Hridaya Yoga Teachers
Sahajananda (Claudiu Trandafir)
Claudiu Trandafir is an experienced meditation teacher with over 25 years of experience in yoga, Tantra and Advaita Vedanta . Through his spiritual practice, he has been blessed with a penetrating insight into the nature of being and existence. ......read more
Antoaneta Maria Gotea
Antoaneta Maria Gotea was born in July 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. The memories from her early age about her father practicing complicated physical exercises (known in yoga as uddhiyana bandha) and unusual breathing (pranayama) synergistically connected with her mother’s teachings about the existence of subtle bodies and reincarnation, and this blossomed later in a genuine spiritual aspiration. ......read more
Anastasia Gheyssen
Anastasia's aspiration for spiritual growth and sincere desire to share the beauty of the Spiritual Heart has inspired her to become a Hridaya meditation and yoga teacher. Her journey began as a young woman inspired to dedicate her life to God ......read more
Ingrid Goudsmit
Ingrid, a Dutch Leo, held a strong interest in Buddhism and Shamanism as a young girl but it was not until 2002 that she started practicing Zen with Jeroen Witkam, a Zen master and Benedictine monk in Zundert, Holland. In 2004, after pursuing a degree and career in Communications, she decided to travel the world ......read more
Claudiu Vaduva
Claudiu feels that Yoga is a wonderful tradition, a tested tradition, and for those who have questions outside of the accepted tracks, it can prove to create irreversible progress and a thirst for the mysteries of life. ......read more
Tiffany Nicholson-Smith
For Tiffany there is nothing that brings her closer to the Divine than this gift of teaching. She feels so appreciative to have been blessed with these teachings, and so humbled to have the opportunity to share them with others. ......read more
Esther Greter
Esther grew up in a little village in the heart of Switzerland where she spent most of her time in the fields and forests of the area either on the back of a horse or adventuring with her dog. She remembers that even at a very young age she was struck again and again by the beauty of nature and life in general and found herself wondering about her existence ......read more
Ra Lalita Dasi
Ra Lalita Dasi …’Who is she?’ In the realms of personality and identity she is an English born woman who has dedicated her life to the path of Yoga and Devotion to quench the timeless thirst for Truth and Oneness. ......read more
Sean Goldberg
Sean first came to yoga in 2006, though he has spent much of his life in Self Inquiry. His search started at a young age due to an intense yearning to understand what happens when we die. Over time this search led him to ......read more
Justine Baruch
A ten day silent vipassana retreat was Justine’s first introduction into meditation and it was love at first sight. She comes from a long line of doers (people who like to be very active and don’t know how to sit still), therefore the concept sitting and quieting the mind was quite foreign. However, when the stillness finally came ......read more
Ilaria Antonietti
Since childhood, Ilaria has felt a calling in her heart and a connection with the Divine Mother. While she was attending courses at 'Association ASIA’ in Bologna in 2004, she came across yoga and meditation and this strong experience altered her life path. ......read more
Om, Ricardo Cristovao
Om (Ricardo Cristovao) was born in Portugal, star sign Aquarius, in 1979. Youngest son of 10 children, he always had many influences and visions of what life is and what it should be, but was never satisfied by these small definitions of Life. Since a very young age, he felt that he was a Jedi, a user of the Force but didn't know how to use it ......read more
Krista Novakowski
Krista began her studies of Yoga and Meditation in her homeland of Canada. She has always been fascinated with the potential of awakening to our Essential Nature. She began her studies with Agama in 2006 and lived in the yogic community in Thailand ......read more
Allie Reece
Allie first started practicing yoga as a way to clean up her mind and heal her heart. From the beginning, she intuitively knew that yoga would help but she never imagined that she had stumbled upon a sacred jewel that would change her life forever ......read more
Adam Caplan
Adam began practicing yoga in high school as a means of improving flexibility to enhance athletic performance. What started out as an experiment with a supplemental stretching routine eventually evolved into a conscious quest for Truth. ......read more
Burkhard Langemann
Burkhard is exploring the world of Yoga ......read more