About
Shava Yoga offers Tantric, Ayurvedic and Yogic teachings, consultations and resources
for expanding personal freedom and vitality.
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.
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.
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.
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 on the Northern Beaches of Sydney (AUS). He started his proactive spiritual journey in 2013 with a trip through India, Laos and Thailand. Since then, he has spent time in Australia, Bali, Italy and India, immersing as a student of Yoga, Tantra and (more recently) Ayurveda, under several master teachers.
His teachers include: Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Sally Kempton, Swami Khecaranatha, Dr. Sumit Kesarkar, Mark Dyczkowski, Carlos Pomeda, Andrea Boni, Emily Kuser, Tara Judelle, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Rod Stryker, Brad Hay and Dr. S. Ajit.
Jesse is a teacher and facilitator of Tantric Yoga, Tantric View, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle. He offers classes, workshops, advanced education modules, international multi-day immersions, and 1:1 therapeutic consultations.
In 2023, Jesse travelled through India’s Himalayan ranges, guided by his teacher. During this pilgrimage he was totally possessed by the unspeakable magnitude of the mountains. Enraptured, he returned to the mountains with Philli in 2024, to co-facilitate the first Shava Yoga Himalayan Immersion, and to afterwards undergo a more remote and higher-altitude expedition to the sacred Kakbhushundi Lake.
Jesse is moved to offer technologies and guidance through immersive experiences which, serve as profound catalysts for the expansion of self-knowledge and the capacity to consume life whole.
