Archive
Teachers 2005
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Alexandra Müller
Beate Gatscha
Bettina Lietz
Christoph Mamat
Dashmesh Singh Khalsa
Elmar Stapelfeldt
Hermann Traitteur
Marcus Schmieke
Dr. Max Becker
Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa
Petra Proßowsky
Pyar
Alex O´Malley
Alex O'Malley has a gift for creating a safe space for students to discover their limits, and expand beyond them. Her classes are challenging and fun (be ready to sweat), and open to all levels. Holding a firm belief that Yoga's benefits are far more than physical, Alex helps each practitioner to tap into their natural abilities, and shows them how to take those benefits "off the mat" and into their daily lives. Alex began her yoga practice in 2001 and is certified to teach Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. She completed her training curriculum at the prestigious "It's Yoga Studio" in San Francisco, California. After extensive travel around the world and a degree in Economics and Music at Mills College, Alex happily settled in Germany and opened "It's Yoga Berlin". At her new studio, Alex is passionate about bringing the universal principles of Yoga to her new culture, community, and home.
Alexandra Müller
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Beate Gatscha
Beate Gatscha is a freelance dancer and musician from Germany. She is trained in classical Indian Kathak dance and has studied with Ioanna Srinivasan, Pandit Vijai Shankar, Harish S. Gangani and Amala Patkar. For the last 3 years she has studied Gatka with Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa in Berlin. Beate is an innovator of different dance styles which includes choreographed percussion, graphic dance theatre, dance with masks and martial arts. She teaches movement and rhythm training (Gatang & Bodyrhythmics).
Bettina Lietz
Born in 1963, Bettina Lietz has a long-standing Yoga experience following the tradition of Swami Dr. Gitananda and was trained by by Asha and Keshav Rekai, Yogaschool Rekai. Bettina is married and has 3 kids. She is member of the BDY.
Christoph Mamat
Christoph Mamat was trained by Bikram Choudhuri in Los Angeles and became a Bikram Yoga Instructor in 2001. In 2002 he founded the Bikram Yoga College of India in Berlin Kreuzberg. While practicing the fixed series of 26 postures the student focuses on experiencing the benefits of the postures. The practitioner gains strength, flexibility, relaxation, balance and healing during a full 90 minutes class.
Dashmesh Singh Khalsa
Born 1960 in Heilbronn, Dashmesh Singh Khalsa is a yoga and sports teacher, physio and Yoga therapist, health practitioner focussing on Yoga therapy, meditation, and Sat Nam Rasayan (a yogic health system). He has been teaching Kundalini Yoga since 1986 and is a direct student of Yogi Bhajan, founder of the Kundalini Yoga Centre in Berlin (Zadekstrasse). He is also the head of "Heilen" in Berlin and since 1996 has taught Sat Nam Rasayan healing methods. In the yoga classes are will work with the main chakras in our body. Special exercises will help us to familiarise with the chakras and enable us to dissolve and clear obsolete things to open up and lead a happy life.
Elmar Stapelfeldt
Elmar Stapelfeldt studied Sanskrit and classical Ayurveda texts at the University of Tuebingen and earned a Masters degree in Ideology. After completing a three year course in alternative medicine he spent 1.5 years as an assistant in Ayurvedic clinics in India. For many years, he has been working as a lecturer and interpreter in one of the largest institutes for Ayurveda in Europe, the Mahindra Institute. He is also the academic head of a 3 year Ayurveda training course for medical doctors and health practitioners and conducts Pañcakarma cure programs there regularly. In 2003 he opened his OPD clinic in Dresden and since then has been offering the full range of Ayurvedic treatments. He also works as a lecturer for Ayurveda and Indian philosophy on an international level.
Gisela Hanschen
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Hermann Traitteur
Born 1964, doctor and IYENGAR ®Yogateacher. He started IYENGAR®Yoga 1989, Yoga Teacher Training 1991 at the "Iyengar Yoga Institut of San Francisco", USA. Since this time he joins regularly trainings in Pune/India at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute. Since 1992 he owns a Yogaschool in Berlin-Mitte and since 1997 he teaches anatomy and physiology at the teachers training course of the Iyengar-Yoga-Vereinigung-Deutschland e.V. (BIYVD e.V.). He got his international trainer certificate in 1995 in the USA , recognized by BIYVD. Since 2001 he works in his medical private practice in Berlin-Mitte and treats through Yoga-Therapy.
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Marcus Schmieke
Born in 1966 in Oldenburg, Germany, Marcus studied physics in Hanover and Heidelberg. He is one of the world's pioneers in Vastu and founder of the Vedic Academy in Germany. Since 1996 he has been holding seminars, and has been working as a mentor for students of Vastu (Vedic architecture) and Jyothis (Vedic astrology). Being a prolific author of more than 20 books translated into 14 languages he is well known also beyond the borders of Europe. He is also a mentor for students of Vastu and Jyotish Courses at the EAVS, and teaches the Karma & Dharma module of the Vedanta Personality Development course.
Dr. Max Becker
Born in 1955, Dr. Max Becker studied the science of music and physiotherapy. He started the yogic path in 1972. From 1992-1996 he studied to become a Yoga teacher. Since then he has been a member of the BDY. From 1995-1997, Dr. Becker followed the school of T.K.V. Desikachar as taught by Dr. med. Imogen Dalman and Martin Soder at the Berlin Yoga Center (BYZ). He teaches groups and individual classes in Berlin.
Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa
Nanak Dev Singh Khals is a performer and teacher of Gatka, Kundalini yoga and gong meditation in Europe. Since 1969 he been practicing and studying yoga, meditation and martial arts. His teachers include Yogi Bhajan in the US and Akali Nihang Nidar Singh in the UK. In 1986, he founded the International Gatka Federation to preserve the priceless wisdom of this martial art while teaching and supporting his students worldwide.
Petra Proßowsky
Petra Proßowsky was born in 1963, is married and has three kids. Petra is a Certified Yoga Teacher, trained in the tradition of Swami Dr. Gitananda by Asha und Keshav Rekai, yoga school Rekai. She is a member of the BDY and teaches classical Hatha Yoga using her long-standing Yoga experience. Petra is author of several books in German about Kids' Yoga and movement including "Kinder entspannen mit Yoga (1996)", "Hokus Pokus Asana (1999)", "Yoga für Kindergruppen (2000)", "Traumgeschichten (2003)", and "Bewegungsgeschichten (2005)".
Pyar
Pyar Troll has been searching for the truth for all her life. Beside this spiritual aspiration, she led a normal life, studied medicine and works as a doctor. For many years Pyar has been giving Satsangs and leading spiritual retreats. She succeeded in her search by experiencing the innermost self that no longer identifies the "I" with body and ego. Pyar still works up to 60 hours a week and beside has written three books.
Rajyashree Ramesh
Rajyashree Ramesh is a senior dancer, teacher and choreographer, who has been living in Berlin since 1977. Her career in dance is spanning four decades. Her performances are critically acclaimed by press and public for the 'sense of joy', 'rare grace refinement and faultless technique', 'sublime expression', 'precision' and 'grace' in her dance. Rajashree began her twelve-year intensive training in Bharatanatyam at the age of 7 in Bangalore, India. Her quest for knowledge has taken her to renowned Masters in India and associated her with dancers of various disciplines in Berlin. She has been practicing Yoga for 20 years which also enhanced her teaching and performing work. Rajashree has performed solo and with an ensemble for a variety of cultural organisations in India, Europe and the US, has launched a special training programme for students of non-Indian origin to learn the art of Bharatanatyam at her Academy for Performing Arts in Berlin She has developed special programs, taking dance and the message behind it into kindergartens, schools, universities, libraries and museums all over Germany. With her dance ensemble 'Rasika', she has been choreographing and presenting traditional and multinational productions with universal themes. She published various articles on dance both in German and English. Many of her students are accomplished dancers, seriously pursuing the practise of the art, being noticed for their 'grace and precision' by press and public.
Stefan Datt
Stefan Datt started his yoga practice ten years ago in the tradition of Swami Sivananda. In 1997 he became a physiotherapist. From 1997 to 2001 he lived and worked at various international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres including Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. He studied yoga in New York (1996), India (1998, 2001, 2004), and Montreal (2000). From his idea to celebrate the wisdom and science of yoga evolved the 1st Berlin Yoga Festival. Stefan Datt runs a physiotherapeutic practice in Berlin-Wedding and with the support of three additional yoga teachers offers a full spectrum ranging from classical physiotherapy to osteopathy and naturopathy. He teaches Yoga several times a week sometimes combining it with physiotherapeutic treatments. For the last two years, Stefan has led yoga teachers training courses for physiotherapists in Berlin and Hagen.
Sri Durgamayi Ma
Sri Durgamayi Ma is a spiritual teacher teaching the path of Bhakti yoga. In 1972, she travelled on her own over land from Germany to India to meet Sri Neem Karoli Baba, her beloved guru and teacher. When Baba left his body in 1973, Ma returned to Germany after a pilgrimage through India. Some time later, Ma heard about Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, who lived in New York at that time, and joined her. Ma stayed with her for almost seven years until she experienced liberation. Ever since she has been liveing in complete unity with the Divine. Ma embodies the unconditional love which enables us to triumph over our inner negative forces, to rise above everything a spiritual student in search of God no longer needs on his path. Ma offers her teachings to help each student find his own path until the latter has fully developed the power of distinction.
Sri Sivan Namboothiri
Born in a Brahman family in Kerala, south of India, Sri Sivan Namboothiri follows the traditional line of Sri Sankaracharya, the great 7th century Indian Vedanta philosopher. Following the family tradition Sri Sivan Namboothiri started his spiritual education in the age of 7. For twelve years he studied Yoga, Ayurveda, rituals, astrology, mantras and philosophy with well-known teachers including Sri Sankaran Namboothiri.
He then served as the highest priest and Yoga Acharya at the Adi Rameswara temple as well as in the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala. For the last fifteen years he has been sharing his knowledge of Yoga and philosophy with thousands of people in different countries. Since 1996 Sri Sivan Namboothiri has been living in Berlin where he founded the Yoga-Ayurveda Institute.
Dr. Ulrike Döring
Dr. Ulrike Döring holds a degree as teacher for Hatha Yoga in the tradition of Dr. Swami Gitananda and works as a public relations advisor for health/wellness. She has worked with people for many years on various physical and mental levels including dance, yoga, meditation and energy work. She specialised in individual instruction and yoga for the back. Dr. Döring teaches groups in Berlin and Kleinmachnow and also offers workshops. She has set up a supervisory group for yoga instructors and is currently co-authoring a book about yoga.
Vinod Dulal
Born 1957 in India, Vinod Dulal has been practicing and teaching Yoga for 30 years. He has a Yoga - Institute in Pune, India. Vinod created and developed his own yoga style based on his own experience and own research. He has been teaching and training yoga teachers worldwide for many years. He is in constant contact with the Vinod Dulal Yoga - Institute (branch) in Berlin. Vinod is visiting Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Minden) and Austria twice a year and is teaching workshops for beginners, intermediate and advanced students.
