Sunra Yoga - courses, classes, retreats, holidays in the sun

yoga holidays : yoga diving : dahab : red sea

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.

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, counselor 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.

The Sunra Team

Monica Farrell
Yoga Teacher : Dive Instructor : Yoga Dive Instructor
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.

Nora Belton
Yoga Teacher, Practitioner of Reiki, Massage, Cranial Sacrotherapy & Reflexology, Singer, Dancer and Song Writer
Nora assists on most Sunra Yoga Teacher's Training Courses, focusing on the asanas with Barbara as well as chanting and yoga philosophy. Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion is an important part of yoga practice and we encourage people to get into it, but it is not imperative. With her angelic voice Nora helps people to find their own voice.

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 of law and has adopted Yoga as his life's mission.

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 and on holidays abroad.

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.

DAVID OLTON
Ballet, Contemporary Dance and Yoga Teacher
David trained at the Stella Mann School of Dance(ballet), the Laban Centre(contemporary dance) and received his yoga teacher training with the International Yoga School (A.I.Y.S). He also studied ashtanga yoga under Derek Ireland and Godfrey Devereux in the early 1990's.

His work as a dancer has covered every spectrum including Arlene Phillips' Hot Gossip, West End Musicals including Cats, Fame, Fosse (original London cast), Bombay Dreams (original London cast), Barry Manilow's Copacabana (original London cast), A Chorus Line, Oh What A Night, Boogie Nights etc. His numerous television appearances include a master yoga feature on channel 4's The Big Breakfast, GMTV, Royal Variety Performance, Top of the Pops, Blue Peter, Ant 'n Dec's Takeaway etc. He has also appeared in many pop videos, commercials (including Martini) and film.

David also works for Ministry of Sound and teaches Chillates (he is only one of two instructors in the world that Ministry have selected to teach Chillates) and the world famous Pump it Up dance aerobics.

A chapter on David's life as a dancer can be found in the book "High Kicks; The Essential Guide to Working as a Dancer" by Donna Ross.

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Sunra Yoga : Yoga Holidays in the Sun

Barbara Gordon

The Sunra Team

Monica Farrell, Barbara Gordon & Ali Gilling

Monica Farrell

Nora Belton

Swami Saradananda

Dr Prabhakar

Ali Gilling

David Olton