Kundalini Yoga Cambodia


    Kundalini Yoga Teachers in Cambodia


    Ann Sorita
    Rita is the first KRI certified Cambodian Kundalini Yoga teacher. She joined the Kundalini Yoga
    Group in July 2007 and passed the level 1 exam in December 2008. She teaches public and
    private Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes in Khmer and English at the Kundalini Yoga
    House. She conducts and supports special trainings, and teaches at the projects supporting
    kids and families living of one of the waste disposal dumps in Phnom Penh as well as with the
    community of people living with HIV/AIDS at Wat Opot.

    Together with Vannac Rita is assistant teacher on the level 1 Teacher Training programme
    and one of the lead trainers for Pre-Teacher training. She joined level 2 Teacher Training in
    2009. She will attend the KRI Training for Trainer / Immersing course in New Mexico in the
    USA.

    In addition to her teaching and student support tasks, Rita oversees the administrative tasks
    of Kundalini Yoga Cambodia, such as maintaining the student records, and the publicity. She
    also does the accounts, looks after the finances, and helps with translation of documents and
    with interpretation into Khmer during classes when needed.

    Yan Vannac
    Vannac studied massage techniques and worked at a spa before he started to work and
    teach yoga at Nataraj Yoga Centre in June 2005. He joined the KundaliniYoga Group in
    Cambodia in February 2007 and has been helping with translation of documents and with
    interpretation during classes. He is enrolled in the Teacher Training programme and teaches
    Kundalini Yoga classes in Khmer and English at the Kundalini Yoga House.
    As part of the outreach activities of the programme, Vannac teaches regularly Kundalini Yoga
    classes for staff of a Mother and Child Healthcare NGO. Vannac is one of the lead trainers for
    the Pre-Teacher training, as well as assistant for the level 1 Teacher Training Programma.

    In July 2008 Vannac attended the Nicky Knoff Foundation Programme in Australia and was
    certified as a Nicky Knoff Foundation teacher. In 2009 Vannac joined the level 2 Kundalini
    Yoga Teacher Certification programme, and will attend the 2nd level of the Nicky Knoff
    Foundation course.

    Sao Kanika
    Kanika started mid-2008 with the Kundalini Yoga Cambodia project and after initial Pre-
    Teacher Training she quickly started teaching at the House. She enrolled in the 2008-2009
    level 1 Teacher Training course. She helps Rita with administrative and financial work related
    to the project. She is also involved in the different outreach activities of the programme.

    Eung Kimhong
    Kimhong joined the Kundalini Yoga Team in the fall of 2008. Since then he has been
    participating in the Pre-Teacher Training and joined the level 1 course in February 2009. He
    now teaches regularly at the Kundalini Yoga House. Kimhong is interested in Yoga for Children
    and, as part of the outreach programme he teaches 4 classes per week to pre-school kids at
    The Giving Tree in Phnom Penh. He is also responsible for the publicity work for the Kundalini
    Yoga Cambodia programme.

    Seng Sela
    Sela started as a student in the Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes at Aziza School.
    Enjoying the breathing and exercises he started teaching what he learned during leadership
    training weekends of the Aziza programme. Soon he became assistant and translator in the
    classes at Aziza school. Enabling him to teach the techniques correctly and to know to
    benefits and effect was the initial reason to start Pre-Teacher training. Sela helps at the
    Kundalini Yoga House and teaches weekly classes at the 'Lakeside' community school.

    Hanneke Meijers and Tonie Nooyens
    Tonie and Hanneke are certified Kundalini Yoga teachers as well as practitioners of Vipassana
    and Tibetan Buddhist meditation. During their travels they have been teaching yoga and
    meditation, and have provided healing yoga and meditation and Reiki to groups and
    individuals in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. They are also teachers on the Level 1
    Kundalini Yoga Teacher Certification Programme in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Japan and
    Taiwan.
    Hanneke and Tonie have many years of experience in planning and management of poverty
    alleviation and livelihood activities in Asia and Africa, and have also been working extensively
    on human resource development, stress management and staff coaching, also using
    meditation and yoga techniques.

    In addition to their support to Kundalini Yoga Cambodia, Tonie and Hanneke provide stress
    management, communication and personal capacity training, and they teach Tibetan
    Buddhist yoga and meditation, and classes on different meditation techniques. They also
    provide healing and Reiki sessions.

    For more information go to:   www.joyfulbalance.org

    Georgie Treasure-Evans
    Georgie has been living in Cambodia with her husband and two small daughters since 2006.
    After many years spent working in communications/PR for NGOs she now spends her time
    looking after her children, writing about motherhood, and supporting mothers locally with
    breastfeeding and other parenting issues. She has practiced yoga for eight years and is
    enrolled in the Teacher Training programme. She teaches yoga classes for pregnant women
    and morning classes at the Kundalini Yoga House.
    Georgie is also studying a  foundation course in the Creative Healing Arts with Ragamuffin.

    Gilles Goepfert
    Gilles has been living in various countries for the last 16 years, mainly in Asia. His practice
    centered on Hatha and Iyengar Yoga and Zen Meditation until he was exposed to Kundalini
    Yoga in 2002. Gilles completed his Level 1 Teacher Training in Singapore in early 2007, and
    teaches whenever his busy schedule permits, including occasional classes at the Kundalini
    Yoga House.

    Anna Weil
    Anna is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher with experience teaching open classes, yoga for
    pregnant women, and kid's yoga in the United States and to expatriate communities in Russia
    (Moscow), Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Cambodia. She teaches occasionally at the
    Kundalini Yoga House.

    Contact us at:  info@kundaliniyogacambodia.org
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