OUR INSTRUCTORS – AT THE CORE OF WHAT WE DO
Ruchica Patni
Founder and Yoga Teacher and Therapist
Ruchica is a certified instructor and therapist from SVYASA – Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana, India. She is certified Kids yoga teacher, trained by Loraine Rushton. She is certified Yin Yoga Teacher trained by Bernie Clarke and Sarah Manning. She is also certified pre-post natal yoga teacher. She has
She is continuing to study Ayurveda and uses the knowledge during therapy for specific diseases. She has cured diseases like thyroid, diabetes, sciatica, slip disc and has strong references in this field. She believes that yoga help prevent, manage and cure psychosomatic diseases but the key is regular practice for the condition.
Her passion for yoga has taken her to yoga centres in London, Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Vietnam and Singapore. She was a former teacher with Vyasa Yoga Singapore and taught modules in their 200Hrs Teachers Training Course.
She organized Asian Yoga Therapy Conference in Bali in 2019 which was a huge success with over 400 participants and speakers from all across the world. She has been invited by the Society of Osteo Arthritis Research which has highly qualified medical professional to speak on Yoga for Oesteo Arthritis. She has also spoken on various topics like Yoga for Back Pain, Yoga for Weight Loss etc
She led the yoga sessions during International Yoga Day in Singapore at 50 centres across Singapore including Community Centres and International schools. With this she has been able to bring yoga to more than 3,000 people In Singapore in June 2018. In 2019, she supported 77 locations in Singapore to conduct yoga sessions.
By sharing an experience of not only the physical journey but also her passion for connecting with the subtle body through practices of meditation, pranayama and self-reflection, she constantly strives to remind students to meet the challenges of yoga (and life) with patience and endurance while enjoying the rewards with gratitude and humility.
She continues to support the old age homes, institute of mental health by providing yoga sessions regularly to help the society and has received tokens of appreciation for her work.
Anand Goyal
Co-Founder and eRYT200 / YACEP Yoga Teacher
Anand has a Bachelors in Engineering and Masters in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh.
Anand was drawn towards yoga as means to balance his busy corporate banking lifestyle. He is a certified yoga instructor from SVYASA – Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana. He is also certified Yin Yoga Teacher.
His passion for yoga has taken him to yoga centres in London, Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea, Bali, India, Vietnam and Singapore.
He conducts classes for students, corporates and personal training focusing in Hatha yoga.
Anand led several yoga sessions during International Yoga Day in June every year including Chair Yoga sessions. He has led sessions of more than 300 people at the community centres teaching them Hatha Yoga. He led the yoga sessions at the Asian Yoga Therapy Conference in Bali. He has also been invited by the Diabetes Society Singapore to speak on Yoga for Diabetes and conducted several sessions.
Malini Goyal
Educationist and Yoga Teacher
Dr Malini Goyal is an educationist. and a yoga enthusiast. She holds doctorate in economics with 42 years of experience of teaching line in India. She is the former principal of Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Kolkata (23 years), Lokhandwala Foundation School, Mumbai ( 14 years ) and Mangalam Vidya Niketan ,Kolkata (8 years) .Currently she is a part of Manovikas Kendra in honorary capacity. Manovikas Kendra is an institution which has special and gifted children. Dr. Goyal’s doctorate is in Economics.
She is one of the few who acquired formal training in the field of ISO certification. Under her leadership both the schools at Kolkata and Mumbai, got ISO certified.
She writes in newspapers and is fond of writing poems. She has travelled extensively in different parts of the world.
She expertise in taking workshops for teachers, students, and parents. mostly On line teaching -Challenges and Opportunities, Stress Management, How to relate Economics theories with Pandemic, Dynamics of Economics, Situational Leadership, yoga (this is her passion) and topics related to economics ,leadership and pandemic .
She is pursuing yoga for last several years and off late has started conducting classes for her ex-colleagues/ friends and SUN LOVE HOME in Singapore on regular basis
Vanasri Upadhye
Senior Yoga Teacher
Vanasri started her yoga journey during her primary school days. As a teenager, she enjoyed doing yoga with her friends. This love of yoga, from early childhood days, led her to pursue yoga instructor course from SVYASA – Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana.
As Vanasri continued her learning journey, she started practicing regularly and found that yoga helped her to manage her allergies and headaches. Her yoga learning journey progressed and she completed advance hatha yoga and yoga therapy classes. From formal education perspective, she has completed Masters in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.
She loves to teach and spread yogic practices. She has conducted Ashtanga yoga and Hatha yoga classes for adults and kids. She conducts yoga therapy sessions for migraine, diabetes, arthritis, knee/back/neck pain, asthma, cardiac problems, and menstrual cycle disorders.
