Ulpotha
is open for visitors
during the following
times over the coming year. For more detailed information on
each Yoga
teacher
and their particular discipline and style please scroll
down or click on a name. Prices
are per person per week on a full board, twin sharing basis,
inclusive of excursions, yoga, massage and any other local treatments
apart from the specialised Ayurvedic
treatments. Specialised Ayurvedic programmes
are available from one week treatments to four week treatments.
These can be pre-booked for an additional cost:
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Christmas
and New Year Holiday only |
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Rate
applies to all other times Ulpotha is open - see Calendar
below |
Single
Supplement |
£250
Per Person Per Week |
Not
available at Peak Time |
Ayurveda
Supplement |
£200
Per Person Per Week |
You
can choose from amongst five treatment length options
- see below |
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AYURVEDA PROGRAMMES |
Programme
Length |
Additional
Cost per Person |
One Week |
£200 |
Ten Days |
£300 |
Two Weeks |
£400 |
Three Weeks |
£600 |
Four Weeks |
£800 |
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Whilst
you can choose the length of your programme, the specific
nature and content will be determined after your individual
consultation with Dr Srilal. For more details please go
to the Ayurveda page. |
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It
is our experience that, in order to benefit fully from what
Ulpotha has to offer, you visit for a full two weeks. Unless
you wish to take advantage of the longer Ayurveda programmes,
we recommend you arrange your holiday to coincide with the visit
of a particular Yoga teacher. All holidays, whether for one
week, two weeks or longer, begin and end on Sundays.
Flights
to Sri Lanka are not included. Please note the period over Christmas
and New Year is a time for celebration at Ulpotha. For those
of you looking for a quiet holiday, we suggest you avoid this
period.
Yoga
classes are usually held in the early morning and late afternoon.
However, this schedule is not fixed and will depend on the needs
of the particular group. All levels of experience can be accommodated,
but students are reminded that it is important that during a
class they take responsibility for their own wellbeing and do
not stretch themselves beyond their limit.
YOGA
SCHEDULE - SUMMER 2008 Teachers and Therapists can be subject to change. Please check before your holiday
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Programme |
Teacher |
Massage
Therapists |
Start
Date |
End
Date |
Cost
Per Week |
| Sivananda Style Hatha Yoga |
Devaki,
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Padma Nair, Cheze Darville, |
15th Jun
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29th Jun
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£650 per person
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| yogAsana practice with Pranayama and Meditation |
Granville Cousins,
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Padma Nair, Cheze Darville, |
29th Jun
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13th Jul
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£650 per person
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| Fluid Hatha Yoga |
Deepa Moodgal,
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Padma Nair, Cheze Darville, |
13th Jul
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27th Jul
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£650 per person
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| Iyengar Based Vinyasa Flow Yoga |
Florence Dugowson,
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Padma Nair, Cheze Darville, |
27th Jul
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10th Aug
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£650 per person
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YOGA
SCHEDULE - WINTER 2008/2009
Teachers and Therapists can be subject to change. Please check before your holiday
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Programme |
Teacher |
Massage
Therapists |
Start
Date |
End
Date |
Cost
Per Week |
| Iyengar Yoga |
Les Smith,
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Paul Harrold, Samantha Trueman, |
23rd Nov
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7th Dec
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£650 per person
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| Astanga Yoga and Tai Chi |
Gingi Lee,
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Paul Harrold, Samantha Trueman, |
7th Dec
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21st Dec
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£650 per person
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| Hatha Yoga |
Nigel Gilderson,
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Paul Harrold, Samantha Trueman, |
21st Dec
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4th Jan
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£800 per person
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| Dynamic Hatha Yoga |
Claire Farman,
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T B C, |
4th Jan
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18th Jan
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£650 per person
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| Hatha Yoga |
Will Lane,
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T B C, |
18th Jan
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1st Feb
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£650 per person
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| Hatha Yoga |
Stephen Thomas,
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T B C, Sean Udall, |
1st Feb
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15th Feb
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£650 per person
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| Astanga inspired Vinyasa Flow Yoga |
Jean Hall,
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Gill Croft, T B C, |
15th Feb
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1st Mar
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£650 per person
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| Anusara style yoga- Mix Flow & Alignment |
Cat De Rham,
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Gill Croft, T B C, |
1st Mar
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15th Mar
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£650 per person
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| Astanga Yoga |
Mika,
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Gill Croft, T B C, |
15th Mar
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5th Apr
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£650 per person
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Gingi Lee
Gingi Lee's teaching philosophy is to inform and enable his students to benefit from a regular astanga vinyasa practice. He is a very open-minded and generous teacher believing that yoga is a living, growing knowledge that evolves throughout our life. Developing the meditative and spiritual side of yoga, students will benefit from his years of study and self-practice in this area.
From an early age, Gingi began his Tai Chi studies under the tutelage of his father, Sensei Richard Taibong Lee. Since the early 1990's, through his meeting and studying with Derek Ireland, Gingi has dedicated himself to the astanga vinyasa practice.
