Alpha Yoga School, República Checa

We are Martin Sittek & Joanna Vladescu. Our vision is to combine and share our knowledge, teaching experience and expertise with other yogis.

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Joanna Vladescu

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Joanna is the founder of Alpha Yoga School. Since 2009 she has completed 3 teacher training courses, 2 advanced courses, and numerous workshops with first-generation teachers of Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition: David Swenson, Eddie Stern, Chuck Miller, Kristina Karitinou, Rolf Naujokat, David Garrigues, Manju Jois, Regina Ehlers, Laruga Glaser, and Noah Maze. She is funny, caring, inspiring and gives full attention to her students. She will take your practice to the next level with precise verbal cues and amazing hands-on adjustments. Joanna has taught in more than 20 yoga teacher training courses.

Rachel Berryman

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Coming from a background of 20 years of ballet and contemporary dance training, Rachel has always been interested in working with the body and the amazing capacity our bodies have. Rachel has been practicing yoga for 14 years and has taught over 5000+ hours of yoga classes and teacher training. Originally from the U.S.A., she has been a lead teacher in over 30 yoga teacher training courses worldwide and recent years split her time teaching yoga between India and Albania. Rachel is the co-founder, owner, and main teacher at Tirana Yoga Studio in Tirana.

Sandy Boutros

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Sandy’s meditation journey began in 2012 after developing a keen interest in exploring the mind and its potential. After attending several yoga retreats with Swamis from Bihar School of Yoga, she decided to leave her advertising job, pack up her bags and go to their ashram in India for a 4-month course in advanced yogic studies, where she was exposed to all the branches of yoga and its philosophy and was able to develop and maintain a yogic lifestyle. Right after the yogic studies course, Sandy did her teacher training and kept going to the ashram for progressive trainings in Raja Yoga.

J'aime Blakely

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J’aime is an experienced yoga practitioner and instructor with over a decade of experience in various styles of yoga across multiple countries. Her qualifications include multiple teaching certifications in Hatha Vinyasa and Ashtanga worldwide. With a master’s degree in psychology specializing in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health, she focuses on utilizing yoga as an adjunct treatment for PTSD and trauma. Committed to holistic wellness, she integrates her expertise in yoga and shamanic practices to offer transformative self-realization and mind/body wellness programs.

Vishesh Arora

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My yoga journey commenced four years ago, during which I completed a 500-hour Teacher Training Course (TTC). Subsequently, I began teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and in-depth Yoga Anatomy both online and in-person, consistently engaging with my students. To date, I have trained over 600 individuals. Throughout my journey, I have participated in numerous workshops focused on Arm Balances, Backbends, Hip Openers, and Yoga Anatomy, attending sessions in diverse locations such as Greece, Spain, India, and Thailand.

Sudha Iyer

Sudha's yoga journey has been one of constant self-discovery. She was born and raised in a Hindu Brahmin family where asana, yogic scriptures, mantras, and devotion were an integral part of daily life. However, it took her living in the West and regular mat practice to appreciate and value what she had taken for granted in her childhood. Yoga made her realize that all change starts from within, embodying the phrase ‘when things change inside you, things change around you’. That’s when Sudha's practice came full circle; she decided to transition into a mindful and conscious lifestyle.

Sean Pepper Robinson

Originally advised to try yoga in 2014 to manage stress and heal his spine from BMX-related injuries, Sean found a sense of stillness and challenge. Upon completing his first training in India in 2017 he began teaching in Sri Lanka. Each year he would return to India for 2-3 months to assist (and eventually teach) at the same school where he received his certification. For the last 3 years, he has lived and worked in HK, teaching Yoga full-time. With a background in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Rocket his classes lean toward the dynamic. Sean emphasizes clarity of communication in his classes

Verena Schrödl

from Germany, November 2024

"YTTC Lefkada"

Kind of everything.

The YTTC is well structured and there is a good balance between practice and theory on each day. I enjoyed most the Ashtanga classes and workshops with Aris - had so much fun :)

It was also great that we learned how to teach since day 1. We started in small groups and had to prepare little homework for which we always got good feedback. At the end of the 3 weeks, everybody was quite confident in teaching the final flow.

I also liked that we could rent cars for the weekend to visit some beaches or near villages. I highly recommend to visit Porto Katsiki for sunset.

About the food: it was so delicious. The team made every effort to cook as varied as possible. Desserts were also served daily, sometimes even at breakfast :)

The breakfast and dinner was always freshly cooked and for lunch everybody got boxes that we could fill with leftovers from dinner the day before or from breakfast.

One last thing. I loved to get to know so many different people with different backgrounds. And that includes also the teachers!

Thank you Alpha for these unforgettable 3 weeks. My heart is full of love and gratitude <3

Anonymous

from Great Britain, September 2023

"YTT Boot Camp!"

