Kissamos teachers 2012
Our Schedule:
A morning session is scheduled for around 7.45 a.m.
At 10.00 a.m. a large breakfast is provided leaving the majority of the day clear for other activities.
There is a further yoga session from 6.00 to 7.30 p.m.
followed by dinner as scheduled - on other nights we eat out.
Anusara Yoga
Helen Say
Helen
Say - Anusara Inspired Yoga Teacher
Helen has been practicing yoga for 12 years,
teaching for 4, studying with many different teachers & styles (Hatha,
Astanga, Iyengar, Anusara).
Having trained in alignment-based Hatha Yoga at TriYoga in London she has
gone onto complete teacher trainings in the uplifting, flowing style of
Anusara Yoga
As an Anusara Inspired teacher she is passionate about sharing yoga with
everybody, yoga to benefit all using the Anusara Universal Principles of
Alignment and incorporating Shiva/Shakti Tantric philosophy into the
classes. She sees yoga as a tool for expansion and freedom in every aspect
of life.
Since Oct 2009 she has been on the road travelling and teaching, mainly in
India, Thailand and Bali. She sees her own self practice as a way to deepen
her knowledge and exploration of yoga both on and off the mat. Teaching
gives her opportunity to share her knowledge whilst continually learning and
growing from her students. She has been fortunate enough to have studied and
assisted with Anusara teacher, Bridget Woods Kramer during her classes,
immersions in London, the Bali Spirit Festival 2010 and 2011 and at
Bridget's Yoga Teacher Trainings in Bali.
Helen
teaches from the heart in a playful, joyful and fun way focusing on helping
everyone express their own beauty and using Partner work to help students
support one another in order to reach their true potential and push each
others boundaries.
She has also developed a greater depth and passion for incorporating the breath, Hathenas and Pranayama into her teachings and practice.
Additionally she is practicing Dynamic Thai Massage, Osteothai and Planetarium Singing Bowl Therapy.
Our week of yoga:
Following the Anusara principles throughout & weaving in a heart theme, the
morning class will be based on a dynamic practice to revive and awaken our
spine, heart and mind; allowing us to start the day with a feeling of lightness
& freedom.
Through a playful dance of asana, restorative yoga, Thai yoga massage, chi gong
& meditation, incorporating breathwork throughout, the therapeutic afternoon
class will be a chance to explore our bodies: bringing back mobility in our
joints, restoring the natural rhythm of our spine and the free flow of energy,
whilst getting in touch with our inner essence of being
Helen is both Yoga Alliance' Certified and a recognized by the British Wheel
of Yoga, as well as Anusara Inspired.
" The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark Van Doren
May 29th - June 5th
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Hatha Yoga
Paula
*This week is with a yoga group from Finland, instruction will be in both Finnish and English. You are very welcome to join them.
Please note that this holiday is from Monday - Monday to match Finnish flight times
" Yogabeats "
David Sye
"Yogabeats" with David Sye
David Sye, listed as one of the top ten Yoga teachers in the UK and a Yoga Elder, has developed over many years "Yogabeats", his own brand of Yoga.
Yogabeats has now been touring in various festivals, cities and countries, gaining international success and recognition.
He has been practising yoga for over 20 years in International locations such as America, India and Israel. His “gentle power” yoga fuses Hatha, Astanga, Mridu and Vini. Gentle at the beginning and end but with dynamic and powerful periods at the core.
A regular teacher with Free Spirit Travel, David will take you on a journey to touch all your senses. The Yoga class is for all levels and is driven by music that matches the pace and the flow of the Yoga
Jilly in the Free Spirit Office regularly attends David's holidays and is happy to chat and answer questions.
It is an enjoyable and fun class, the ages of yoga students attending David's yoga holidays range from 20 to over 70, including beginners and yoga teachers.