Gingi Lee is the Director of the Shala Yoga Centre in South London where Astanga Vinyasa, Restorative Moon practice, Birthlight Yoga for Pregnancy, Kids and Baby classes are held. The teachers at the Shala all share a deep love and respect for yoga which comes through their passion for sharing their knowledge with the students at the centre. http://www.theshala.co.uk
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Edward Clark
Mr. Clark began studying yoga in 1979. Noteworthy among his teachers are Narayani and Giris Rabinovitch, but he confesses huge admiration for the Ashtanga Vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar and Viniyoga practices. The technique Tripsichore uses is a synthesis of many aspects of yoga. Tripsichore Yoga Theatre have thrilled audiences around the globe and havebeen hailed as some of the most innovative practitioners of vinyasa yoga.Tripsichore is about to reveal some of the secrets of their technique.Sequestered in their studio in London, England, the company has worked dailyfor the past 10 years to devise and refine yoga techniques of asana,pranayama, pratayahara, dharana, and dhyana.making excursions out to performtheir creations to audiences worldwide.. Until now, their techniques haveonly been taught to a very few. |
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Angus Ford-Robertson
Angus Ford-Robertson is a Yoga teacher and therapist. He has been teaching Hatha yoga worldwide for six years.
His contemporary and philosophical style draws on many diverse teachings including Sivananda, Iyengar, Scaravelli, Schiffman and some more dynamic disciplines. His practice is based on experience rather than theory; and is supported by a deep personal understanding of the healing process.
His passion for yoga is in leading students to discover their stillness within.
For more information, please contact Angus at angus@batterseayoga.com or visit the website www.batterseayoga.com
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Nigel Gilderson
Nigel Gilderson's teaching incorporates a unique blend of different styles taking influences from Iyengar, Sivananda, and Astanga Vinyasa traditions. His classes emphasise synchronisation of breath and movement, encouraging strength, flexibility, good alignment and concentration. |
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Annoushka Hempel
“Yoga trains the body, mind and soul to allow us entry into the magic world of inner meditation. Through the intense practice of Yoga Kriyas: postures combined with specific breath awareness including Mantra, the cells of the body are invigorated, electrified…made alive. As each student of yoga is gently pushed to find their ‘edge’ and work that limit within themselves, the chattering of the mind gently ceases as the senses and intellect move inwards through the skin, muscle and bone – to reach that place of no name; to attain strength, peace, centeredness and self-awareness ‘the inner sanctum’. Beginners and advanced students alike will be gently pushed to ultimately challenge themselves, through friendly and specific guidance culminating in a deeper understanding of the hows and whys of yoga… and the peacefulness that is the fruit of a fulfilling practice.” Anand Kaur/Annoushka Hempel
Annoushka first met yoga in 1987 exploring the teachings of Sivananda, Iyengar and Astanga Yoga. After 13 years of training in Asana practice she was introduced to the world of Kundalini Yoga. After becoming a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation with training in Spiritual Counselling, Annoushka opened her first Yoga Studio in London in 2000. In 2003 she moved to Sri Lanka and opened a Yoga Studio in Galle. Following the tsunami she moved to Colombo and she continues to explore the world of Asanas and Kundalini.
Annoushka’s yoga retreats incorporate asana practice in the mornings and Kundalini in the afternoons, using the posture practice in the mornings to prepare the body for the deep internally transformative work in the afternoons.
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Heather Elton
Heather Elton teaches Astanga Vinyasa Yoga and Dynamic Hatha Flow in London and on international workshops. She began practising Hatha Yoga
in 1986. She has studied with Edward Clark and completed the
Tripsichore Yoga Theatre Teacher Training (2002); Richard Freeman
Teacher Training (2004); and has studied the Astanga Primary and
Intermediate series adjustments with Nancy Gilgoff in Maui, Prague,
Ireland and Goa. She also assisted Nancy during the Oxford Adjustment
Clinic 2004. She has studied Astanga with Sri K Pattabhi Jois, John
Scott, David Swenson, Matthew Sweeney, and does a regular practice at
Ashtanga Yoga London. David Life and Sharon Gannon (Jivamukti Studios)
in New York also are important teachers.
Heather Elton is a certified member of the Yoga Alliance (USA) 500
R.Y.T. She is also a Shamanic and Reiki practitioner.
For more information: www.eltonyoga.com |
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Caprice Boisvert
Caprice Boisvert teaches Kripalu Yoga, a variation of Hatha Yoga that emphasizes meditation and breathwork. Her teaching style encourages people of all levels to approach their practice with compassion. She stresses the importance of alignment, technique and muscular efficiency while helping her students to explore deeper levels of inward focus and spiritual attunement. Caprice owns her own studio in Toronto, where she also teaches pilates. She considers teaching a privilege. |
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Georgia Marnham
Georgia Marnham is a qualified Iyengar Yoga teacher with broad experience, having practised Iyengar Yoga for over 15 years, while teaching in Australia, England and South Africa. She has studied with senior Iyengar teachers from many countries and in 2006 she spent a month in Pune, India at the RMYI with 80 other teachers from around the world for more advanced learning with the founder, BKS Iyengar, his daughter, Geeta and son, Prashant.