Duraisamy Pushpalatha
Senior Yoga Teacher
Duraisamy Pushpalatha holds two Master’s Degrees and two Post Graduate Diplomas. She has completed the Yoga Instructors’ Course conducted by SVYASA, the Agathaivu Course in Simplified Kundalini Yoga, the Brahma Gnanam Course and Introductory Training in Yoga Therapy. Besides actively volunteering at the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and Its Applications, she also participated in the Yoga Olympiad and received a Certificate of Honour for top placing. Duraisamy was awarded the PA STARS Trainer Award (Merit) for the Year 2015
Bachelor Degree from Bharathiar University
Masters Degree from Bharathiar University
NREP (Mind & Body) from SportSG
Advance Yoga Retreat certificate from Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
Agathaivi course - Third stage certificate from The World Community Service Centre
Agathaivu course - Second stage certificate from The World community Service Centre
Agathaivu course - First stage certificate from The World Community Service Centre
Brahma Gnanam certificate from Kundalini Yoga & Kayakalpa Reserach Foundation
Laughter Yoga Leader from Laughter Yoga International University
Yoga Instructor certificate from Swami Vivekanada Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
Managing Stress through SMET (Self Management of Excessive Tension) from Swami Vivekanada Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
Yoga Therapy Attendance certificate from VYASA Yoga Singapore
Master Certificate from Kundalini Yoga & Kayakalpa Research Foundation
Certificate of Honour (First Place) from National & Int'l Himalaya Yoga Olympiad
PA STARS Trainer Awards 2015 Merit Award from The People's Association
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Nathalie Sofia
Senior Yoga Teacher
Nathalie started her practice of Yoga in 2009 and it quickly became a passion.
She could notice all the benefits on her physical and mental health, becoming calmer and more balanced.
Feeling a deep heart attraction and curious to know more about Yoga, she signed up in 2017 for a 200 hours teacher training by SVYASA – Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana, in Singapore, and started to give Yoga classes to friends and community centers to the elderly.
Willing to learn more, a year later she registered for another 200 hours teacher training based on alignment, with Space and Light Yoga at Como Shambala.
Continuing to get more knowledge, she has completed a Yin Yoga certification, a kids yoga certification and currently she is learning Yoga therapy.
To strengthen her teaching and practice, she constantly follows workshops in the field of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and sound healing. Her goal is to reach as many as possible people with Yoga, for them to enjoy all the benefits in their bodies, mind, life and relationships. Thus all of them can feel grounded, become
mindful and enhance peace all around.
She is grateful to all her gurus, teachers, friends and students she met along her yoga journey and she is looking forward to meet you!
Dr. Jeff Lou
Senior Yoga Teacher, eRYT500, TCM practitioner, Healer
Jeff started his yoga and meditation practice with his mother when he was 8 years old. Over this time he has studied and practiced extensively in styles such as Hatha, Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Yin, Anusara and Vinyasa. Yoga to Jeff is a pathway to self-love and self-acceptance, he believes only by knowing who you are, can you truly understand the world around you, thereby living in harmony with-in and with-out; and every other 'physical improvements' that comes with yoga are just the icing on the cake.
Jeff is also a qualified and registered doctor/therapist in other healing modalities like Acupuncture, TCM, Shiatsu, Remedial massage, Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy. Jeff is a registered senior yoga teacher with Yoga Australia, ERYT 500 with Yoga Alliance and a Full member and Senior Teacher Training Faculty with IYTA for their International Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training and Yin Yoga Training Series.
In Jeff's classes, alignment, form and intention are emphasised. A steady practice where mind and body are equally important and responsible for reaching a level of mental peace and relaxation, while maintaining postures that may present a physical challenge to the practitioner. This is the very essence of equanimity that yoga teaches us to manoeuvre through life's many situations.
Sarah Manning
Senior Yoga Teacher, eRYT500
Sarah has more than 24 years teaching experience, including the fundamental disciplines of Hatha, and more focused areas of back care, prenatal, postnatal, Fertility and Yoga Therapy. Sarah also conducts Yoga for Fertility workshops and Conscious Conception retreats. Through her Office Yogi Chatbot – she visits corporate offices to inspire greater wellbeing – thorough movement, posture, breath and relaxation techniques. She teaches the International Yoga Teachers Association 50-hour Yin Yoga Teacher training course.
She is supporting the National Arthritis Foundation with a programme of workshops to empower arthritis sufferers and their carers with tools to support pain/ stiffness/ fatigue/ insomnia/ depression.