It really is yoga for everybody!
www.yogabeats.com
Flowing Hatha Yoga
Amy Redler
Flowing
Hatha Yoga with Amy Redler
Amy is a health and well being expert with over 20 year’s experience of working with individuals and organizations as a yoga and Pilates and baby massage teacher and Thai Yoga Masseur. Her background is varied from working in 5 Star spars to drug and alcohol groups, schools and adult education s well as teaching on overseas yoga holidays.
She has studied
extensively in Thailand and India and is Director and co founder of the Metta
College of Thai Yoga Massage in 1991 where she runs Diploma courses in Massage,
Yoga and Pilates classes.
Amy was named one of London’s best complementary health practitioners in The
London Evening Standard, and her work has been quoted and acknowledged by the
media over the past 10 years, appearing in numerous publications such as The
Times, The Sunday Times; Vogue; The Scotsman on Sunday and London’s Time Out,
Shape Magazine, Tattler and numerous other heath magazines. She has appeared on
BBC radio Scotland talking about yoga and has also appeared on Breakfast TV.
Our
week
During the week’s workshops we will learn ways to release tension, allowing the
spine to lengthen, to awaken lazy muscles and calm down busy ones, learning to
breathe and move more freely.
Particular
attention will be given to breathing, to the work of gravity, and to the
releasing of unnecessary and unhelpful muscle contraction and tension through
breathing techniques and postures.
Amy’s style of teaching is precise but flowing, fun yet structured. With an emphasis in releasing blocked energy and restoring the body’s natural ability to enjoy and recuperate.
This course is suitable if you are a complete beginning in yoga or a teacher with many years experience and anywhere in between having the golden opportunity to spend some quality with yourself and take some time out of your busy life.
picture right: Amy's 2010 group
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For more information about Amy visit her website at http://www.yogamassage.co.uk
Dynamic Yoga and Yin Yoga
David Olton
Dynamic
Yoga and Yin Yoga with David Olton
We are thrilled to welcome back David Olton, a favourite Free Spirit yoga teacher.
David trained in ballet at the Stella Mann School of Dance, in contemporary dance at the Laban Centre and received his yoga teacher's diplomas with David Swenson's Astanga Yoga Teacher Training, the Sivananda YSM, Sunra Teacher Training and The International Yoga School.
Your Yoga week with David
On this week in Crete David will teach a dynamic morning yoga class and then a yin evening class (slow mindful yoga).
To find out more about David's yoga style do visit his website at
www.davidolton.com
Background: David is the Yoga and bhangra dance teacher on skys fitness 282 channel. His work as a yoga teacher and dancer has covered every spectrum including Television, Film, and West End Musicals.
Recent TV appearances include a guest slot on the Alan Titchmarsh show demonstrating Yotox, and a featured slot as the Tantric sex guru for a Channel 5 series. He also had his own slot as 'Master Yoga' on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, where he taught yoga to many celebrities.
He has been featured in many newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad, and has also contributed yoga and dance related Articles for Yoga & Health, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Yoga magazine.
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July 17th - 24th
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There is no yoga at this venue from July 24th through to August 26th
" Yogabeats " extended break
David Sye
"Yogabeats" with David Sye
Come for 7,8 or 9 days
David Sye, listed as one of the top ten Yoga teachers in the UK and a Yoga Elder, has developed over many years "Yogabeats", his own brand of Yoga.
Yogabeats has now been touring in various festivals, cities and countries, gaining international success and recognition.
He has been practising yoga for over 20 years in International locations such as America, India and Israel. His “gentle power” yoga fuses Hatha, Astanga, Mridu and Vini. Gentle at the beginning and end but with dynamic and powerful periods at the core.
A regular teacher with Free Spirit Travel, David will take you on a journey to touch all your senses. The Yoga class is for all levels and is driven by music that matches the pace and the flow of the Yoga
Jilly in the Free Spirit Office regularly attends David's holidays and is happy to chat and answer questions.
It is an enjoyable and fun class, the ages of yoga students attending David's yoga holidays range from 20 to over 70, including beginners and yoga teachers.
