Tuesday 26 August 2014

Presenting Parul Mehta: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up




PARUL MEHTA is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. A lawyer by training and a mother of 2, she is a practitioner of yoga for more than 20 years. Parul started teaching yoga in 2000 and found full expression in the Iyengar Yoga tradition in 2004 under the tutelage of the late Karin O'Bannon, a highly respected Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher. With her frequent trips to Pune, she has studied with The Iyengars themselves - Guruji BKS Iyengar, Geetaji and Prashantji. In addition, she has been fortunate to journey her learning with the best of senior Iyengar teachers - Birjoo Mehta, Faeq Biria, Usha Devi and Peter Scott.

Parul says: "Yoga has always been the one constant through my life. It is expressed in my dance, my singing, and even in my training in law".

Parul teaches with a passion and moves to inspire her students to connect with themselves, physically, mentally and spiritually. She infuses in them the confidence to aspire to reach their potential. Her sincerity and personal guidance to each student in her group classes, bonds her to them.

Parul holds Iyengar Yoga classes in mainly two suburbs in Kuala Lumpur - Hartamas and Mont Kiara - and at the BKS Iyengar Yogashala. She also has long standing corporate clients who acknowledge her contribution to their wellness programme. She has taught at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh in 2005 and at various international retreats over the years.

As a teacher committed to ongoing learning, Parul organizes yoga retreats for her students to sanctums in Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world and Thailand.


Class with Parul at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th Oct 2014:

The Art of Twisting: From the Outside In


Cleanse and refresh by wringing out the toxins and lackluster from the muscles, tissues and organs. Free the hips and shoulders. Twist for a happy and healthy spine. Twisting Postures will help restore your spine's natural range of motion, cleanse your organs, and stimulate circulation.

An Iyengar Class with an emphasis on alignment will focus on lengthening and extension of the spine to work into twists. We will work with postures that provide a fundamental understanding of twists and work towards some deeper twists in standings, seated postures, inversions and supine postures.

"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open."... BKS Iyengar


More info about Parul here http://www.iyengaryoga.com.my/

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands

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Sunday 24 August 2014

Presenting Matthew Kemp: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up



Matthew has practised Yoga since he was a teenager. He lived in India for 7 years where he learned the yoga technique in Shivanada. He studied further Pranayama, Meditation and Yoga Asanas at the KryaYoga Ashram under Swami Shanker Ananda Giri. He also studied Ashtanga Yoga at Mysore.

He has been in Malaysia since 2006 where he teaches intermediate and advance level classes.

Since 2009 he has developed a strong interest in the Tripsichore technique (movement with breath) under the teaching of Edward Clarke. It is the key component of his teachings today.

Class with Matthew at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:


Tripsichore Yoga 

Tripsichore Yoga, a unique creation by Edward Clark or you could call it as a modern contemporary style of yoga. It blends gracefully dance choregraphy with the yoga discipline (primarily works on a variety of bandhas & breathing principles). Tripsichore pronounces - Trip-sic-Uh-ree, the chore is pronounced like the beginning of Choreography. The name is derived from the Greek muse of Dance Terpsichore.

The practice helps you to be present mindfully and to focus on each move , each breath, each transition in the extraordinary Tripsichore Sun salutation variations. This class would be recommended for those who are already comfortable with inversions or headstands.

More info about Matthew here http://www.aravindyoga.com/the-team.html

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


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Thursday 21 August 2014

Presenting Sasa Chian: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up

Sasa is an accomplished dancer and devoted yogi since 1999. She expresses herself through Ballet, Street Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Aerial Dances, Latin Dances, Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Yoga in all forms (Yoga Alliance 200hr).

Sasa is known for her creative flairs in infusing dance, acrobatics, and yoga. Sasa is Asia’s first fully certified instructor by AcroYoga Montreal currently living and teaching in Malaysia.

Throughout her life, Sasa has continuously drawn on her personal strength and playful attitude to seek out adventures and overcome challenges. This is why she is drawn toAcroYoga and what makes her an enticing instructor. Through Sasa's magnetic energy, you will bask in her love for the moment. The authenticity of her presence is vibrant which makes her a beacon for life!

AcroYoga: Teaching for Change
“Tell me and I may forget, show me and I may remember, involved me and I will understand” – Chinese proverb

Sasa believes that the practice of AcroYoga can be a powerful tool for affecting change in people. Her classes are always challenging yet refreshing, empowering yet caring. Those who attend them often discover new things about themselves, the world around them, and the beauty and joy that is AcroYoga. This unique experience enriches our soul and brings life to our breath.

In AcroYoga we create a sacred space for connection, communication and a channel for healing touch, safe intimacy and community. The greatest reward is seeing the spark in every person’s eyes lighting up the room during a “WOW!” moment!

Personal discovery: Through my personal practice of AcroYoga, I am convinced that we are all craving for unconditional love and the sense of community through compassionate touch. I want my students to shine from within, to nurture their creative expressions, courage through strength and tenderness.

