Teachers

Amelia Cuni

(Description is awaited soon)

www.ameliacuni.de

André Riehl

André Riehl Studies Yoga since 1972. He first stayed in a monastery in the Himalayas, before wandering along the roads of India, meeting many traditional masters with whom he sometimes stayed, studying very specific teachings from classical as well as tantric yoga practices. After some searching years, meeting Kashmiri Babu, a wandering ascetic from the Shaiva tradition, he undergone a deep study retreat into the spiritual quest.

Also very touched by his meetings with J. Krishnamurti and Sri Ananda Mayee Ma, he studied two other important aspects of the inner path, related to these two great instructors: discrimination and relationship.

It is the final encounter with Chandra Swami, an ascetic from the Brahmanic lineage of the Udasins, which will give a full sense to all the teachings studied before.

Author of "Le Prince des Forêts", a French adaptation of the Râmayâna, of two video cassettes on "Yoga Traditionnel" and a CD of Sanskrit chantings Mantra Sadhana, he also translated 8 books on the inner quest.
Nominated President of the french Fédération des Yoga Traditionnels in 1992, he opened seven Yoga Training Schools (Toulouse, Paris, Bretagne, Bourgogne, Le Mans, Suisse and Luxemburg).

He is currently in charge of Somapa, a yoga study centre in south of France, Prana Bindu Niwas, a yoga retreat centre for long time study sessions in central India, and 4 nidra yoga training schools in Luxemburg, Germany, Marocco, Switzerland and France.

www.infiny.lu

Anja Kühnel

Anja is director of Jivamukti Yoga Berlin and an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher. She discovered her passion for Jivamukti Yoga in 2000 while temporarly living in New York. Back then, she also met her teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life for the first time. Anja has been practicing yoga with teachers of various yoga styles and traveled the world to do so. But in her heart, Anja knew right after her first Jivamukti class, that it was where she belongs to. Anja teaches at the Berlin Jivamukti Yoga Center and is regularly invited as a guest teacher worldwide. She is part of the mentor teacher team at the 2010 Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Training in New York.

www.jivamuktiberlin.de

Arne Frercks

Arne Frercks is sound therapist and musician. He works with a number of unusual instruments such as Body-Tambura, Hang drum, Tubular bells, Sansulas, Monochords as well as a Sound couch. The warm sound of the Hang drum stands in foreground in his concerts. The music arises at the moment and reaches from quiet meditative sound carpets about rhythmical sequences up to songs in the Singer/Songwriter style.

www.klangbehandlungen.de

Babek Bodien

(Description is awaited soon)

www.myspace.com/babekbodien

Ben Sond

Ben Sond comes from an Indian family, with both his Grandfathers practicing yoga.
He has travelled and stayed in Ashrams in India since childhood, learned from many teachers and shamans.

Other studies include: Philosophy degree, 4 years of studying different bodywork systems, including Tai Massage and Shiatsu. 7 years Anusara yoga teacher trainings. Indian classical dance studies and performances, Regular Sufi retreats.

Of particular influence has been his studies of Nada yoga, the yoga of sound and vibration.

Ben travels regularly in Europe teaching workshops and has a schedule of classes in Berlin.

www.yoga-song.de

Bettina & Stefan Lietz

(Description is awaited soon)

www.spirituelleben.de

Brit Christiansen

(Description is awaited soon)

www.yoma-berlin.de

David Lurey

David Lurey has been teaching Yoga since 2000 and is a self-titled 'Global Yogi' for the last 5 years sharing Yoga as a traveling teacher in Brasil, The United States and Europe. His teaching encompasses many paths of Yoga and is focused on the dynamic transformation when Body, Mind and Spirit align towards self-realization. With a physical practice that focuses on foundation and alignment he supports students in awakening the inner teacher and with mindful awareness he guides students to a place of peace of mind so the essence of the heart can be revealed. As a musician, David leads Kirtan chanting with an open and energetic feel and is able to awaken positive vibrations with a playful and loving connection.

www.findbalance.net

Dave Stringer & Band

The Los Angeles Times has declared the experience of chanting with Dave Stringer to be "a departure from ancient kirtan. Stringer's performance shaped the experience into a far more compelling musical encounter." He has been widely profiled as one of the most innovative artists of the new International kirtan movement in publications as diverse as Yoga Aktuell, Time, Billboard, Yoga Journal and In Style.

