About Amanda

Amanda is a qualified early childhood educator who has been passionate in educating and nurturing children’s growth and development for the past 20 years across a variety of early childhood education services. During this time, Amanda began exploring ways to help children connect with and express their uniqueness. In 2009, she developed a series of creative dance/movement sessions, which she delivered to children aged 3 - 5 years in a local child care centre. During each creative dance/movement session, children were encouraged to find meaning in their movement, through expressing their creativity, imagination and ideas. Seeing each child light up as they expressed their uniqueness allowed them to shine and Amanda quickly realised she was witnessing each child's confidence grow. The joy and experience of offering children the creative space to be themselves solidified Amanda's mission to continue to make a difference in the lives of children through raising their confidence and self-esteem. Amanda's quest and passion to deepen children's connection with themselves, led her to combine her passion of working with children with her love of yoga, which she had been practicing since 2002. Amanda believes that educating the whole child, to include their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing through yoga is the perfect platform to help raise children's confidence, self-esteem and self-image. Through little lights yoga, Amanda aims to inspire and motivate children to experience their potential and delights in seeing children’s confidence and strength increase as she nurtures their innate desire to move through fun, creative, engaging yoga classes.

Amanda's qualifications include:

Specialised Zenergy Kids Yoga Teacher Training with Loraine Rushton of Zenergy Yoga.

⇒ Foundation Course

⇒ Advanced Course

⇒ Mastery Course

⇒ Yoga Therapy Course

⇒ Yoga Therapy for Special Needs Course

Trinity Vinyasa Flow Yoga Instructor, Level 1, 285 hours with Heather Agnew of Yoga Trinity.
Certificate in Dance Movement Therapy - International Dance Therapy Institute of Australia.
Advanced Certificate in Child Care - Tafesa
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - Tafesa

Amanda's other relevant documents include:

Child Related Employment Screening - Issued by DCSI
Child Safe Environments, Reporting Abuse & Neglect - Tafesa
Senior First Aid Certificate, Perform CPR, Asthma & Anaphylaxis management - St Johns