MEDAN SPIRIT YOGA FESTIVAL
Meet Our Expert
Chirag Hakked
His yoga journey starts when he first attended Indian Philosophy (Vedanta) class, which impressed him so much about science, philosophy and purpose of life. Then, he decided to pursue Master Degree in Yoga. Chi has over seven years of yoga training and experience.
Chi also has conducted various Yoga instructor courses, conference planning and execution in India, China, South Korea, etc. Additionally, he specializes in many features of yoga such as advanced pranayama, kriyas, meditation and asana.
Christine Bulant
She is living in Indonesia for more than 30 years. She discovered Yoga with Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Olop Arpipi 15 years ago in Bali. Since, she is a dedicated student of the Iyengar Yoga method, she joined a teacher training in Australia with Senior Iyengar Teacher, Carole Baillargeon to become a certified teacher. She has been teaching regular classes and workshops in Indonesia. She speaks Bahasa indonesia fluently, though her classes are taught in English. For her Yoga development, she travels regularly to Australia & to the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune, India.
Jai Kumar
Jai holds a Bachelor's in Yogic Science and an Master's in Yoga and Alternative Medicine. Recipient of the Grand Master award from Yoga Alliance International and represents as a ambassador for yoga alliance international. Jai has over 12 years of experience training hundreds of students and treating around thousands of patients using yoga and alternative medicine. Jai has fine-tuned his expertise to include a wide range of healing techniques and well-versed in various aspects of yoga such as body alignment, yogic kriyas, asana, pranayama and yoga therapy.
Deera Dewi
A teacher with great attention to clear systematic knowledge of the body, Deera is known for her patience and understanding in ateaching. With many established studentsA and followers, Deera has wwdeveloped a path that surrounds her with positive energy that is felt through every practice sessions she leads. A spirited heart who has earned e- RYT500 and keeps searching to grow in many trainings around the world, Deera has also taught in all kinds of festivals, workshops, and events.
Her style is diverse, ranging from Hatha, Vinyasa and Meditation. Believing in self-healing as a tool, her background in sports, athletics, and martial arts has supported her teachings and compassion for a variety of students. Deera is a powerful motivator that will elevate your practice to a new level.
Maliana
Yoga has been a part of her life for over 7 years - which has helped her grow stronger, be more flexible and fearless both on and off the mat. Yoga always inspires her to live each moment more mindfully. She completed her 200HR teacher training in 2016. She likes to share her experience and knowledge to others. She believes that her guidance will help finding the connection between body, mind and breath, and create space to free the obstacles in the body. Yoga can help them feel comfortable and move their bodies with ease throughout their life. In addition, Ashtanga Yoga is her current Yoga style.
Yanti
Because of suffering from muscle ache and insomnia, she had decided to join Yoga class intensively. Consequently, her health problems above diminished. Furthermore, she has been in yoga world since 2010 and has deepen her knowledge about Hattha Yoga. In MSYF, she will teach flexibility for beginner through Yoga. She believes that body flexibility is body's ability in doing any movement without gaining any injury around body joint, muscle and the surrounding part.
Tarie
Tarie has started to learn Yoga since 2011 because she gain a lot of positive changes after learning Yoga. She feels more calm, more focused and does not experience excessive lifestyle. Additionally, she has learned deeply about Ashtanga Yoga since joining Yoga seminars that were held by certified Yoga masters from Pathabbi Jois.
Not only Ashtanga Yoga, she also teach other Yoga styles such as: Vinyasa Flow & Hatha. Currently, she focuses on teaching Yoga in Flow Studio, which located in Jalan Mojopahit, No.1C, Medan.
Cia Cia
Since 2010, Cia Cia has known Kamalini Studio. Then in the following year, she started to be Yoga teacher in Kamalini Studio (under guidance of Ms. Mariana). As time flows, she feels that the importance and her eagerness of learning yoga has been increasing.
Furthermore, pursuing her passion in Yoga as part of her life gives her so much positive impacts for herself. This is the reason why you will meet her perhaps in workshop of senior Yoga masters somewhere. She also thinks that Yoga therapy is interesting to learn about.
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Kaban Tandias
Kaban Tandias has known Yoga since 2013. He has pursued to learn it since then due to the positive effects that he always gain from Yoga, such as: calmness, challenge and self-control. He feels the joy of joining Yoga workshop held in both Indonesia and international scale.
