2014.10.11-12 | Yoga Spirit Festival Malaysia

TWO is Better Than 1 Promotion

Extra savings of MYR298 when two persons register together before 18 September 2014 for YOGA SPIRIT FESTIVAL MALAYSIA. Hurry up sign up today for Couple Package only MYR1300 with full package of 2 pax accommodation, delicious food and enjoyable full day Yoga & Dance workshops.

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A wholesome Yoga Festival in 5 Star Luxury Resort comes with full package of accommodation, delicious foods and enjoyable Yoga & Dance workshops in Malaysia. Yoga Spirit Festival created to embrace and celebrate the yoga community in Malaysia, is back for a 2nd year expanding their event offerings by providing 20 master class sessions throughout the 2 days to choose from, with several styles of yoga that are practiced throughout Malaysia. In addition to the 20 master classes, there will be talks on nutrition by health experts and fitness, meditation and dance classes to make the whole program more holistic and fun! Spirit Supported by www.ispirit.asia

EVENT INFORMATION

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Deepak Kumar is more commonly known as Deep, hails from India.

He began his journey into yoga in 1994, and followed the manner of traditional yogis the art and science of yoga by learning at Tapovan Dhyan Dham Vidhyapeeth, a classical yoga ashram located at the foothills of the Himalayas . Thereafter, he pursued the advanced yoga teacher training course at the world renowned Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute. He is trained in various Asanas styles Iyengar, Ashtanga, Hatha, Yogic Therapy, Yin Yoga, Meditation, healing and specialized in yoga breathing (Paranayam) and other aspects of yoga for the purpose of health, healing and rejuvenation. His love for Patanjali Yoga sutras (Yoga Philosophy) has made these sutras contemporary to modern society. His deep understanding of anatomy physiology and psychology helps students to go deeper into Yoga practice with traditional and modern approach.

Deep is a ERYT-500 affiliated teacher with Yoga Alliance (America), also part of the International Yoga Federation (Europe) and a registered teacher of Kavailyadham (india) Apart from conducting yoga teacher training programes in Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Egypt and Holland, Deep is also a Corporate Yoga Trainer, and has conducted over 100 workshops on Healing the different systems of body .He specializes in mind-body medicine and has had the opportunity to observe how psychosocial stress and anxiety, depression, anger, pain or relationship problems can affect cardie-pulmonary, gastroenterological, immunity, and practically every biological function. He believes we can utilize mind-body techniques such as yoga postures, breathing exercises and laughter and meditation for mental-physical relaxation and stress management, to lead a better quality of life through health. In the spirit of yoga, he has given free classes to various charity organizations like cancer societies, and has recently published a book on yoga therapy for common ailments such as anxiety, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, backache, etc

“Yoga to me is a way towards freedom, freedom from physical problems, freedom from mental and emotional slavery, absolute freedom”  – Deep

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Anna Suvorova dreams of a better world. She is a writer and Reiki master with a Master’s degree in Russian Literature who teaches Yoga and Meditation and will answer to the title of ‘Raw Chocolatier’.

Anna was born in Ukraine in 1968. Her Ukrainian mother is an absolute food magician, who loves books and animals. Her father was in a Russian military having new assignments every year, so Anna’s traveling around started at a very early age.

Anna was always an unusual child, an “old soul” as she has been called by her magical grandma, and could not speak properly until late 20s. She has lived with a compromised autoimmune system since very early age, and she had to do a tremendous work on herself to overcome the effects of the physical abuse until the age of 15.

Anna’s passion for truth and beauty, consciousness and Harmony led her to have a Master Degree in Russian Literature and language, to study psychology, hypnotherapy, Reiki, nutrition and philosophy, including her beloved yoga.  Having to fight for her right to feel well, she chose to stay away from medication, trusting she would find her way to health naturally (or die naturally:-)) Since then she has embarked upon a unique journey of self-healing, self-discovery and liberation. Anna likes to joke, “If it had not been for Yoga, Love and Raw chocolate, I would not even bother landing on this planet.”

My mission is to spread the message of Heart Consciousness, Unity, and Light through the teachings and practices of Yoga

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Jason Moriarty. A rebellious conditioning coach, Jason questions all we hold true in health and fitness and finds it lacking, he dislikes working out, but loves to have fun with movement. He believes we have simply been doing it wrong “gyms are bad for your health and soul”. The food pyramid and hitting the gym 3 times a week has failed.  We need a new approach.

