Laura is a Yoga & Pilates Teacher and also passionate about Arts and Dancing. She has been an International Yoga teacher since 2004, when she spent three amazing years teaching in Nagoya, Japan. She finally moved to Dubai in 2007, where she is currently living and teaching.
Egyptian soul born in Australia to a British mother and Egyptian father, Melissa discovered Yoga in 2004 and is a Lululemon ambassador and an experienced E-RYT 500 yoga teacher known for her dynamic Vinyasa flow classes
Founder of Ashtanga Dubai, Nea transited to the Yoga path from a corporate PR Account Director role more than 10 years ago. She is also a devoted Yoga philosophy student and committed teacher to the Mysore-Style
Adriana is a certified Power Yoga teacher based in Dubai , with more than 11 years experience. She is also a certified Mind Coach and a graduate of Organization Relationship System Coaching, currently teaching mindfulness and meditation
Many people approach yoga to increase their flexibility and strength, while one of the main benefits of a regular yoga practice is the increase in energy and overall vitality.
Elaine Kelly is the founder of Yogafest Middle East and a highly qualified and passionate advocate for workplace wellness. With 20 years of Yoga practice, she is also Goodwill Ambassador for Gulf4Good
When I quit my job three years ago to reinvent myself, meditating and mindfulness were topicsI absolutely could not get my head around. Performance and life coaches continuously talked about it. Top athletes and leaders seemed to practice it and for some unexplainable reason pictures of a peacefully meditating Buddha kept on appearing in my Facebook and Instagram news feed.
Jatta has been on the path of yoga since 2001 and 2008 she encountered the deep practice of the 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga. The impact of the practice was so profound that she has become a full time practitioner travelling and connecting with senior teachers of Ashtanga method. She is a certified 500hr Yoga Alliance Ashtanga Vinyasa teacher and visits Rishikesh every year to refresh her knowledge and practice.
The sounds of birds and falling tree leaves are all what I could hear in this cozy cottage in the middle of the farm gardens during the silent retreat I chose to do in the outskirts of Bangalore, India. After almost 2 years of being quite stressed out from various life events, including a tough divorce, I decided that this was the perfect time I needed to be by myself on a silent space where I would be able to switch off and cut all ties with the outside world for a full week. 7 days of not talking. 168 hours. 10080 minutes!
