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Teachers 2006
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Alexandra Müller
Anne Tusche
Annette Söhnlein
Beate Fink
Ben Sond
Bibi Nanki
Carlos Michael Habig
Christoph Mamat
Dashmesh Singh Khalsa
Edeltraut Rohnfeld
Elmar Stapelfeldt
Gisela Hanschen
Gita & Holy Spirit
Grischa Steffin
Irina Modersitzki
Keshava Schütz
Krishnadas
Lutz Czech
Manuela Heider de Jahnsen
Marcus Schmieke
Mirabai Ceiba
Monika Handtke
Monika Wegener
Moti Ma & friends
Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa
Nina Hagen
Nives Kostovic
Patricia Thielemann
Peter van Breukelen
Petra Proßowsky
Regina Berger
Renate Ockel
Satyaa & Pari
Shubhra
Stefan Datt
Sri Sivan Namboothiri
Susanne Wende
Swami Gyan Vijay Saraswati
Swami Mangalananda Giri
Swami Nikhil Joshi
Tandava Tribe
Tara La Loba
Dr. Vaidya Jeevan
Vidya Raster
Alakhananda Al-Qahhar
Alakhananda Al-Qahhar is a realized master of great wisdom, a sufi-mystic and energy-master. A sufi-master is utterly authentic, unorthodox and independent, only committed to the direct and individual God-realization. Through their state of being, radiation, word, prayer, music, dance and chanting, sufi-masters proclaim the shining truth, that "God is". The immortal soul, yearning for self-realization and unity, realizes God in silence, meditation, trance and ecstasy.
The spiritual roots of Shri Alakhananda Ji are stretching from the eastern tradition of Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga to the western knowledge of the Human Growth Movement. He is as well rooted in ZEN-Buddhism as in Psychoanalysis. But that is not important. What really matters, is his cosmic unity with Satguru Shoonyo Ji Maharaj and the "Be Man Temple" of Fakir Chand, whose direct line of realized masters is reaching back to Kabir. Modern sufism is cosmopolitan and undogmatic, connected to the wisdom and enlightenment of all realized souls.
The path to God (Sant Mat) is teaching the human liberation from all boundaries (Sadhana). It is a direct way to God through transformation of the false consciousness to reach ultimate freedom (Nirvikkalpa Samadhi). God is the truth and infinite happiness, he is the measure and only sense of all there is. "God is love and love is God. Look inside and you will see." "Cosmic Garden" the Center for modern Sufism and Energetic Therapies in Berlin, offers profound spiritual training, yogic bodywork and yogic healing.
www.padma-satsangha.de
www.cosmictouch.de
Alexandra Müller
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Anne Tusche with Danilo Steinert & Timothy Campling
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www.annesongs.de
www.danilomusic.de
Annette Söhnlein
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Beate Fink
Beate began in 2001 with Bikram yoga in Hamburg. She practises for over five years Bikram yoga and graduated in autumn 2003 the intense Bikram yoga education with Bikram Choudhury individually in Los Angeles. After the education she teached in Hamburg and Berlin as well as in Florida, Texas and California. In autumn 2006 she opened her own studio in Berlin-Mitte.
Bikram yoga is a harmonious sequence of 26 Hatha yoga exercises which are coached in a pleasantly heated room. The warmth raises the mobility and detoxifies the body. Bikram yoga demands the body, animates the spirit and reduces stress.
Ben Sond
Trained as an Anusara teacher with a background in Kundalini, Iyenger and Ashtanga styles of yoga. Ben has wide experience to draw from. He feels yoga is there to help create from the hearts own truth.
Ben had an Indian Hindu upbringing and along with yoga he has studied and performed in Indian Classical Dance. This gave him another view on the art of movement, which he progressively developed into a flowing organic style of yoga. He lives in Berlin and gives regular yoga classes.
Bibi Nanki
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Carlos Michael Habig
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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.
More details: dashmesh@web.de
Edeltraut Rohnfeld
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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 European Academy of Ayurveda. 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. Author of the book: Ayurveda Manualtherapie und Ausleitungsverfahren, Haug-Verlag 2006.
Gisela Hanschen
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Gita & Holy Spirit
"Gita & Holy Spirit" is a group of creative musicians around Gita Delvenakiotis, a greek-german concert pianist. Her deeply touching music represents a vivid diversion to common esoteric sounds. Being a compassionate lover of song and music since her earliest childhood, Gita has been promoted by the organization for highly talented people, studied classical piano and gained appreciation and several awards as widely travelled pianist. She is also a teacher for prana- and healing yoga.
