Feren launched in June 2016 in a small park in Mt Waverley, where Feren would lead a few close friends breathing, meditation, movement, tea.

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After a few sessions, these yoga in the park meet-up grew and grew with more friends, family and locals joining in on the fun. Before long, it became apparent that this small community of like minded people needed a proper space to call home so in January 2018, the first Downward Duck & Co Studio doors were opened.

*Feren Yen is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). She has taken further training as a group fitness instructor, 20 hour Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga, and completed her 300 hr TCTSY training. She is a university lecturer and in 2017 was awarded lifetime Fellowship by the International Institute of Specialised Skills to conduct research overseas on supporting disadvantaged students. She actively presents on connecting with culturally and linguistically diverse learners, specific learning difficulties and trauma sensitive education.