Molino Del Rey
Teacher Information
2008
Leela Miller
Full week - 7 nights
Leela
Miller has been teaching yoga for almost 20 years.
She began teaching astanga yoga in 1990 under the guidance of Danny Paradise, and uses her knowledge and practice of other styles of yoga (including Iyengar, Sivananda and Shadow) within the astanga vinyasa method to present a style of teaching that emphasises alignment, flow and inner awareness where one’s own voice ultimately becomes the teacher.
Leela believes yoga is a powerful healing tool that can be applied to the body and the mind on all levels, individually or collectively. It is an infinite process of undoing incorrect knowledge about who we think we are, where the inherent intelligence of the practice awakens the same in the practitioner to unveil the truest expression of ourselves.
Joanna Najduch
Full week - 7 nights
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Joanna was inspired and encouraged to follow the path of yoga teacher
training after many years practicing and enjoying yoga classes. Her love of
dynamic flowing sequences led her to pursue Astanga Yoga Teacher Training
200 hrs Yoga Alliance which she completed in 2004 with Brian Cooper and Nawajyoti at Union Yoga in Edinburgh and Shanti Griha in Scoraig, Scotland.
Joanna continues to deepen her yoga practice and draws inspiration from
workshops and intensives with a wide range of well known yogis such as Sri
Dharma Mittra, David Swenson, Matthew Sweeney, Paul Grilley, Kausthub
Desikachar, Shiva Rea and Sarah Powers. She also continues to practice with
her yoga teacher Granville Cousins.
Joanna holds classes in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Yoga with Relaxation and Yin Yoga
in the Bolton and Manchester area. Yoga one-to-one – always available.
Jim Tarran
Full week - 7 nights
Vajrasati Yoga
with Jim
Tarran: Jim is a new and exciting teacher from Brighton. He teaches
Vajrasati yoga and both Jilly and Graham in the Free Spirit office
attend his classes and are happy to answer questions.
Jim Tarran attended his first Hatha yoga sessions in 1990 and began teaching on a small scale in 1991. In 1992 he travelled to India and whilst in Nepal completed a teacher training at the Patanjali Yoga centre. One year later he began running classes in Byron Bay Australia.
Returning to England in 1994 he began his Iyengar teacher training,
successfully graduating in 1996.
Jim’s
style of teaching has continued to deepen informed by his practice of
Buddhism and his desire to vitalize and inspire his own practice Jim uses
the tools of Yoga to fund a sense of engagement of life itself. “The form
reveals the meaning” he says “and the meaning develops the form.” In so
doing he has found more and more kinship with the whole breadth of the Yoga
tradition.
Jim runs "drop-ins", courses and days in the Brighton area and his popular
classes are known for their humour, humanity and depth. He also runs a
teacher training program on which students are taught all the prerequisites
of safe and well-informed Asana, mantra, Pranayama and meditation.
This re-flowering of the depths of Yoga Jim calls Vajrasati (unobstructed
awareness) and graduates from the teacher-training are encouraged to input
from their experience and creativity to this expanding pool of practice and
teaching.
Jim teaching in the jungle in Thailand
Heather Elton
Full week - 7 nights
Astanga
Yoga with Heather Elton: Heather
Elton teaches Astanga Vinyasa Yoga in the Mysore tradition and Vinyasa
Flow Yoga. Her classes include a challenging physical practice that
points to the magic that lies beyond the asana. She integrates spiritual
philosophy with breath and asana to inspire, challenge and exhilarate
any level of practitioner.
Heather began practicing Hatha Yoga in 1986. In the past decade, she has
studied Astanga Vinyasa Yoga extensively with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and
many of his senior students - Rolf Naujokat, John Scott, David Swenson
and Matthew Sweeney. She considers Nancy Gilgoff her main Astanga
teacher and has attended many Adjustment Clinics to learn the Primary
and Intermediate Series adjustments.
She completed her Teacher Training
with Richard Freeman (2004), and studied asana, pranayama & Kundalini
metaphysics with Sri BNS Iyengar (2008). On the Vinyasa Flow side of
yoga, she completed the Tripsichore Yoga Theatre Teacher Training (2002)
and considers David Life and Sharon Gannon (Jivamukti Studios) to be
inspirational people and teachers.
Heather
is also interested in shamanic techniques and the Tantric yogic/Buddhist
path. She did a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat in Myanmar
(2006) and is a certified member of Yoga Alliance (USA) 500 R.Y.T..
"My intention in teaching yoga is to inspire people to empower
and heal themselves, to release hardness and soften the body, to focus
the mind and cultivate inner space, and to take this knowledge off the
mat and into your life, so you can walk the earth with ease and grace."
www.eltonyoga.com
Lidiya Afanasyeva
Full week - 7 nights
Because
Russian Born Lidiya and her English husband Anthony are the owners of
the lovely Molino del Rey Yoga Centre in Andalucia, Lidiya has had the
ideal opportunity, of attending many different yoga classes, and
experience many different teachers, giving courses there
The daily programme consists of Morning & Afternoon sessions of 3-4 hours/day. Normally one session before Brunch and the next session before the evening meal.
There will be one day free, so that students have the chance of a longer excursion e.g the famous town of Ronda, Sevilla, Granada, Marbella, Malaga etc.
There is also plenty of time during the day for students to discover the wonderful nature reserve, in which the centres finds itself, just laze around the pool, look into the centre's secret caves, or visit nearby Spanish white villages to sample the famous “Tapas”!
Simon Low
Full week - 7 nights
Simon Low is director and co-founder of triyoga, the popular yoga and well-being centre in London's Primrose Hill.
Simon originally trained to teach yoga & advanced yoga therapy with Dr. Larry Payne in Los Angeles.
Simon teaches a unique and personal style of yoga, its origins derived from the teachings of Krishnamacharya and his primary students. He teaches at triyoga and leads yoga groups at residential yoga weekends and vacations throughout the year.