Topics: exercise, health, mackay, wellbeing, yoga

THE DEAKINS are back in Mackay and they are bringing a new yoga business with them.

You might have noticed pictures of Katie, the yoga dog, demonstrating some poses on the outside of their new Shakespeare St studio.

Dave and Sue Deakin, who also own Deakins Home Loan Supermarket, moved abroad in 2010 with their three girls Chandler, Dakota and Tayah.

While living in New Zealand, Mrs Deakin fell more in love with yoga and began a two-year intensive Ashtanga course under the leadership of Auckland Yoga Academy director Jude Hynes.

"I used to ride my scooter into town and was practising yoga on the mat for two hours a day, six days a week," she said.

"I also used to teach on top of that.

"Jude knew my ultimate goal was to open my own studio."

Mrs Deakin described the experience as life changing.

"When I first started, it was quite hard... adjusting to the discipline," she said.

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