Our Teachers

All classes are taught by Iyengar certified teachers Linda Apps, Jo Seymour, Nikki Little or teacher trainees Annette van Gent, Michelle Reedy and Peter Lightbody.

Linda Apps

Linda is a Level 3 Iyengar Yoga teacher and has been practising and teaching yoga for 30 years, travelling to India to study with the Iyengar family. Linda taught at the Glebe Yoga school for 10 years, training with Peter Thomson, before opening The Yoga Nook in 2002. Linda did many years of classes with Peter Thomson and Pixie Lillas. Linda trains teachers and is also an assessor. She is qualified to teach yoga therapy. She is Chair of the Iyengar Yoga Australia Communications Committee.

Jo Seymour

Jo Seymour is a longtime student of Iyengar yoga under Linda Apps. Jo Gained her Iyengar Yoga teaching certificate in May 2024. She began teacher training with Linda in early 2017, and has been teaching adults’ and children’s classes at the Yoga Nook since mid-2017. She is also a mother of three, works as a digital journalist and has post-graduate qualifications in adult education and training.

Jo Seymour video

Jenny Kent

Jenny is an accredited Iyengar yoga teacher with over 20 years teaching experience. She established her yoga school, Yoga@Oatley in 1990 and achieved teaching certification in 2006. Jenny trained under Senior Iyengar teacher Alan Goode and is a student of Senior Iyengar teacher Pixie Lillas and has attended classes at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune, India in 1996 and 2008. She has a degree in Anatomy and has a keen interest in how yoga provides body alignment and mental stability.

Annette van Gent

Annette started Iyengar yoga in 1997 at the Glebe Yoga School, where she took classes with
Linda Apps. Annette immediately loved yoga for its accessibility, non-competitiveness, and ability to calm the mind as well as strengthen the body. Annette maintained her practice while travelling for work, before returning to Sydney and resuming classes with Linda at The Yoga Nook in 2015. Annette has been undertaking teacher training with Linda since 2018. Annette enjoys maintaining her daily yoga and meditation practice, and now sharing that practice through teaching the general class on Sunday mornings.

Michelle Reedy

Michelle Reedy has been a student of Iyengar yoga for 12 years. Recently Michelle completed an Iyengar yoga teacher training under the guidance of Iyengar Level 3 teacher, Linda Apps, and continues to be mentored by her. Michelle uses the benefits of her daily yoga practice to balance and maintain a busy lifestyle, running a business, and raising three children.

Michelle Reedy video

Nikki Little

Nikki started yoga in 2000 to balance a busy working life and manage an old injury. She felt a positive change immediately. In 2007 she started her teacher training with Alan Goode and gained her Level 1 certificate in 2011. In 2014 she studied at the Iyengar Institute in Pune.

Peter Lightbody

Peter started yoga in a class full of aspiring actors and dancers in Downtown Manhattan in 1991. He’s been to a lot of schools and teachers since then and is now training with Linda Apps. Yoga gives him a lot of great energy and he’s grateful for the opportunity to deepen his own practice through teaching others.

Peter Lightbody video