Gili Yoga is your space for yoga and freediving on the island of Gili Trawangan, in between Bali and Lombok, Indonesia. We aim to create an environment for you to thrive in. Our enthusiastic and experienced teachers intend to help you learn and develop your yoga practice, deepen your awareness of nature and the ocean, and ultimately celebrate life!
We are devoted to movement, meditation, music and nature and offer a variety of classes for all ranges of motion. Come get fit, have fun, relax and experience your natural state of bliss.
Our vision is to create the environment for you to learn, grow and come alive whether in a class, workshop or retreat. At Gili Yoga, we are blessed with beach-living, surrounded by the healing nature of the ocean and tropics. We are passionate about sharing yoga, pranayama, meditation, play, community and delicious, healthy food as tools to awakening to your full potential. Our retreats serve as an opportunity for you to immerse yourself in a holistic, healing lifestyle with like-minded friends with tools for you to carry upwards and onwards into your life from here.
We balance heat building, cleansing practices with nurturing self-care to create an experience that energizes and inspires as well as softens and soothes. You will find yourself cleansing effortlessly, laughing often and enjoying the fullness of life.
Kate is a passionate adventurer, yogi and Champion Freediver, inspired by deeper experiences of life in the elements. She is a dedicated student and teacher of yoga and Freediving and believes that both are inclusive and universal pathways of connection, aliveness and love. With the intention of creating an environment to share, play, teach and thrive, Kate co-created Freedive Gili, Gili Yoga and The Yoga Garden on Gili Trawangan in 2009 with her partner, Michael Board.
Over the past 3 years of training and competing in Freediving, Kate has set 14 National Records for New Zealand and won a Silver Medal at the most recent World Championships. She holds the NZ National Records in Constant Weight at 85 meters and Free Immersion at 76 meters and continues to train and compete out of curiosity and an adoration for the ocean.
Kate is also a Level 3 SSI Freediving Instructor and a 200 Hr E-RYT (experienced registered yoga teacher). Kate teaches yoga, meditation and freediving, competes internationally and runs yoga retreats and training throughout the year.
The Yoga Garden, an oasis of calm in the heart of Gili Trawangan Come stay with us in our sanctuary in the sun! We offer simple luxury in the heart of Gili Trawangan. All of our 9 bungalows here at Gili Yoga are set in our garden and face inward to our beautiful yoga hall, just steps away from the best swimming beach on Gili Trawangan and our 25 meter long swimming pool! Our rooms are furnished with air conditioning, hot, fresh water, safety deposit boxes, fridges, Satellite TV and a loving and creative design.