About Us

Malcolm H Clark is the Director of the Yoga and Meditation disciplines and studies presented at this studio, and the full-time teacher.

Early studies began for him in England during a postgraduate University course. In looking for deeper insights into the teachings of Yoga, Philosophy and Meditation Malcolm was introduced to Khen Ratcliffe, a teacher of Yoga and Meditation in the north of England over 50 years. Private tuition and Weekend Retreats at Khen's Meditation and Study Centre in North Wales soon after led to an introduction to Mr Eugene Halliday, considered by many to be the greatest teacher of Yoga and Meditation's deeper teachings in Europe in those days, His teaching, Towards the Whole Being, remaining so today.

Malcolm's interest in the deeper teachings and not merely the physical culture of Yoga led him to study and practice with many of the best contemporary Indian and Western teachers of traditional Yoga and Meditation. He travelled, lived and worked in dedicated Yoga and Meditation Centres around the world and has now been teaching at 50 Market Street Melbourne, his home city, for 10 years.

Malcolm is acknowledged for founding a Yoga style named "Field Yoga" derived in large part from his studies and meditations with the work of his teachers Khen Ratcliffe and particularly Eugene Halliday.

Malcolm spent a number of years studying and practising Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga with the humble yet highly accomplished Acharya Upendra Roy, who originally in 1969 arrived in Sydney from Assam in India and who was to become one of Australia's earliest and most famous authentic Hatha and Raja Yoga teachers. Acharya was trained from a young age in a Yoga Ashram in India and understood the very essentials of Yoga discipline. Acharya taught many of Australia's first Yoga practitioners, numerous of whom going on to teach Yoga and Meditation themselves, at a time when Yoga in the popular sense was almost unknown in Australia.

Malcolm teaches all of the classes at the studio and is consistently available to discuss and share his experience with participants.