Class with Sasa at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:

Embrace Your Inner Child, 
Release Your Inner Cat

What is AcroYoga?

AcroYoga is the practice of being in the moment and finding balance with the other - Eugene Poku, Co-founder ofAcroYoga Montreal, Canada.

Learn the skills of “moving” and “connecting” with another person within the disciplines of AcroYoga. Sasa will lead you into a series of movement exploration games, counter balancing practices and the basics of taking flight, solid basing and spotting in this workshop.

More info about Sasa here Living Arts

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


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Friday 15 August 2014

Presenting James Wong: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up


James has been practicing yoga for more than 10 years & has been actively teaching for almost 8 years. He is an ERYT200 Certified US Yoga Alliance teacher & Yoga Trainer. 

James is fun loving, gentle but can also be dynamic in his yoga classes; accompanied with his creative sequencing and good coaching skills. 

His classes emphasizes a lot of foundational and functional anatomy aspects of yoga which he adopts his teachings from various yoga backgrounds such as Vinyasa Flow, Iyenger, Asthanga, Hatha Yoga, Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, Kundalini, Pranayama Yoga and many more.

He learns his yoga from various renowned teachers such Noah Maze, Christina Sell, Tiffany Crushank, Kathryn Budig, Martin Kirk, Amy Ippoliti, Patrick Creelman, Marla Apt, Erica Mather (Forrest Yoga) & Kino McGregor. In recent years he has also developed skills in Zen Thai Massage learning from great teachers such as Saul David Ryle and Gwen Williams which he incorporates into his trigger point Yin Yoga classes. James feels that one of the greatest gift of being a teacher is seeing students progressed well physically, mentally and emotionally through their yoga practices in both Yang and Yin aspects. Currently, he teaches Gentle, Dynamic, Advance & Hot Yoga which concentrates on both alignment and power classes according to the level of students. He also organizes Yoga retreats for his students and corporate companies as well. He is also a Pilates Trainer for JW Pilates Method program in which he has designed and currently running the training programs.


Class with James at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:




The Upside Down World (Inversion) 
James will teach us to explore our Uddiyanna Bandhas - with the Bandhas breathing and Nauli breathing & Kriya Cleansing which will be part of the foundation to arm balances and inversion. James strongly highlights the use of our bandhas to make our poses lighter and easier to achieve. He will be sharing poses from arm balances to inversion poses. The mystery of the core and bandhas will be revealed to our hand balancing yogis! Be ready to breathe, drip, and be yippie Upside down!

More information about James here James Wellness Lifestyle

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


More info and Festival Early Bird Special here www.yogaspiritfestival.weebly.com

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Tuesday 12 August 2014

Presenting Jean Michele Lee: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up

Jean Michele Lee (ERYT-500) began her teaching career in 2005 after completing a three month teachers course with Manasa Yoga. In April 2013 Jean completed her 500hours teachers training with Manasa Yoga where she teaches regularly and she is a freelance teacher teaching with Fitness First, True Fitness and has long standing corporate clients here in Malaysia.

Jean's classes are essentially wisdom based and she continuously strive to swirl the concepts of Patanjali and Tantra into her yoga sequences. Jean loves watching and seeing her students evolve and change, physically, mentally and emotionally. Yoga has shown how powerfully we can connect at all levels.

As a teacher and as a practicing student with Manasa, Jean herself is ever growing. She has along the way in her 9 years of teaching come to accept her incapabilities and balanced that with the knowledge that there are still infinite possibilities.


Class with Jean at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:


All That is Bound will be Unbound 

Drawing from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. In his 1st chapter 2nd verse he says Yogashchitta vritti nirodaha - Yoga is the dissolution of fluctuations in the consciousness.

The monkey mind binds us to unwholesomeness , to matters that keep us sticky and stuck, and we allow our egos to rule and dominate. With this sequence, there will be an interplay of binding-unbinding sequences, which is intended to create skillful awareness in us that we do not have to be bound and attached to habits and traits that keep us stuck.

More information about Jean here http://www.manasa-yoga.com/

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


More info and Festival Early Bird Special here www.yogaspiritfestival.weebly.com

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Sunday 10 August 2014

Festival Sponsor Feature: SHAPE Magazine Malaysia


SHAPE Malaysia, the official Festival Magazine, is giving away Festival tickets!



Head over to http://www.shape.com.my/news-events/yoga-spirit-festival-malaysia for more event details and find out how easy it is to win a FREE entry pass to the Festival!

(*Contest closes 12th August 2014)



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SHAPE Malaysia, is also giving away RM200 worth Gift Hampers!


If you did not win the FREE Festival tickets, no worries. We have more Happy News! For the next 5 individual Festival ticket purchases will receive a Gift Hamper worth RM200 from our magazine sponsor SHAPE Malaysia!

(*GiveAway Special until 17th August 2014)

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And thats not all, SHAPE Malaysia will be giving away Free SHAPE magazines and more Gift Hampers at the Yoga Spirit Spirit Festival Malaysia!

