Welcome to The Wellness Studio!

The Wellness Studio, located in the heart of Port Lincoln, is a nurturing space co-founded by Bridget and Caitlin, two dedicated professionals with a shared passion for holistic health. Bridget, a qualified naturopath and massage therapist, brings a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of natural healing modalities. Caitlin, a student naturopath, is on a journey of learning and growth, committed to expanding her knowledge and skills.

Together, they have been working at Grass Roots, where their synergy and shared vision for a more comprehensive approach to wellness have inspired them to create The Wellness Studio. Their goal is to cultivate a sanctuary where clients can access a range of services designed to support their overall well-being. With a strong foundation in natural health, Bridget and Caitlin are excited to expand their offerings and continue their mission of helping others achieve balance, vitality, and long-lasting health.

About our classes…

Barre

Barre is a low impact workout based off of Classical Ballet and modified into an exercise class for everyone! Barre is revamped to keep the elegance and posture of Ballet, but packs a punch, lengthening the muscles while strengthening. Barre has a huge focus on deep core, firing up the glutes, correcting posture and creating a strong frame, while increasing balance and flexibility. If you’ve enjoyed Pilates, yoga or dancing...Barre is the perfect class for you to get moving in a safe, non-judgemental space.

Heated Mat Pilates (30 degrees)

This is a 60 minute class designed to teach you the basic fundamental movements of exercise and Pilates. This is the perfect class for anyone entering the space of movement for the first time, but also for anyone wanting to hone in on their form. While it is a slower paced class, expect options, layers and various tempos for variety and challenge during your class. Finishing with down regulation to leave you feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day. 

Reiki Prana Yoga

Creating a sacred cocoon for intelligent energy to flow. Students will practice gentle seated asana as well as guided breath and meditation techniques to experience their life force energy within. This class is accessible for all people of any age and physical ability. 

It is an offering of the heart and the intention is for people to feel loved, nurtured and seen

Tantric Hatha Yoga

Through techniques such as asana (postures), meditation, mantra, pranayama, mudra and kriya, Tantra teaches us how to master our energy. Tantra seeks to systematically clear energy blockages within the body, build new energy (Prana) and then direct it skilfully towards different areas in the gross and subtle bodies and ultimately into the spine. Tantric practices lend themselves to the process of mastering our life force and all aspects of everyday life. Tantra is a vast well of practices specifically designed to help accelerate spiritual and worldly growth. 

Breathwork

Michael’s classes focus on connecting you with your breath and improving the quality of your breath.

Each class is different, varying week to week and run through a range of breathing patterns to assist you on your breath journey. The approach is drawn from a variety of techniques to bring a broad based approach to breath. The focus is always on awareness. 

Classes begin with opening front of body, progressing through a series of breath flows and concluding with a guided meditation/relaxation phase.

Restorative Yin Yoga

This is a blissful 75 minute practice to help you unwind from your day. With long meditative holds in each posture, your body is offered an opportunity to unravel, while your mind and nervous system are restored to a place of peace and calm.

 Most postures are floor based and may be held for 3-7 minutes. With the option of being supported with blocks, bolsters, and blankets, this an ideal class for every practitioner of every age and stage of life. 

Mens Hot Yoga

Build strength and improve flexibility, relieve pain and stress from the body.

Enhance greater joint mobility and a supportive posture and be a part of a healthy masculine community.

This class is a slow flow in a heated room (33-36°). Suitable for beginners, using props to support throughout the practice.

There are many benefits of hot yoga such as deeper capacity to stretch without causing injury, ample sweat to detoxify and improve concentration as well as discipline. Join this fun, elevated class to compliment your every day living of working hard/competing in sport/training at the gym/surfing etc. A regular yoga practice will benefit all!

Hot Vinyasa Yoga (33-37 degrees)

Tune out the world and tune into your spirit with our vinyasa yoga class.

We begin with gentle breathwork, spinal warm-ups, and sun salutations that build into dynamic and creative sequences to explore a range of standing poses, twists, gentle inversions, and balances.

You will flow mindfully between each asana then find depth once you land in the posture. This mindful movement allows you to tune into your body’s innate wisdom to release tension, restore balance, enhance strength & flexibility of body and mind, and promote healing.

With yoga philosophy woven into every session, a curated playlist that inspires and elevates and the added benefits of our state-of-the-art infrared heat (33° - 37°) to boost rejuvenation and detoxification; this class is a sweaty, soulful and fun yoga journey that will leave you feeling revitalised, deeply connected, and expansively renewed.

