Kimberly Manchee is the co-founder of Keela Yoga Farm. She is the farm and kitchen manager and resident Yoga teacher. Kimberly teaches workshops on Reiki, food fermentation and preserving, makes cheese, connects the fresh farm food to the kitchen, runs yoga retreats, teaches local yoga classes and looks after the farm animals. Have a read for more information on Kimberly Manchee.
Yoga Teacher
Check our retreat page for Kimberly’s retreats or her facebook page for local drop-in classes
Kimberly teaching on the yoga deck at the farm
She first started practising Yoga in Hong Kong in 2005, which initially started as a hobby. However, after attending many classes in Asia, Australia and Singapore, 450 hours of teacher training and teaching regularly on the farm and at local classes, it has become a lifestyle.
Expanding your awareness is a key part of Yoga, and since living and practising within nature, she noticed that her awareness was expanding from within as she became more grounded and connected to her surroundings.
Her teaching style, Hatha and Vinyasa Flow, is a mixture of the styles that she has studied over the years in various YTTs and workshops, which she modifies and develops depending on the levels and experiences of the guests attending her classes.
Kimberly has been teaching at Keela Yoga Farm full time since 2017, prior to that she was teaching in Singapore and has attended the following yoga teacher training courses:
50 hour pre and post natal yoga teacher training, HOM Studio, Singapore 2015
100 hour Ashtanga Intensive training with Kino MacGregor and Tim Feldman, Singapore 2015
100 hour Anusara Yoga Immersion with Jonas Westring, Thailand, 2019
Morning self-practice on the yoga deck
Reiki Master
Kimberly offers Reiki attunements and treatments at the farm.
Farm to table chef and food preserver
Most people come to learn about permaculture, gardening or natural building, but usually leave saying that they loved learning how to cook vegetarian food that comes from the garden.During retreats, Kimberly designs recipes and cooks delicious meals with ingredients that have been harvested from our gardenKimberly prepares and cooks pizza for you in our stone pizza ovenMaking various cheeses with locally sourced sheep’s milk. Halloumi, paneer and ricotta cheese is made the same day as the sheep is milked.Fermented food is essential to having a healthy gut so we serve it every day. Here she is teaching a workshop on fermenting which is scheduled on all courses and retreats throughout the year.
Running the permaculture project
Kimberly previously completed a PDC and natural building course at Rak Tamachat, a food forest course at Terra Alta and volunteered at many permaculture projects. She now co-runs Keela Yoga Permaculture farm, helping to plan and manage natural building courses, food forest courses and Yoga retreats. She mainly teaches yoga, looks after the animals, manages the farm to table kitchen and steps in anywhere that help is needed.
Kimberly loves animals and looks after our dogs, cats, chickens and sheepWorking on the community house with volunteers at Keela Yoga FarmHelping to build the solar system at Keela Yoga Farm‘Testing’ the harvest for the kitchen team 🙂Leading meditation classes after a long day of clay plastering
Harvesting grapes to make wineShowing off the fermented food that she serves every day
Before Keela Yoga Farm
Kimberly was an interntaional Primary school teacher and quit the ‘rat race’ to live a more sustainable life at Keela Yoga Farm. Before buying the farm she volunteered at many projects including Osho Gardens, A Quinta, Awakened Life Project, Yoga Holidays Portugal, Vale da Sarvinda and attended Permaculture courses at Terra Alta and Rak Tamachat.
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