Jason is a former kick boxing champion, and has competed in sports at national and international levels. Including squash, cross- country running and hurling a modern Irish sport with its roots based in training warriors.

With over 20 years in the business working with athletes from Golf to Motor Sport, weekend hero’s to soccer mom’s and even the hit show Asia’s Biggest looser. He has distilled it all into short, fun, effective routines.

Jason has developed a number of unique concepts helping people find the fun in exercise. These include a Ladies Only Gym, Rebel Boot Camp and Tattoos and Tofu a fitness programme aimed at teenagers. Fit to Lead, and the Health Shift Programme.

A coach who brings passion and creativity to all his programs showing his clients how to enjoy the journey to a healthy lifestyle. Jason has trained countless people on the road to weight loss with his results guaranteed programs. Models such as Amber Chia, politicians and leaders of industry.

He is often invited to speak at the American Council on Exercise, as well as other forums and regularly contributes to national and international publications. Jason brings all this experience into his sessions, teaching people the techniques he teaches elite athletes and leaders to succeed.

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Melissa Smith is a mother, writer, 500 E-RYT, founder of Grace Yoga and Grace Yoga Retreats.

After teaching in the group fitness world since 1991, she began practicing primarily Yoga and Pilates prior to the birth of her first child, in 2001.  Yoga Alliance RYT® 200 by Inspyrayoga, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
Yoga Alliance RYT® 500 in yoga therapeutics, Yoga Teacher Trainer with Yapana Yoga,
Thai Yoga Massage, Yoga therapeutics, and Partner therapeutics, AcroYoga certified Teacher, Writer/contributor for Elephant Journal and Rebelle Society.

Grace Yoga Retreats offers affordable experiences all over the world with the theme of Love and Service to the community we are in.

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Ganesh Upadhyay was brought up in the yoga tradition since a young child in Nepal and India. He has been practising for over 20 years and has studied yoga at the Vivekananda Yoga University in Bangalore, Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, Bihar School of Yoga in Munger and KPJ Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore. He holds a Master in Sanskrit and Vedic Philosophy from Banaras Hindu University, and frequently participates in yoga conferences around India.

Ganesh is a highly enthusiastic teacher with bounds of energy and creativity, and is extremely willing to share his knowledge and experience. He has a natural flair for understanding the human physical, energetic and mental faculties which enables him to help every individual to work to his or her fullest potential.

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PARUL MEHTA is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. A lawyer by training and a mother of 2, she is a practitioner of yoga for more than 20 years. Parul started teaching yoga in 2000 and found full expression in the Iyengar Yoga tradition in 2004 under the tutelage of the late Karin O’Bannon, a highly respected Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher. With her frequent trips to Pune, she has studied with The Iyengars themselves – Guruji BKS Iyengar, Geetaji and Prashantji. In addition, she has been fortunate to journey her learning with the best of senior Iyengar teachers – Birjoo Mehta, Faeq Biria, Usha Devi and Peter Scott.

Parul says: “Yoga has always been the one constant through my life. It is expressed in my dance, my singing, and even in my training in law”.

Parul teaches with a passion and moves to inspire her students to connect with themselves, physically, mentally and spiritually. She infuses in them the confidence to aspire to reach their potential. Her sincerity and personal guidance to each student in her group classes, bonds her to them.

Parul holds Iyengar Yoga classes in mainly two suburbs in Kuala Lumpur –  Hartamas and Mont Kiara – and at the BKS Iyengar Yogashala. She also has long standing corporate clients who acknowledge her contribution to their wellness programme. She has taught at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh in 2005 and at various international retreats over the years.
As a teacher committed to ongoing learning, Parul organizes yoga retreats for her students to sanctums in Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world and Thailand.

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Jean Michele Lee (ERYT-500) began her teaching career in 2005 after completing a three month teachers course with Manasa Yoga. In April 2013 Jean completed her 500hours teachers training with Manasa Yoga where she teaches regularly and she is a freelance teacher teaching with Fitness First, True Fitness and has long standing corporate clients here in Malaysia.