Her spiritual awakening brought a profound change to her music. She only plays what she likes. Out of deep meditation and divine love, a music of a great healing power is born: Music for the soul, coming from the soul. Being deeply devoted to her spiritual teacher, the Sufi mystic Alakhananda Al-Qahhar, who inspires and supports her in her creative work, her music is ever flowing as if coming from an inexhaustible source. A Sufi master is not attached - neither to his personality, nor to any worldly claim. He proclaims the truth of God´s existence through his very presence, word, prayer, music, dance and silence. Being inspired by all this, Gita´s music embodies a living combination of traditional Indian Music, ecstatic-rock beats, psychedelic trances and the pleasure, born of creative classical compositions.
The group around Gita consists of Omkar, singer and energy therapist, whose touching voice opens the heart of the listener to loving vibrations. The pure and almost angelic voices of Gita, Sita and Saraswati lead the spirit to higher spheres of counsciousness and ecstatic healing trances. The earthly beats of Sadhu and Sven activate both, body and soul, while David´s dreamy guitarre softly plays around the entirely voluminous sounds. Spiritual creativity, powerful presence, love, ecstacy and pure joy of life, music, vision, hearing and feeling merge into a state of deep inner unity. Since many years, out of this powerful cosmic energy-chanel, a deeply moving and touching soulmusic reveals itself, used for meditation, dance and prayer.
Grischa Steffin
Grischa studied Ashtanga Yoga in several workshops and teacher´s trainings with Richard Freeman, John Scott, Nancy Gilgoff, Danny Paradise, Rolf Naujokat, Radha and Pierre and others. He teaches Ashtanga Yoga in Berlin since 2002.
Irina Modersitzki
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Katrin Voigt
Sociologist, MA. Katrin has been practising Yoga for 15 years and in 2002 was certified by the professional association of the "Iyengar Yoga Association of Germany". She has been instructing Yoga since 1999 and is teaching in the Yogazentrum Akazienhof today. "For me Yoga is a never ending source of energy and at the same time represents a continuation of challenges. In addition Yoga is a means of inner balance and calm, and changes the perception of oneself as well as the world around us. This form of Yoga also helps the inexperienced and beginners to better deal with the physical and psychological challenges of everyday life."
Keshava Schütz
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Krishnadas
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Lutz Czech
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Manuela Heider de Jahnsen
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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.
Mirabai Ceiba
Mirabai is a musical project featuring Angelika Baumbach from Mexico (Harp and voice) and Markus Sieber from Germany (guitar and voice) They perform a compilation of original songs in Spanish and new arrangements of chants from the North and South American Indians.
Their songs tell about dreams, longings and emotions in direct relation with nature as a mirror of experiences in life. From this originates a sensitiv programe which wistfully leads you into the world of pictures in the soul.
Monika Handtke
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Monika Wegener
Monika Wegener practiced since three years regularly Hatha yoga, before she got to know in autumn 2004 Bikramyoga. The education in the Bikramyoga teacher graduated her one year later in Los Angeles in the Bikram yoga college of India. Since November 2005 she works as a teacher in Berlin-Mitte, Berlin-Kreuzberg and in Zurich. In September 2006 she opens her own studio in Potsdam near Berlin.
Moti Ma & friends
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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.
Nina Hagen
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Nives Kostovic
Yoga Nidra already finds mention in old tantric texts and it was rediscovered 20-odd years ago by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga.
He translates Yoga Nidra as psychic sleep and describes it as a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation, while maintaining awareness at the deeper levels. Indeed, the practice is so relaxing that it becomes almost impossible to remain awake. But you come out feeling more rested than you do after a good night's sleep, and injected with large doses of gumption to tackle the day's tasks. Swami Satyananda says that prolonged suspension between wakefulness and sleep called the hypnogogic state in Yoga Nidra may have untold benefits that go beyond the therapeutic.
http://www.businessyogainstitut.de
Patricia Thielemann
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Peter van Breukelen
Rajarshi Peter van Breukelen was born in Holland. 1974 he met his satguru Paramahamsa Hariharananda, who initiated him into Kriya Yoga, during a long stay in India. In the year 1982 he was empowered to teach Kriya Yoga throughout Europe by his master. Since 1993 he is the presiding acharya of the Kriya Yoga Center in Sterksel, near Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, where regular programs are held in Dutch, German, French and English. Since the early 80's he has been travelling to Belgium, Germany,Switzerland, Hungary, Luxemburg, Iceland, France, Poland and other European countries to spread the message of Kriya Yoga. Peter van Breukelen is inspiration for many people how to live the spiritual life of a yogi and to be a family man at the same time.
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)".
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.
Regina Berger
Regina was trained from an early age in singing acting and dance. She had various experiences on stage, with different projects and bands. She went on to record her own CD, and currently working on a new one.
The search for truth and inner healing took her deeply into meditation music, which she practiced in the ashram of her Indian Spiritual Teacher.
