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Kathy Alef | Olop Arpipi | Victoria Austin | Gitte Bechsgaard | Ros Bell | Nora Burnett | Cristina Costa | Anna Delury | Mary Devore | George Dovas | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | Ruth Fisk | Gabriella Giubilaro | Gloria Goldberg | Sheila Haswell | Justin Herold | Holly Hoffmann | Greta Kent-Stoll | John Leebold | Pixie Lillas | Simon Marrocco | Jaki Nett | Keiko Okuno | Jayne Orton | Liz Pagan | Margaret Rawlinson | Cathy Rogers Evans | John Schumacher | Shaili Shafai | Maria Shatlanova | Lisa Walford | Joan White | Anat Zahor |
Practicing since 1976.
CIYT Level 3
I am inspired by the profound and sensitive teaching of yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar and his children, Geetaji and Prashantji. My regular visits to Pune enrich and nourish my practice and teachings. I enjoy teaching advanced students, those beginning to understand the depth of practice, and those who suffer with back challenges. In the first chapter of the Yoga Sutras Patañjali gives several methods to calm the mind and prepare it for spiritual evolution—have a soft, slow exhalat … … … read more … … …
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Olop Arpipi is a Senior Certified senior Iyengar Teacher who hails from Indonesia. Born in 1965 in Surabaya, he has studied many times, in Pune, with Guruji Sri B.K.S Iyengar, Sri Gitaji and Sri Prashantji.
Olop first started his yoga studies in the early 1990s with Senior Iyengar Teacher Judith Adank of Switzerland. Her Iyengar style with its focus on precision, and its attention to detail, resonated with him immediately, and led him to a deep understanding of his internal movement and landscape. This gradually led to him becom … … … read more … … …
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Shosan Victoria Austin began practicing both Zen and Yoga in 1971. In the Soto Zen tradition, she is entrusted as a Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, an international priest of the Soto School, and a Dharma teacher at San Francisco Zen Center. She trained in the U.S., in India, and in Japan. In the Iyengar tradition, she is certified as a Level 3 teacher. She is a teaching member of Yoga Alliance, International Association of Yoga Therapists, and several national and international associations for … … … read more … … …
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Gitte Bechsgaard, Ph. D., author with her colleague Gillian McCann, of her third book: Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B.K.S. Iyengar (2021), and founder of Vidya Institute International, Toronto (2002, https://vidyainstitute.ca/), has studied, taught and researched in the field of Yoga, Psychology and the Vedic Wisdom Traditions for almost 30 years, first making her mark with her 2011 Ph. D thesis on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, published as … … … read more … … …
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Kathy Alef | Olop Arpipi | Victoria Austin | Gitte Bechsgaard | Ros Bell | Nora Burnett | Cristina Costa | Anna Delury | Mary Devore | George Dovas | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | Ruth Fisk | Gabriella Giubilaro | Gloria Goldberg | Sheila Haswell | Justin Herold | Holly Hoffmann | Greta Kent-Stoll | John Leebold | Pixie Lillas | Simon Marrocco | Jaki Nett | Keiko Okuno | Jayne Orton | Liz Pagan | Margaret Rawlinson | Cathy Rogers Evans | John Schumacher | Shaili Shafai | Maria Shatlanova | Lisa Walford | Joan White | Anat Zahor |