Suryalila Yoga Retreat Centre in Southern Spain hosts large yoga retreats and welcomes small informal groups and individual travelers.
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Lidiya Petkova
Lidiya is one of Suryalila’s onsite Vinyasa flow and Yin yoga teachers. Her classes are vigorous, fluid, and energizing with a strong focus on pranayama and mindfulness. Apart from being a tourism management specialist and marketing and manager assistant at Suryalila’s office, she leads and organizes various retreats including wellness retreats, most famously the adventure and yoga retreat and dubbed the retreat of a lifetime by previous participants.
Vidya Jacqueline Heisel
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500
Vidya Jacqueline Heisel, an E-RYT 500 and SYT, is the director of Suryalila Retreat Centre and the director of Frog Lotus Yoga International yoga teacher training programs. Vidya grew up in England and lived in India, Bali, and the USA, before arriving in southern Spain in 2011. Yoga has been Vidya’s life-long passion. She started studying, practicing, and teaching yoga in 1975 and since then, she has taught yoga extensively worldwide.
Conny Muennemann
Conny Muennemann, who keeps her eight beautiful horses on the Suryalila Retreat Centre property, has been riding and leading treks through Andalucía for over ten years. By riding with Conny you will see the real Andalucía, which most tourists miss.
Gilda Goharian
Gilda's classes are strongly focused on alignment and breathing. She encourages her students to constantly surprise themselves by going beyond their limits and to approach yoga with a lot of fun and curiosity. In addition to yoga, she loves the practice of traditional Thai massage and became a certified bodyworker in 2012.
Lisa Dunn
Lisa is a 500-hour certified Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher based at Suryalila Yoga Retreat Centre in Southern Spain. She has been teaching for 7 years and practicing for the past 15. Her formula for a great yoga class is to combine intelligent anatomical sequencing with a continual focus on the breath whilst interweaving yogic philosophy - enhancing the practice to bring a profound sense of well-being and aliveness. Lisa’s passion is to encourage and empower students to develop their practice and to have a safe life-long yoga experience.
Maria Abel
In 2005, Maria started her love affair with yoga. First, she got in touch with Shadow and Bikram style. Then she explored further styles like Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow. In 2010, she graduated from university and started working as a physiotherapist in different hospitals and institutes. In March 2012, she did the 200h Yoga Teacher Training with Vidya Jacqueline Heisel of Frog Lotus Yoga. She volunteered at Suryalila Retreat Center and assisted several YTTs for Vidya. In February 2014, she did a Thai Massage Training followed by a Forrest Advanced Teacher Training with Ana Forrest in July.
Kate
Kate has been practicing yoga for the last eight years. She completed both her 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training with Frog Lotus Yoga International in Suryalila and most recently in India. She has also taken a Yin yoga training with Josh Summers. She has spent a lot of time over the last couple of years living and working at Suryalila, teaching lots of yoga! She absolutely loves Suryalila and is delighted to be offering this winter warmer.
Ellen Aarts
The retreat will be led by Ellen Aarts, our resident Yin yoga teacher. Ellen also runs her own practice as a Burnout Coach and works with clients to help them overcome stress, anxiety, and burnout. Ellen is praised for her serene and calming presence. Her soothing voice creates atmospheres where people find inner stillness and come back to their center. She lived in Amsterdam for a big part of her life, where she was a manager in a risk management company and a journalist.