Georgia knows first hand the ability of yoga to rehabilitate and has a strong focus on the restorative and remedial benefits of Iyengar Yoga. She uses a clear and calm style of teaching with an emphasis on poses that reflect the individual needs of each student. Classes will make use of a variety of props allowing correct alignment within the pose, so that the body feels energised and not strained, which is the hallmark of the Iyengar style. |
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Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas studies and teaches a dynamic asana practice rooted in the Ashtanga yoga method. He shares his love for the philosophy of yoga, the science of breath and the intensity of physical transformation and weaves it together into his practice. "Through this practice we access the wisdom of yoga and the intelligence of prana and bring it into our
everyday life." On retreat, Stephen teaches asana in a manner that is playful, spiritual and physical. He also teaches pranayama and investigates Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and their relationship to life on and off the mat.
Stephen currently resides and teaches in Asia. He has studied in India, Thailand and his native Canada. |
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Jean Hall
Jean’s classes deeply integrate alignment of the Iyengar Yoga style with the flow of the Astanga Vinyasa Yoga Series to focus, release & energise body & mind. She also incorporates pranayama (breathing technique), meditation & yoga nidra (yoga relaxation & sleep).
She personally has been practicing yoga for 19 years, and initially started the practice as a complimentary training to her profession as a performer & dance artist.
In 1995 she became a qualified Iyengar yoga teacher & since has continued to study other yoga forms in India (Sivananda in Kerela, Astanga with Pattahbi Jois in Mysore) & here in London.
She now teaches in London & internationally, running & teaching yoga retreats in places of natural beauty. Her pupils are of all levels, beginners to advanced to learning difficulties.
With a Masters Degree in Performing Arts & her indepth dance & broad yoga experience she draws on her diverse background to share & teach the gift of yoga. |
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Will Lane
Will Lane has been teaching yoga for five years and is accredited through the British Wheel of Yoga.
His style is to look at the needs of the individual and modify a posture accordingly to wake up the body and energy; to dismantle patterns of holding and re-discover natural spontanious breath. Doing the perfect posture is not so important as the awareness with which we move into and out of it.
Will teaches in a number of venues in Surrey and Hampshire, including Cannons and Holmes Place health clubs and two schools. He also teaches one-to-one, in an office and runs a private class. In addition he co-teaches on the Inner Yoga Trust foundation course (Hampshire). |
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Alan Kelly
Alan Kelly has been practising yoga for ten years. Originally from Dublin, Alan qualified for the Yoga Alliance Teacher's Certificate at the Life Centre in Notting Hill. For the past six years he has primarily studied with Jean Hall, Liz Lark and Om Yoga New York. Alan teaches a deep Vinyasa style on an individual or group basis in London. |
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Benjamin Arulanandam
Benjamin Arulanandam is Sri lankan and teaches Yoga and Tai Chi and fitness at the Lifestyle Health and Wellness Centre in Colombo. His main teacher in Yoga was Paddy McGrath. He also practises Pilates and Tae-Bo. He is currently training the Sri Lankan Tennis Squad. He is also a qualified martial arts instructor and chef. |
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Samantha Trueman
Samantha Trueman is a gifted and compassionate Yoga Teacher and Ka Huna Massage Therapist currently working at Camp Eden in Australia. Samantha teaches a dynamic blend of Astanga and Iyengar yoga believing that the true essence of all practice lies in the ability to "breathe". She trained for 1.5 years in Australia's Gold Coast Yoga Centre under the guidance of her teachers Kameron Storey, Suzanne Gray and Mark Togni. Samantha continues to learn more about herself through her own practice and teaching and has been fortunate enough to work personally with International Teachers Sri Pattabhi Jois, Nicky Knoff, Glenn Ceresoli and Dena Kingsburg.
Samantha lives her life through the paths of Karma (selfless service) and Bhakti Yoga (the path of devotion) and believes that love is our greatest healer.
With guidance and compassion Samantha will challenge you physically through a flowing asana sequence focused on breath and alignment. Her approach to teaching is drawn strongly from her own experience and recognises that yoga like anything else needs to be embraced with a sense of humor and lightness. Samantha believes that her strength lies in the ability to take students on a deep inward journey through the physical postures of yoga with awareness, presence and love.
