Balanced Practice Yoga

Director and senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bellingen Co founder of Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Training and Retreats Yoga Australia Senior Member, Yoga Alliance International Expert registered teacher 1500+ Director and senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bellingen Co founder of Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Training and Retreats Yoga Australia Senior Member, Yoga Alliance International Expert registered teacher 1500+ Amelia Disspain is a highly respected yoga teacher with over two decades of dedicated practice and teaching experience. She is the founder and director of Yoga Bellingen and co-founder of Balanced Practice Yoga, a training and mentoring platform for teachers and committed practitioners. With a strong foundation in traditional Hatha Yoga, Amelia’s teaching is deeply informed by modern physiotherapy, anatomy, and functional movement science. In 2006, she undertook an intensive apprenticeship with renowned physiotherapists and yoga educators Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss, co-founders of Yoga Synergy. This formative experience shaped her intelligent, therapeutic, and deeply embodied approach to yoga. Amelia’s classes are fluid, grounded, and thoughtful—emphasizing breath, energetic awareness, and safe, functional movement. She supports students to develop strength, flexibility, and nervous system regulation while cultivating deeper internal connection through breath and meditative practices. Recognised as a Senior Member of Yoga Australia and an Expert Teacher with Yoga Alliance International, Amelia has taught a wide range of students, from beginners to advanced practitioners, and has led numerous teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops across Australia and abroad. Her work is driven by a love of learning, a deep respect for tradition, and a passion for helping others explore yoga as a lifelong, sustainable, and transformational practice..

Liz Bennett is the founder of Balanced Practice Yoga and A Balanced Practice Physiotherapy. Liz is one of the handful of physiotherapists in Australia who is also a specialised yoga therapist and a long term yoga teacher and practitioner of over 20 years. Bringing together studies in eastern medicine and modern science, her classes are guided by her ability to apply an anatomical focus to the practice of yoga in an accessible and relevant way. As a therapist, Liz integrates assessment and therapy with education and lifestyle changes, applying principles of individualised yoga, Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Liz began training with Simon Borg Oliver and Bianca Machliss before she finished her physiotherapy degree in 1999. She completed a three year yoga teaching apprenticeship with Yoga Synergy in 2006, then a further 500 hours of teacher training at the Yoga Institute, where she delivered Leslie Kaminoff’s Yoga Anatomy course for several years. A Vipassana practitioner, and initiate of Vedic meditation, with Certificates in Shiatsu and Acupuncture and extensive Yoga Therapy studies with Ganesh Mohan of Svastha Yoga. Liz's Yoga Anatomy Labs are sourced by Yoga Teachers Training courses around Australia. Liz runs Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Trainings Amelia Disspain and together, they co-host popular yoga retreats in Australia and abroad.