Weila Wu

A native of Suzhou, Weila Wu originally trained with an Indian yoga master and continues to upgrade her training with regular trips back. She placed second in the 2004 All-China Yoga competition and has been teaching yoga in Shanghai for the past Five years. She teaches Power and Hot Yoga as well as leading classes in Pre-Natal and Post-Natal Yoga.

A student of modern dance at the prestigious Shanghai Art School, Ms. Wu spent her formative years as a dancer in Shanghai and Guangzhou. All the while, Ms. Wu continued to cultivate an interest in the music she was dancing to, and by late 1990s she had given up her spot on the dance floor for a place behind the DJ booth and is considered to be one of China's first female DJs.

She now combines these two passions into Freestyle Yoga Dance. Click here for full details.

Matej Jurenka

His first real contact with Yoga came at the age of 20, with the discovery of a book called "Light on Yoga" written by B.K.S. Iyengar. Since then, he has been practicing Yoga regularly.

Matej is presently one of the world's most advanced practitioners of Vinyasa Yoga, conducting workshops, retreats and classes around the whole world. He has been teaching Yoga since 2001. Among the countries where he has taught are India, Spain, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Japan, Africa, Singapore, Slovakia, Cambodia and China.

He is also the founder of Shrivatsa Yoga - a unique method of realizing the full human potential.

Matej is deeply devoted to Mother Earth and her healing powers. He believes in ecological and environmental solutions, global peace and social justice. He connects to healing forces of the nature all over the world and follows vegetarian diet

Besides Yoga, he dedicates his free time to the studies of shamanic healing and the work with a sacred medicine called ayahuasca. Matej is also a certified firewalking instructor.

Please visit Matej's website: http://www.jurenka-yoga.sk/index2.htm

DOMINIQUE RENUCCI

I discovered yoga in 1975, four years after a very severe motorcycle accident. I practiced different styles of yoga, till I discovered and refined the beautiful vinyasa style.

I have developed my own style, based on Krishnamacharya's teachings, in an eclectic way integrating the best elements of other schools. I do not follow any system because a system is a closed universe: my style is utterly open. However I remain faithful to the ancient teachings of Yoga, and do not try to reinvent Yoga. I constantly study the Yoga Tradition in order to be grounded in it, and faithfully communicate the whole of Yoga.

I have run many intensive yoga retreats and teacher training courses.

I have also studied: Western anatomy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Japanese Shiatsu, Reiki, and Indian Ayurveda, as a complement to yoga.

I first taught yoga-asanas in 1991 in Nepal. Since then, I have lived in Asia, spending more than three years in India. Long ago I discovered non-tantric techniques of meditation, then went to tantric meditation, and finally reconnected with Dzogchen teaching (discovered in 1997). In 2009 I was away from China mostly to follow my dzogchen master, as I spent 3 months with him and his other students, practicing again and again.

Jose Shibu

Hailing from Kerala, Jose Shibu trained with the great South Indian yoga master Swami Sathyananda and by 1996 he was in the Aurbindo at the South Indian Yoga Institute in Bangalore. Later he went on to train at the National College of Yoga in New Delhi. In 2004 he received an intermational teaching certificate from the Kaivalyadhama National Yoga Research Institute. Jose has over ten years of teaching experience in India, UAE, Maldives, Mauritius and China.

Styles include Hatha, Hot Yoga, Ashtanga and Chanting.

Waylone

Waylon was born in the forest and mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
He spent the first six years of his life on the farm spending time with the animals and trees. His youth was consumed with a need to heal himself and help the world. Being open to anything new, he became interested in the nearby Hindu temple advertising yoga and meditation classes. From the moment he began his first experience with yoga, Waylon had found his home.  A new sense of mindfulness, vitality and happiness were discovered. In the temple he was privileged to have studied with many Sadhus, Baba's, yogi's and Mahatma's from India. Since he has travelled the world over studying and practicing with some of the worlds greatest teachers. He now travels teaching Zuddha Yoga and helping the earth and all its beings through music, community and simple sustainable yogic lifestyles.

Ben Finnerty

Ben Finnerty's yogic journey began long ago. He first started playing with yoga poses at a very young age as his mother watched the PBS series 'Yoga with Lilias'. He continued to use the yoga poses throughout his childhood as a means of playing within his body to explore what it was like to do so. Sometime in the late 1990's his friend took him to a yoga class, which was a little challenging and interesting as well. He then found a copy of the 'Sivananda Companion to Yoga' which he studied cover to cover many times through 2001. The poses were interesting, and the effects of inversions was tremendous. His studies followed him to study with some of the greatest modern yoga teachers in the USA. He has studied extensively with Rodney Yee, Ramanand Patel, Rusty Wells, Richard Freeman, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, and many others. He has completed more than 3 different teacher trainings with certifications totalling more than 1200 hours. His style is vinyasa. He has gone through various Vipasanna meditation training's. His teaching is especially adaptable to all body and mind types. You will do arm balances, inversions and backbends.