Stringer's sound marries the transcendent mysticism of traditional Indian instruments with the exuberant, groove-oriented sensibility of American gospel, and he is regarded as one of the most accomplished singers in the genre. His work intends to create a modern and participatory theatrical experience out of the ancient traditions of kirtan and yoga, open to a multiplicity of interpretations, and accessible to all.

Initially trained as a visual artist, filmmaker and jazz musician, Stringer had his formative experiences with chanting when film editing work brought him to the Siddha Yoga ashram in Ganeshpuri, India in 1990. A subsequent period of residence at the ashram laid the foundation for his continuing study of the ideas, practices and music of yoga. After returning to California in 1992, he began leading kirtan in yoga studios and teaching meditation to prison inmates.

Since 2000, Stringer and an extended family of accompanying musicians have toured North America, Australia and Europe tirelessly. An articulate and engaging public speaker, he probes the dilemmas of the spirit with a wry and unorthodox sense of humor. Stringer frequently works in tandem with masters of the art of hatha yoga, creating music for workshops led by John Friend, Shiva Rea, and Gurmukh, among many others. His voice also appears on numerous soundtracks, including the blockbuster film "Matrix Revolutions" and the video game "Myst".

www.davestringer.com

Dechen Thurman

He's the brother of Uma and the son of Robert. He played Guildenstern in Michael Almereyda's "Hamlet" movie and Patrick Bateman in Gerald Fox' Bret Easton Ellis film. But more importantly, his unique form of bodywork - as in Yoga and massage - has won international praise in the last couple of years.

Dechen is a holistic healer based in New York City. He is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher at the New York Jivamukti Yoga School as well as a Certified Ohashiatsu Instructor. Dechen creates a delicious sense of playfulness in his yoga classes. His method of healing is derived from these revered schools.

Dechen's father is Robert A.F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa scholar of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Cloumbia University. He was the first westerner to be accepted into the Tibetan Monastic communit. The New York Times calls Robert Thurman one of the "25 Most Influential Americans" and the "The Dalai Lama's man in America." Growing up, Dechen's family was a multicultural pioneer in hosting such luminous Tibetan refugee scholars as Geshe Wangyal, Lama Govinda, Tara Tulku Rimpoche, Dr. Yeshe Donden and Gehlek Rimpoche. A paramount time in Dechen's life as he learned to cultivate his meditation practice with the help of these brilliant scholars. He first met His Holiness the Dalai Lama at age seven in Dharamsala, India.

www.jivamuktiyoga.com

Dr. Devendra Prasad Mishra

Dr. Devendra Prasad Mishra, M.S. (Ayurveda) Shalya, Bananas Hindu University, B.A.M.S., P.D.C.R., Dip.Yoga, has been teaching and consulting for over five years in different national and international institutions. His academic and practical training includes the study of traditional Ayurveda as well as Allopathic Medicine and surgery. He has attended, conducted and actively participated in various seminars, workshops throughout the world. He is a master of Ayurveda Marma therapy and Pulse diagnosis, has cured many chronic patients with Marma therapy. He is also founder / Director of Kewalya nature care society, India, which is working for the propagation and development of Ayurveda, Yoga and other Natural sciences.

www.kewalyamyayurveda.com

Dr. Pt Dinesh Chandra Sati

Dr. Pt Dinesh Chandra Sati basically hail from Himalayan village of Jyotir Math. This is one of the four most important seats of learning in India. This is the ancient Northern Seat (Math) of Shankaracharya Tradition. Jyotir Math is traditional home for "Jyotish", known as the eyes of Veda.

Now, as head of the Himalayan Research Institute, Pundit Sati offers Jyotish, trains Pundits, held's individual and business consultations and visits abroad attending seminars bringing the light of Jyotish knowledge to the people around the globe.

