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HK Yoga Teacher Series: Easyoga Ambassador Marcus Wong

3 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I started teaching community yoga about 4 years ago after a brief period of teaching private sessions. Once I started teaching group classes and felt how exhilarating the group energy could be, it was clear to me that there was no turning back, especially in Ashtanga when the whole […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Aleksandra Milewicz, Founder Of Bamboo Yoga

3 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I discovered yoga after moving to Hong Kong six years ago and instantly fell in love with it. Yoga taught me how to live in the present mindfully and patiently, as well as how to find health and happiness within. It made me feel more empowered, aware and grateful. […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: April Tsai Of The Water Lily Yoga Project

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? My mother’s recent death was my last push to truly embrace yoga as a profession: I completed my 200YRT Holistic Yoga Therapist training. This helped me to create a space for self-healing, which cured my grief-induced depression. I love healing people and teaching yoga gives me tremendous joy. I have been teaching […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Kelsea Bangora

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I started teaching yoga as a Bikram teacher in NYC in 2010. Before this, I had been practicing yoga for more than a decade in New York and was invited to attend an advanced yoga class for teachers. In this special class, I was surrounded by incredible yogis who […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Karen Holt

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I was suffering from injuries that I had sustained from years of dancing and yoga gave me relief from chronic pain as well as a stiffening body. After years exploring my own personal practice I realized I wanted to teach yoga. I took my first 200HR teacher training and […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Dee Cheung

3 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I completed my first yoga teacher training in 2011 in Hong Kong with Patrick Creelman and have since gone on to study baby yoga with Sally Lomas from Birthlight Baby Yoga, Children’s yoga with Jenny Smith from Gecko Yoga and Forrest Yoga with Ana Forrest. I also co-founded Stand […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Nadine Bubner

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I started my teacher training’s at Yoga Limbs in 2009 (Ed. Note: the school has now closed) and finished their excellent program in 2010 and have been teaching ever since. Where and what type of yoga do you teach? I teach SUP Yoga and baby SUP Yoga with Dee Cheung. I […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Win-Sie Tow

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? While producing documentaries and working for independent film festivals, yoga became my soundtrack to calm a scattered mind and treat back pain. In 2012, I completed the YogaWorks 200-hour training in NYC and have been teaching in Hong Kong ever since. Where and what type of yoga do you […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Meet Jessica Simkin Williams

3 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I became a certified yoga teacher in 2001. I started doing yoga with my mother a few years earlier and I found a teacher that I absolutely loved so whenever I was home from university I was attending her classes nonstop. Once I graduated from college, she really pushed me […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Meet Charlotte Douglas

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? I took my 250-hour teacher training at Yoga Limbs in Hong Kong in 2011. Sadly the school is no longer around but back then it was a fabulous place to study and practice yoga. Where and what type of yoga do you teach? I freelance, offering private and group […]

HK Yoga Teacher Series: Meet Hersha Harilela Chellaram

2 Mins Read How did yoga enter your life? In 2002, Swami Satchidananda (my Guru since childhood), suggested I spend a few weeks at his ashram to take a break from my stressed and confused life to sort my mind out. I took a yoga teacher training and never looked back. Where and what type of yoga do […]