About Sunra Yoga
Sunra Yoga
In 1990 Barbara opened
the Sunra Yoga & Holistic Health Centre in South
London, specialising in many styles of yoga and alternative medicine. She ran the centre and
also worked there as a yoga teacher, counsellor and masseuse.
In 1996 she sold the business to realise her dream
of living and working in the sun. Barbara currently
lives and works in the Sinai and India during winter,
and London and Ibiza during summer.
Barbara
Gordon
Barbara has been teaching
yoga for over 30 years. Born in Scotland, she started
her yoga studies in London, and from there went to
The Sivananda Ashram in Val Morin Canada, and studied
with Swami Vishnudevananda in the Sivananda style of
teaching yoga. Sivananda is a soft gentle style
of yoga with emphasis on breathing and relaxation.
Barbara then returned to London and set up the Sivananda
Centre. Since then, Barbara has taught over a quarter
of a million people yoga over the years and trained
many of London's now leading teachers. She
teaches yoga and run courses all over the world and
certified over 150 yoga teachers.
All Yoga Teachers Training Courses run by Barbara
Gordon and Sunra Yoga are accredited by the Yoga
Alliance, The accreditation, which is recognised
internationally.
The Sunra Team
Monica Farrell
Yoga Teacher: Dive Instructor : Yoga Dive
A professional
Recreational and Technical Dive Instructor
for 15 years and Yoga Teacher for 5, Monica
Farrell lives and works in teaching Yoga
and diving in Dahab on the Red Sea Coast.
Monica's encouragement, patience and care
are traits which our visitors comment on
time after time.
Since pioneering Yoga Diving in 2002, Monica
has spent her time between teaching the
Yoga Diving and Yoga Courses, assisting
with Sunra Yoga Teachers Training Courses and promoting the benefits of Yoga and
Diving throughout the world.
Swami Saradananda
Yoga Teacher
Swami Saradananda has taught yoga for 30 years, trained yoga teachers and led advanced training programme's worldwide. A senior, direct-disciple of Swami Vishnu-devananda, she is the author of a number of books, including Yoga Mind and Body. For
twenty years she edited the International
Yoga Life magazine. After
returning from an extended period
of personal practice in the Himalayas,
Swami Saradananda is now based
in London. She teaches advanced
training courses and workshops
worldwide - and leads frequent
pilgrimages to India.
DR. PRABHAKAR
Doctor of Philosophy : Yoga Teacher
Born and raised
in Hyderabad, India in 1956, Dr. Prabhakar
has been practicing Yoga for nearly 25 years
and has trained thousands of people in India and abroad. He has given up the lucrative profession
He has been enjoying teaching Yoga through
his specially flexible way of Yoga called
"Dr. Prabhakar's Ashrama Yoga Sadhana".
He has been disseminating the knowledge of
Yoga to whoever believes that one can gain
Health, Happiness and Peace of Mind at anytime,
as it is never late, irrespective of one's
age or health condition.
Ali Gilling
Yoga Teacher
Ali Gilling
began studying yoga in India in 1990. She
has since qualified as a sivananda teacher and has subsequently studied various methods
of meditation. She has been teaching regular
classes for the past 7 years in Oxford
Her passion for dance has found her studying
and enjoying Egyptian dance and 5 Rhythms
dance.
Manuel Ponce
Registered Osteopath Cranial Osteopath
: Yoga Teacher
Manuel teaches Anatomy and Physiology
on various Sunra Yoga Teacher's Training
Courses. As a yoga teacher he has a
wealth of knowledge of how the body
works and is affected by asanas. As
always he emphasizes safety methods
in teaching asanas and looking at how
all this is applied to the body whilst
practicing asanas.