Pt Dr.Sati spent the valuable time of in beginning of his academic career at this seat of learning. Dr. Pundit Sati was awarded " Shastri" degree from Jyotir Math Vidyalaya. He earned the "Acharya Degree (First Class) from S. S. B. University, Varanasi. Dr. Pundit Sati was presented his Doctorate, (Ph.D) in Jyotish from Lala Bahadur Shastri Sanskrit Vidyaa Peetham, New Delhi in 2004 in recognition of his research, scholarship and Mastery of this ancient Vedic Science.

Later on he was selected by his Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as his representative to propagate the knowledge of ancient Vedic Science of Jyotish and revive Vedic Wisdom across the globe. So far Dr. Pundit Sati has visited scores of countries around the world such as United States, Netherlands Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan for 12 years giving Jyotish consultations to of thousands of individuals.

www.astro-yagya.com

Dr. Doru-Beniamin Bodea

Dr. Doru-Beniamin Bodea was born in 1971 in Romania. He is a physicist specialized in quantum physics and quantum field theories, associate professor at the University of Cluj, Romania, and invited researcher in Max Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. He is a yoga practitioner since almost 20 years and a yoga teacher since 1995. He was teaching yoga classes in Romania, France, Denmark, Finland and Germany. For the moment he is teaching yoga and coordinates the yoga teachers in Maha Yoga Centre Berlin, as well as in Dresden, both belonging to the Deutsche Akademie für Traditionelles Yoga. Besides traditional yoga, he is teaching further courses, workshops and seminars.

www.traditionelles-yoga.de

Hamdi Alkonavi

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Helga Frey

(Description is awaited soon)

Henning Scheel

Henning is founder and director of Yoga Shala Berlin. There he developed the 200h Vinyasa teacher training and the 500h Matsyodara Yoga training.

He joint teacher training with Shiva Rea in London and San Francisco and with Andrey Lappa in Berlin. He is specialised in anatomy (spiral dynamics) in Vinyasa Yoga.

His spirtual development led him to realisation of Kundalini energy by Asana, Pranyama, Mudra and Bandha and into mediation technqiues of kashmir shaivism.

www.shala.cc

Ingvar Villido Ishvarananda

In the last 15 years Ingvar Villido Ishvarananda has created in Lilleoru in Estonia a spiritual centre and an eco-village, the largest and most powerful place in the Baltic States. Here Ingvar Villido Ishvarananda, as a spiritual researcher and practitioner, teaches the "Art of Self-Transformation". Based on consciousness and universal love, his teachings include precise tools to discover and reach your true Self and full human potential. As a teacher of Babaji's Kriya Yoga (Acharya Ishvarananda) he follows the ancient tradition of Mahavatar Babaji and the Yoga Siddhas of India. In addition Lilleoru is also supported with funds from the European Union, and has the status of a non-profitable organisation.

www.lilleoru.ee

Iris Breuert

(Description is awaited soon)

Jayadev

(Description is awaited soon)

www.ananda.it

Jenny, Jason & Team

Jenny Sauer-Klein - A lifelong lover of movement, expression and connection, I spent my childhood and early adulthood dancing, singing and acting. Discovering yoga while I was in university was the answers to prayers I didn't even know I had. I began teaching yoga in New York City a few years later, where I also began teaching circus arts to children in afterschool programs. Little did I know where it was all leading to.

From my very first experience of flying, I was hooked. Like many worthwhile things in life, it didn't come easily, but my deep love of the practice kept me coming back for more. I was entranced by the limitless potential of two or more beings coming together in a devotional, playful and mutually supportive practice. Ultimately, it is about being present with myself and my partner, and regardless of whether or not I even know this person's name, relating to this being as a reflection of divine essence.

www.acroyoga.org

Jutta Klenzner

(Description is awaited soon)

www.shivasyogalounge.de

Kai Hitzer

(Description is awaited soon)

www.kaihitzer.de

Karl Kolb

Hanuman´s move Yoga, a body-space experience.

Karl Kolb started his Yoga practice 1995 with Pattabhi Jois in Mysore and received his blessing to teach in 2002. 2008 he founded the Berlin Yoga studio Hanuman´s move.

Karls Yoga is strongly influenced by Ashtanga, though in the course of years, he came across some other teachers and yoga styles and adepted them into his practice and classes. Such as John Friend (Anusara), Bridget Woods Kramer (Anusara), Reinhard Gammentaler (Kundalini), Richard Freeman (Ashtanga) as well as Victor van Kooten and Angela Farmer (Underground Yoga).

