Mrs Dyer (86) does not recall the main reason she decided to attend her first session, but she remembers going along with a friend and taking a patchwork quilt for a yoga mat.
Week after week she returned to the classes and her yoga instructor, Bev Clark, suggested she study the practice through correspondence.
"I don’t think I ever thought it would be yoga, but I think it just grew on me," Mrs Dyer said.
She became a teacher in 1990, after two years of studying.
She taught hatha yoga, which is a type of calming yoga that involves stretches, breathing techniques, asana (yoga poses) and relaxation.
After 32 years of teaching yoga, she will host her last class at the Winton RSA on Tuesday.
It would be a bittersweet moment, she said.
"At times I feel really sad, I could cry, but other times it’s a relief because it’s getting harder to cart around my big yoga bag — so I know it’s time."
Teaching yoga had become difficult for Mrs Dyer after she underwent knee surgery last year.
Her students helped lessen some of the challenges she faced every week. They would often place an orange cone to reserve parking at the Winton RSA, and helped Mrs Dyer carry her bag in.
It would be her students’ company she would miss the most, she said.
She had enjoyed seeing the progress they had made over the years.
"Doing yoga, a lot of them start to see a change in their attitude, their health and their posture and it’s nice to see them learning. It makes me feel good," Mrs Dyer said.
She believed yoga was a "lifestyle" and would continue the practice in her own life.
Yoga had helped her 26 years ago after the loss of her husband, Des, she said.
"I don’t know how I would have dealt with it and I remember all the ladies saying how much they got from me, but I knew I was getting so much from them."
Daughter Heather Cruickshank said her mother had always enjoyed yoga and had passed on the teachings to her.
"She’s taught me the right pressure points to relieve cramps and taught me breathing techniques during my pregnancy which I still use to this day.
"She has passed on yoga to us children and also her grandchildren, but it’ll be nice for her to focus her energy on other things."
Some of Mrs Dyer’s retirement plans include reading, joining a book club and caring for her canaries.
