Lynnette Dickinson – DRU Yoga Teacher

Lynnette Dickinson’s perspective in life and interests

Compassion is the most important value in Lynette’s life and she aspires to being a living expression of compassion. As am a parent of three, between the age of 10 and 21, she maintains a healthy and vibrant family. She enjoys bushwalking, camping, reading and writing, as well as giving service to her community, including her yoga school. She tries to engage in each moment equally, regardless of what that moment contains.

Training and major influences

She has completed the Dru Yoga Teacher Training, Dru Meditation Teacher Training, Dru Postgraduate Mastery. She has been practicing yoga since she was three years old and when she was in a wheelchair due to Multiple Sclerosis, she visualized Dru sequences and postures, meditated and relaxed. Within twelve months she was able to return her electric wheelchair.

She has been teaching yoga since 2008, with a focus on yoga for people in crisis – chronic illness, mental health and disability, across all age-groups. More recently she has branched out to include workplace and corporate yoga, as well as retreats and workshops.

In addition to in-person teaching, she has written about her experiences with yoga, MS and life in A Journey to Peace through Yoga, which has nearly sold out the first print run of 2500; recorded a set of three CDs, Splendour Meditation, Splendour Relaxation and Gayatri 108; and published several articles published in international yoga magazines.

Style of teaching

She teaches an inclusive class that focuses on enhancing the movement of energy through the body, using posture, visualization, breath, relaxation and meditation.

Most recent inspiring experience

I recently taught a woman in her seventies who had had shoulder surgery six months previous, was experiencing arthritis and osteoporosis, and her passion and enthusiasm for life was undaunted. This was her first yoga class and her motto was “What are you going to do? You’ve got to live.”. Hopefully it wasn’t her last yoga class.

Watch Lynette’s inspiring story below.