Hanuman stands as a symbol for devotion and through this devotion he finds his strenght.

With devotion to oneself, the mind sometimes becomes so quiet and distracted, that we can hear the sounds of the soul again. For this, our inner awareness should be refined, our inner ear opend and the body healthy. Like this Hanuman´s move Yoga is as well powerfull and dynamic as experimentally sensitive. The capacity of the mind to concentrate and to visualise, with the strenght of the body to hold a posture will become an experience that leads inwards.

In agreement with your self while experiencing yourself.

www.hanumansmove.de

Katja Dubberstein

(Description is awaited soon)

www.praxis-czech-datt.de
www.yoga-berlin.de

Leena Elo

(Description is awaited soon)

www.gitanandayoga.de

Lothar Pirc

Lothar Pirc born in 1955 is the Managing Director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health and Seminar Centre Bad Ems GmbH. In 1992 he founded this state-recognised private clinic, Europe's leading and award-winning institution for Ayurvedic treatments.

Important stages in his life: Born in Germany, in Bottrop. Commercial training, followed by work-study programme at Maharishi European Research University, Switzerland. Hotel manager Arosa, Switzerland. 1977 to 1978: Professional training to become a teacher of Transcendental Meditation (TM). Director of the National Course Office of the German TM organisation. Director of the TM teaching institute in Darmstadt. Course leader on national and international TM Teacher Training Courses. 1982 to 1989: Systematically exploring the experience of Transcendental Consciousness, the inner Self, through extended practice of Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques. This programme, which was conducted under the personal guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi the founder of Transcendental Meditation, included also the study of the Veda and Vedic Literature, and Maharishi Ayurveda.

Special assignments during this time of study: 1984: One-year school project in Kenya. Instruction in the TM technique for thousands of schoolchildren, teachers and staff. 1985: Cyprus. Building up government contacts, establishing TM teaching institute, organising advanced courses and Maharishi Ayurveda consultations with Indian Vaidyas. From 1986: Organising training courses for doctors and therapists. Building up international political contacts, presentations on Maharishi Ayurveda to government representatives of various countries. Accompanying Vaidyas on tours in many European countries.

www.ayurveda-badems.de

Lucie Beyer

Yoga teacher (BYV), trained in Hawaiian massage, Clown, dancer (CI), acrobat and educator with enthusiasm. Her special subject is an experimental movement research where she connects elements from the yoga, acrobatics and dance. With a lot of joy she teaches child yoga and works in circus projects.

www.yogashambala.de

Mangala

(Description is awaited soon)

www.yoga-divya.com

Mata Urmila Devi

She was born in India and grew up amidst the knowledge of Yoga and Ayurveda. In 1967 she completed her studies in "Fine Arts" - Singing, Literature and Economics - in India. For 13 years she was a successful business woman. However the distance from home and culture brought a deep longing in her to experience life fully. She began to study Indian Philosophy.

Mata Urmila Devi is now recognized around the globe as a vocal artist. She chants traditional ancient Indian Sanskrit verses/slokas which have been sung for thousands of years. In her wonderful way of singing and teaching she makes this knowledge available and easy to grasp for modern society.

Mata Urmila Devi´s Music brings Body, Mind and Soul in balance. One feels the deep silence of one´s own Being; her voice carries the human mind to other realms beyond time and space. Simultaneously, one is filled with unparalleled childlike enthusiasm of life and energy.

In 1987 she met H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and has accompanied him on his tours around the world. For more than 20 years Mata Urmila Devi has engaged with social charitable projects such as the "Euro-a-Day Program" and conducts "AOL"-Workshops in more than 45 countries.

