About - Yogaharta

About Yogaharta

Yogaharta is a Yoga and Wellness studio with locations in the heart of Seaford and Chelsea, just moments from our beautiful bay. Our philosophy is to offer the local community a welcoming space to cultivate strength, balance and lifelong wellbeing, in both body and mind.

Yogaharta offers a range of services across our Seaford and Chelsea studios to support and cultivate a healthy, balanced lifestyle within our bayside community.

We offer daily yoga classes in all their forms, along with mat Pilates, reformer Pilates and barre - seven days a week - with sessions ranging from gentle and restorative to strong and dynamic. There is truly something for everybody and every stage of life.

At our Seaford studio, we also offer a Sunlighten Infrared Sauna, designed for two people, the perfect space to rest, restore and recharge.

Yogaharta is also home to our resident beauty therapist, Beck, who is available for massage and beauty therapy appointments via @natural_health__beauty_therapy.

These services are an ongoing offering to our local Seaford and Chelsea communities, creating spaces that extend beyond the mat and reformer.

Throughout the year, we host retreats, workshops and special events across both studios. These experiences range from specialty yoga workshops to immersive sound journeys, as well as retreats hosted locally and internationally for our community — and for guests who feel called to join us.

Yogaharta is truly a community hub — much more than a yoga and Pilates studio. We invite you to visit either of our studios and experience for yourself the welcoming, supportive and deeply intentional sanctuary we continue to create.

History

Yogaharta was established in 2017, born from the shared love of yoga between founders Ruth and her Yoga teacher son, Cody. What began as practising together - exploring asana, pranayama and meditation - became a vision for a dedicated studio in Seaford.

In 2024, stewardship of Yogaharta was passed to Laura Grace. Bringing a love of movement in many forms, and deep respect for the lineages of Yoga and the embodied transmission of its teachings, Laura continues to honour the integrity of the practice through teaching and studio leadership.

Preserving Yoga's philosophical foundations while guiding its evolution in a modern studio setting, Laura's stewardship is grounded in care, devotion and a commitment to creating spaces where the teachings are not only learned, but lived.

Our Chelsea studio began as Live Life Well, founded in 2011 by Cara. Built on her love of people and movement, it became a light-filled, welcoming space known for its strong mat Pilates and barre community. In 2025, stewardship transitioned to Laura and the studio became Yogaharta Chelsea — bringing together two aligned communities under one shared vision, while honouring the heart and history of both spaces.

Today, Yogaharta across Seaford and Chelsea remains devoted to authentic practice, meaningful connection and lifelong embodied wellbeing.

Philosophy

Our mission was to bring yoga to the Seaford and Frankston area to create a community hub that was about Health and Wellbeing. We truly wanted to make yoga and living a healthy lifestyle accessible and affordable to everyone.

When Cody returned home from his yoga training in India, he was very inspired to showcase everything yoga had to offer, which is why our timetable is so diverse with many different styles of yoga.

Making Yogaharta accessible firstly means to make it affordable and we have done that by looking at the average wage of our community and creating a pricing model that is fair and ethical.

Secondly, we wanted to have classes and services that were available to everyone, we have classes for people before work or after school drop off and after work and into the evening with weekend classes to help you have some self-care on your days off!

At Yogaharta, we truly embrace the understanding that Yoga is more than simply the asanas (poses) we make with our bodies on the mat.

We integrate other paths of yoga, such as meditation, kriya, pranayama, nidra, bhakti, restorative and sound healing.

"Yoga is both a practice and a state. It is my greatest and most sincere wish, that the real yoga of a student doesn't happen on the mat in front of us. That yoga truly begins the moment our students step off their mat, in the way they move through life moment to moment." - Laura Grace