eyre and McKenzie Streets in Echuca.

I’m Carly — a Wamba Wamba woman, mum, primary school teacher and yoga teacher.

I honour my Elders and ancestors, whose stories, strength, wisdom and presence continue to shape how I live, practise and share yoga.

Movement and strength first drew me to yoga, but I stayed for the connection and self-awareness. I started with strong, fast-flowing practices, loving the challenge and connection to my body and breath. Through life's challenges I found my way to a more restorative approach — one that invites deep listening, presence and rest.

Yoga has taught me to slow down, listen deeply, and love and care for myself. It has taught me self-compassion, patience, and that I am enough.

I’m grateful for the teachings of yoga, Indigenous to the peoples of South Asia, and for the teachers and generations who have carried them forward. I’m forever a student, learning, listening and returning to the heart of yoga.

My classes create space to slow down, breathe and reconnect to yourself, to community and to this moment.