Samantha has also embraced Ka Huna massage as a sacred tool for channeling love into people's lives. Her knowledge of the human form makes her a powerful bodyworker focused on bringing peoples awareness to their physical and emotional bodies. Through loving touch and deep relaxation her clients receive profound healing for their body, mind and spirit. |
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Allan Mourad
Allan Mourad has over 20 years of experience as a therapist and has developed an innovative technique to treat musculoskeletal injuries and illness called Myotherapy - a holistic and restorative treatment using therapeutic massage in combination with gentle yoga stretches, producing a powerful healing effect, eliminating pain and restoring movement. Myotherapy works on drawing the deepest and most problematic muscles to the surface by massaging them while stretched. It also focuses on the fascia, the most abundant tissue in the body. Any breakdown of the fascial system due to trauma, posture, or inflammation can cause abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, bones and circulation. Myotherapy encourages the body's innate restorative powers by improving circulation and restoring the soft tissue integrity and balance of the body. Allan is committed to helping people to transform their lives and move towards improved health and well-being. Apart from operating a successful practice on the Gold Coast, his involvement in some of Australia's leading health retreats spans almost 12 years. He currently works at a new lifestyle retreat called Gwinganna. He practises yoga daily, and also tutors human anatomy at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. |
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Helen Langston
has over 20 years of experience as a therapist and has developed an innovative technique to treat musculoskeletal injuries and illness called Myotherapy - a holistic and restorative treatment using therapeutic massage in combination with gentle yoga stretches, producing a powerful healing effect, eliminating pain and restoring movement. Myotherapy works on drawing the deepest and most problematic muscles to the surface by massaging them while stretched. It also focuses on the fascia, the most abundant tissue in the body. Any breakdown of the fascial system due to trauma, posture, or inflammation can cause abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, bones and circulation. Myotherapy encourages the body's innate restorative powers by improving circulation and restoring the soft tissue integrity and balance of the body. Allan is committed to helping people to transform their lives and move towards improved health and well-being. Apart from operating a successful practice on the Gold Coast, his involvement in some of Australia's leading health retreats spans almost 12 years. He currently works at a new lifestyle retreat called Gwinganna. He practises yoga daily, and also tutors human anatomy at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. |
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Paul Harrold
Paul Harrold studied massage with Australia's leading Ka Huna Institute and has continued with them to become a facilitator and teacher. He operates his own private practice and currently treats people at Camp Eden - Australia's leading Wholistic Health Retreat. He has a passion for massage and teaching and loves holding sacred space for clients and groups of people. Recently he has discovered the benefits of a dedicated yoga practice.
Paul's dedication to bodywork goes beyond technique. He practises sacred table treatments incorporating the rythmn and flow of Ka Huna and the deep cleansing ritual of Heartworks Lomi Lomi, both originating in Hawaii. He also specializes in dynamic floor treatments which combine Polynesian Floorwork and Thai massage. His use of sound healing through voice and prayer creates sacred and loving space in which clients are invited to explore their physical, emotional and energetic body. |
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Samantha Trueman
Samantha Trueman is a gifted and compassionate Yoga Teacher and Ka Huna Massage Therapist currently working at Camp Eden in Australia. Samantha teaches a dynamic blend of Astanga and Iyengar yoga believing that the true essence of all practice lies in the ability to "breathe". She trained for 1.5 years in Australia's Gold Coast Yoga Centre under the guidance of her teachers Kameron Storey, Suzanne Gray and Mark Togni. Samantha continues to learn more about herself through her own practice and teaching and has been fortunate enough to work personally with International Teachers Sri Pattabhi Jois, Nicky Knoff, Glenn Ceresoli and Dena Kingsburg.
Samantha lives her life through the paths of Karma (selfless service) and Bhakti Yoga (the path of devotion) and believes that love is our greatest healer.
With guidance and compassion Samantha will challenge you physically through a flowing asana sequence focused on breath and alignment. Her approach to teaching is drawn strongly from her own experience and recognises that yoga like anything else needs to be embraced with a sense of humor and lightness. Samantha believes that her strength lies in the ability to take students on a deep inward journey through the physical postures of yoga with awareness, presence and love.
Samantha has also embraced Ka Huna massage as a sacred tool for channeling love into people's lives. Her knowledge of the human form makes her a powerful bodyworker focused on bringing peoples awareness to their physical and emotional bodies. Through loving touch and deep relaxation her clients receive profound healing for their body, mind and spirit. |
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Padma Nair
Chavitti Thirummal is an authentic traditional massage that has been handed down through generations of Padma Nair’s family. It originates from her ancestral homeland of Kerala, South India and Padma herself began to learn massage at the tender age of 10 from her grandmother Saraswasti Amma, a well-known healer. Living and growing up in Kerala, Padma has always been surrounded by Ayurvedic, herbal and yoga traditions, which are a natural part of her makeup. She has studied philosophy, psychology and is an advanced Sivananda Yoga instructor. Her years of experience and intimate knowledge of the body and mind has allowed the evolution of Padma’s original style of massage. She has developed the ability to incorporate her family’s healing traditions and also combining influences of her inspiring teachers she has had
throughout her life. She is one of the world’s most experienced practitioners and teachers of this ancient art and is responsible for training countless students since 1990.
She has a Guest House and Massage Training Centre in Kovalam Beach, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
www.thekarmaworld.com
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Beth Cooper
Beth has been a therapist at Ulpotha for several years now, practising Ayurvedic massage, Reflexology and Cranio-Sacral therapy. Her visits to Sri Lanka have often been coupled with time spent in India, where she trains with her teacher in Ayurvedic medicine/massage/pancha karma.
