BOARD OF EUROPEAN YOGA FEDERATION

President

Yogamata Madâlasâ Saraswati
(Mayte Criado) SPAIN

Director of the INTERNATIONAL YOGA SCHOOL in Spain; President of Spanish Professional Yoga Federation; founder of ENCUENTROS DE YOGA "SURYA" and the "Studies of Sound, Yoga & Hindu Music Association". Member of the Executive Board of the World Movement of Yoga. Spain's representative of the World Community of Indian Culture & Traditional Disciplines. Trainer of Yoga teachers. Musician and Singer of Hindu chants. Specialized in Nada & Mantra Yoga.

www.escueladeyoga.com

 

     
Vice-President

Swami Suryananda Saraswati
(Amadio Bianchi)
ITALY

Founder of European Yoga Federation and World Movement for Yoga & Ayurveda. President of World Movement for Yoga. President of the Italian Official Confederation of Yoga. President of the International School of Yoga & Ayurveda C.Y. SURYA. Founder Member of World Movement for Indian Fine Arts. Teacher of Philosophy & Hindu Culture, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Therapy, Yoga & Meditation. He gives courses, lectures and organize meetings worldwide.

www.cysurya.milano.it
 

     
Official Ambassador

Yogacârini Pandit Gayatri Devi
(Emy Blesio)
ITALY

Founder of European Yoga Federation, World Movement for Yoga & Ayurveda and World Movement for Indian Fine Arts. Founder and President of The World Community of Indian Culture and Traditional Disciplines and Suryanagara Center of Yoga, Arts, Culture & Oriental Disciplines. Vice-president of Italian Official Confederation of Yoga. Creator and Art Director of the "Indian Festival: East meets West". Trainer of Yoga teachers. Expert on Indian mythology and philosophy. Creator of Varutha Kriya, she gives Yoga teachers training, courses, lectures and organizes events worldwide.

www.suryanagara.it 
www.theworldcommunity.com

          

     
Honorary Secretary Swami Ramaswarupanandaji Maharaj
INDIA

Personal attendant of Swami Chidanandaji Maharj (president of the Divine Life Society of Rishikesh, India) and very close disciple of Swami Sivananda for nearly thirty years.
Very knowledgeable about the Gita and Yoga, as well as the vedantic tradition and yoga techniques like Pranayama, mantra & meditation.
Nowadays he travels around the world to disseminate his message of peace, harmony & unity.

www.sivachidananda.org
 

     
General Coordinator

Yogasiromani Tinoji
PORTUGAL

President of Portuguese Yoga Federation since 2000. Director of the Formation of Yoga Teachers, of PYF Practitioner and teacher of other oriental Arts (AiKiDo, IAiDo, Ten-Chi Tessen).
Ayurveda Practitioner.
Regular attendant in “satsangs”, seminaries and conferences, in Portugal and other countries, being in contact with renowned masters, also due to his frequent visits to India and other spiritual centres.
Founder of several Yoga Associations.  

www.fpyoga.pt

 

     
Executive
Counselor
Rapresentative
of  World Movement for Yoga

Yogacârya Mimoun Abdel-Lah
SPAIN

Founder of European Yoga Federation. President of "Asociacion de Profesores de Yoga Comunitarios". Adviser & founder member of the Spanish Federation of Proffesional Yoga. Founder of the National Sakuratakekan Association.
Yogacârya
& Karate Master(Sensei 9° Dan)

www.sakuratakekan.org
 

     
Coordinator International Relations

Krishna Das
INDIA

Krishna Das is a master of Nada Yoga and Mantra Yoga. He is a master of Sitar and other Indian musical instruments, such as Surbahar, Saranghi, Harmonium etc. Widely known and appreciated both in India and in Europe, where he gives concerts during six months per year, he devote his life to music, transfusing in it a deep sense of joy and inner enchantment. He is a connoisseur and an interpreter of the ancient Veda philosophy. He is a composer of transcendental music.
Awarded " Artist for Peace - Assisi 2002 " by United Artists for Peace.

www.krishnadas.it
 

     
Coordinator Governmental Relations Sri Ananda Shiva
(Roberto Mattei) ITALY

Founder & president of the "Cultural Association Science & Art Garbha Yoga". Trainer of Yoga Teachers. Expert in Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga & Integral Yoga.
In constant collaboration with official institutions, with the aim of expanding the Yoga he has organized throughout the years meetings in Europe with masters like  Swami Chidananda, Swami Ramaswarupananda and Sri Sri Sri Satchidananda.

www.garbhayoga.net
 

     
General Secretary

Lawyer Daniela Visione
ITALY


Teacher of Yoga devoted to search & research in the field of milenary disciplines. Founder member, former president and current collaborator of "Senado Accademico dell'Accademia Internazionale di Yoga tradizionale Brahmajnana".
A lawyer by profession, she is Managing Director of Montereale District Council. Graduate in pianoforte, concert performer and expert in music notation &  pianist instrumentality of the contemporary century.

www.spiritualknowledge.it
 

     
Coordinator Internal Relations/
International Congress and Events
Yogasiromani  Indra
(Alberto Robles) SPAIN

President of Encuentros de Yoga Surya Association. Director of Meditation Area of International Yoga School. Director of Ayurveda International School of Spain. Yoga Teacher certificated by the International Yoga School of Spain.
Technical Industrial Engineer by profession.
Reiki Master in Karuna-Prakriti system and Traditional Japanese Usui system and Komyo Reiki (direct Japanese linage).Therapist in Ayurveda.
He is used to organized travelling groups, events and meeting in relation with Yoga disciplines and culture.