Jean’s classes are essentially wisdom based and she continuously strive to swirl the concepts of Patanjali and Tantra into her yoga sequences.Jean loves watching and seeing her students evolve and change, physically, mentally and emotionally. Yoga has shown how powerfully we can connect at all levels.

As a teacher and as a practicing student with Manasa, Jean herself  is ever growing. She has along the way in her 9 years of teaching come to accept her incapabilities and balanced that with the knowledge that there are still infinite possibilities.

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James Wong has been practicing yoga for more than 10 years & has been actively teaching for almost 8 years. He is an ERYT200 Certified US Yoga Alliance teacher & Yoga Trainer. James  is fun loving, gentle but can  also be dynamic in his yoga classes; accompanied with his creative sequencing and good coaching skills. His classes emphasizes a lot of foundational and functional anatomy aspects of yoga which he adopts his teachings from various yoga backgrounds such as Vinyasa Flow, Iyenger, Asthanga, Hatha Yoga, Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, Kundalini, Pranayama Yoga and many more.

He learns his yoga from various renowned teachers such Noah Maze, Christina Sell, Tiffany Crushank, Kathryn Budig, Martin Kirk, Amy Ippoliti, Patrick Creelman, Marla Apt, Erica Mather (Forrest Yoga) & Kino McGregor. In recent years he has also developed skills in Zen Thai Massage learning from great teachers such as Saul David Ryle and Gwen Williams which he incorporates into his trigger point Yin Yoga classes. James feels that one of the greatest gift of being a teacher is seeing students progressed well physically, mentally and emotionally through their yoga practices in both Yang and Yin aspects. Currently, he teaches Gentle, Dynamic, Advance & Hot Yoga which concentrates on both alignment and power classes according to the level of students. He also organizes Yoga retreats for his students and corporate companies as well. He is also a Pilates Trainer for JW Pilates Method program in which he has designed and currently running the training programs.

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Maizan Mansor Ahern (BSc, BA Ohio University, USA) has been practising Pilates and Yoga for over 11 years. She is Principal/Owner and Senior Instructor at Prescriptive Fitness in Perth, Australia. She offers integrated health and fitness services to her clients which includes Chi Gong Meditation, Pilates, Yoga and General Nutrition. She is passionate about health and fitness of mind and body.

In her journey beginning with a back injury in 2001, she discovered pilates for rehabilitation and obtained a Pilates Instructor Certification from The Meridien Pilates Studio, Vancouver, Canada. She proceeded to practise Chi Gong and Ashtanga yoga as a natural evolution to have a well rounded practice in conjunction with Pilates.

 

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Balraj Pannu’s passion is to empower you with all the natural options available to connect and grow your relationship with your inner intelligence.

Balraj read law at Keble College, Oxford University. After a few years practising law at the most profitable law firm in England (in their London and Hong Kong offices) he felt the void and decided to do something useful. He retired from law an­d decided to visit India to see what the big fuss is about meditation.

He ended up staying in India a year and a half longer than expected. There he lived in Rishikesh, the Yoga Capital of India and the last town before the Himalayans mountains start. As things go, he found himself volunteering at a Meditation Research Institute acting as intermediary between scientists from US and European universities and the Himalayan Yogis who maintained amazing meditation disciplines. With his legal background, he tried to navigate both parties’ requirements as he looked for answers to his own questions.  Destiny then made him a Kundalini Yoga teacher.

Balraj is now completely convinced of the bodymind’s inner intelligence. Our bodies always send us signals on what is good and bad for us. However, we have adopted a culture of ignoring these important signals. After a while the bodymind stops sending signals and this loss of intelligence, this faint change of vibrations in the quantum field, present itself as an illness or as part of the aging process. Fortunately, this process can be reversed and you can be in complete harmony with your inner intelligence.

Conscious living. It’s not a movement. It’s just the way it is now.

 

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Zhen As a yoga instructor and as a practicing student with Yoga Deep. Zhen believes in the healing power of Love. Sharing and Support. Love and Trust through the understanding of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Tao Te Ching.

Zhen has soft and gentle voice. Students appreciate Zhen’s unique ability to create flowing of the energy with comfortable sequence and also building up the flexibility and strength that challenging without injuries. She always encourage her students to understand their body and its limit and to also have a variety of variations so that students can do what is good for their body.

