Yoga Gurus

Marilina De Matteis

Ocean lover, yoga teacher, and student, alignment enthusiast. Pranayama and meditation are her favorite morning routine.
Marilina’s yoga journey started more than 10 years ago, the more she dived into the yoga world the more she discovered it was a way of living that naturally resonated with her. She never stopped practicing since then, she left her corporate job and started teaching yoga full time. After traveling around Europe for many years, she now lives with her partner and dog in a small village in the south of Portugal, surrounded by nature.

Instagram: @yogawithmarilina
Youtube: youtu.be/OA9NtWBhyfo

Urmila Rao

Urmila Rao is a Dubai-based energy worker, a meditation coach and a healer.

She is a chakra balancing meditation coach, a yoga practitioner and a forgiveness teacher.  She is certified in ThetaHealing® practice and Tibetan Bowls sound healing.
She writes extensively on the above subjects in her column, ‘‘Meditate with Urmila’, which appears in Dubai-based newspaper ‘Gulf News Tabloid!’ every week.
Urmila makes her daily life joyful and lives in freedom by embracing the power of Intention, Affirmation and Manifestation (I.AM) which she equates with Aham Asmi. (I AM.)

Linkedin:  Urmila Rao (Energy worker)  
Instagram:       thetaholistichealing (Urmila Rao)
FBpage:  @thetahealingworkdubai
Twitter:     @RaoUrmila
YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAJQqoqA0U&t=129s

Nadja Haas

Born 1970 in the very heart of Germany, Nadja soon found herself drawn into the arts. She is not only a dancer and poet but also a life coach, teacher, healer, and performer.
Nadja´s work process is focused on installations, drawing, writing, dance, and performance. Her work is based on several original versions. She examines the tension between performance and traditional text/images, structures, and processes.

Rahul Verma

An alumnus of Amity University’s Physical Education Department, having 7+ years of experience as a coach with U-19 Cricket.
Rahul Verma participated in International Conferences related to physical education and trained kids for Yoga.

Instagram: @rvfitacademy

Garima Vardhan

Dedicated to reform the lives of rural communities through Yoga. She has been practicing Iyengar yoga for the last three years and runs her own Iyengar studio (Shakti Yoga Mandir) in Haridwar- India.
Her teaching style focuses on right body alignment, mindfulness and staying long in one posture

Instagram : @vardhangarima

Vikas Singh

Vikas Singh pursuing Ph.D. from one of the pioneer institutes in the field of physical education LNIPE, GWALIOR INDIA.  Specialized in Yoga and Sports Psychology.  He’s working as a Freelance to help people and spread awareness about yoga and health.

Attended dozens of national and international seminars, workshops and presented research articles in international, national seminars and workshops. 

Instagram: Choudhary_yogafit_expo

Flora

Since she was a child Flora was always fascinated by the healing powers and taking care of people around her, this passion led her to enter the medical school and become a medical student and soon-to-be doctor! As well as the traditional medical interventions Flora is also a believer in plant-based medicines and complementary treatments like meditation and mindfulness practices. Being a certified and accredited meditation practitioner, Flora has been guiding meditations and practicing since 2016 with an approach that connects medical evidence with modern mindfulness and meditation exercises.   Recently she started her own self-practice yoga journey towards mental and physical health. Flora lives in Brazil with her husband and cat (called Delphine) but often goes to the UK where her husband is from. She’s in her 4th year of medical school and first year of mindfulness course. 
Instagram: @flore.bee 

Zaakiyah Bhikha

Zaakiyah is currently based in Johannesburg and teaches workshops, and classes. She is also the co-founder of Yoga In Colour, which celebrates and empowers the marginalized, diverse community of yoga teachers.

A soft and strong soul at heart, Zaakiyah is known for blending a traditional vinyasa practice with a disciplined, kind twist. She believes yoga is for everybody, and her positive, uplifting energy encourages self-love and exploration on the mat.
Instagram : zaakiyahbhikha

Reené Otto

Reené Otto is a yoga teacher and physiotherapist passionate about sharing the healing and transformative power of yoga. Reené leads creative and accessible Vinyasa flow sessions. With a keen eye for alignment and form, she draws on her medical background to ensure all body types, yoga levels and ages feel comfortable and safe. She believes that we are our own greatest teacher, and mindful movement of the body is a way to connect with our own inherent wisdom.

Sylvia Tay

Dipping in and out of yoga since 2016, she began practicing consistently from the start of 2020 as she started to experience emotional and spiritual enlightenment in practice to balance out to her full time job in Finance. Focusing on fluidity of movement, moving with breath, and the alignment of body with mind, she primarily practices vinyasa flow yoga.

Instagram : @s.tayonthemat

Kayatri 

She has been practicing yoga for the past 4 years. In 2015, when she first embarked on her doctoral adventures, life was busy and she was desperately searching for something to balance out her stress levels. And she found YOGA! Yes, Yoga was what fixed her! Do you experience stress too? Come practice yoga with her, let’s get lost on our own body, our own breath, and before you even know it everything that was weighing on you before would disappear 😄 
Instagram : kayg_blog