She is a dedicated yogini and has been inspired by the many wonderful teachers she has had the good fortune to work alongside at Ulpotha. Last year she qualified as a yoga teacher with one of these teachers (Stephen Thomas) in Taiwan.
She presently works in the London/Brighton area as a therapist and yoga teacher.
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Gill Croft
Gill practises Shiatsu, Tuina, Acupuncture and Reiki. Having taught Shiatsu and Chi Gong for The European Shiatsu School since 1993, Gill has worked with some of the most powerful and respected teachers, and created courses for retreat settings, Healing Camps and intensive 10 day bodywork courses in Europe, India, and the UK.
Gill combines treatments to suit each client, according to which mediums are most appropriate, from the gentlest Reiki touch to full-on meridian stretches, cross fibre techniques and skeletal realignments. While working in Rehab, she has devised group setting Chi Gong and Ear Acupuncture sessions, which are especially beneficial to those clients who may be suffering from jet lag. When in the UK Gill lives and practises in West London.
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Rebecca Hayes
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Florence Dugowson
Massage
Florence Dugowson began training with the internationally-renowned Ayurvedic specialist Kiran Vyas, creator of the first Ayurvedic centre in France, in 1989. Having worked with him for many years, she is fully qualified in Ayurvedic massage, including Panchakarma, and has completed post-graduate studies in Ayurveda and pregnancy massage.
Flo has also studied reflexology and zero-balancing in England. Her practice includes both modality-specific treatments and a fusion of these three influences. She has been visiting and working at Ulpotha for ten years, exchanging knowledge and techniques with local practitioners. She is very much a part of Ulpotha.
Yoga
Flo is also a qualified yoga instructor. Originally trained by Gerard Arnaud in Paris, she has broadened her knowledge of different yoga styles through first-hand experience of the various disciplines taught by the many teachers who have worked at Ulpotha over the years. She has also completed another teacher training in Mysore, India.
Flo teaches in Paris, mainly on a one-to-one basis and to small groups. As a bodyworker she feels it is important to keep her eyes and hands on her students. She adapts her class intensity to students' needs and embraces the wide range of practices that yoga offers, from dynamic Vinyasa flow to the stillness of Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, and meditation. She uses Iyengar as the basis for her flowing breath-driven yoga which connects both to the inner self and to yogic principles. Interested in the link between the Ayurvedic system and yoga, Flo explores the therapeutic effects of a practice lived from within, using the breath as a tool through the Nadis to create movement where energy and matter have become stagnant. She enjoys teaching yoga as a pleasurable and liberating healer of body and soul.
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Diane Hudock
Diane Hudock is known for her eclectic style of teaching and hands-on
approach that brings together the expansive and healing principles of
Anusara, and the power of Ashtanga within a spontaneous, flowing
Vinyasa practice. She has developed her own unique philosophy for the
multi-dimensional beings that we are: do a consciously challenging
practice that brings you out of your comfort zone, in order to remove
fear, expand the mind, and create the greatest freedom in the physical
body. Diane has trained extensively in many schools of yoga, and has
been leading workshops and classes for eight years incorporating her
knowledge and wisdom in energetic medicine, body-work, and female
empowerment. She has been a contributing writer to various yoga
publications with her teachings on: unleashing creativity through
yoga, using the tools of yoga to break through fear and create the life
you want, and ultimate transformation. Her students have included many
world-class athletes, Fortune 500 CEO’s, and celebrities. She credits
the transformative teachings of John Friend, Noah Maze, and Anthony
Benedati, for shaping her craft and enriching the path. Diane lives in
Los Angeles, California.
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Anoushka Pletts
Anoushka has a strong Sivananda foundation but since qualifying three
years ago she has undergone intensive training to explore her own
beliefs of yoga as a human movement system. She has been taught by
Shiva Rea, Suzy Daw and Jane Farrimond, all of whom have provided
different takes on possible yoga approaches. She has then synthesised
this knowledge which is currently imbedded with other schools of human
movement such as Dahn Yoga to create her own unique and eclectic
solution.
Within her eclectic mix, she has developed a unique approach to the
postures by working closely with personal trainer Tom Marien of One
Personal Training, Steve Clifford of Pulsing Massage and through
reading about the different approaches to static vs. dynamic
stretching. This physiological and anatomical knowledge has enabled her
to create an approach based on ‘isolated ballistic and dynamic
movements’ which through regular use transforms the body’s flexibility
beyond any human movement solution she has ever worked with.
Class Structure:
Anoushka uses themes at the start of every class to give her students a
tangible journey. Each class then revolves around the theme to
demonstrate the versatility of yoga as a means of raising consciousness
both in body and mind. She engages the mind by gently introducing
theory and psychological tools to deepen the understanding obtained
through the physical body. One can expect to see flip charts in her
classes yet this does not leave you feeling baffled but rather
enlightened given her ability to simplify theoretical reasoning. This
is the intelligent answer to yoga made accessible to everyone. She ends
her classes with reflective goal setting when the mind /body connection
is at it’s strongest so individuals can start to identify what it is
that really matters in their life.
