About
Empowerments for the journey from
Shava to Shiva.
Shava Yoga offers resources and experiential immersions for embodying and expanding the essence of our innate freedom, which is awakened through the timeless and sacred sciences of Trika Tantra and Ayurveda.
Philli Bartik
CO-FOUNDER
Passionately inspired by the traditional teachings of Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda, and applying them therapeutically to our contemporary lifestyles, Philli honours the potency of these teachings, offersing them to support and celebrate our existence and awakening.
Philli has been devoted to yogic study for the past 12 years under the mentorship of master teachers such as Sally Kempton, Dr Sumit Kesarkar, Swami Khecaranatha, Tara Judelle (Embodied Flow), Mark Dyczkowski, Carlos Pomeda, Rose Baudin, Dr Robert Svoboda, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Rod Stryker, Ana Forrest and others.
Philli was first guided to explore the Indian Himalayan mountains, at high altitude, with one of her teachers in 2023. Since then she has continued to explore further, completing a more challenging expedition into sacred high altitude locations, putting her personal yoga practice to the test. Philli also co-facilitated (with Jesse) the first Shava Yoga Himalayan Immersion in 2024.
As a Yoga facilitator of 12 years and Yoga Therapist of 7 years, Philli guides her students and clients into somatic and energetic explorations in-order to focus attention inwards, creating a greater overall body-mind connection and agency to reclaim independence and health.
Hosting international retreats in India and Australia, workshops, therapeutic yoga consultations, teacher mentoring programs, women’s circles, advanced education on YTT’s to public classes, Philli’s offerings are woven with pranayama, bandha, kriyas, meditation and Tantric Yoga and Ayurvedic philosophy as a means for offering the true essence of yoga.
Always striving to create a safe and nurturing environment for discovery and transformation, Philli’s orientation is to empower students and clients with the agency to curate their unique and individual vitality through becoming more aware of their true nature.
Jesse Alexander
CO-FOUNDER
Jesse was born and has lived most of his life on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. He started his active spiritual journey with a trip through India, Laos and Thailand in 2013. He has since spent time in Australia, Bali, Italy and India, immersing as a student of Tantra and (more recently) Ayurveda, under several master teachers.
His teachers include: Sally Kempton, Swami Khecaranatha, Mark Dyczkowski, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Carlos Pomeda, Andrea Boni, Emily Kuser, Tara Judelle, Dr. Sumit Kesarkar, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Rod Stryker, Brad Hay and Dr. S. Ajit.
Jesse is a teacher of Tantric Yoga, Tantric View, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle. He facilitates workshops, public classes, men’s circles, advanced education on YTT’s and private therapeutic consultations. His mission is to embody and transmit Tantric and Ayurvedic ways and tools for expanding the bliss of freedom.
Like Philli, Jesse travelled through the Himalayas in 2023 with one of his teachers. During this journey he was totally possessed by the unspeakable magnitude of the mountains, and as such, returned in 2024 to co-facilitate the first Shava Yoga Himalayan Immersion with Philli, after-which they both completed a higher, more challenging and remote expedition to the sacred Kakbhushundi Lake.
Jesse is excited to continue guiding further immersive experiences in raw and wild environments, which serve as a profound catalyst for personal expansion.
