Jiva Healing

Melissa spent years studying the social and environmental impacts and practices of large food, chemicals and pharmaceutical companies. Her great passions are yoga, well being and sustainable living. She has a diploma in advanced nutrition and teaches healthy eating and nutrition workshops on the retreats.

(Nutritionist)

Rebecca Andrist is the co-founder of Jiva Healing and has been running healthy eating, detox, and yoga retreats in the United Kingdom and abroad since 2004. She is a qualified nutritional adviser, yoga teacher, and massage therapist who has worked in healing centers in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Thailand, and the United States before starting her own business.

Susie is a professional bodywork therapist with a deep interest in holistic, sports, deep tissue, and no-hands massage techniques alongside acupressure, reflexology, facials, and kinesiology. She has taught massage therapy at the Claire Maxwell-Hudson School of Massage and qualified in ITEC Nutrition and the mehta facial at the Champissage Indian Head School in London.

Teresa Montano was a professional dancer for many years before becoming involved in yoga. Since the late 1990's, she has been studying with various teachers and traditions and is a fully qualified teacher with Yoga Alliance and Sivananda certification. Her commitment to yoga continues to expand both with her work as a qualified Thai yoga massage therapist and her ongoing studies with the Inner Yoga Trust. She is also an aquatic bodywork therapist.

Yoga Alliance UK (Yoga)

Co-director of the Yoga Health Mandala and founder of HN Chavutti Massage Training, Helen hosts YTTs, intensives and seminars in India, Europe, Scandinavia and the USA. Her passion is sharing Scaravelli yoga that has brought many gifts and learnings to her life. Scaravelli inspired yoga is revolutionary and offers inspiring tools to deepen whatever style of Hatha yoga you practice. You will be guided into a beautiful journey of waves and spirals into your spine which can lead into a slow and safe release of tension as well as a new and profound learning of experiencing movement.

Halina is a Senior yoga teacher (SYT Yoga Alliance) with a background in Yin and Hatha yoga (Iyengar, Scaravelli, Sivananda and Restorative yoga). She has been practicing since 2002, started teaching in 2007 and in 2008 opened her YogaTree school in Rickmansworth where she holds weekly yoga classes and monthly yoga workshops. She also holds yoga retreats and workshops in various locations in Europe. Her teaching is complemented by a Thai yoga massage practice and her background in Somatic Psychology (Psychology degree, Person Centred and Existential approach and Art therapy).