Our Team
Sean Goldberg
Director & Senior Teacher
“Yoga is a deconstruction process, a removing of all beliefs and identification, leaving behind who you truly are”
Sean Goldberg BSc (Physiotherapy) is the Director and founder of Samasti Yoga. His teaching style is based on a deep understanding of yoga anatomy, yoga physiology, clinical pilates, somatic therapy and traditional Hatha Yoga. He is a registered physiotherapist in Australia and continues to work and treat clientele. Sean regularly teaches meditation courses, workshops and retreats for people that suffer from chronic pain, anxiety, depression and insomnia. He has dedicated his life to integrating Eastern and Western philosophies to find a balanced view of the world and its mysteries.
Starting in 2006 he spent 5 years studying, practicing and teaching yoga in Thailand in a Hatha Tantra yoga school based in Bihar Yoga philosophy. In 2010 he went on to do his 500 hour yoga and meditation YTT with an intense focus on silent retreats and an energetic form of Hatha Yoga. Since then he has spent the majority of his time between India, Brazil and Bali continuing his practices of traditional tantra, self knowledge and somatic therapy.
Sean created Samasti Yoga in 2016 as a manifestation of his intention to spread consciousness and healing to as many people as possible.
Bernd Windhofer
Senior Teacher
He works with the tools of asana, pranayama, meditation, and study in order to plumb the depths of experience. His aim as a teacher is always to give each student exactly what he or she needs at any given time, which has led him to learning as much as possible about different modalities of movement, meditation and philosophical approaches.
Bernd has an abiding passion for helping to ease the suffering of others, which has led him down the path of yoga for therapeutic uses as well as yoga as a path toward ultimate freedom and truth. Over the years, he has gathered tools in his own practice and in his teachings from Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, the yogic approach to therapy, as well as a thorough and continuing education in philosophies of all shapes and sizes.
The massive variety of meditation practices and traditions are a deep passion for Bernd, and he relishes the opportunity to practice and pass on these wonderful teachings. Expect to be challenged in his classes, but never pushed; thrown into the deep end, but always with a paddle, and always with kindness and care.
Cristina Arango
Senior Teacher
“Yoga is a wonderful compass for a life in harmony with yourself, other beings and the environment.“
A devoted student and passionate teacher, she shares her journey and stays true to the essence of yoga. Her teachings are about developing a conscious relationship with yourself and your connection to your authentic voice as a teacher so that you teach in a way that supports your essence, nourishes your heart, and connects to your students.
Cristina’s spiritual journey began 15 years ago with yoga, meditation, and Hawaiian shamanism through years of devoted practice and studies with master teachers: Mark Breadner, Nicole Walsh, Shiva Rea, and Himalayan Institute.
Cristina’s understanding of yoga as a system of living our highest possibility enables her to share creative and intelligent practices that take students safely to new levels of exploration.
She weaves philosophy, asana, breath & meditation in an intelligent & creative sequencing style that moves between traditional and modern to honor yogic tradition and the modern human experience.
She has taught internationally in Australia, Bali, and South America.
Leesa Selwyn
Senior Teacher
“Your body is organic. You can learn to listen to its rhythms until you feel that each cell is talking to you. Your whole body feels light and blissful. It is liberating.
You reach a point where your body and mind cooperate so perfectly that you feel body is mind and mind is body.”
Leesa is a passionate yoga teacher specialising in physical therapy and mental health support. She has dedicated much of her life to the study, integration and personal practice of yoga spanning more than 20 years with her teaching journey beginning with the first of many YTT’s in 2008.
Her classes are uplifting and infused with somatic practices which integrate and transform self through embodiment, expansive movement and breath.
You can expect soft as well as strong, dynamic flowing sequences with transitions that work with elements of Taichi, that enliven your body and connect you deeper to your breath and conscious awareness.
Leesa also has a background in disability, is fluent in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and currently works for an organisation who provides yoga, pranayama, meditation, mental health support and counselling to the Australian Deaf community.
In this role she offers a holistic, person centered and trauma informed approach that acts as a powerful preventative to health decline and promotes long term well-being while giving more people the opportunity to access the profound benefits of yoga that we can often take for granted.
Tomer Weiss
Co-Director & Senior Teacher
“Yoga is a process of healing of our heart, of becoming more present from moment to moment, of becoming who we truly are.”
Tomers , a trained psychotherapist, and yoga teacher since 10 years, is a Co-Director and teacher of Samasti Yoga. His thirst for knowing the truth about life and dedication to his personal practice has given him an abundance of experience that will guide you through each class with an open heart and great awareness.
Tomer has travelled extensively, backpacking through monasteries and ashrams, attending yoga retreats and studying eastern mysticism, Buddhism and traditional Indian Tantra. Over a 12 year long pilgrimage to search the authentic practices of yoga. The teachings he received along his journey impacted him in a way he could not have perceived and his practice evolved as he journeyed deeper into his own spirituality, discovering that the answers ultimately come from within In his teaching style Tomer shares with you, a culmination of all that he has learnt from various schools of yoga, including Bihar, Shivananda, Iyengar, Shakt-tantra and Isha and also from his personal experience with ego disillusionment, self-enquiry and observation as well as the psycho-spiritual work of healing that he has undertaken under the guidance of Sri Prem Baba.
Charlotte Skogsberg
Senior Teacher
“Yoga is medicine: taken the right way it can heal you and taken the wrong way it can kill you.”
Charlotte first started practicing yoga during her university studies in Clinical Psychology and practiced for several years simply with a book as guide.
She later became a certified yoga teacher in classical Hatha yoga by the institute of Yoga in Mumbai in their ashram north of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Teaching Hatha in the south-west of France, she soon discovered the fascinating link between the western approach to the human mind and this ancient Indian philosophy.
After having spent some time in Mysore, India, where she learnt the Ashtanga system and more specifically the Mysore style, she has been teaching both practices while always integrating her background in Clinical Psychology in a style she has come to call “yoga psychology”.
Classes will include a theme that focuses on combining the subtle body with the physical asanas, based on the chakra system and very much linked to modern day mental needs. Using the body as the instrument to let fear, guilt, shame and grief speak and integrate is a beautiful tool of self realisation.
Being also an Ayurvedic practitioner, this sister science to yoga enriches her teachings so that the practice truly is used as the healing kind.
She’s a dedicated ashtanga practitioner and alternates with softer and slower practices according to seasons and energy levels, as recommended by the science of Ayurveda.
Angela Perez
Senior Teacher
“Yoga is an amazing journey towards the deepest mysteries of our being. We need willingness to see, patience to accept and courage to keep on walking. Are you ready?”
With a blend of Spanish born fire and deep love and gratitude for this life, it is equally her joy and honour to teach, study and share yoga and Tantra. Angela’s teaching style mirrors the way she practices – with complete joy and commitment to the path. She truly embodies the understanding that practice is a gift and holds firm to her intention to be a radiant example of the true joy, power and potential of yoga.
Angela is completely devoted to her daily practice and her role as a teacher is a natural extension of that commitment. She has lectured and taught in many parts of the world on Yogic Philosophy, Tantra, Ayurveda and Kundalini and gratefully enjoys teaching Ashtanga, Hatha, Yin and Tantra classes and workshops currently with Samasti Yoga (BALI). Angela is a Yoga Alliance internationally certified yoga instructor at both the RYT-500 and E-RYT 500 level.