Accessoptionpath is a teacher-led yoga studio at 60 Cremorne Street in Melbourne, opened in 2014 with four mats, one borrowed kettle and a very simple idea about what a good yoga class should feel like. Eleven years later the same principle still runs everything we do, which is that a room of fourteen people who know each other beats a hall of sixty who do not, and that a teacher who remembers your shoulder injury is worth more to your practice than any amount of fancy equipment.
Four mats on day one, fourteen now, and eleven uninterrupted years on the same Cremorne street.
Every instructor on our roster holds a minimum of five hundred certified training hours.
Teachers who know names, injuries and what you are working on this month. That is the whole point.
Eleven years on the same block
Accessoptionpath started because our founder Priya Raghavan got tired of teaching in rooms of sixty people where three quarters of the students never got a single correction. After nine years running teacher training intensives in Rishikesh she moved to Melbourne, rented a small space on Cremorne Street, and set a rule we have never broken: fourteen mats, absolutely no more.
The first year was four regulars who mostly came for the tea afterwards. By 2017 we had a waiting list for Tuesday evenings. By 2019 we had hired our first second teacher, and by 2022 we had outgrown the original space and moved two doors down into the room we still teach in today.
A lot has changed since 2014. This is how it actually happened, including the parts that did not go to plan.
Opened with four mats and three classes a week. First month had fourteen total attendances. Priya taught every single one.
Introduced the evening Restorative Yin format after too many students kept asking for something slower and quieter.
Marcus Whitfield joined after ten years as a physiotherapist. Brought a clinical eye for injury that reshaped how we teach.
Survived closure year with an online library, a lot of Zoom, and members who kept paying even when the doors were shut. Still grateful.
Moved two doors down into a bigger, brighter room with proper ventilation and a real changeroom. Same street, much better airflow.
Seventeen certified teachers, fourteen mats a class, and the same rule we started with. Small rooms, taught properly.
Plenty of studios talk about values. These three have shaped every decision we have made for over a decade.
Fourteen mats is not a marketing line, it is a hard cap in our booking system. If we ever filled the room more, our teachers would stop being able to do the job we hired them for.
Our teachers do not demonstrate the fanciest version of every posture. They watch the room, walk it, adjust it and adapt. You come here to learn, not to watch someone else's handstand.
If a class is not right for your body, we will tell you and suggest something better, even when it means booking fewer of our sessions. Long-term trust beats short-term revenue.
Seventeen certified teachers, one roster, no rotating strangers. These are the faces you will see week after week when you start practising with us.
Founder and lead Vinyasa teacher. Nine years of intensives in Rishikesh before moving to Melbourne. Specialises in shoulder mechanics and breath-led sequencing.
Restorative and Yin teacher with a ten year background in physiotherapy. Handles all injury adaptation requests and runs our one-on-one therapeutic sessions.
Lunchtime and weekend teacher. Trained in classical Hatha and modern flow, with a particular focus on desk workers and stiff lower backs.
Early morning Vinyasa teacher. Trained in Ashtanga and dynamic flow, with the calmest voice in the studio for a 6:30am class.
Every class on the timetable belongs to one of two families. Fast and breath-led, or slow and deeply restorative. Both are taught with the same small class sizes and the same attention to alignment.
Linked sequences built around your breath, with layered options so beginners and regulars share the same room comfortably. Sun salutations, standing balances and a proper long savasana at the end.
Fewer postures, held for three to five minutes with full prop support, so the body can release without working for it. Every session ends with ten minutes of guided yoga nidra.
Numbers from our own booking system and our annual member survey. No rounding up, no inflation.
Six shots of the room taken during real classes and setup, so you know what you are walking into before you book.
Workshops, retreats and community projects our teachers have delivered over the past few years. Not every one made money. All of them shaped the studio.
Two days of Vinyasa and Yin with twenty-four students in Healesville. Ran twice, sold out both times, and we are planning the next one for spring.
An eight week lunchtime series for a design agency in Cremorne. Fifty-three participants, and eighty percent of them reported less lower back pain by week six.
A free monthly restorative class for carers and healthcare workers in the Cremorne and Richmond area. Runs on the first Sunday of every month, no booking required.
Two intakes run, both completed. Eleven graduates are now teaching across Melbourne and regional Victoria, three of them here at Accessoptionpath.
Practical articles written by our teachers on breathing, desk-worker stiffness and building a morning practice. Growing slowly, no clickbait.
Recycled mat purchases, refillable cleaning products and a no-plastic-bottles policy in the studio. Small things, but they add up.
Practical articles from our teaching team, based on the questions we hear at the front desk week after week.
An honest look at what changes in a workday when you move your spine and fill your lungs before you open a single email.
A fifteen minute sequence, three common mistakes, and the reason aggressive forward folds often make a stiff lower back worse rather than better.
Feedback collected from our member surveys across 2024 and 2025. Names used with permission.
I had been practising at chain studios for years and never felt seen. Accessoptionpath is the first place a teacher called me by name in the second week. It sounds small. It is not.
Daniel Mercer
Member since 2022
Marcus worked around a knee injury the surgeon said would need six months off. He adapted every posture and had me back into full classes in eight weeks. That kind of care is rare.
Amelia Hartley
Member since 2021
Came in knowing nothing about yoga and left the first class thinking I might have found the thing I keep doing for the next twenty years. Three years in and that is exactly what happened.
Priyanka Shah
Started as a total beginner
Reading about a yoga studio is not the same as standing in it. Book a class, or just drop by for a chat and a cup of tea. We are on the ground floor with the green door.