 

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Michaela Hasenauer is originally from Germany and has lived in Malaysia since 1999. Having been a yoga practitioner for many years she enriched her knowledge and practice further when she arrived in Asia. Michaela studied under several well-known Senior Iyengar Yoga Gurus from Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the USA. She became a qualified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and started teaching in 2004. Besides running her own yoga studio in Country Heights, Kajang, she is conducting classes at Yogashala in Taman Desa.

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Matthew Kemp has practised Yoga since he was a teenager. He lived in India for 7 years where he learned the yoga technique in Shivanada. He studied further Pranayama, Meditation and Yoga Asanas at the KryaYoga Ashram under Swami Shanker Ananda Giri. He also studied Ashtanga Yoga at Mysore.

He has been in Malaysia since 2006 where he teaches intermediate and advance level classes.

Since 2009 he has developed a strong interest in the Tripsichore technique (movement with breath) under the teaching of Edward Clarke. It is the key component of his teachings today.

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Sasa Chian is an accomplished dancer and devoted yogi since 1999. She expresses herself through Ballet, Street Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Aerial Dances, Latin Dances, Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Yoga in all forms (Yoga Alliance 200hr).

Sasa is known for her creative flairs in infusing dance, acrobatics, and yoga. Sasa is Asia’s first fully certified instructor by AcroYoga Montreal currently living and teaching in Malaysia.

Throughout her life, Sasa has continuously drawn on her personal strength and playful attitude to seek out adventures and overcome challenges. This is why she is drawn toAcroYoga and what makes her an enticing instructor. Through Sasa’s magnetic energy, you will bask in her love for the moment.  The authenticity of her presence is vibrant which makes her a beacon for life!

AcroYoga: Teaching for Change
“Tell me and I may forget, show me and I may remember, involved me and I will understand” – Chinese proverb

Sasa believes that the practice of AcroYoga can be a powerful tool for affecting change in people. Her classes are always challenging yet refreshing, empowering yet caring. Those who attend them often discover new things about themselves, the world around them, and the beauty and joy that is AcroYoga. This unique experience enriches our soul and brings life to our breath.

In AcroYoga we create a sacred space for connection, communication and a channel for healing touch, safe intimacy and community. The greatest reward is seeing the spark in every person’s eyes lighting up the room during a “WOW!” moment!

Personal discovery: Through my personal practice of AcroYoga, I am convinced that we are all craving for unconditional love and the sense of community through compassionate touch. I want my students to shine from within, to nurture their creative expressions, courage through strength and tenderness.

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Anwaar Beg Moghal a bollywood dance instructor and performer, been performing for 10 years, he as done tv commercials and tv serials for Bollywood, so come over and  enjoy an  energetic bollywood dance with him.

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Kacey graduated from University Putra Malaysia and had a degree in Bachelor Science Dietetics. Since her graduation, she has deepen her interest in enhancing health awareness among the community and thus has chosen to be part of the community settings instead of the hospital settings.

Since 2012, she had been providing health talks to the community with the objective to increase health awareness and nutrition knowledge among communities. Chronic diseases are increasing, and prevention is always better than cure. Health is wealth, taking care of health through healthy diet and lifestyles are important in daily life! She started joining the organic company on 2012 with the hope that organic food can help more people in enhancing their health!

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Carina Lipold is an expert in health and wellness on an individual and corporate level and is one of the leaders and the health & wellness industry in Malaysia.

Her passion for this field started in her early childhood, when we was diagnosed with a genetic disorder that cannot be cured but the burden can be lessened with a healthy lifestyle. After experimenting with western and alternative health, as well as diets and others, she  found her personal path to well-being.

Passionate to pass this knowledge on and help others, she did her Master Degree in Health Management in Austria, became a certified NLP, NS and Hypnosis Practitioner and obtained further certifications as Obesity Trainer, Nordic Walking Instructor etc.

This knowledge she refined in one of the world’s best wellness resorts such as Rancho La Puerta in Mexico and Six Senses. At Six Senses Qatar she was building up and leading the new Holistic Health department where she provided coaching, workshops, corporate wellness programs and invited international health & wellness experts to the location. Due to the success of those offers she was sent to provide training to other Six Senses locations in the region such as Kuwait and Oman.