It really is yoga for everybody!
www.yogabeats.com
Flowing Yoga and Pilates
Alessandra Margarito
This is a week devoted to improving core strength and body alignment. There
will be a Flowing Yoga class in the morning and a Pilates class in the
afternoon.
Alessandra is an intuitive yoga teacher who is experienced at guiding students
of all levels though the fundamental steps of their yoga practice. Her clear
teaching approach is strongly influenced by studies of anatomy giving her an
understanding of how to ease bodies of all shapes and sizes into a comfortable
beneficial practice.
The morning Yoga class will be based on the precision and breath work of Hatha
Yoga with emphasis on flow, to create an uplifting, yet grounding practise. We
will work in a progressive manner throughout the week, building a foundation for
a strong integral practice exploring both classical and creatively sequenced sun
salutations. We will be using the awareness of the breath to aid movement and
use movement as a focus for relaxation and will finish the morning practise with
some restorative yoga.
The early evening class will be a creatively adapted Pilates matwork session,
drawing from both the classical and the evolved repertoire, with emphasis given
to moving to the rhythm of the breath. Over the week we will be exploring a
series of sequences which will tone and strengthen the whole body thus perfectly
complimenting the morning yoga practice.
Alessandra's creative approach to body alignment will benefit anybody who wishes
to experience greater energy, dynamic relaxation and a sense of freedom in
movement.
Alessandra enjoys teaching at all levels and runs workshops and retreats all
over the world as well as running her own Yoga and Pilates studio in London.
For more information about Alessandra go to her website
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Dynamic Yoga
Sasha Norton
Dynamic
Yoga with Sasha Norton
Sasha Norton views the practices of asana and pranayama as a preparation for the deeper practices of concentration and meditation. Yoga is a systematic training of the physical body, breath, senses and mind in attempt to achieve spiritual union and self-realization.
Although this may not be the aim of every practitioner ('and indeed was never my
intention when I first turned to yoga for stress relief'), the techniques and
methods are also effective in relieving physical and mental tension and
encouraging a greater sense of well-being. Strength, flexibility and stamina are
welcome by-products.
Sacha's
preference is for a dynamic, physically challenging style of asana practice
leading to a deeper state of relaxation and preparation for meditation. However,
this is carefully balanced with the students' own needs and abilities and
classes are constructed in an organic way to meet these needs.
Where possible, the following elements are covered in each session: sun salutations, (flowing) standing postures, balances, core stability, backbends, twists, inversions, forward bends, savasana (relaxation) and pranayama (breath work).
A variety of postures and techniques are used as appropriate, with modifications as necessary to suit individuals.
Classes are not suitable for pregnant ladies.
Hatha Yoga
Jackie Coulson
Hatha
Yoga with Jackie Coulson
Jackie has studied many forms of Yoga over the last 12 years, including Hatha, Iyengar, Vajrasati, Astanga, Sivananda & Scaravelli.
She holds teaching certificates in Hatha and Vajrasati Yoga and is Yoga Alliance 500hr accredited. She has taken great joy from inspiring her students in Brighton for the last 4 years. Jackie's teaching style is creative and fluid, partly due to her broad inspiration across disciplines.
Her Vajrasati training helps bring in a meditative feel to her Hatha flowing practise, incorporating the core principles of Sthira Sukham (finding the balance between strength or effort and ease) as well as an emphasis on postural awareness. Jackie's interest in the body also took her to India to study Yogic massage.
The morning
classes will have a fluid, playful nature, incorporating some gentle
sequences, flowing through postures with deep breath awareness, to
invigorate the body and mind.
The evening
practise will generally be more restorative and meditative. Even when the
practise is challenging it will be deeply relaxing. We will also be
exploring Pranayama (breathing techniques) and simple Mantra (chanting).
Jackie is known for her nurturing and supportive style that welcomes all
abilities.
www.exhalebrighton.co.uk
Dynamic Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Celest Pereira
A
professionally trained dancer and marital artist, with a BSc (Hons) in
Physiotherapy; Celest is a yoga teacher with true depth of knowledge and
awareness on the body, how it works and what it can do.
