Welcome to The Centre of Yoga, the home of Janie Larmour’s Zen Ki Yoga. 

Zen Ki Yoga is based on shiatsu healing therapy, macrobiotics and yoga.  I originally studied Ki Yoga at the Zen Renaissance Centre in Bondi Junction.  Toward the end of my study, I found Ryoho yoga in Manly with Andrzej Gospodarczyk and Lisa Foster.  I spent the following nine or so years travelling to Manly several times a week to classes to gain a deeper understanding of this yoga, which I have found to be the most powerful and meaningful interpretation of this yoga.  I have also done some work with Peter Masters, one of the few teachers in Australia who does the original form of this yoga - Oki do yoga (from the studies of Masahiro Oki).

While I have never formally studied Ryoho or Oki-do yoga and I don’t teach much of Ki yoga anymore, I came up with the name Zen Ki Yoga.  Zen Yoga was the original name of Oki do yoga while Masahiro Oki was alive (only changing to Oki-do yoga after his death) and ‘Ki’ is the energy that flows through the meridians that we are working with in Japanese yoga (and the name of the original yoga I studied), so came the name ‘Zen Ki Yoga’.  While I have changed the name, I don’t claim to have invented this yoga myself at all.  I have borrowed from all of my teachers including my wonderful shiatsu and macrobiotic teacher, Ken McLean and another of my teachers, Mathew Bergan, who teaches a more traditional Indian-type yoga.  I have though, added to some poses after 11 years of my own practice and my continuing work with many of these and other teachers.

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