Lalita Yagnik, originally from India, is a Thyroid Naturopath, Kalari Ayurveda Practitioner, Kalaripayattu (Indian Martial art) and Kalari Yoga Instructor, and musician. She began studying Kalari Healing and Kalaripayattu in 2009 in Australia. Since then she visits India each year to study and train with her teachers, one of which was Sat Guru Hanuman Das, the founder of the Kalariyil Dharmikam Ashram in Kerala.

Lalita is currently practicing and teaching key Kalaripayattu exercises, forms, open combat sequences and weapon forms online and in person. Developing focus in the mind and body, while building a strong foundation through warm ups and basic practices are integral to her training.

Katrin started practising Kalarippayattu in 2010 when she visited the Kerala Kalarippayattu Academy (now Malabar Kalarippayat Academy) in Kannur, Kerala for the first time. She spent a total of 8 months spread over 4 years in Kannur to study the martial arts practice as well as the healing art marma chikitsa under Gurukkal C.M. Sherif. After teaching Kalari in Berlin, Germany, she moved on to Adelaide, South Australia before settling in Tasmania which she now calls home.

“I was attracted to the flowing powerful movements, never really by the fact that Kalari is a martial art. Coming from a yoga background, the internal work, making your body and mind as clear and strong as they can be, is my focus. Sharpening the senses, my intuition, the feeling of being capable of taking anything on at any time and bringing clarity and peace to the mind – that is why I still practice Kalari.”

Craig started exploring self-cultivation methods in 2003 and has always had a burning curiosity to discover and explore himself and the world around him, starting with the immediate reality of the body. He had many periods where he did the ‘deep dive’ into arts that would help satiate this curiosity, including almost a decade training traditional internal arts with his first internal martial arts teacher, and another decade with a second Daoist teacher. Having a lot of experience with many different modern modalities, mixed with the more traditional studies he has undertaken, brings him a unique vantage point. 

Craig specializes in teaching internal and external physical practices, helping people to explore and restore their relationship to their body and internal landscape, and how that landscape relates to the external world. He aims to teach methods that are sustainable, and can be used by anyone from any culture, tradition or lineage, with the idea that these qualities can be explored as a layer over whatever activities each person enjoys pursuing. He has done his best to make teachings of this complex topic as simple and clear as possible so they are accessible to everyone.

As well as guiding people through the process of self cultivation, Craig is also trained in both esoteric and modern healing methods. He is regularly treating people with all kinds of ailments, from physical injuries to emotional turmoil or spiritual disturbances.