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.

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.

Jemima Croker journeys to India each year to deepen her practice, exploring the healing powers of asana, pranayama, and meditation. The foundation of her teaching is that physical yoga is the first step on an inward journey; that feeling the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit within your own self helps you realize your connection to others, your environment, and the elements that make up the universe. Jemima believes that with practice, yoga cultivates the embodied recognition of body, mind and spirit as one.

Kailash Lim has immersed himself in yoga, meditation and bodywork in India, Thailand and elsewhere for more than 30 years. He has been teaching yoga since 1999 in Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Canada and Europe. He is the resident teacher at a major spa resort in Thailand. Kailash sees yoga as the art and practice of awakening the intelligence of the body, using movement, posture, and breath to bring the heart and mind to stillness. He has an eclectic style, inspired by the Iyengar-adapted approaches of Erich Schiffmann and Dona Holleman.