MALCOLM CLARK

Profile

Malcolm H Clark is Australian born, and a completely dedicated full-time professional Yoga Teacher. His Yoga is his way of life and work.

Malcolm began formal Yoga and Meditation studies in the mid 1980's. Building upon a teenage professional career in several sporting fields, track and field athletics, and a University Bachelor Degree, he travelled to England to take up post-graduate studies, and to further develop an already cultivated interest in Yoga and personal development.

His early Yoga and Meditation studies began with Khen Ratcliffe, a teacher of Yoga for nearly 50 years in England and then Malcolm was introduced to Eugene Halliday, considered by many to be the greatest teacher of true Yoga in Europe in those days, his teaching remaining so today. Eugene Halliday was and is a truly great sage.

Malcolm has studied and practised with many of the best contemparary Indian and Western teachers of traditional Yoga. He has travelled, lived and worked with dedicated teachers and in dedicated Yoga and Meditation Centres around the world.

Since 1987, Malcolm has centred and resided his Yoga and Meditation teaching in Melbourne, Australia, and for a number of years through his Yoga School offering regular classes and appointments to individuals and groups wishing to learn and understand the modern popular aspects of Yoga, as well as the deeper practises of Meditation and Reflexive Self-consciousness(Samadhi).

Malcolm teaches in a number of specialised Yoga venues, in community and business spaces, offers Private Consulting, and conducts periodic Group Retreats away from Melbourne in places of natural beauty and peace. He also travels to North and South America and to Europe and Britain to share his work.

He practises and teaches the main styles of Yoga - Hatha Yoga for the physical body, Raja Yoga for development of concentration and will power, Jnana Yoga for clarity of the mind, Bhakti Yoga for developing devotion and Love, Karma Yoga for Service and contribution to brotherhood and humanity, a number of aspects of Traditional Indian Tantra(yantra, mantra and mudra) and all this is integrated with the modern Sciences - physiology, food and diet, cleansing techniques and psychology.

Malcolm holds a current 'Teacher Membership' with the Yoga Teachers Association of Australia. He maintains regular contact with specialist teachers in Yoga & Meditation fields, and with professionals in associated disciplines - Medical, Scientific, Philosophic, Religious and Artistic - both in Australia and around the world. He has a rigorous and continuing personal study program, researching the less popularly understood aspects of Yoga and presenting this knowledge to his students and associates.

Malcolm is a qualified Certificate IV Workplace Trainer and accepts invitations for Corporate Training Programs - Yoga, Meditation and Stress Management training and events.

As a peer reference, the following was issued in 2003 by the late Acharya Upendra Roy, one of Australia's earliest, foremost and highly respected Yoga Teachers. Acharya, as he was affectionately known, came to Australia from India in 1969 and is responsible for training a great number of Australia's first authentic Hatha and Raja Yoga Teachers, teachers who have established themselves throughout the country and overseas since the 1970's. Acharya and Malcolm were good friends and shared many of the deeper aspects of true Yoga. Acharya passed on in 2006 leaving a fine legacy of competent and experienced students and practitioners, deeply versed in the origins and practical teachings of Indian Yoga. Acharya was trained in a specialised Indian Yoga Ashram for 7 years before taking the teaching to the world. There was never any doubt about his integrity, ability and love for his chosen discipline. He dedicated his whole life to Yoga and He was a true master and example of its Spirit and art.

You can contact Malcolm by email on the Contact page of this site.

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"Behind all the forms of love there is one supreme love.
Behind love of the body,
love of the mind,
love of the soul,
and all other particular loves,
there is the love of the spirit which speaks in the great imperative,
"Develop thyself and all beings".
This love of the spirit may be defined as
a "will to work for the development of the potentialities of all beings"
– Eugene Halliday.