Bikram yoga instructor raises money for brother in kidney failure

A Mill Park yoga instructor hopes sisterly love will be strong enough to get her through an eight-hour yoga marathon for charity. Here’s how you can help.

Mill Park yoga teacher Jodie McClintock is organising an eight-hour yoga-thon to raise funds for her brother Jason Talintyre, who is in kidney failure. Picture: Rob Leeson.

To the uninitiated, yoga poses can be tricky to hold for a few seconds.

Imagine doing them for eight hours straight.

This is the challenge Bikram yoga Mill Park instructor Jodie McClintock has set for herself as part of what she is calling Australia’s first yoga marathon.

The yoga-thon will see the instructor take on eight hours of consecutive classes.

Ms McClintock said while it would be “a big challenge” she had some pretty good inspiration.

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Ms McClintock’s brother, and former Bikram yoga Mill Park instructor, Jason Talintyre is suffering from kidney failure.

Mr Talintyre said he was diagnosed with the disease about 15 years ago, however up until two years ago his health had been okay.

“I started doing yoga in 2014 because I just felt ordinary and I lost a lot of weight,” he said.

“I started teaching and I just loved pushing people to do their best.”

However, in July last year things changed.

“I had to stop working and teaching yoga at night, I got that sick,” he said.

Now Mr Talintyre spends every second day undergoing dialysis to keep his body functioning until he can have a much-needed kidney transplant.

Funds raised during the yoga-thon will be used to enable Mr Talintyre to retrain as a personal trainer when he has recovered from a transplant.

Some of the funds will be donated to the Kidney Foundation.

“I started teaching and I just loved pushing people to do their best.”

Ms McClintock said the studio had been “overwhelmed” by the reaction to the yoga-thon and six students had committed to completing the full eight hours.

Mr Talintyre will aim to teach the final class of the challenge, something his sister said would be “unbelievable”.

Yoga experts and novices alike are invited to take part in all, or some, of the classes, including a family class at 10.10am.

It will run from 8am to 4.30pm on Sunday at 16 The Link, Mill Park.

If you cannot make it and wish to donate visit the Go Fund Me page.

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