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Sandra Callender
Sandra Callender is an artist at heart. Her passion for the creative is inspired by 15 years of study and teaching in the healing art and science of yoga. A former resident and Programme Director at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, Sandra taught yoga and self-growth programs in addition to training aspiring yoga teachers. Her love of yoga has prompted her to study with master teachers, including a year of study in Florence, Italy where she explored the work of Vanda Scaravelli. Sandra's teaching style encourages an awareness of alignment with a heart-centred focus. Students of all levels are welcome.
Sandra's work is informed by a lifetime of exploration in movement, bodywork and dance. Her knowledge and understanding of the body is grounded in 18 years of ballet training, in addition to certifications in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Kripalu Bodywork and DansKinetics.
In addition, Sandra is a Gestalt therapist specializing in women’s health and fertility. Sandra creates community art installations using the universal elements of the Mandala and Yantra, in addition to leading yoga inspired retreats in exotic places like Bali and Tuscany, as well as closer to home in rural Ontario and the beautiful shores of Canada's Maritime Provinces. Please visit Sandra at www.breathprint.com
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Mark Maxwell
Mark qualified in Shiatsu at the European School of Shiatsu in '97. Shiatsu is a treatment based on the principles of Chinese Medicine using pressure and stretches to balance and unblock the subtle energy channels (Meridians) of the bodymind. An oil treatment helps to improve the flow of energy...So unlike many massage techniques it is very therapeutic as well as relaxing...
Whilst in Japan Shiatsu can be a rather painful treatment, the European approach
is more gentle but still highly effective for relieving all sorts of conditions...especially musculo-skeletal..clients can always ask for a soft
or hard session...
Mark has also studied Nutrition, Counselling, Stress Management and
Homoeopathy and has taught Chi Kung and meditation techniques which enables
him to give farely comprehensive complementary medical advice to his
clients...
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Claire Farman
Claire
has been practising yoga for
20 years. For the past 6 years she has been teaching, inspired
by healing herself through yoga after a serious back injury.
The yoga she teaches is Hatha based with a strong emphasis on
meditation and spiritual awareness. Her classes accommodate
both the beginner and more advanced student, leading to greater
flexibility, strength and stamina for both body and mind. She
teaches at Tri Yoga and Holmes Place in West London and specialises
in developing private yoga practices to suit individual needs.
She is also a qualified classical homoeopath and bodyworker.
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Mika
Mika started yoga at aged 21 with Baptiste Marceau, one of France's foremost Astanga teachers, who was later to become a good friend and mentor.
Mika was a musician at that time, though yoga had such a pull for him that he left Paris a year and a half later to concentrate on teaching.
Many people were asking for private classes, so he started to travel the world, from New York to Israel to give classes!
In 2002 he met a swami in India who offered to teach him tantric yoga. For the next 3 years he travelled between Paris and Rishikesh in India. For the last 2 years Mika has been teaching classes in Paris and continuing with his private classes.
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Granville Cousins
Granville has been practicing Yoga for 30yrs – 17 of them devoted to teaching. His Iyengar background has been enhanced by his time practicing with BKS Iyengar at the Ramamani Institute in Pune, India. He has been inspired to study with well known and respected Yogis such as Derek Ireland, Radha and David Swenson. Although Granville is recognized as one of the foremost Astanga teachers in the country, he is increasingly being drawn to the traditional practices of the ancient yogis. Granville places great importance on classical Asanas, Pranayama and Meditation which has led him to develop his dynamic yogAsana - a series of integrated asanas brought together in a flowing sequence concentrating on meditative awareness. His wide expertise enables all students to move confidently through his Yoga sessions ensuring everybody can develop their practice safely and with awareness.
Granville leads popular workshops and yoga holidays throughout the year in a friendly and relaxed way, with many yoga students returning year after year.
For more details about Granville's classes, workshops and yoga holidays please visit www.yogawithgranville.com
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Cheze Darville
Cheze' Darville, Transformational Hawaiian Bodywork and Energetic Healing
This style of bodywork has its roots in the ancient healing arts of the Hawaiian
Kahunas or Shamanic Healers. Performed using fluid movements designed to connect the body, mind and soul to Source allowing the body to participate in its own healing process. Deeply relaxing yet energizing by increasing your mana or life force energy. Clearing cellular memory of trauma and stimulating the lymphatic flow allowing energy to flow more freely in the body. Alot more than just a massage-its a healing experience leaving you feeling cleansed, renewed and nurtured.
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Deepa Moodgal
Deepa has been practising yoga for over 11 years, and has studied under
the guidance of some of the most renowned yoga teachers in the world. She
offers gratitude to her immediate teachers Shiva rea and Emma Henry who
continue to inspire her along her yoga path and also to her students and
friends for their continued support and encouragement.
Deepa's classes are strong yet nurturing - she encourages her students to
connect with their true feelings by breathing and staying present so that
they can begin to transform habitual patterns in their lives subtly.