Beginning of 2012 she started her own company “CL Consulting” in Malaysia where she provides consulting services to the leading spa & wellness companies as well as coaching and personal training for individuals. Since becoming independent, consulting projects have brought her to Thailand, Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Austria, Egypt, Germany and Italy. Additionally projects in 7 other countries were handled fully virtually.

Together with Elke Wollschon, they opened together Delicious Detox Delivery – a hip new company making healthy nutrition easy by delivering organic, natural & raw food to the customers office or home. The company goes beyond food and offers workshops, food preparation classes, coaching’s, retreats and corporate wellness programs. Being the only fully raw kitchen that delivers food and more, they have been featured by magazines such as New Strait Times, The Star, Flavours, BFM radio, Natural Health Magazine and more.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Journey Within Your Own Body with Deep
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Neo Hatha

Strength and flexibility both are the sign of healthy body and happy mind. Do you have both? This particular sequence is based on the rules of Ancient Traditional Hatha Sequencing and Yoga therapy Rules. This series is a part of Deep’s Neo Hatha Yoga Teacher Training. He has worked on hundreds of people all over the world and has given healing effect to them with this sequence. This whole series will give you power and relaxation to enjoy your life with full on energy.
1. We will start healing from lower body by balancing yin and yang in quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, adductors and gluteals muscle to give proper range of motion to hip joint.
2. Strength and flexibility of upper body by stabilizing and mobilizing the shoulder girdle.
3. Firing up the deep erector spine with all superficial muscles of back and extending the whole spine by stretching the front core rectus abdominals, hip flexors and pectorals muscles.
4. Stabilizing the core especially the transverse, external internal obliques with rectus abdominals and deep back multifidus muscles to develop the strength from centre.
5. Learning the tilt of pelvic with the extension of lumbar, thoracic and crevice spine will move the Prana into whole back of your body from heels to fingertips.
6. Deep rotation and opening of spinal vertebrae of your spine with stable and squeezed core.
7. Finally we will end by balancing your endocrine, nervous and hormonal system.
Are you ready for a journey into your own body?

All That is Bound will be Unbound with Jean 
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: Intermediate (but beginners are welcomed, there is always an option)
Style: Vinyasa

Drawing from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. In his 1st chapter 2nd verse he says Yogashchitta vritti nirodaha – Yoga is the dissolution of fluctuations in the consciousness.
The monkey mind binds us to unwholesomeness , to matters that keep us sticky and stuck, and we allow our egos to rule and dominate. With this sequence, there will be an interplay of binding-unbinding sequences, which is intended to create skillful awareness in us that we do not have to be bound and attached to habits and traits that keep us stuck.

Power Core Flow with Maizan
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Pilates

A strong practice encompassing Pilates core principles to support a flowing yoga sequence. This class will take you through a journey of reconnecting to your centre in order to increase your mental as well as your physical strength!

Myth of Organic Food and Farming with Kacey
Talk duration: 60 minutes

Organic food are getting famous nowadays, however, there are a lot of myths about organic food and farming. What are the truths behind organic food? Let’s explore together!
In this talk we will cover:
·       Introduction of organic food and farming
·       Common myths about organic food
·       How to choose real organic food

The Upside Down World (Inversion) with James
Class duration: 90 minutes.
Level: Intermediate

James will teach us to explore our Uddiyanna Bandhas – with the Bandhas breathing and Nauli breathing & Kriya Cleansing which will be part of the foundation to arm balances and inversion. James strongly highlights the use of our bandhas to make our poses lighter and easier to achieve. He will be sharing poses from arm balances to inversion poses. The mystery of the core and bandhas will be revealed to our hand balancing yogis! Be ready to breath, drip, be yippie Upside down!

Self-Love is the Secret with Anna
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels

This gentle yet strong practice consists of a yoga flow, twists, and supine poses that are all focused on creating a strong feeling of self-acceptance. It encourages breathing with awareness into the experience of each pose. It is a beautifully flowing practice that takes us inward and teaches to listen to the body… And respect its messages (or limitations).
It is about Learning to be where we are right NOW… Not only on our yoga mat, but also in our lives. Self Acceptance is a powerful energy that creates space. Space for love, space for silence… Space for a deeper relationship with what lives through us.
It is finished with a delightful savasana (preferably using bolsters and pillows). The purpose of this unique yoga practice is to connect to the deeper sense of Self – the life force that dwells within all of us.

