Mick Barnes is an internationally known yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, former director of Jivamukti Yoga Sydney, and the founder and co-director of The Yoga Factory in Sydney.

He teaches from his experience of which he's had wild and many and from the knowledge of suffering and the way out.

Mick has an amusing but powerful character and certainly doesn’t pretend to be a “saint” modern-day yogi. Mick is honest, bold, old school but also fun and this mixture somehow empowers so many people. The way he approaches teaching is so different to what is known these days as “teaching of yoga”. Mick communicates traditional teachings of yoga, the way they should be taught: properly, gradually, step by step, with the address of individual body differences.

He emphasises the importance of regularity and discipline as without it yoga can’t be learned and the goal of yoga can’t be achieved. Mick does not sell promises or tell people to wear this, eat that, worship gurus, nor entice people to think that change and the whole yogic transformation will come about by just fitting in and adopting the behaviours. He asks the students to work hard, front up, to not be lazy, be accountable, but at the same time enjoy their lives. 

For the last 20 years Mick has practiced continually. He has owned several successful yoga schools in Sydney, facilitates TYF’s teacher training that produces the best, most competent teachers in Sydney. He is also an in-demand facilitator at Ulpotha, Sri Lanka—one of the world’s best retreat facilities, and has been repeatedly invited to teach all around the world, from New York, to Europe, to all around Asia. 

Mick is a rarity in contemporary yoga context and his experience and ability to communicate the teachings is worth travelling across the oceans for.