The group was so supportive, we bonded really well and there was such a good atmosphere. It was amazing being able to quickly jump in the sea in break time - bring your snorkel! The teaching was superb. Bring lots of coloured pens and highlighters for all your notes!

Anonymous

from Germany, September 2023

"Erwartungen getroffen"

Das Gesamtkonzept

Maddison Gittins

from United States, May 2023

"Maddison G. "

I loved the location, the food, how personable all the teachers were and the course material we were able to cover! Highly recommend!

Anonymous

from Italy, October 2022

"Review"

Excellent experience, high recommended for both beginners and intermediate practitioners who want to teach or just improve their own practice

Theresa Wallner

from Austria, October 2022

"Sweat, learn, yoga from the best!"

As I decided to join a yoga teacher training, I was glad to find Alpha Yoga School. It seemed to be the right choice for me, because as a physiotherapist I am quite critical, how yoga should be for myself. Creative, but not to silly. Physically demanding, but not to exhausting. Calming, but not boring. And please, please not to esoteric and the most important thing - safety. I need a really good knowhow about alignment to prevent my body from bad injuries, while doing yoga and also the knowhow how to teach my students/ patients correctly.

With Joana, Martin, Evangelos and Aris I had the best teachers I could learn from. They are all passionated teaching all their skills and knowhow to their students.

About the not to exhausting part: I thought I did Asthanga before, but i did not really. I've never sweated and suffered so much in my life, while Martin's Asthanga Primary Series :-) But I tell you, I learned to enjoy this kind of practise so much. With all the really good alignment and adjustment classes, I realized how to practise correctly and safe and gained a lot of strengh. my practise improved a lot.

I also loved the Vinyasa flows from Joana and also her teaching and sequenzing classes. I did not want to join the YTT to teach in the first place, but with this knowhow I really like to try.

Also the other classes (anatomy, philosophy, mediatation, ...) and especially the workshops were great.

The YTT with Alpha Yoga School was definitly the right choice for me.

June Bonnet

from Netherlands, February 2022

"Experience of a life time"

I started this training quite naive, having some yoga experience and thinking "How lovely to do a training and feel good in my body". Not knowing actually what Ashtanga is. If you know, then you can probably imagine it was quite a shock the first few days when I felt every muscle and fibre in my body, being in poses that I never thought I could (or even want to) do. But HOW IT FELT GOOD.

The guidance and teachings by Joanna and Martin were on point and made all my progress possible, I thank them for this. They showed me what a true yoga practice is and helped me to overcome fears and boundaries. The classes were interactive and they knew how to keep us focussed.

Also the theory classes were very interesting and taught in a really nice way by Cedric (he also gave meditation hour in the morning). He knows how to adapt to the class and you can feel he really connects with the group and every individual. Thank you.

To be honest this training was so intensive. There were some times that I thought I couldn't do it or that I was too tired to continue. But those were great moments in itself which taught me what dedication is and to have respect for my body.

If you want to do a training as an alternative for a holiday I recommend to take a holiday. If you want to learn true yoga and all its aspects, then definitely join this training.

Kira Stroh

from Great Britain, December 2021

"Still looking for a YTT? Choose Alpha Yoga School!"

Why? It will gift you with an exceptional experience that will provide you with so much knowledge + skills + the confidence to go out and teach. My main reason to do a yoga teacher training was to get more insights into yoga as a whole lifestyle and I just wanted to be open minded and see if teaching would be something for me. This YTT has truly given me much more than I could have hoped for! Not only where the teachers extremely skilled - but their different characters made every lesson unique in their own way. Martin always made me laugh - even if I was totally struggling with an asana. He taught me to just laugh about myself and meet challenging situations with a smile (You will think about me in Marichyasana C or Kurmasana ;) ). Joanna gave me the confidence to teach and to believe that I can do it. It´s amazing how fast you learn teaching skills from her and when we were teaching our final flows I was so impressed how much we improved within 3 weeks.

Cedric prepared his lessons really thoughtfully and made even anatomical terms a fun project. He took his time with our philosophical questions and gave us room to experience and feel (journalling, sharing circles, mantras) and Athina made the whole training with her warmth and kindness complete. I will surely never forget our Kirtan sessions and the way they made me feel.

Vivien Lommerse

from Netherlands, October 2020

"Couldn't have had a better experience!"

I had an amazing time with Alpha Yoga School at Evia silence. The location is beautiful, the staff very kind and the food is amazing. I learned so much these weeks and really deepened my practice and understanding of yoga.

The workshops are a nice addition to the program and I absolutely loved alignment & adjustment. It is such an interesting and useful class and Martin is a very experienced and funny teacher, so the classes were always interesting. I really enjoyed the vinyasa classes as well. Joanna makes amazing flows that got me sweating like no other vinyasa class I have done before.

As for COVID, we had to do a test before coming to Greece. At Evia there were hand sanitizers everywhere and when for example getting food (the buffet is in a smaller room) we could only enter with 2/3 people at the same time. Furthermore, you spend a lot of time outside, so I felt very safe during my whole stay.