He is currently active as Yoga teacher and introduce several yoga learning centre, such as: Flow Yoga Studio, Zucveda, Royal Fitness Centre & Cemara Yoga Studio as well. The style of his Yoga teaching method is Vinyasa Flow with approach of Ashtanga Yoga .
Soe Yen Ling
She began to know Yoga from Miss Mariana, who offered her to join yoga in Kamalini. After joining some classes, she felt one major difference - her body is so fit. Afterwards, she has been started to deepen her yoga knowledge since 2009 till today.
As her passion towards Yoga is getting bigger and bigger, she learned every single yoga style. In addition, her teaching method usually focuses on losing weight and it is believed that it is effective in shaping body muscle.
Juli
She first met with Yoga because of experiencing body ache 8 years ago. As a result, as she deepened her Yoga practice, her body ache became diminished and her visit to doctor was decreased as well. Hence, she felt curious and started to learn Yoga seriously.
She tried to find out why those organized Yoga moves are able to enhance people's health.She name Yoga as "The Science of Movement". Be aware of your movement - what she remembers from her teachers. Hatha, Vinyasa and Ashtanga are Yoga styles that she has executed.
Sandi
Since 5 years ago, Sandy started learning Yoga due to his high curiosity of Yoga. For his first time, he was interested in learning Power Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga & Ashtanga Yoga.
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Afterwards since he met Kamalini Yoga Studio, he decided to learn deeply about iyengar Yoga because he gained so many benefits from Iyengar Yoga. Some of the advantages that he gained is free from neck ache and waist ache. He also lost plentiful weight because of Yoga. Moreover, he has completed fundamental Iyengar course. He also has decided to unstoppably learn Yoga.
Mariana Sin
Mariana Sin is an experienced Yoga teacher who hails from Medan, Indonesia. She has been a practitioner and teacher for over 10 years, covering various styles like Hatha yoga, Vinyasa flow and primarily gaining mastery in the Iyengar method.
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Trained in exotic Bali, Mariana earned her vast experience as a student of noted teachers Ann Barros and Rita Kosasi. In 2017, Mariana received a scholarship from the Indian Consulate in Medan to attend training in the Svayasa University of Bangalore, where her studies evolved to encompass yoga philosophy and Kriya yoga. She has also taught in Adelaide.
Eva
Since 2012, Eva started her practice as an Iyengar yogini intensively under the guidance of Miss Mariana at Kamalini yoga centre.
Her love and passion in yoga brought her a great chance to deepen the learning of yoga at B.K.S. Iyengar Yogashala in Malaysia with the senior Iyengar yoga teacher, Sri Nanda Kumar. Then, Eva is finally certified as Iyengar Yoga Teacher after accomplishing all the trainings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For her opinion, Yoga gives impact mentally and spiritually in body, mind and soul. As she has gone through different chapters of yoga life, Eva knows for sure that ‘knowing yourself is the secret of life’.
Floriana Sundari
Her love towards Yoga has been started since 2011. The reason behind learning yoga is due to scoliosis that stormed into her life. Then, she tried lots of yoga style. Yet, asana exercise made her feel challenged, mindful and sometimes asymmetrical movement, etc.
Through yoga she finds limit and unimpeded, strength and flexibility, comfortness and fragility, spiritful and surrender. Besides changing physical condition, yoga brings calmness for her mind and heart.
Agustina
Since 2013, Agustina has met Yoga and fell in love with Iyengar style while being taught by Miss Mariana.
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She has felt Yoga is one of the ways to maintain both physical and psychology's health. Not just that, Yoga for her benefits in other life aspect. After knowing and gaining the benefits of Yoga, she then deeply learn Yoga by joining lots of workshop held by expert yoga teachers.
Francesca
In 2011 Francesca gave up her job to seek her calling as yoga teacher. She felt blessed to have met so many great teachers from many styles of yoga, each of whom have inspired and influenced her style of teaching in classes such as Ashtanga, vinyasa, hatha and yogawheel.
Francesca has earned E-RYT 300 advanced hatha yoga, E-RYT200 Advanced TT Bryceyoga, 100hours Noahmaze Yoga and lots of workshop. Although she is focusing her journey in the ashtanga yoga, she enjoys experiencing with different styles of yoga in her classes, to understand what best for different individuals. Francesca’s classes are often physically intense, but she takes an accessible approach and step by step in her teaching, so it is accessible for beginner and seasoned practitioner. To her yoga is not about pushing one’s physical boundaries, but rather self discovery into one’s heart which surpasses the commom misconception that yoga is purely physical. Yoga is the key to widen one’s consciousness
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