mina Kedmy started practicing Yoga at the age of 19. She has studied with a diversity of teachers in both Israel and India, where she completed her formal teacher training at the Iyengar ashram in Rishikesh over ten years ago, a place to which she has returned to further her studies.

With a firm foundation in the accuracy and precision of Iyengar with its focus on exact alignment, Umina was later influenced by the development of the soft flowing Vijnanna style and a more expansive Hatha Raja style yoga, under the guidance of teacher Yael Aziv. This incorporates a broader ancient foundations of the practice in which asana takes its place as just one of the eight limbs of yoga. With a range of teaching experience in Israel, her style has developed through a melting of Iyengar’s precision with the flowing accuracy of Vijnnana style and the flowing femininity of Yael.



Umina is a competent Iyengar yoga therapist and teaches yoga for children with her unique yoga games. She teaches regular classes in the community and at the school. Alongside this, in the cleanse groups, Umina specialises in yoga for purification, using asanas specific to the internal organs and dynamic practice to strengthen the core of the body.



Uminas classes and the ‘sharp and precise’ style allow for a deep understanding of alignment by focusing on different areas of the body, each class building more into the asana practice. For Umina’s students in PachaMama, the rhythm of the class is built gradually, in a journey from detailed focus on specific areas of the body to the holistic experience of asana and pranayama on the whole being. Attending in depth to one area of the body with close attention and awareness, facilitating the experience, understanding and sensitivity of its connection to the whole.

Umina discovered her inspiration for yoga when she became aware of its ability to harmonize all aspects of the self. She sees that her practice approaches the body, mind, spirit and energy systems as integrated facets of the whole. Through the conscious practice of yoga, all the elements of the human can be integrated into alignment.