The Soul Retreat Club
Kyrenia, Cyprus
Trips
8 Day Luxury Yoga Retreat in Bali, Indonesia
August 7-14, 2026
7 Day Autumn Leaves Yoga Retreat in Kyoto, Japan
November 13-19, 2026About The Soul Retreat Club
The Soul Retreat Club creates tailor-made spiritual wellness luxury retreats worldwide — designed for deep rest, soulful connection and inner transformation.
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Instructors
Begum Gulderen
Begum Gulderen is the owner of first yoga studio `Shivani Life Center`, in North Cyprus. She started practicing yoga during her travels, at the very early age of 17, and at 21, she started learning and teaching yoga in Asia. Since then She has been teaching fulltime for 14 years. Begum is now based in Kyrenia, Cyprus and enjoys sharing her teaching with people from all nations. She has arranged and directed yoga retreats in India, Japan, Turkey, and Cyprus along with yoga workshops since 2010. She is also a certified Pilates teacher, a Feng Shui specialist, and a Thai massage therapist.
Govinda Kai
Govinda Kai has been involved in martial arts, meditative disciplines, and yoga for over 40 years. He spent two years studying Tibetan Buddhism under the tutelage of Sogyal Rinpoche (author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying), and also studied Aikido with some of the foremost instructors in the world. He is one of the few teachers in the world who received certification to teach the Astanga Vinyasa yoga system directly by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His quest for truth and purity in the more essential parts of his self and life has taken him all over the world.
Akiko Miyazaki
Akiko is a yoga teacher and practitioner of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, a student of Vedic Astrology, and a qualified color coordinator. She's been joining yoga retreats, and solo traveling overseas to experience different cultures and meet wonderful people. She's a nature lover, hiking and being in forests and the ocean is her passion. She worked at the BBC Global News Japan as COO for 10 years and is very keen on spirituality, yet has a very strong business mind and understanding of the corporate world. She values spirituality, yoga, authenticity, honesty, kindness and compassion, and love.
Molly
Molly is the resident yoga teacher and director of wellness for Sri Lanka retreats. With over 15 years of teaching, Molly is renowned for her inclusive, heart-centered approach to yoga and wellness. Drawing from a wealth of diverse knowledge and training with masters worldwide, she specializes in Hatha, Vinyasa, Tantra, Restorative, Yin, and yoga Nidra. As an Ayurvedic wellness practitioner and therapeutic massage therapist, she brings a holistic perspective to her teachings. She emphasizes harmony, balance, alignment, healing, intuition, freedom, grace, and flow.