Accompanied by international musicians, Mata Urmila Devi has given awesome concerts around the globe. Mata Urmila Devi is an experienced spiritual teacher, a poet and artist with a unique musical talent while at the same time an open and modern woman. Rooted in the deep wisdom of India she can master the requirements of daily life with ease, energy and clarity.

www.urmiladevi.com

Miriam Kretzschmar

Kretzschmar Miriam, yoga and children's yoga teacher, project coordinator for many years at the FU Berlin (Education). Miriam teaches yoga at Lernen in Bewegung e.V., at universities, in Berlin primary schools and kindergardens. She manages trainings to/for children's yoga teacher in Berlin, Nuremberg and Hagen.

www.yoga-berlin.de

Mirjam Wagner

As a certified Pilates and Yoga teacher with many years of various masage and healing arts practice, Swiss born Mirjam has found her total passion in the study and application of Osteopathy.

Her complete and profound knowledge of the human body, as well as enthusiasm and sincere interest in human well being, give her access to healing modalities that treat the true origin of most types of physical pain.

Today, Mirjam lives and works on Mallorca, Spain. She also teaches anatomy classes in different countries around the world for a variety of programs from Yoga teacher training to body/mind conferences.

She is driven by a strong curiosity that feeds her purpose to investigate a deeper understanding of nature and the miracle of the human body.

www.mw-rebalance.com

Moshe Weizman

Moshe was born and grown up in Jerusalem. Since 2001 is living in Berlin and nowadays working in Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie as a scientist developing new kind of solar cells.

His interest in Yoga has emerged in 2005 when he was introduced to the teaching of Ananda Leone in the Yoga Akademie Berlin. As part of this path he has been practicing the last years singing spiritual songs and playing guitar with the musician Martin Talir. In 2008 he has completed an education in Kirtan and Mantra singing in Yoga Vidya e.V., Bad Meinberg. With growing enthusiasm he is now planning to offer in Berlin combined Yoga sessions of body work, singing, and meditation together with Ralf Haßelmann.

Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa

Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa began his training in 1982, spending 4 years in northern India. Yogi Bhajan, from whom he learned Kundalini Yoga, directed him to spread the teaching of the Indian martial art Gatka throughout the world. Since then, he has devoted his life to the preservation, presentation and teaching of this nearly extinct art form. Since 1986, he has pursued this mission throughout Europe and America. In 1997 he moved to Berlin, where he teaches Gatka and Kundalini Yoga. He is known also as the head of Gong Meditation and author of "Gatka - the dance of the sword."

His Gong Meditation is an integral component of the Berlin Yogafestivals and can be heard far beyond the borders of our grounds!

www.nanakdevsingh.com

Nandi Devar

(Description is awaited soon)

www.babaji.ca

Narayani

(Description is awaited soon)

Natacha Liege

Studied from childhood classical dance and ballet, and later on contemporary dance until she became a professional dancer for different companies in France and abroad.

Having extensively danced during near to 15 years, and also played as an actress for the theatre and the television, she discovered the inner qualities of yoga during her researches on the body work: a kind a revelation that will lead her to a radical change in life.

Yoga studies during several years in the Sri Pattabi Jois' Ashtanga system with the master himself and more with several of his qualified teacher students. Graduated from the French Federation des Yoga Traditionnels and the Ashtanga Teacher training school ( Paris), she has also been granted as a yoga nidra teacher, and is actually studying in the Ecole Française de Yoga in Toulouse - France to achieve another degree linked to the Madras Yoga Tradition from Krishnamacharya. She is currently teaching at Arjuna Studio (Montpellier) and starting her own school in Somapa (Avignon).

Natacha is just back from a 5 months trip to India where she went into several retreats: Krishnamurti retreat centres in Chennai, Bengalore and Benares, Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, silent meditation with Chandra Swami in the Himalayas.

Norbert Kober

Govinda J. Kober has many occupations. His activities in short: Storyteller, Yoga instructor and Environmentalist. In all three main occupations he shows remarkable results. As a storyteller he leads a professional training istitut for stage oriented story teller - the Goldmund-Erzählakademie. As a Yoga instructor he has specialiced for people 50+. Last but not least his engagement as an Environmentalist has led him to found a ecovillage in franconia.

www.norbert-kober.eu

Dr. med. Ori Wolff

(Description is awaited soon)

www.oriwolff.de

Overtone meets India

(Description is awaited soon)

www.myspace.com/overtonemeetsindia

Peter Oswald

(Description is awaited soon)

www.yoga-akademie.ch

Ragatala Ensemble

(Description is awaited soon)

www.ragatala.de

Ralf Haßelmann

(Description is awaited soon)

Reina Berger

Reina Berger, singer and songwriter has been leading mantra singing for many years. She teaches ways of unfolding the natural voice in both group and private sessions. Reina touches people with her beautiful unique voice in a very special way.