Meet our Instructors

  • Raffael Veldhuyzen

    Raff began practicing yoga regularly in her early 20s, drawn to the practice for both its physical and emotional benefits. Her love of yoga led her to India in 2015, where she completed her 200hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training. She has a great love for, and is a constant student, of the eight limbs of yoga and views asana (postures) as a beautiful entry point for the more spiritual & philosophical aspects of the practice. Raff believes that every class is an opportunity to arrive back to ourselves, release stored emotions, and build resilience in the body, mind and soul.

    As well as her 200hrYTT, Raff has completed 50hours of training Intuitive Sequencing and Energetic Alignment, a Children & Family Yoga Teacher Training, many hours of self-directed study and various yoga workshops across Australia.

  • Ashleigh Kennedy

    Ash has been a practitioner for many years, but it wasn’t until her 20’s that she truly fell in love with the practice. With the intention of one day holding space for others in the way that she had experienced, Ash travelled to Bali in 2020 to complete a 200hr yoga teacher training. Ash left Bali with a deep desire to deepen her knowledge and for mental health and addictions

    Away from the mat and massage table, Ash finds joy in spending time with her daughter, surfing, camping, and being among nature.

  • Georgia Renwick

    Georgia is a fitness and pilates instructor with over 8 years experience in the health and fitness field. Georgia has completed a Bachelor in Exercise and Sport Science and a Certificate 4 in mat and reformer pilates, giving her extensive knowledge in anatomy, biomechanics and exercise science. She is well known and loved through her kind and supportive nature, knowledge, humour, and ability to challenge her clients within their capabilities. She has collected various accolades along her career including national and state trainer of the year, and a reputation for booked and waitlisted classes across Adelaide and Port Lincoln. Expect to be supported and pushed in all the right ways, while having a lots of fun along the way!

  • Nellie Jones

    Nellie has been teaching barre for 5 years now, gaining her qualification with Aleenta Barre & working in locations across Melbourne & SA. In Melbourne she also gained a Diploma in Elite Performance (contemporary dance) and a Cert IV in dance teaching & business management at Transit Dance. She is also a qualified Mat & Reformer Pilates Instructor, completing her education with Breathe Education.
    - Barre qualified (Aleenta Barre)
    - Cert IV in Mat & Reformer (Breathe Education)
    - Diploma in Elite Performance (contemporary dance)
    - Cert IV in Dance Teaching & Business management

  • Natasha Henley

    Over the years Tash has been searching through many healing modalities for love and light only to realise it has always been within her, every step of the way.

    From her lived experience and qualifications she now offers rituals for others to remember the light that is within them so they may live a balanced life of divine truth ✨

    To allow you to feel safe in her presence, on paper her qualifications are:
    • Lomi Lomi Nui Heart Healing Course with Fae from Manowai Rituals QLD
    • Reiki with Jasmine from Bliss Spiritual Healing SA
    • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Jolie from YogaKoh BALI
    • 100hr with Uma from Breath of Heart VIC

    But she has been involved in many other light awakening modalities / experiences that do not present certificates.

  • Kristin Spence

    Kristin is a devoted student and teacher of the Vedic sciences, namely Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology. She guides people from all walks of life around the world in practice and Vedic philosophy. Her studies have varied across Vinyasa Yoga, Traditional Tantric Hatha, Advaita Vedanta and Ayurvedic Astrology, making her 20+ years of practice and facilitation rich with tradition, wisdom and authenticity.

    Her approach sees a unique weaving of traditional techniques and philosophies within the context of modern life. She shows how we can enrich our daily lives with practice and worship, and deepen our devotion to ourselves, our community and the Divine. Her dharma is to share the illuminative and transformational potential of these practices with accessibility and warmth.

    Kristin has studied with Dr David Frawley, Myra Lewin, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Pandit Baskaran, Kaya Mindlin, & Acharya Shunya, and has taught workshops, facilitated retreats and teacher trainings all over the world. She still travels today, sharing the light of the Vedas.

  • Georgia Cusbert

    Georgia is a Mat Pilates instructor, an Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine practitioner, Reiki and Spinal Flow Technique practitioner. She runs her business ‘Matter of Meridians’ from the Skin Lab in Port Lincoln. Holistic health, healing and well-being is her passion. Hence, Pilates has become an integral part of her life and daily routine. Georgia has had the pleasure of teaching Pilates classes since 2018 and absolutely loves it!

  • Michael Cheesman

    Michael’s focus and passion is to help you connect with your breath. A cascade of benefits can flow from this.

    Many people find that stress and anxiety are better managed with an improved understanding and application of breath.
    Michael is a breathwork teacher and facilitator, free diving (breath hold diving) instructor and former Australian record holder.

    As a Chiropractor, his understanding of the nervous system, stress response and its its interaction with the body, combined with knowledge and experience gained from years of competitive free diving unite to give him a unique perspective and approach.

    He has undertaken breath related training in a number of countries, most recently Japan.