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


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Monday 4 August 2014

Presenting Ganesh Upadhyay: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia 2014 Teacher Line Up


Ganesh Upadhyay was brought up in the yoga tradition since a young child in Nepal and India. He has been practising for over 20 years and has studied yoga at the Vivekananda Yoga University in Bangalore, Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, Bihar School of Yoga in Munger and KPJ Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore. He holds a Master in Sanskrit and Vedic Philosophy from Banaras Hindu University, and frequently participates in yoga conferences around India.

Ganesh is a highly enthusiastic teacher with bounds of energy and creativity, and is extremely willing to share his knowledge and experience. He has a natural flair for understanding the human physical, energetic and mental faculties which enables him to help every individual to work to his or her fullest potential.

Class with Ganesh at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:

Ashtanga Primary Led Series


Ashtanga Yoga is a 5,000 year old set sequence of postures designed to bring incredible, strength, flexibility and endurance to the body and a sense of stillness to the mind. This strong intro class will teach the fundamentals of ashtanga yoga, sun salutations, ujjayi breath, energy locks and vinyasas to prepare the student for the full primary series of ashtanga yoga. Ashtanga’s intensity can also invoke positive life transformations off the mat, helping you to live fully, with a deep sense of Self, in your daily life. The Ashtanga (“eight limbs”) system is a deeply spiritual practice helping you to connect to your soul and to God.

Ashtanga Primary Series: Also known as Yoga Chikitsa (Yoga Therapy) This class refers to the full primary series of the ashtanga system, as taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. This flowing, set, sequence of postures utilizes ujjayi breath and bandhas (energy locks) to increases muscular strength, flexibility, concentration and to deepen one’s connection to Self and God.

More information about Ganesh on his website http://www.ashtangayogakl.com/

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands


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Friday 1 August 2014

Presenting Anna Suvorova: Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia Teacher Line Up 2014

Anna Suvorova dreams of a better world. She is a writer and Reiki master with a Master’s degree in Russian Literature who teaches Yoga and Meditation and will answer to the title of ‘Raw Chocolatier’.

Anna was born in Ukraine in 1968. Her Ukrainian mother is an absolute food magician, who loves books and animals. Her father was in a Russian military having new assignments every year, so Anna’s traveling around started at a very early age.

Anna was always an unusual child, an “old soul” as she has been called by her magical grandma, and could not speak properly until late 20s. She has lived with a compromised autoimmune system since very early age, and she had to do a tremendous work on herself to overcome the effects of the physical abuse until the age of 15.

Anna’s passion for truth and beauty, consciousness and Harmony led her to have a Master Degree in Russian Literature and language, to study psychology, hypnotherapy, Reiki, nutrition and philosophy, including her beloved yoga. Having to fight for her right to feel well, she chose to stay away from medication, trusting she would find her way to health naturally (or die naturally:-)) Since then she has embarked upon a unique journey of self-healing, self-discovery and liberation. Anna likes to joke, “If it had not been for Yoga, Love and Raw chocolate, I would not even bother landing on this planet.”

My mission is to spread the message of Heart Consciousness, Unity, and Light through the teachings and practices of Yoga.


Classes with Anna at the Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia, 11th & 12th October 2014:

Self-Love is the Secret 

This gentle yet strong practice consists of a yoga flow, twists, and supine poses that are all focused on creating a strong feeling of self-acceptance. It encourages breathing with awareness into the experience of each pose. It is a beautifully flowing practice that takes us inward and teaches to listen to the body... And respect its messages (or limitations).

It is about Learning to be where we are right NOW... Not only on our yoga mat, but also in our lives. Self Acceptance is a powerful energy that creates space. Space for love, space for silence… Space for a deeper relationship with what lives through us.

It is finished with a delightful savasana (preferably using bolsters and pillows). The purpose of this unique yoga practice is to connect to the deeper sense of Self - the life force that dwells within all of us.


The POWER of Your CHOICE 

This empowering Yoga Practice is focused on our choice-making mechanism. It brings us to a point of understanding how every day; every moment we have choices to make. Our experiences of life depend entirely on this simple understanding. Once we are aware of it, we are in a position to change our life.

~The POWER of Your CHOICE~ practice is a graceful flow of asanas where each participants have a few variations of the same pose. It encourages listening to the body as much as the instructions of a teacher. Inner and outer worlds are connected :-) It creates a feeling of connectedness to what is within and puts us in a position to choose wisely what works for us, honoring our Uniqueness.

This class is for those who need to get in touch with their own power to make decisions and stand for themselves. It builds CONFIDENCE and personal POWER.

It ends with a savasana and a beautiful Heart meditation leading to oneness... to remind us that out power within is there to serve the world's Harmony as much as to serve our own.

More information about Anna on her website http://www.yogaofchange.com/

Don't miss out on Anna's raw chocolate making workshop and divine raw cacao ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on 18th & 19th October 2014 right after the Festival. Stay tuned for more info! 

Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia
11th &12th October 2014
Awana Genting Highlands

More info and Early Bird Festival Special here www.yogaspiritfestival.weebly.com

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