I met amazing people here and it is great how quickly you form a connection with everyone by being together 24/7. I would definitely recommend taking this YTT. At first, I was looking for a cheaper course, but choose this course in the end cause the program appealed to me very much and its value for money 100%. I am very happy I chose to do this with Alpha Yoga, this has been an experience I will never forget.

Manon Bussat

from France, November 2019

"Une superbe expérience "

J’ai réalisé la formation 200h avec alpha yoga School en octobre 2019. Le cadre était chouette à 3 min de la mer. Les enseignements sont de qualité et complets. Je recommande vraiment cette formation. Attention ce n’est pas une retraite, il y a donc pas mal d’études à faire mais on en sort grandit avec une très bonne base en Ashtanga. Le yoga est pratiqué tous les jours.

Anonymous

from Great Britain, November 2019

"Angelique "

They were enthusiastic and shared their knowledge with love and care.

Heather Foley

from Great Britain, October 2019

"The perfect Yoga TTC for me"

I am a physiotherapist who enjoys and appreciates the philosophy and essence of yoga. I had a bad experience whilst attending a yoga foundation course that was completed over 5 weekends, so much so I was reluctant to go on to get my yoga TT qualification. It took me 3 years before I decided to do so.

I couldn't have attended a better TT course, to re inspire my desire to teach yoga. From the outset I had a good feeling about this course and the staff surpassed my expectations throughout. Joanna, Martin and Laura all have incredibly different personalities and ways of approaching their teaching and I enjoyed all three styles.

Laura is so incredibly passionate about what she teaches especially Philosophy, it is a joy to listen to her.

Martin is very entertaining and has an air of sarcasm, which is refreshing - my previous course was intense and critical - Martins style was so much more welcoming.

And of course not forgetting Joanna, who was my main source of contact before the course started. I have a very restrictive non vegetarian diet and Joanna was very supportive and organised food for me throughout, without any criticism or opinion towards how I eat. Any questions I had prior to the course she answered promptly and it helped me feel like I had made the right decision to attend their course. Joanna's teaching style was relaxed and enjoyable.

All three exude passion to a high level. I wish them all the luck in their future and highly recommend their course.

Anonymous

from Germany, September 2019

"Highly recommended"

It was a great retreat in a stunning location on Kythnos with two excellent yoga teachers.

I have been to some retreats, but that was the best and I will definitely try to come to another retreat from Joanna and Martin.

Neila Steele

from Saudi Arabia, July 2019

"Recommended "

Joanna and Laura are very patient and calm teachers, they show and have such passion for sharing their knowledge and love of yoga. They are attentive teachers and really get to know each and every student and their personalized needs.

Signe Eshøj

from Denmark, July 2019

"Best yoga teacher training!"

Martin and Joanna are excellent teachers and have put together the perfect curriculum for you to deepen your practice and becoming a yogateacher! I loved the big emphasis on “Adjustments and alignment”, which I am sure you won’t get most places, at least not in this amount or quality! Definately the best classes of the course. The two hour morning yogaclasses were excelent. I loved that it changed between Ashtanga and Vinyasa and how much attention the two teachers paid to evolving your practice. I didn’t practice Ashtanga before I got there and wasn’t sure it was really for me. Martin turned that around! I don’t think I will be a “pure ashtangi”, but he really opened my eyes to the practice. I also loved the many workshops we did, to dig in to some of the more challenging asanas or working on correct alignment in some of the poses we think we know and regards as easy, but that potentially can injure us, because we are doing it wrong (e.g. Chaturanga). We started teaching each other during the first few days, which in my opinion is very important, so that you can slowly begin to develop your scills as a teacher. The classes where we taught each other were excellent and we got a lot of usable information on how to teach and build a class. In general I found that the theoretical classes really opened up to everything behind the physical yoga practice. The place was beautiful, the staff nice and the water amazing. I would with no doubt recomend this teacher training!

Aneta Opletalová

from Czechia, July 2019

"Practice and all is coming."

Amazing life-changing experience! Could not wish for a better TTC. I am so grateful for the opportunity to study with the best teachers. They are very well educated, passionate and so inspiring. They supported us and motivated us during the whole training, because they wanted us to leave as confident teachers with great skills. The knowledge they provided about philosophy and anatomy was enough to understand the concepts of yoga and to encourage us to continue studying. The training was very intense, od course, but the schedule was well planned. When we felt really tired, we always had easier day ahead of us. It was never boring, because every subject had a different teacher. We learned about adjustment, alignment, vinyasa sequencing, pranayama techniques...we covered a lot!

For most of us this was first real experience with ashtanga yoga and it really provided a great foundation to further studies. In one week we were able to practice in a mysore class, without any previous experience.

The location was amazing, with crystal clear sea, great food and nice, clean accomodation.

Thank you for everything!

Suna Guven

from Great Britain, October 2017

"An experience you will want to repeat"

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