Bianca Machliss​ is co-founder and owner of Yoga Synergy, and has over 30 years of experience teaching yoga, managing a studio, training teachers, developing courses, and creating a community. Yoga found her at the age of 19. At first, she didn’t enjoy the practice. It was confronting due to her innate stiffness, weakness, and self-conscious, shy nature. After a life-changing trip to India, devotion and obsession with the practice ensured that she found herself attending classes 7 days per week, twice per day. She found an interest that gave her peace and joy, and a much needed sanctuary.

Bianca became a yoga teacher serendipitously when asked to replace a local teacher. Prior to that, she had never considered teaching. It turned out that it came naturally to share what she had learned and was passionate about. Yoga Synergy evolved in 1990 when she came up with the concept of running 6-week beginner courses, revolving around learning a sequence which changed every course. Eventually, the sequence was taught in all the classes, at different levels. 

In 1994, she returned to university to study physiotherapy and learn more about the body, in order to improve the practice and teaching of yoga and to ensure that it was safe, effective, and fun. From this platform, the 9-week, 6 Sequence Synergy Program was developed. She started training teachers in 1999. Initially, training was strictly a 3-year apprenticeship format. In 2014, training moved to a 200-hour format, and since 2020 an additional online format has evolved.

Bianca currently manages and teaches at Yoga Synergy Newtown and Yoga Synergy Teacher Training and Retreats. Additionally, she teaches at Elixr Health Club, My Asana Yoga Studio, and Waverley College (high school students and staff).