Xinia graduated in December 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Dance from AUT University. She has performed and choreographed in Tempo Dance Festival, WIP, and the Auckland and Dunedin Fringe Festivals. In 2010 and 2011 she worked with the Black Grace dance company for the Auckland Festival and Pacifica.
From 2009 to 2012 she was a dancer and choreographer for the AUT Dance Company. She has been involved in many other small dance projects and has developed an obsession with Yoga and Pilates and loves the interrelation between the three.
Xinia has had a steady Yoga practice since 2006 and began teaching in 2010 and is continuously studying the practice. She believes in a regular practice taken at your own pace and intensity. Becoming more in-tune and aware of your body has endless benefits which become positive catalysts in the activities and thoughts of life.
In 2013, 15', & 16' she has visited Mysore, India to study with Ashtanga Guru Sharath Rangaswarmy, grandson of Sri K Pattabhi Jois, founder of the Ashtanga Yoga Institute.
In 2014 Xinia completed her Diploma in Yoga at Wellpark Collage. Throughout the year she also taught Ashtanga yoga, Pilates, and personal trained many clients including the NZ Warriors Rugby League Team. At the end of 2014 she moved to Fiji to work as Yoga Instructor for Paradise Cove Resort!