 

     
Adviser Francoise Barbira Freedman
ENGLAND

Founder of Birthlight. Medical anthropologist, she developed Aqua Yoga & prenatal Yoga original programmes. As a trained yoga teacher and therapist, she used the idiom of yoga to create an original programme of movements and relaxation for mothers to be and new mothers with their babies. Trainer and specialist in Yogatherapy. Trainer of more than 1000 certified instructors worldwide on these areas. She has numerous books published and translated in several languages.

www.birthlight.com
 

     
Adviser

Iris Huettner
GERMANY

She started in 1983 organising cultural events and in 1988 she set up her agency ARTEMEDIA, developing concepts and giving support to cultural and social commitments to international companies and institutions through public relations, press releases, publicity & organisation of events. Practitioner of Yoga for several years, since 2005 she is the representative for Ayurveda in the German Wellness Association.
 

     
Adviser

Virgil Catalin Calin
ROMANIA

Yoga Master. Scholar of oriental pilosophy, expert in meditation, relaxation techniques & bioenergy, devotes his time to Ayurveda e Shivaismo.
He founded in Teramo the humanitarian cultural association  “Libertŕ e Amore." He works as a Yoga teacher. President of  Senato Accademico dell'Accademia internazionale di Yoga Tradizionale “Brahmajnana” founded in L'Aquila (Italia), he directs his efforts to the spreading of Yoga, holding conferences, congresses & training courses in Italy and other countries.

 www.amoyoga.it
 

     
Adviser Yogacârya Aruna
(Ivano Obelleri)ITALY

Direct disciple of the Master Swami Suryananda (Amadio Bianchi). Expert in Yogateraphy & Hatha Yoga. Member of the Confederazione Ufficiale Italiana di  Yoga. Member of the "Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Yoga. Studious of oriental philosophy.
 

     
Adviser and Corrispondent from Greece Sofia Hagipanagiotou
GREECE

She is the founder and director of Ey Zein yoga school and cosmetology centre since 1973 in Thessaloniki Greece. She was a student of BKS Iyengar in India and all these years she participated in numerous conventions in Europe and India.She teaches different yoga techniques and thanks to her experience and study of philosophy she evolued and teaches the greek style yoga. She is an enviromental activist and promotes yoga and its benefits through articles in newspaper and magazines, and interviews to the local t.v. The last six years she directs also a school for yoga teachers successfully.
 

     
Corrispondent from Croazia Mery Bura
CROAZIA


Medical Doctor postgraduate study in pharmacology
Yoga Teacher and aromatherapist,
diploma of massages (classic,aromamassage,ayurveda,raindrop,intuitive)
homoeopathy,two years in LICH-London
NLP(neurolingvistic programming)
 
     
Corrispondent from Slovenia Diana Cimprič
SLOVENIA

Graduated in Psychology, she works with the body psycho-therapy and she holds courses of therapeutic and corrective Yoga. she practice Hatha Yoga since 10 years, and in the last years she also started to practice Bhakti Yoga. She is in the group of indian dance Rasa Lila to promote the indian art and culture all around Europe.
 

     
Corrispondent from Polonia Parvati
POLLAND

I have been teaching yoga since 1993. I did my Teachers Training Course in Canada, in Val Morin, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Camp. And the Advanced Teachers Training Course in 1995 in the same place.
 

     
Corrispondent from Romania Eugen Mirtz
ROMANIA

President of Romanian Society of Yoga and Parapsychology.
 

     
Corrispondent from Bulgaria Kiril Kolarov

He has been practicing yoga since 1970 in the very first yoga groups for young enthusiasts. He graduated from Military schools and for many years he worked as serviceman. Now, he teaches yoga for seniours. More many years he also has been a judge in many and various competitions. He is a silver medallist in the first championship  which took place in Bulgaria in 1996. He is happily married and has two sons and one grandson. Throughout all his life, he has
been a participant in numerous activities, such as Marathon. He has been working and improving his body and  mind to be in good shape, healthy psychicall and psychological condition. Was selected to be a  main-chair of BFY in October, 2006.
 

     
Corrispondent from Alsazia France 

Laure Reimbold
FRANCE

Yoga and Massage Ayurveda Teacher. Did study Yoga since 1971 – Naturopathe (Heilpraktikerin) in Germany 1987-1988 – Spirit Healing 1995 in England – Ayurveda since 2003.She had study with teachers from different cultures – INDIA – TIBET – CHINA – JAPON – EGYPTE - EUROPE and religions in methods of healing, meditation, holistic approach.


www.centre-ayurveda.fr