Mantra evenings with her take place regularly in different places in Berlin.

www.natuerliche-stimme.de

Reiner Szcypior

(Description is awaited soon)

www.homa1.com
http://himalayahomahealing.blogspot.com

Satyaa & Pari

Satyaa and Pari met in Lucknow, in the community around Sri HWL Poonja (lovingly called Papaji by his devotees). Papaji always stressed the outstanding importance of bhakti (devotion) as a direct way to the Divine within us. This love and devotion finds expression in the music of Satyaa and Pari, mostly their own compositions of mantra songs of devotion. However, some famous traditional hymns of divine love from India are included as well!

This love for divine devotion shines from all songs on their CDs. Their latest CD, "Surrender" is a new collection of these songs, coming from the heart. They live in Alexis Zorbas Center in Corfu, which Pari founded many years ago. Pari has toured for many years through various cities in Europe and America; now together, their live performances exude the divine spark through their devoted voices, with the power to show the listener the way to his own heart. Come and enjoy!

www.satyaa-pari.com

Scott Mike Prochnau

Scott Mike Prochnau, born in 1970 as a cancer. His path led him from competitive gymnastics to sports acrobatics and after the fall of the Berlin wall to yoga. He carries out yoga since 1990 and since 2000 he works as a freelance yoga teacher, ProFiCo and physiotherapist in Berlin.

My spiritual path began after the reunion with the teachings of Ayya Khema. Peace and truth would become my companions as i discovered yoga after a long search. I was enthused from the wide spectrum of the methods.

After the profound effects of yoga itself have touched me deeply, I consider it as a calling to let as many people as possible participate in the precious teachings on the way of self-revelation.

My first steps led me to gentle styles, yet I found my strengths in the Raja Yoga Sutras, the Ashtanga & Vinyasa Flow. It was clear to me that the combination of static and dynamic elements, balancing and meditative at the same time, provides the most effective form of bringing the 3 Gunas, as well as body, mind and soul in harmony. After encounters with Sikh like Snatam Kaur, a new harmonizing field presented itself to me, Kundalini Yoga. Yoga is a unique instrument of self-discovery and self-healing, a way to peace and truth which not just only liberates, but brings joy and fun as well. Yoga fetches you where you are and brings you on the way to discover your own teacher in yourself. Yoga is my key. So Ham.

www.pt-mykey.de

Shanti

(Description is awaited soon)

www.shanti-sounds.com

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.

www.swamiji.de

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

Stefano Petrou

Stefano Petrou began practicing yoga at age 18 and has been a kundalini yoga teacher since 2003. The focus in his classes is on breathing and developing a deeper feeling and understanding for the body.

www.berlinkundaliniyoga.de

Swami Bodhichitananda Saraswati

(Description is awaited soon)

Swami Gurusharanananda

Swami Gurusharanananda is a perfect blend of academia and asceticism. He has been under the guidance of his enlightened Guru, Swami Kedarnath (an eminent disciple of Anandamayi Ma) since he was a young boy. He is a master of Yoga asanas, and when younger received many awards in nation-wide competitions in which he represented his school. He has an MA in Philosophy and a PHD in interpretation of the Upanishads (Indian Scriptures). He serves as Principal of the ashram school run in Omkareshwar. He is an expert in Vedic Astrology (Jyotish) and many natural healing methods. He spends his time in meditation and austerity, and uses his many talents in the service of his Guru and ashram.

www.srianandamayima.org

Swami Mangalananda

Swami Mangalananda is an American who has been coming to India since 1973. He received Initiation directly from Sri Anandamayi Ma, and has been living as a monk in Her ashrams in America and India ever since. In 2001 he returned to India for good, and has been living in Ma's ashram in Omkareshwar, central India, where he passes his time in meditation and yogic practice. He also teaches in the ashram school. He is the author of two books, and regularly contributes articles for several spiritual publications in both India and America.

www.srianandamayima.org

Swami Nardanand

Swami Nardanand was born in 1958 in a small farming village of Uttar Pradesh state in North India. As a specially gifted boy of 10, and with the blessings of his family, this eldest son moved to the banks of the Ganges at the holy city of Haridwar to attend gurukul, which is the ancient way of training in Sanskrit and spiritual matters.