AcroYoga with Sasa
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: AcroYoga

What is AcroYoga?
AcroYoga is the practice of being in the moment and finding balance with the other – Eugene Poku, Co-founder ofAcroYoga Montreal, Canada.
Learn the skills of “moving” and “connecting” with another person within the disciplines of AcroYoga. Sasa will lead you into a series of movement exploration games, counter balancing practices and the basics of taking flight, solid basing and spotting in this workshop.

Magic of Chakras: Move your Energy and Strengthen your Chakras with Deep  
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels

Chakras are our life force energy. All of our life is governed by them. They are connected with our actions, thoughts and emotions. Fear, guilt, emotional repression, doubts and self condemnation block the flow of energy into them. In Patanjali Yoga system there is a specific way to heal and unblock your chakras through sounds, posture, breathing and meditation.
Deep will guide you with a specific way so you can understand your conscious, subconscious and unconsciousness. Once you know how to heal them, you can do it by yourself any time, any where. By practicing this you will find that in your daily life you will be more healthy, happy, joyful, confident and loving.

AcroYoga Lunar Healing Arts with Melissa 
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: AcroYoga, ThaiYoga Massage

Explore the lunar side of the AcroYoga practice with floating therapeutic postures where everyone has an opportunity to base, spot and fly. Thai Yoga massage will top off our evening of therapeutic bliss.
All levels of experience welcome and no partner necessary.

Ashtanga Primary Led Series with Ganesh
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Ashtanga

Ashtanga Yoga is a 5,000 year old set sequence of postures designed to bring incredible, strength, flexibility and endurance to the body and a sense of stillness to the mind. This strong intro class will teach the fundamentals of ashtanga yoga, sun salutations, ujjayi breath, energy locks and vinyasas to prepare the student for the full primary series of ashtanga yoga. Ashtanga’s intensity can also invoke positive life transformations off the mat, helping you to live fully, with a deep sense of Self, in your daily life.  The Ashtanga (“eight limbs”) system is a deeply spiritual practice helping you to connect to your soul and to God.
Ashtanga Primary Series: Also known as Yoga Chikitsa (Yoga Therapy) This class refers to the full primary series of the ashtanga system, as taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. This flowing, set, sequence of postures utilizes ujjayi breath and bandhas (energy locks) to increases muscular strength, flexibility, concentration and to deepen one’s connection to Self and God.

Taste of Life with Yoga Active Breathing Techniques and Meditation – Sunrise on Sunday with Deep
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels

An early morning practice to move your Prana (Chi, Energy) in the body. A blend of traditional yoga breathing techniques with yoga active meditation. Latest scientific researches has shown that yoga breathing and yoga meditation are more effective to heal the body and mind rather than yoga postures . They have very fast effect on your nervous and endocrine system which governs your body. This session is perfect if you want to heal your body, mind and want to discover deeper effect of yoga. Deep will guide you with Bandhas (Yoga Energy locks), Nauli (Stomach rotation) a traditional and scientific way to activate seven chakras. He will share the secret that how you can slow down your aging process by using old ancient yoga techniques.

Refine from Head to Toe in Standings with Michaela
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Iyengar

“An asana is not a posture which you assume mechanically. It involves thought, at the end of which a balance is achieved between movement and resistance”. (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Standing asanas are the basis of  the practice of yoga. Mastering this basis will then easily guide you into all other asanas. In our morning class at the of the festival you will be introduced to a few techniques involving the use of props to refine the alignment in standing postures.

Tripsichore Yoga with Matthew
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: Intermediate (comfortable with inversions)
Style: Tripsichore Yoga

Tripsichore Yoga, a unique creation by Edward Clark or you could call it as a modern contemporary style of yoga. It blends gracefully dance choregraphy with the yoga discipline (primarily works on a variety of bandhas & breathing principles). Tripsichore pronounces – Trip-sic-Uh-ree, the chore is pronounced like the beginning of Choreography. The name is derived from the Greek muse of Dance Terpsichore.
The practice helps you to be present mindfully and to focus on each move , each breath, each transition in the extraordinary Tripsichore Sun salutation variations. This class would be recommended for those who are already comfortable with inversions or headstands.

