OM healing Center offers a friendly atmosphere where students have the opportunity of joining the yoga community and holistic health center.
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Instructors (5)

Maria Elena Calderon
Maria Elena Calderon is the founder and owner of OM Healing Center. She fell in love with Hatha yoga in the year 2000. She started with gentle Hatha yoga to help her deal with stress and anxiety. Her frequent practice helped her find harmony in her life. She became more aware of her posture, alignment, body movement, and most importantly, her levels of stress and anxiety had diminished. Becoming an instructor became her next logical step, she decided to complete her 500 RYT teachers training in India.

Christopher Alvarez
Christopher Alvarez is a 500 hour certified Yoga Teacher in Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa and Ashtanga Mysore style. He is trained as a Thai Massage Therapist. Sports have always been a fundamental part of his life. Christopher started Taekwondo training at age five and completed his black belt by age 13. A chronic knee injury brought him to yoga. He took his teacher’s training in India – during his training, his knee was healed. He has been back to India many times to continue with Yoga and meditation training.

Hugo Alvarez
Hugo is the owner and founder of OM Healing Center in Cuenca, Ecuador. He started his health-care career in his native country where he attended medical school. He is a graduate from York University in Toronto. He was not satisfied with the methods of conventional practice and decided to pursue Homeopathic medicine. He is a graduate of the Toronto School of Homeopathic Medicine and a certified Quantum biofeedback Therapist and a psychotherapist.

Nicole
Nicole is a native of Cuenca, Ecuador. She teaches daily yoga classes and holds weekend retreats at OM Ashram retreat center. She studied yoga and Ayurvedic massage techniques in Rishikesh, India. Her passion for sound has taken her to host various sound healing retreats as well as a feature in local musical artist's works. She will be your onsite massage therapist and sound healer.

Manantial
Manantial is a psychologist, yoga instructor, and Reiki practitioner who seeks a free and fair education, from trust and respect towards children and their wisdom. She has experience connecting with children of different levels, ages, and diversities. She lads a Yoga KEYS for KIDS program, which introduces the yoga practice from a playful, respectful and inclusive perspective, containing motion, senses, games, songs, art, artistic crafts, mindfulness, and AcroYoga. She was born in Chile and currently lives in Cuenca, Ecuador, developing cultural artistic projects for childhood and inclusion.
Reviews (4)
Diana Villamil
from Great Britain, March 2019
"Yoga TT"
Course, food, activities
Alexa Henderson
from United States, July 2018
"Exactly what I was looking for"
Many varied healing experiences in one week!
Nicky Walker
from Canada, May 2018
"incredible experience with small class sizes"
Marie-Elena runs a beautiful yoga teacher training, bringing together incredible teachers to deliver yoga message. Loved the food, the Ayruveda component, our yoga lead, and just the overall experience. If you are looking for something commercial, crowded, and manufactured, this will not be the right fit for you. This was such a beautiful experience for me, and the others in group, bringing together yoga with a south american flare. I highly recommend this program, and I am so happy I picked coming here. All the teachers just go above and beyond what a typical yoga teacher training offers.
Willemijn
from A Traveler,
The yoga teacher training changed my life. It was such a profounding experience, where the indian yogic (vedic) philosophy as well as the traditions and healing powers of the andes where honored. Because of the small group of students, we got a lot of personal attention. I loved, loved, loved the food and the way they really take care of you during your process. I am very grateful that I had the chance to participate in this training. Thank you Maria-Elena, Hugo, Leelah, Renu, Nicole for making this an unforgettable four weeks where I have made friends for life!