Sunra Yoga, our yoga teachers and team...
Sunra Yoga
In 1990 Barbara Gordon 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
Yoga Teacher Trainer : Yoga Teacher : Masseuse : Psychotherapist
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 she has taught over a quarter
of a million people yoga and trained
many of London's now leading teachers. She
teaches yoga, facilitates courses all over the world and
to date has certified over 250 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.
Barbara is currently excited about the launch of Sunra's new Yoga Retreats she's designed.
The Retreats will be held in September, October and November 2011 at the amazing location of Tarabeen Beach in Neweiba on the Red Sea coast, north of Dahab. Chosen by Barbara especially for the purpose, a more exquisite location for a retreat would be difficult to imagine!
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 teaching yoga
and diving in Dahab, her home.
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.
Rochelle Elgin
Reservations : Marketing
Rochelle has been living and working in Dahab for the last 17 years. A former Diving Instructor, Rochelle now oversees all reservations and marketing for Sunra.
With her wealth of knowledge of the area she's be able to offer lots of additional information and assist in your booking process from start to finish.
With a passion for people, Rochelle's friendly, bubbly and energetic personality is something our guests comment on again and again.
Nora Belton
Yoga Teacher : Massage Therapist : Reiki Master
"My aim and my inspiration is to work creatively together with people in support of their personal evolution at the level of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
I find Hatha Yoga serves as a physical foundation for spiritual insight and expression. In my classes I hope to share my joy and reverence for this age-old practice, through Asana, Pranayama, Chanting, Self-Study, exploration of Yoga Philosophy and Meditation."
Ksenia Melnyk
Professional Yoga Instructor
Ksenia has over 10 years of personal practice experience and over 5 years yoga teaching experience in group, private classes as well as retreats and seminars in Ukraine and Egypt.
Currently learns from Andrey Rozhnov (Ukraine) and Natasha Ahmad (London). Besides yoga, Ksenia teaches freediving.
Rosie Sarkic
Yoga Teacher : Scaravelli Yoga Specialist
Rosie came to yoga as part of a natural progression of working with her body. "I was always interested in movement and communication. The feeling of movement and communication that contains a stillness within it. This was a concept I explored while I studied Sculpture and Photography, always searching for the dynamics of movement and stillness contained within a space.
My work as an artist exploring these themes complimented my yoga practice and led me to train at Morley College. It was through Vanda Scaravelli based training and the British School of Yoga, that I started to teach. I have taught classes and one-to-ones for 6 years.
I have practised Ashtanga yoga with Jenny and Sable from the Surya yoga centre and with Clare Calvert, who were all truly inspiring teachers."
Mike Farai
Tai-Chi Instructor : Masseur
Mike started practising Tai Chi in Stratford, East London (England) in 1998 under the guidance of Sifu David Levey, a protege of original Yang style family descendant Sifu John Ding.
Mike has been an active martial artist ever since delving into different aspects of the genre including yoga, not suprisingly, a very close relation of Tai Chi. Energetically spiritually and technically, ultimately the mind-body connection, connected by breath.
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