Our Yoga Teachers

Jax May Lysycia United Kingdom)

Warning & Disclaimer
Practising yoga with Jax can create serious feelings of happiness & contentment which may in turn alter other people's responses to you. This could quite possibly enhance every aspect of your life.

See Jax in NIKE TV Interview 2011
See Jax Teaching Morocco 2012

Jax is author of several best selling Yoga and Pilates books and is a freelance health & fitness writer, physical education teacher and a European NIKE yoga presenter. Her primary objective besides inspiring others to lead healthier lifestyles and become more physically attuned is to help people to BE more peaceful within themselves and to provide a platform through breath and movement to challenge people to grow in whatever capacity.

Jax has studied with some of the worlds best teachers (Anna Forest, Pattabi Jois, Godfrey Devereux, Edward Clark, John Scott and Paul Grilley). Her style follows no set of rules in isolation of the extensive 17 years training that she has undertaken (ashtanga, vinyasa flow, dynamic, acro and Yin Yoga) and instead she prefers to work with her groups & students on what the body needs rather than what the mind thinks the body needs!

A strong yet compassionate teacher who will teach you to become less concerned with the physical asanas and shapes and more attuned to healing and regeneration through the dynamic practice. Sensitivity to your true self and relaxation are key factors.

Lucie Beyer (Germany)

Yoga(BYV) - and Acroyoga-teacher, trained in Hawaiian massage, Clown, acrobat and educator with enthusiasm. Her special subject is an experimental movement research where she connects elements from the yoga, acrobatics and dance. With a lot of joy she teaches child yoga and works in circus projects.

Lucie did a two years training in Sri Shivanandas tradition and studied Anusara Yoga with Bridget Woods Kramer. She collected her experience in Ashtanga, Jivamukti and classical Vinyasa. Even so she is dancing and flying in her acrobatics, Yoga will always be her foundation and her path of life.

She loves to sing mantras during her lessons and to add bodywork or massage technics. Her main focus is to combine the playfulness and the discipline within yoga practise.

So everybody is welcome in her classes to find his own special way to and with yoga!

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Krista and Brock teach 'Bala'nce Yoga

(bala) nce yoga* is Brock & Krista’s blend of inversional vinyasa flow; bala is a Sanskrit word meaning strength. Therefore, in this practice, we use our strength to create balance.

What a wonderful way to use your power to cultivate harmony, clarity, grace, and peace.

In this style of practice expect to spend a good deal of your time upside down, or in an arm balance, challenging gravity and using your roots to find wings.

About Krista

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Krista fell in love with the practice of yoga in 1999 when she took her first Ashtanga class with Tim Miller. Since that day she has devoted her time and energy to exploring the numerous dimensions of yoga, both as teacher and student. "I look forward each day to the possibility that my practice both on and off the mat can promote a greater awareness in our immediate need for global peace and unification. ALL is ONE." Krista teaches workshops and retreats around the world and has regular classes based in Los Angeles. Krista teaches a vigorous Vinyasa Flow class filled with challenging armbalances and inversions. She believes that our obstacles are our greatest blessings. Krista and her husband Brock Cahill live their Yoga together in Venice Beach, California.

About Brock

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Brock began his training at yogaworks, in santa monica, where the style is heavily based in the classical ashtanga and iyengar methods. he was lucky enough to have been mentored by some of the finest teachers on the planet including; annie carpenter, chuck miller & maty ezraty, heath house, and seane corn. these fine people taught brock the roots of yoga, how the roots of the asanas directly correspond to gravity, and how the body interacts with earth. it was from here that he developed the strength and the confidence to take flight. brock continually tells his students, "gravity is strong. you are stronger." practice with him for awhile and you most certainly will be. as soon as YOU believe it... anything is possible. gravity is, of course, a law: a rule. after we have learned the rule, we can break it, we can bend it, we can ride on it.

Now 41, Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga for more than 26 years. He initially studied in Hawaii with David Williams, the first person to bring Ashtanga yoga to America. He then studied in India with K. Pattabhi Jois, the main proponent of Ashtanga yoga. Kest has been teaching yoga for 21 years. "My primary objective", says Kest, "besides turning more and more people on to a healthier, more peaceful lifestyle that continually challenges them to grow, is to teach a system of exercise that fully integrates the body, mind, and spirit.

