Our Gratitute
Our special gratitude goes to Swami Sivananda, without him this would not be possible
Centre Teachers
Mansoor
From a very young age Mansoor was acutely aware of the immense contradictions around him and of a feeling that somewhere, there must be a meeting point beyond all the conflicting religious and sectarian beliefs. His search took him through many spiritual traditions, in different countries and many cultural contexts.
For the last 17 years Mansoor has been teaching Yoga in the US, Europe and India. He is able to share and communicate this understanding in a remarkable and revealing way, creating a bridge between all the different traditions, East and West, ancient and modern and expose the underlying ever-present Truth. He has written several books, which are profound works of insight and revelation.
From a very young age Mansoor was acutely aware of the immense contradictions around him and of a feeling that somewhere, there must be a meeting point beyond all the conflicting religious and sectarian beliefs. His search took him through many spiritual traditions, in different countries and many cultural contexts.
For the last 17 years Mansoor has been teaching Yoga in the US, Europe and India. He is able to share and communicate this understanding in a remarkable and revealing way, creating a bridge between all the different traditions, East and West, ancient and modern and expose the underlying ever-present Truth. He has written several books, which are profound works of insight and revelation.
Peter Petrou
Peter began his yoga journey in Switzerland with his guru Mansoor in 2005, which strongly focused on philosophy, yoga scriptures, meditation (vipassana), pranayama and asana. Over the past 14 years Peter has received over 1000 hours of yoga training and continued to deepen his practice through studying Sivananda yoga in India. He is passionate about sharing the benefits he has witnessed from his own yoga and vipassana practice. For this reason he founded the Vedanta Centre in 2013 and continues to share his vision of yoga being an integrative practice between the mind, body and spirit. Peter’s classes focus on the dual aspects of yoga, of the breath being the vehicle for mindful practice, and the physical practice being the vehicle for the spirit's journey to higher states of awareness. Peter is also Reiki qualified, a Dorn therapist and Breathwork Coach.
Peter began his yoga journey in Switzerland with his guru Mansoor in 2005, which strongly focused on philosophy, yoga scriptures, meditation (vipassana), pranayama and asana. Over the past 14 years Peter has received over 1000 hours of yoga training and continued to deepen his practice through studying Sivananda yoga in India. He is passionate about sharing the benefits he has witnessed from his own yoga and vipassana practice. For this reason he founded the Vedanta Centre in 2013 and continues to share his vision of yoga being an integrative practice between the mind, body and spirit. Peter’s classes focus on the dual aspects of yoga, of the breath being the vehicle for mindful practice, and the physical practice being the vehicle for the spirit's journey to higher states of awareness. Peter is also Reiki qualified, a Dorn therapist and Breathwork Coach.
Maria Valvi
Maria Valvi was born in Greece in 1980 and since she can remember, stretching and flexibility was part of her everyday life. What won her interest and her devotion to yoga is the inner calm and peace that she found through the practice of sahaja yoga meditation. The ability of being an observer and distancing oneself from strong thoughts, in a nutshell to live in the present moment.
Maria traveled to India to experience yoga directly from its homeland; lived in ashrams and trained as a hatha yoga teacher completing the Patanjali "8 steps of yoga".
Regularly participating in yoga seminars both in Cyprus and abroad. Maria is also a certified Children's yoga teacher, Yoga Works 200h, Pregnancy Yoga and Tantra Yoga.
Studied yoga in Mumbai, India at "The Yoga Institute", in 2013.
In 2014, Maria taught yoga classes to children and adults in Santorini, Greece and in 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Maria Valvi was born in Greece in 1980 and since she can remember, stretching and flexibility was part of her everyday life. What won her interest and her devotion to yoga is the inner calm and peace that she found through the practice of sahaja yoga meditation. The ability of being an observer and distancing oneself from strong thoughts, in a nutshell to live in the present moment.
Maria traveled to India to experience yoga directly from its homeland; lived in ashrams and trained as a hatha yoga teacher completing the Patanjali "8 steps of yoga".
Regularly participating in yoga seminars both in Cyprus and abroad. Maria is also a certified Children's yoga teacher, Yoga Works 200h, Pregnancy Yoga and Tantra Yoga.
Studied yoga in Mumbai, India at "The Yoga Institute", in 2013.
In 2014, Maria taught yoga classes to children and adults in Santorini, Greece and in 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Svetlana Bogomolova
Svetlana began practicing yoga over 20 years ago whilst she studied medicine (general nursing), pedagogy (primary school teaching) and Finance and Economics. In May 2015 she finished her Hatha Yoga Teacher Training course (200 hours) with the Ghyta Yoga School, Athens, Greece. Yoga for Svetlana is an endless journey inside oneself which helps me to find unity within my body, mind and spirit. It brings me balance and harmony and helps me to stay calm and peaceful in everyday life. Her aim is to help my students to find this unity between breath and movement, body and spirit, individual and the Universe.
Svetlana began practicing yoga over 20 years ago whilst she studied medicine (general nursing), pedagogy (primary school teaching) and Finance and Economics. In May 2015 she finished her Hatha Yoga Teacher Training course (200 hours) with the Ghyta Yoga School, Athens, Greece. Yoga for Svetlana is an endless journey inside oneself which helps me to find unity within my body, mind and spirit. It brings me balance and harmony and helps me to stay calm and peaceful in everyday life. Her aim is to help my students to find this unity between breath and movement, body and spirit, individual and the Universe.
Kalia Maliali
Coming from an extended background in dance and somatic movement, the bodymind organ became an endless space and place of exploration for me; and this is the kind of curiosity I want to provoke in my students too. Each of my Yoga classes are different, and through intention, self-observation, pranayama and asana I aim to orchestrate an environment with minimal yet detailed instruction so that the participants feel and understand what and how they are doing. I mostly choose breath as our sound escort and instruction to go deeper more present into the body. I use hands on assists when needed. I am open to experiment, form and re-form my yogic path and I want to inspire that independence to others too
Coming from an extended background in dance and somatic movement, the bodymind organ became an endless space and place of exploration for me; and this is the kind of curiosity I want to provoke in my students too. Each of my Yoga classes are different, and through intention, self-observation, pranayama and asana I aim to orchestrate an environment with minimal yet detailed instruction so that the participants feel and understand what and how they are doing. I mostly choose breath as our sound escort and instruction to go deeper more present into the body. I use hands on assists when needed. I am open to experiment, form and re-form my yogic path and I want to inspire that independence to others too