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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
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Vice-President
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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
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Official Ambassador
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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by United Artists for Peace.
www.krishnadas.it
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Corrispondent from Romania |
Eugen Mirtz
ROMANIA
President of Romanian Society of Yoga and Parapsychology.
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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.
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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
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