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.

Deborah is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher with 18 years experience teaching classes, and workshops in Toronto and at a fasting retreat centre in Koh Samui Thailand. Most recently she offered classes at several of the Yoga Tree studios in Toronto. As an MBA from the Ivey Business School, and a former business manager, she is well aware of the stress inherent in todays workplace. Her intent is to share her experience and knowledge of yoga with others seeking to reduce stress and promote positive changes in their health and wellbeing.

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.

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.