Her love for yoga started ten years ago in London and this love for yoga took her on a journey to India, the spiritual home of yoga, seeking to really understand the philosophy and history of this great discipline and art form.
Celest describes yoga as a 'living art' because in her eyes it keeps changing and transforming itself, adapting to the environment and the challenges the practitioners face.
Her
teaching aims to deepen intensify her student's understanding of, not only their
body; but the nature of their minds as well; always using the breath to bridge
the gap between the two. Her passion is working with city professionals; giving
them the tools that they need to lead increasingly healthy and balanced lives.
Stemming from her dance background, Celest teaches a Dynamic Vinyasa Flow class
that links the asanas (poses) together into a challenging but therapeutic
practice.
Interspersed throughout the hour and half practice, she breaks down advanced asanas to suit the individual, always mindful of each student's capabilities, while motivating them to advance beyond their preconceived beliefs of what they thought they were capable of.
It's this approach and Celest's unique personality which has led to the same students learning from her over the last 7 years
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Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga
Beth Win
Dynamic
Vinyasa Yoga with Beth Win
Beth 'UrbanYogaMonkey' would like to present the opportunity to go deeper! for
longer!
More time to explore, let go and move towards a relaxed, centred, flexible and
liberated YOU
"UrbanYogamonks" is an expression of the Yogamonks Method, which Beth has practiced for nearly 10 years. Because the 'how' of learning directly affects the 'what' a playful humorousness and lightness underlies every session.
In learning with the openness and curiosity of a child we engage with a sense active interest without strain or effort. In this way the body opens up and speaks through sensation teaching us yoga!
Our 'active interest' awakens spontaneous states of yoga within every action and between every action. Daily practice on my retreats mean the tools for transformation and long lasting change are offered on a plate. Expect a dynamic, challenging, playful, precise yet deeply relaxing and centering practice.
All levels are welcomed with a simply curiosity, interest and willingness to
move away from that which restricts towards that which liberates beyond all
conditionality.
About Beth
I began exploring the physical and emotional through movement aged 4 and
continued via dance, and martial arts to professional level aged 25. I also
studied psychology with particular focus on learning and behavioural patterns.
The inter-relatedness of all things has always held my fascination with yoga
being a vehicle in which to explore them all with a scientific like objectivity.
I use the Yogamonks Method to stimulate the muscle of awareness as its this
awareness that reveals the connections to our conditionality and more
importantly, to our hearts.
When Yoga awakens the heart, the awakened heart can move with gentleness,
clarity and openess throughout ones entire being, where one can experience
lightness, joy and the present moment.
For more information on Beth's yoga style and classes visit www.
urbanyogamonkey.com
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Flowing Hatha Yoga
Ali Gilling
Flowing
Hatha Yoga with Ali Gilling
Yoga is my passion. It has become a huge part of my life. My search
began in India 18 years ago where I lived for two years studying
with my yoga teacher on a 1 to 1 basis. I became so inspired I
continued exploring different styles of yoga around the globe...
Qualifying as a Sivananda teacher in 1998, followed by a 10 days
silent meditation retreat (Vipassana).
Being inspired by my many teachers, my classes focus on flowing
creative sequences of gentle yet dynamic yoga, synchronizing breath
(pranayama) and body (asana) together.
Fusing a mix of my different styles of yoga and dance background
offers an inspiring blend of strength and flexibility, power and
ease. This allows the student to go deeper into the practice
depending on the ability sometimes weaving in visualisation and
meditation.
Recently I have facilitated ‘Visualisation and Goal Setting’
sessions for the senior division of the Metropolitian Police. Twice
a year I teach on yoga holidays in Egypt, India, Ibiza and Morocco
and run 1 day workshops.
I also work as a massage therapist at the NHS trust, Dorchester and
Hilton hotel. I have worked with Adult Education, Women’s Refuge,
Mental Health.
October 16th - 23rd
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