Amanda Hartzler Ferris

Senior Teacher

Amanda cultivates a daily yoga practice in the Ashtanga tradition and has done so, without interruption, since 1999. She has travelled to Mysore, India many times to deepen and support her practice. She is a Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga teacher authorised by Sharath Jois. Amanda teaches the primary and full intermediate series; she has been teaching Ashtanga Yoga for 2 decades.

Additionally, Amanda completed 500 hours of training with Yoga Arts Byron Bay in 2001 and is recognised by Yoga Australia as a senior teacher. Whilst her primary yoga practice and teaching is in the Ashtanga tradition, Amanda also uses yogasana for rest, restoration and therapy and occasionally shares this varied approach with yoga students.

A deep thinking, creative and articulate person, Amanda draws not only on many years of yoga practice and teaching experience, but also on her education and broad life experiences. Born and raised in the midwestern United States, she holds an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College (New York, 1999). First arriving in Australia in 2001, Amanda is now a dual US/Australian citizen. Whilst teaching and practicing Ashtanga Yoga have been a primary focus in her life, she studied Landscape Architecture at a postgraduate level at the University of Melbourne, and is mother to a fast-growing teenager. She is also a Tea Master, certified by Australian Tea Masters in 2020.

Amanda lives in Melbourne’s Inner Northern suburbs and teaches in her home community. Both an active and reflective person, you’ll just as easily find her scaling walls at the bouldering gym as you will find her resting quietly, deep in thought. Amanda dabbles in the garden, reads and listens broadly, and feels life deeply as it unfolds.