In a class she will often work with the energy that her students present
to her rather than towards a specific structure or routine.
Deepa firmly believes that yoga is a universal path, it is much more than
movement on the mat, she encourages her students to take their movements
and breath into everday life so that they are able to embody the flow of
living and overcome challenges that they may be faced with.
She offers her practice and study of yoga to everyone, she believes that
yoga is a beautiful and invaluable gift for us all.
For more information on Deepa's classes, please visit www.deepaspirit.com
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Sean Udall
Sean has trained in conventional western sport and remedial massage techniques, anatomy and physiology and an ayurvedic bodywork technique known as chavutti thirumal; which translates as massage by foot pressure. Although anyone could find benefit from Chavutti it is closely associated with and particularly beneficial for yogis, dancers and martial artists whose muscle and connective tissue can become tired and overworked. Chavutti is applied by feet in both sweeping and isolated movements, freeing nerves and muscles from adhesions and re-establishing the gliding that should exist between the two whilst giving the bodies energy pathways a thorough irrigation. A powerful massage that is hard but soft, deep although remarkably sensitive.
Sean's application of chavutti is influenced by his work in corrective exercise and his long term practice of gymnastics and yoga.
After a number of years working and studying throughout south asia he is now based at Lords Cricket Ground in London and is also studying active release technique.
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Jenny Commerford
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Daniela Schmid
Daniela Schmid is a Vinyasa yoga teacher who has trained with Shiva Rea and has studied with numerous known and unknown teachers around the world (Ashtanga with Patthabi Jois in Mysore, Sivananda in Kerala, Anusara with John Friend, Maha Sadhana with Dharma Mittra). She is as well an Esalen trained massage therapist.
In a nurturing environment she will celebrate the natural rhythm of life at Ulpotha, guiding you through a solar morning practice, a challenging dynamic alignment based Vinyasa class, and a lunar afternoon practice experiencing the power of compassionate awareness through yin yoga practice, pranayama and guided meditation. Daniela will encourage you to deepen your practice, to go beyond the ordinary during this retreat and will weave yoga philosophy and massage techniques into her teachings.
Daniela is now based in Paris, France, where she has realized her dream opening a yoga studio: Rasa Yoga Rive Gauche. (www.rasa-yogarivegauche.com)
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Louise Dixon
Louise comes from a dance background and teaches contemporary dance.
She has always been inspired by the body, its movements and
intricacies and it was through an injury that she was lead onto the
path of therapy work. Louise trained in Shiatsu and has worked in
clinics in Brighton and London for several years. She very much
enjoys being part of the process of guiding somebody back to their
body and their truth by re establishing their energetic flow and
therefore promoting a more harmonious lifestyle. Louise is also
trained in Indian head massage and swedish massage.
Shiatsu Treatment
Shiatsu was developed in Japan more than 1400 years ago and works on
the same principals as acupuncture. Shiatsu Massage works to rebalance
the body's natural flow of energy which travels through the meridians.
This energy can sometimes become stuck which can cause disharmonies
and illness to manifest. By strengthening the vital organs, Shiatsu
works preventatively before weakness occurs. Unlike western medicine,
Shiatsu seeks to address the person holistically and not just their
symptoms.
For example, Shiatsu can help:
insomnia
headaches
anxiety
back pain
fatigue
poor circulation
weight problems
indigestion/ digestive disorders
chills/ flushes
poor appetite
chronic cases of rheumatism
high blood pressure
emotional difficulties
menstrual/ reproductive problems
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Cat De Rham
CAT DE RHAM HAS BEEN TEACHING FOR 15 YEARS.
SCHOOLED IN BOTH ASTANGA AND IYENGAR YOGA, SHE TEACHES FROM THE SPIRIT
OF ALIGNMENT.
AUTHOR OF 'THE SPIRIT OF YOGA'
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE FOCUSED ON
1 - A GROUNDING IN THE CORE PRINCAPLES OF ALIGNMENT
2 - EXPLORING ONE'S INTERNAL ENERGETIC LANDSCAPE THROUGH ASANA
3 - PRANAYAMA AND MEDITATION.
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Paula Weisman
Paula Weisman , originally from the U.S.A., is a dedicated student and teacher of yoga. She took her first yoga teacher training in New York City in early 2002, and began teaching that same year in the United States.
Later that year, she moved to Berlin, Germany to continue to teach. In Berlin, Paula completed a second teacher training, specializing in Anusara Yoga, and she also completed a teacher training in Pilates. She taught yoga and Pilates
in Berlin for almost 3 years.
In 2005, Paula re-located to Singapore to teach yoga there for 2 years. In 2006, she
completed a third teacher training with David Swenson, specializing in Ashtanga yoga.
Paula's classes are both fun and challenging, and her love of yoga is contagious. Her classes combine asana practice with breath awareness, leaving her students feeling uplifted and light.
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Esther Jones
Esther’s 10 years of extensive experience’s and knowledge of yoga allows her to easily adapt, adjust and accommodate all levels of abilities, encouraging and nurturing the individual to gain confidence not only in there yoga practices but in themselves.
