Bianca is the co-founder and now full owner and director of Yoga Synergy. She has over 35 years experience teaching yoga, managing a studio and creating a community. Currently Bianca teaches full time at Yoga Synergy Newtown, Elixr Bondi Junction and Waverley College as well as running retreats and Teacher Trainings. Bianca and Simon’s shared passion for yoga led to the creation of Yoga Synergy daily yoga classes, workshops, teacher training courses and international events.

I became interested in yoga when I was 19 – when yoga found me! I met Simon at Sydney University, and began what was to turn out to be a long partnership – in yoga. I had no idea he did yoga until we started dating; inevitably, I ended up going along to try it out. At first I hated it – it was hard, it hurt and I was very stiff and weak. I also felt very self conscious and was too busy having fun. I was only 19, after all.

After a life-changing trip to India with Simon, I came back and started to practise three times a week with Andrew Nethery, while Simon stayed on in India for six months. In that time I developed my own very deep connection with the practice. I found peace and joy, and a sanctuary that was very much needed. Simon returned and I started practising with him in the evenings at Newtown and with Shandor Remete in the mornings over at Bondi. I would assist Simon in workshops and classes, attend whatever yoga workshops I could, and manage Simon’s classes. Annually, until 1995, Simon and I would return to India.

I became a yoga teacher serendipitously. I was busy assisting Simon and it never occurred to me to teach. One day a very lovely lady, Jo Blackman, called up and asked if I would take a yoga community class for her. She insisted she wanted me and it is thanks to her that my journey began. The community class went really well and I was suprised at how easy it was for me as I am not a keen public speaker – I am, however, passionate about yoga so it was easy for me to share that passion. I then added another class to the Newtown timetable on a Friday evening. I started that class and more were to follow over the years. That grew to include a studio at Bondi Junction for 17 years, one at Surry Hills (now closed), one at Manly (now closed), and a second one at Bondi Junction since 2015 - 2020.

Yoga Synergy evolved when, in 1990, I came up with the concept of running beginner courses, teaching a single sequence (developed by myself and Simon, using our yoga and physiotherapy knowledge) over a six-week period. We then expanded this concept to teach the same sequence in all the classes but at different levels. Simon and I studied physiotherapy at University so we could learn more about the body, and increase our knowledge and understanding of it for our yoga teaching. From this platform, we developed the nine-week program that I run today. All our work has been consolidated into six main sequences – each one following the "Yoga Synergy Method" of working with the body. Since 1999 I’ve been training teachers to teach at our studios in a three-year apprenticeship format; since 2014 we have been teaching the 200 hour format, followed by apprenticeships at the studios for those who wish to teach with us.