The course of study was 12 years, 24 hours per day. The name of the school is Gurukul Kangri, which is one of the finest such schools in India. When Swami Nardanand was graduated, he not only was the leading student of his class, but also was given a special award for his accomplishments and expertise, presented in person by the President of India.

At the age of 14, Swami Nardanand was initiated as a monk by his teacher, Paramahansa Lakshmananda, who now resides in the city of Vrindivan.

Later, Swami Nardanand met and was initiated into the more esoteric spiritual teachings by his teacher, Swami Shivom Tirtha, a widely recognized adept who left his physical body in 2008 (In his later years Swami Shivom Tirtha gave up his public life, left the ashram and started living in a isolated place near Indore, with two celibate disciples, writing many books. He left his body on 06/04/ 2008 at coimbatore: his ashes were offered to the Ganges at Rishikesh)...

www.siddhaashram.net

Swami Nikhil Joshi

Swami Nikhil Joshi embodies the highest levels of ayurvedic knowledge, passed down from one generation to the next in his Brahman family. He studied at the University in Jamnagar (Gujarat), has spent many years in various ashrams as well as living there as a teacher. These years of study and practice further deepened his skills and knowledge. His teaching transmits the wisdom of numerous Vedic methods and procedures in a clear and simple way. This original, authentic knowledge is transmitted in German, bypassing the time and trouble of imperfect communication!

As an ambassador of the ancient knowledge, Joshi forms a valuable bridge between Eastern and Western wisdom and ways of life. He presents lectures, seminars and trainings across Europe. In particular, he focuses on making the ancient traditions, knowledge and resources available to all.

www.kundli.net

Swami Yogananda

Yogananda is a 100-year old yogi with a fitness level that will put any athlete to shame! Even at his age, all his facilities are functioning optimally: No glasses or lenses, no missing teeth and so on.

Born in 1909 in a village in Madya Pradesh, Swamiji began on the path of yoga at the age of 17. He has been practicing Sukshma Vyayam since 1948 and attributes his good health to the efficacy of this practice. He is a living example of the benefits of regular yoga practice.

Tom Beyer

(Description is awaited soon)

www.home-yoga.de

Urvasi Leone

Urvasi Leone is one of the first TriYoga Flow teachers in Europe to receive the Level 3 certification. "What fascinates me most is the feeling of the riding the wave, as you surf on the sea." Beginning as a teenager, she learned yoga exercises from her father; after several world travels, she was so taken by yoga that they left their previous lives in order to live and study intensively for five years with Yogi Dr Swami Gitananda in his original ashram in India.

On her return to Europe, she became a pioneer of Yoga in Germany, where she has now been one of the leading teachers and trainers for decades. Urvasi Leone directs the prestigious Berlin Academy of Yoga, the BDY Yoga Teacher Training and TriYoga Teachers Training at the Academy, and appears frequently at conventions and conferences as a representative of Yoga in Germany.

www.triyoga-akademie.de

Volker Mehl

Born in Mannheim in 1976, Volker Mehl is in the meantime living in Munich. After his A-levels, he made a detour to the university of Mainz in order to study RC theology.

However, after one semester and a certificate in Hebrew, he followed the upcoming idea of walking on a different path. The experience of studying nevertheless turned out to be a very useful one as the topic of enshrining himself with books had finally found an end.

Another loop way followed, his apprenticeship as an insurance salesman, which finally lead to the urge to throw himself into something very different: his training as an Ayurvedic health promoter that shaped up to be a watershed.

In living and working with Ayurveda he has found his personal and professional determination. Since then, he has enjoyed following his two great passions, cooking and interacting with people, every day.

In addition to operating his cooking school in Munich he not only works as a freelancer for the German "Yoga Journal" and the cooking portal "BonGusto.de" but also presents his own radio broadcast on "Radio Lora", Munich.

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