Anesu Mbizvo
Johannesburg
About Anesu
Anesu Mbizvo is an experienced 700RYT yoga and meditation teacher, medical doctor and proud Founder and Co-owner of the pioneering inclusive yoga studio and wellness center The Nest Space.
Anesu is based in Joburg, South Africa and is passionate about inclusivity, body positivity and diversity in yoga and meditation. Having qualified as a 500hr yoga teacher, Anesu teaches tailor made classes specially modified to the needs and desires of her clients and believes that yoga and meditation are practices for all.
By fusing her knowledge in medicine with her passion of self-acceptance and self-love practices, Anesu spends her time teaching yoga and meditation to a diverse cohort of clients while at the same time advocating for increased accessibility and inclusivity in yoga spaces.
Anesu has a wealth of yoga teaching experience and has been teaching vinyasa, hatha, meditation and yin yoga for over 5 years. She currently teaches both studio based yoga classes and private yoga classes (with both able bodied students and students with medical challenges that inhibit them from practicing in group settings) and also has experience teaching yoga and meditation for corporate clients, events and retreats.
When it comes to yoga, Anesu’s main emphasis in every class is self-acceptance- she structures her classes and teachings around ensuring that each and every student learns to accept themselves and their body fully, aiming to enable students to see themselves in their True image- perfect, whole and complete.
Anesu’s teaching style is not only focused on the physical practice of asanas. Instead, drawing from her own personal experience, Anesu teaches yoga as a journey back towards the Self and a learning that the real purpose of life is to rediscover one’s true Being and the fact that we are all connected.
Anesu is the proud Founder and co-owner of The Nest Space Yoga Studio and Wellness Center, which is built around the ethos of inclusivity- showing her community that yoga is for all bodies regardless of color, ability, size, age, gender or sexual orientation. The studio offers daily yoga and meditation classes as well as holistic therapies such as reiki, reflexology, massage and hypnotherapy to their clients and is the first of its kind in South Africa.
The Nest Space also consists of a vegan cafe and zero waste grocery offering Nest clients a holistic conscious living lifestyle that is affordable, sustainable and convenient all in one. Anesu and her business partner Banesa both believe that a sustainable lifestyle (both in terms of diet and waste reduction) is no longer a luxury but instead a necessity for the survival and functioning of the planet, and so have made sustainability a key facet to both their own personal lives and the running of their business.
Freedohm Sound Podcast
In addition to her teaching, Anesu also hosts the Freedohm Sound Podcast – providing guided meditation and yoga nidra recordings as well as interviews with various thought leaders in the wellness, self growth and inclusivity spaces.