Marc Potter, Introducing Diverse Yoga Disciplines to Australia

Marc Potter started SunSalute Yoga School in Claremont, Western Australia, nearly ten years ago, and since then hundreds of yoga students of all ages have passed through those doors. Some have opted for more rigorous branches of yoga, while others are content with what they have learnt here.

Sportsperson

Marc Potter’s life reads like a typical Aussie success story, a sportsperson from a very young age, he was very adept at surfing, swimming, horse riding, etc. But there was also a serious side to him, he learnt about meditation at the age of 17 and has self-taught himself about yoga and its spiritual aspects. His success provided him the courage to open a yoga school, at a time when most Australians had no clue about yoga and its benefits.

Easy Rules

Marc Potter started his school to show normal people who have heard about yoga but were afraid to commit that it is not something that is strict and rule-bound. Each person does their exercises at their own comfort level, and it is more slow and steady rather than trying to be the first to achieve a good result.

Branching Out

He introduced the Mysore style of yoga, which he thought would be more easily adopted by Australians, and he was right. It became extremely popular with his students and it has continued for over 20 years. In 2012, Marc Potter changed that routine and introduced the Ashtanga Yoga sequence, but it was not as well-received as Mysore yoga.

Sun Salute Yoga, Making Their Presence Felt In Western Australia

Yoga is a nearly 5000-year old discipline from North India, which has made its mark worldwide including Australia, where ardent followers like Marc Potter have made it their life’s mission to promote yoga to everyone who wishes to embrace it.

Early Days

Marc Potter’s childhood was in Melbourne, but then the family moved to Perth in Western Australia, and it is there that he established his first yoga school, Sunsalute Yoga, at Swanbourne, WA about 10 years ago. Since then, he has gone from success to success with students and practitioners of all ages flocking to his classes.

Self Taught

His brand of yoga may not be what the ancient founders preached and practiced, but his years of teaching and observing how students react to yoga, enabled him to come up with the Mysore style which helped his students attain their physical goal as well as mental peace, in their own time. Marc Potter used his own experiments and experience with meditation and yoga to plan and adapt it to make it easy for people to follow.

Multi-Talented Teacher

Marc Potter has used his early years as a sportsperson, surfer, cameraman, landscaper, and other work experiences when dreaming of opening his own yoga school, and though it was a big risk, he ventured into something that was risky at the outset. However, he persevered, and bought the ancient Hindu art of yoga into mainstream Western Australia first, and hopes to spread his message to all corners of the country.