The new trend towards yoga is not surprising, given that the body is limited and the mind is limitless. The combination of body and mind creates an incredibly broad range of fulfillment, including top physical condition and a calm, peaceful, clear mind."

Tammy

Experience the beautifully energising practice of Shiva Reas Prana Flow sequences that help to restore vitality and radiance. Blended with some deep opening postures and chakra balancing to feel grounded and centred.

"To live in the present moment is a skill that can be developed through yoga. When practicing yoga it is helpful to approach and engage in each asana as if it’s the very first time. In doing so, yoga becomes art where something new and beautiful is always learnt.

Having practised yoga nearly half my life, it’s an integral part of me. Like a parent, it gives me strength, confidence and guidance.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga is accessible for all, no matter how flexible, strong or fit (or not!) that you perceive yourself to be. Vinyasa Flow talks to the artist, the scientist and the philosopher within us all. It helps you find your personal expression in your yoga practice, it helps evoke your own radiate energy and allows you to let go of rigidity in the body and the mind. Moment to moment, breath to breath, through this movement meditation, let your soul dance. Open up to infinite potential, connect to what inspires you, what you are passionate about and what you live for.

I feel very lucky to be able to teach and to guide a student to find their own benefits from yoga. I hope to bring energy and tranquillity to my classes that leaves the student feeling well worked, invigorated and with a sense of inner peace and balance."

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James Giuseppe (United Kingdom)

James has been running and teaching yoga holidays in fabulous locations in Ibiza and India since 2003. He's a firm believer that the practice of yoga can not only improve overall health and fitness, but can also assist in creating balance and gaining perspective in today's modern world and, most importantly, teach us how to RELAX!

James was working as a trader in the City in '95 when he discovered that yoga could relieve chronic back pain and assist in calming a restless mind. He had completed one teacher training course with Sivananda in 2002 when he was thankfully made redundant and began teaching full-time. The decade of City life gave him an invaluable understanding of the challenges of working in high-pressure environments. During the following five years he also gained Yoga Alliance certification and taught in yoga centres and health clubs across London as well as organising his own classes and yoga holidays. In 2006 he went to India for six months' intensive study of Astanga in Mysore and trained with Sri K Pattabhi Jois.

Teaching and practising since 1995 and 1990,Liz arts background informs her creative astanga vinyasa style approach to teaching Hatha Yoga. She is inspired by nature, travel, culture and philosophy, and brings these concepts into her teaching, in an open-minded, explorative way. Her Performing Arts background led to a strong collaboration with Jean Hall, both performing and running retreats together. Currently Liz is Board member for teachers Training with The Life Centre in London. She has written 7 books and releases her first DVD 'Yogalibre' this year.

Leena
Energy/Mind/Body/Soul Healer, Master and Teacher

We have brought our amazing healer Leena here to support and enhance your Yoga retreat experience. Yoga was devised to move and shift energy, healing came about to move, heal and clear that energy. So we have Leena here to offer you a unique concept. Yoga and Healing combined can do much more than just either alone. As you begin shift energy and emotions in your daily Yoga practice, Leena’s healing clears them away and she supports you. A unique retreat experience, a unique concept; healing the energy, the body, the emotions, the soul and the true self.

Leena specialises in healing the energy, mind, body and soul. She heals with her unique mix of Energy Healing, Soul Healing, Reiki Healing, Spiritual Healing, Aura Cleansing, Chakra Clearing and Balancing, EFT, Counselling and more...

She is a naturally gifted Healer, Reiki Master and Teacher, Spiritual Healing Guru and Teacher, Energy Healer and Teacher and Counsellor and has found the time to offer us her wonderful life changing Healing. She is not like other healers you may have come across before, she is colourful, an individual, loving and understanding and truly enlightened. She offers a very real, enlightening, life changing and empowering healing. She specialises in helping heal lives by removing unwanted life limiting beliefs and energy. She works by channelling her unique life force energy to your Chakras, to your Aura, to your whole being, to clear those unwanted blockages that hold us back in life.

When we practice Yoga energy moves and shifts and so Leena's private healing is the perfect accompaniment to your Yoga practice and your Formentera Yoga Retreat Experience. She is one of the best and that is why we have brought her here to support you. Ask for details.