The POWER of Your CHOICE with Anna
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels

This empowering Yoga Practice is focused on our choice-making mechanism. It brings us to a point of understanding how every day; every moment we have choices to make.  Our experiences of life depend entirely on this simple understanding. Once we are aware of it, we are in a position to change our life.
~The POWER of Your CHOICE~ practice is a graceful flow of asanas where each participants have a few variations of the same pose. It encourages listening to the body as much as the instructions of a teacher. Inner and outer worlds are connected 🙂 It creates a feeling of connectedness to what is within and puts us in a position to choose wisely what works for us, honoring our Uniqueness.
This class is for those who need to get in touch with their own power to make decisions and stand for themselves. It builds CONFIDENCE and personal POWER.
It ends with a savasana and a beautiful Heart meditation leading to oneness… to remind us that out power within is there to serve the world’s Harmony as much as to serve our own.

The Art of Twisting: From the Outside In with Parul
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Iyengar

Cleanse and refresh by wringing out the toxins and lackluster from the muscles, tissues and organs. Free the hips and shoulders. Twist for a happy and healthy spine. Twisting Postures will help restore your spine’s natural range of motion, cleanse your organs, and stimulate circulation.
An Iyengar Class with an emphasis on alignment will focus on lengthening and extension of the spine to work into twists. We will work with postures that provide a fundamental understanding of twists and work towards some deeper twists in standings, seated postures, inversions and supine postures.
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”… BKS Iyengar

Kundalini Yoga with Balraj
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga has many different sets (Kriyas) for different results, for example Kriya for: Lungs and Circulation, Strengthening the Aura or Pituitary Gland Series.
This class is to allow you to explore a variety of techniques and results that are part of ancient yoga history, but have been mostly side-lined in recent centuries.  Just like the various Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Kung Fu in China, Yoga in India grew in different directions at different times.  Allow yourself to experience the powerful variety of kriya options available under Kundalini Yoga

Amazing Reflex Ball Therapy with Zhen
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Yoga Therapy

Shoulder pain or tight upper back or stiff neck? Headaches? In this class, Zhen we will be targeting the shoulders and whole spine.
Do you love to heal your own body? Zhen will help you release muscle knots and open binds in the myofascial tissue that envelops the body. You will learn new and different creative ways to to go deep into your MYOFASCIAL connective tissue. You will:
* stretch, work, and refresh the body from head to toe
* learn practical tools to relieve your own aches and pains
* walk out taller and lighter
Get ready for some creative, fun and therapeutic Yoga therapeutic reflex ball therapy.
Open to everyone. No yoga experience necessary. Especially perfect for anyone with any kind of musculoskeletal pain, injury, restriction or tightness of the body.

Restoration and Neo Yin Yoga (Anti Aging) with Deep 
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels
Style: Neo Yin

What we are looking in our life ? A moment of happiness and relaxation. This is the class for you to learn the art to relax your body and mind by using ancient Indian and Chinese wisdom.
Neo Yin Yoga is a modified version where you will focus on your joints and help your joints to lubricate and follow the pattern of a noble prize winner’s posture theory.

Ener-Chi with Maizan
Class duration: 90 minutes
Level: All Levels

A Practice for Life… maintaining a terrain of peace and tranquility for ultimate health and vitality. An anti-aging practice which starts from deep within your physical body – the organs, the endocrine system etc carried through breathing, meditation and gentle flowing movements. Experience the change within yourself!

TICKET PRICES
Single Package:
MYR799 for 1 pax
Couple Package: RM1,300 for 2 pax

 

Festival Ticket includes:

  • 20 master classes to choose from
  • 1 night room accomodation at Awana Genting Highlands (Twin Sharing)
  • 2 x Lunch, 1 x Breakfast, 1 x Dinner, Tea Breaks
  • Goodie Bags and Lucky Draw Prizes

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Please make payment to the following account and email bank-in or transfer slip to yogaspiritfestival@gmail.com

Bank Account name: YOGA DEEP
Acount info: CIMB BANK 8600603184

Ticket will only be confirmed once payment has been received. Any cancelation – 50% refund before 21st September, and no refund after 21st September 2014. Thank you