Esther’s journey with yoga began in the East; she trained with The Sivananda Yoga Vendanta Centre, Kerala, South India. Her travels took her from the very tip of the country to the heights of the Himalayas, gaining a broad knowledge of the different tendencies and schools within yoga. She established the first school of yoga in Palolem, South Goa and taught at Ulpotha, eco village in Sri Lanka.
She is a fully qualified Yoga Therapist, having completed a 2 year, Yoga Therapy Diploma Course, Dip, Yth (YBT) with the Yoga Biomedical Foundation Trust, Islington, London and is inclusive on the National Health Service register of Complementary and Alternative Therapists.
She lives on the Isle of Man, and teaches courses on Vinyasa yoga and yin yoga. She is regularly hosting retreats throughout the year at Brightlife, Ramsey, IOM,www.brightlife.com.
Esther has a growing number of students, whom she is treating therapeutically, adapting yoga to help people with health challenges. Yoga therapy is more effective than general yoga practice as a safe means of treating medical conditions. It retains ancient principles of yoga, and works holistically on all levels of the mind and body.
Vinyasa Yoga - discover the unique energy and spirit of the yoga that can transform your life
The structure of VINYASA YOGA makes you go through an entire spectrum of postures, some of which are displeasing or difficult. The series work like a combination lock. If you do the right poses in the right order, the mind and body automatically open up.
Ultimately, the most difficult challenge in this “YANG” practice is not the mastery of specific poses, but the mastery of the mind. What counts is not the ability to stand on the hands, but the ability to keep the mind steady and the heart joyful, no matter what posture you are in.
Yin Yoga - for yoga practioners looking for something beyond physical postures, Yin Yoga address the deeper spiritual dimensions of yoga
Yoga as practiced in the west is almost exclusively Yang or muscular in nature. The Yin aspect of yoga (using postures that stretch connective tissue) is virtually unknown but vital for a balanced approach to physical and mental health.
The main difference between a Yin and a Yang practice are that Yin postures should be held with the muscles relaxed and be held for a long time. Yin yoga postures gently stretch and rehabilitate the connective tissues that form our joints.
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Devaki
Devaki has been practicing Yoga for 26 years now. In 1998 she undertook a teacher training course in the Sivananda Ashram in India. Since then she has been teaching yoga first in London and since 2003 in Sri Lanka where she now lives with her family.
Her teachings “offer us techniques to become aware, to expand and penetrate, and to change and evolve in order to become competent in the lives we live and to initiate sensitivity and receptivity towards one life of which we are still only dimly aware. We begin at the level of the physical body, the aspect of ourselves that is most concrete and accessible to all of us. It is here that asana (yoga position) and pranayama (breathing technique) practice allow us to understand our body with ever greater insight and through the body to understand our mind and reach our soul.”
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Les Smith
Les began a daily practice of Buddhist meditation and Iyengar yoga in 1987 which radically changed his life and around the same time started a 3-year study of shiatsu which gave him a new approach to understanding and dealing with health and disease.
He also fell in love with Astanga vinyasa yoga and avidly attended many workshops and trainings. He eventually finished the Astanga practice as it was giving him imbalances and injuries.
After completing 2-year Iyengar yoga teacher training, Les now is an enthusiastic teacher of Iyengar yoga! He finds it to be a more mature and complete form of asana and pranyama practice. It is not stressful on the body, and it is extremely useful in treating disease, misalignment and imbalance of the body.
His yoga classes inform and enthuse students so they can develop and refine their own yoga practice and heal their own injuries, ailments, posture problems and imbalances. His classes are friendly and relaxed. He likes them to be fun, informative, healthy, challenging and imaginative, and overall, not too serious.
Les's classes are tailored around the students, so that each persons program is modified according to their own particular needs. He has a light hearted, pragmatic and down to Earth style of teaching, which students respond well too.
Les leads popular workshops and yoga holidays with many of his students returning year after year.
For more details about Les's classes, workshops and yoga holidays please visit www.bendyles.net
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Florence Dugowson
Florence is both a teacher and therapist. Originally trained by Gerard Arnaud in Paris, Florence has broadened her knowledge of different yoga styles through first-hand experience of the various disciplines taught by the many teachers who have worked at Ulpotha over the years. She has also completed another teacher training in Mysore, India.
Flo teaches in Paris, mainly on a one-to-one basis and to small groups. As a bodyworker too she feels it is important to keep her eyes and hands on her students. She adapts her class intensity to students' needs and embraces the wide range of practices that yoga offers, from dynamic Vinyasa flow to the stillness of Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, and meditation. She uses Iyengar as the basis for her flowing breath-driven yoga which connects both to the inner self and to yogic principles. Interested in the link between the Ayurvedic system and yoga, Flo explores the therapeutic effects of a practice lived from within, using the breath as a tool through the Nadis to create movement where energy and matter have become stagnant. She enjoys teaching yoga as a pleasurable and liberating healer of body and soul.
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