About

Hello and welcome!

My name is Carla de Kretser and I’m so glad you’ve arrived here.

I am a Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Reiki Practitioner, Holistic Counsellor, lover of dance, learning, and helping others find their inner guidance.

My offerings are inclusive of a variety of tools to guide your unique self on your journey to healing and igniting your spark. These tools have been obtained over years of study, practice and implementation into my daily life.

My style of yoga teaching is based on my studies of Tantric yoga and formed through embodied sequencing, to assist students shift from their head down to their heart space.

My yoga practice began 20 years ago and lead me to my first YTT in 2018. This was a 3 week intensive 200hour with Zuna Yoga in the tropical Canggu, Bali.
I cannot recommend this YTT highly enough. I have found that intensives allow us to focus and drop deep into the learnings and practice without the distractions of every day life.

In 2019 my healing journey with anxiety began. This ignited my curiosity to learn as much as I could to find out what it was that was happening. The start of what has now been years of “going in” to discover my inner world and belief system.

This is where my passion to help others the way I have been able to help myself has begun via holistic counselling modalities and the power of a regular yoga and meditation practice for regulating the nervous system, releasing tension and providing a deep release both mentally and within the physical body.

Qualifications:

Diploma in Holistic Counselling: 2022 - (Currently studying 2024)
Sound healing with Ash Bell: 2023
100hr YTT - Sequencing & Sadhana 11 day intensive - Meghan Currie 2022
Certificate in Holistic Counselling: AHHCA & Holistic Healers and Counsellors Association - 2022
80hr YTT Meditation Teacher Training - Australian Yoga Academy 2021
20hr -First & Second Degree of Komyo ReikiDo Shihan May 2021 & September 2021
20hr YTT - Anatomy: Power Living 2021
40hr YTT- Connected: Yoga for Humankind with Mei Lai Swan 2021
200hr YTT - Zuna Yoga: Tantric Hatha Yoga 2018

I’ve always been grateful for the practice of yoga, its origins and my teachers and it’s my intention  to be able to continue to practice, absorb and share what I myself have learnt.

the story behind māḷu

  • Māḷu (Sinhalese) | Fish (English)

    Growing up in Australia I’ve always loved the water.
    Being free to submerge and explore a peaceful and intriguing world.

    Raised by my Sri-Lankan Dad who is fascinated by philosophy and spirituality, (we call him the “guru”, fun, loving and witty “go with the flow” is his motto) and Mum, born in Cairo, Egypt with a European background she’s driven, passionate and has always been the biggest support in my life.
    They are Yin and Yang and have made me the person I am today.

    We would go every summer down to the Mornington Peninsula where the sun would beam off the glimmering crystal blue water.

    My brother, father and I would swim far out to where the water would get dark and deep, whilst mum relaxed and read her books in peace.
    Diving under the water has always felt both liberating and calming at the same time.
    Swimming deep to access this peaceful world both externally, yet also exploring within.

    It still amazes me how lucky we are in Australia to live near both such peaceful and wild coastlines.
    It’s certainly the place where I always felt most relaxed as a child and still to this day.

    Māḷu is a cheerful Sinhalese song about fish I remember from my childhood. We still sing it to this day. It connects me to my roots and serves as a symbol to embody this deep connection through our physical body and to our spiritual selves. As now I connect the spiritual meaning with yoga to create a sense of forever exploring the deeper awareness and finding the energetic lift, that spark of aliveness that comes when in your state of flow.