Alvaro Esteban

Educator, Yoga Instructor & Multidisciplinary Artist

Alvaro has had the opportunity to study and work diverse subjects in different countries. His journey through education started early in his childhood with Music, Sports and Martial Arts. As a teenager he began to explore other aspects of art, Dance and Theatre . This interest for physical expressions in-creased more and more so he decided to go deeply in the study of di-verse Traditions, Techniques, Methods as a, Yoga, Alexander Tech-nique, Feldenkrais Method, Eutony, Klein Technique, Tai—Chi, Akido, Acrobatics, Fencing, and Mime, among others. However Yoga and Dance were the subjects that captivated him and made him go deeper into these studies.

• Yoga: He has completed two teachers training “Sivananda” and “Yoga Vidya Gurukul” in India (Bihar School tradition), and has been taken classes continuously for more that eleven year in diverse styles like : Jivamukti, Anusara, Vinyasa and Power Yoga.
• Contemporary Dance: He graduated from University and has been learning and performing with many international recognized Masters.

In addition he has done Social Science studies and has Masters degree in Social Anthropology. This is the side of him that loves to work with community, share knowledge and educate. Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Brazil, Chile and China have been the places where he has had the chance to applied all these skills accumulated during his life that combined give a unique and exceptional result as a Yoga Instructor.

Nick Hsu

Nick Hsu, a citizen of the world, a cultural fusion of the east and the west. Born in southern Taiwan, Nick immigrated with his family to Vancouver, Canada at the age of 12, giving him a true gift of the life and education his parents didn’t have. Nick was a busy, active child. He was a competitive swimmer as a child, and while in high school in Canada, he was captain of both the basketball and volleyball teams. Nick’s passion for an active lifestyle led him to move back to Taiwan and become a personal trainer for four years in Taipei. Nick first encountered yoga at this point in his journey. John Ang, his first yoga teacher, taught him the art and beauty of yoga beyond the physical form. This sparked Nick’s passion for yoga and he started to travel all over Asia to attend workshops and teacher trainings. Finding himself working at California Fitness in Bangkok, Thailand, Nick began sharing yoga with his clients and co-workers. With a true passion for yoga, Nick returned to Taiwan teaching yoga at both True Yoga and Pure Yoga in Taipei. Nick truly feels that he has been blessed on his yogic path. He taught his first workshop in Tokyo, Japan last year at the Sun and Moon Studio, Meguro. Nick has a true admiration and love for the culture and people of Japan, but his love for other cultures is vast and he always looks forward to connecting with those from around the world with both yoga and life. It is his true passion to share with people a safe practice that is uplifting for the spirit.

With a heart of gratitude for all the teachers that have led him to where he is today, Nick would like to thank Richard Freeman, for teaching him the beauty of Sanskirt, Stephen Thomas, for showing him the beauty of taking it slow, Chris Arcuii, for explaining the importance of softening, John Friend, for building a sweet community through Anusara, Patrick Creelman, for leading by example and being a great friend in life. Nick also thanks from the depths of his heart his parents and family for always being there no matter where on the path of life he is. He wouldn't be the person he is today without all of those that have touched his life.

Maggie

Maggie's first exposure to yoga was 1997 while she was studying in Shanghai Foreign Language University. Since then she has reinvented her life from a professional Sales/Service Manager, to an inspiring and devoted yogi. Through her own non-stopped daily practices and started to take several professional yoga teacher trainings, she is learning to listen to her body, and live from her heart. Maggie has been practicing and teaching yoga for many years, her focus is on breath and core strength to build a strong, supportive practice, and she delighted to share her knowledge, experiences and passion with students. Maggie is as comfortable teaching to beginners as she is to advanced students, and her personal care and attention to detail make every class a joy to attend. Her classes provide a stimulating and safe environment to relax and begin to release pent up stress, emotion and anxiety through stretching, breathing and movement. Her clients included private individuals, international companies and health clubs.

Above all, Maggie's classes emphasize lightness, tenderness, fluidity and specially the breath awareness and yoga philosophies, in everywhere that she teaches, students are amazed at her ability and humility.

Maggie has been trained by numerous global recognized yoga teachers such as Lance SchulerDevid Swenson, Bill Arce, Duncan Wang, Mercedes Bahleda, etc.

Maggie is a wonderful teacher, and a true Yogi who leads by spiritual and action with integrity and passion.