Regina loves to write her own songs and leads Natural Voice and chanting groups in Berrlin.
Renate Ockel
Psychologist. Teachers' certificate at the "Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco", USA in 1988. Teaches since 1988 in Berlin Schöneberg and operates the yogazentrum akazienhof.
"For me Yoga is a valuable instrument to strengthen the inner foundation in order to allow as many different facets of life as possible to express themselves within. Old wounds, physical or psychological, can come to the surface, can heal and create the foundation for new positive experiences".
Satyaa & Pari
Satyaa and Pari met In Lucknow at the sangha of Sri HWL Poonjaji, lovingly called Papaji by his devotees. Papaji always used to emphasize the importance of Bhakti ,devotion as a direct way to recognize God within ourselves.
This love is being expressed in Satyaa´s and Pari´s music which is mostly self-composed mantras and devotional songs ,including also some famous traditional bhajans.
Love for devotion through songs can be felt while listening to their Cds. Their last Cd being called "Surrender" ,a beautiful powerful collection of songs from the heart.
Satyaa and Pari share their music and their love at the Alexis Zorbas center in Corfu (Greece) where they live in summer. During the winter months they are traveling chanting at various yoga centers and festivals.
Satyaa´s devotional heart emanates a contagious fire ,carrying the listener directly back to his own heart.
Their music in live performances has this divine spark that ignites the fire within: fire for truth, for God, for love. A unique experience not to be missed. Come and enjoy it!
Shubhra
Shubhraji, a close disciple of renowned Vedantic Master H.H. Swami Chinmayananda, is originally from India and studied with him for twenty years from the age of thirteen. Since coming to the US in 1993 Shubhraji has been teaching spiritual studies, meditation and scriptural texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads. These are part of the ancient Vedanta philosphy of India, which is universal in its appeal.
Shubhraji lectures on numerous spiritual topics: From Spiritual Unfoldment to Relationships in the Light of Eastern Philosophy, Meditation in Daily Life and original Sanskrit texts from Eastern tradition. Her students discover a deeper understanding of the nature and challenges they face and how they can refocus their attitudes regarding life. Her talks are inspiring and uplifting. They aim at bringing one close to their true Self.
They are held in various centers through out the U.S. such as University of California Santa Barbara, Tibet House, The New York Open Center in NYC, The Aurobindo Center and many others. She also offers weekend retreats and intensives which incorporate yoga asanas taught by other instructors. She gives ongoing weekly talks in Woodstock at her center and at Bliss Yoga Center and travels widely in the U.S. and abroad.
Shubhraji has dedicated her life to spiritual work.
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.
www.praxis-czech-datt.de
www.yoga-berlin.de
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.
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Swami Gyan Vijay Saraswati
Swami Gyan Vijay Saraswati (Master Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) leads an autentic yogic way of life. He was initiated as a sanyasi in 1979 and studied intense Yoga and Vedanta for 12 years with Swami Satyananda. He meditated for many years in the Himalayan caves. Established Kumaon Yoga sansthan from 1992 at various places of Uttranchal. Swami Gyan Vijay Saraswati is a speaker of international medical conferences and at the UNO for stress management and health management through Yoga. Swami Gyan Vijay Saraswati is a highly experianced Yogi and a very special guest on the Yogafestival, where he will share his knowledge and wisdom with all the guests.
Swami Mangalananda Giri
Born in Germany, Swamiji grew up near Stuttgart. In 1992 Swamiji took initiation into Kriya Yoga from Rajarshi Peter van Breukelen and met her beloved master Paramahamsa Hariharananda for the first time in spring 1994. From this time on she travelled with him throughout Europe, translated his talks and seminars and stayed most of the time at the Kriya Yoga Center in Vienna. After studying philosophy for some years Swami Mangalananda began studying medicine in Germany at Tübingen University. However she chose to continue her medical degree at the University of Vienna which enabled her to complete her studies and at the same time to live with her master and serve him. She received her medical degree in July 2000. A few months later she was ordained as a swami in the Giri monastic order as the first female monk in the lineage of Paramahamsa Hariharananda, who empowered her to teach Kriya Yoga.
Swami Nikhil Joshi
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Tandava Tribe
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Tara La Loba
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Dr. Vaidya Jeevan
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Vidya Raster
Vidya Raster was born in New Delhi, India; she studied Indology (Sanskrit and Hindi) at the University of Heidelberg und the FU Berlin and is currently preparing her Master thesis. Several times she went for educational purposes to Arya Samaj Kanya Gurukul in Hyderabad, India, an instution, where Sanskrit is still taught in the traditional way. She has teaching experiences as a teacher of Yoga, Sanskrit and Hindi.
