Karin Oscarson trained in classical massage, reiki and body harmony in Sweden from 1991. She trained as a meditation teacher and is currently undergoing a Yoga teacher training in NYSY studios in Athens. She lives on Amorgos since 1993 where she is running the IRIS centre together with Vasilis Savvas.
Vasilis Savvasstudied physics at the University of Patras and his special interest for Astronomy begun when he first came to Amorgos in early 80:s. He is practicing Tai Chi and Qi Gong with different teachers and styles since 1989. In 1996 he began to teach in Iris centre.
Vagelis Vassalos.Neurophysiologist graduated at UCL, London and acupuncturist from I.C.O.M, Sussex. He has studied Time Therapy (a new approach to psychotherapy) with Manuel Shoch, which he uses in combination with therapeutic body work. He teaches and develops the "Subtle Body Dance" which he bases on Body Contact Improvisation and Chinese traditional arts like Tai Chi and Qigong. Vangelis is based on Amorgos where he works at his applied physiology studio (IAMA), where he also works with the Amorgian herbs.
Sol Morejon.Born in Ecuador. Dipl.psycologist, trained in Karlfried Graaf von Durckheim´s Initiatic therapy , currently attends the Psykosynthes Academy in Stockholm for authorization as psychoynthesis therapist. Sol teaches the Nia technique and holds Essence workshops at Sturebadet health spa in Stockholm. "Movement is for me the ultimate window to my soul: a vehicle towards joy for joy, selfknowledge and focus, an endless space where I can evolve, experiment and rest and heal"
Theodossia Stathiwas born in Athens, were she grew up and had her first classical and contemporary dance classes. She now lives in Brussels where she studied at P.A.R.T.S.(Performing Arts, Research and Training Studios), the school of Anne Teresa de Kersmaeker, in Brussels, from where she was graduate in June 2006. She has followed an Ashtanga Yoga teachers’ training course in India and is currently participating in an Iyengar Yoga teachers’ training formation in Brussels. Parallel to her dance career, she is teaching Yoga in Brussels and Greece. She has a great interest in sharing the practice of Yoga and her teaching is informed and enriched by her dance background and knowledge
Dorina Kalethrianou. Was born in Athens where she graduated with honors from the State Dance School. She has studied contemporary techniques and dance therapy in New York, Germany and London. She has danced in a various of performances since the eighties and taught in State School of Athens and at most of the private professional schools of dance and drama since 1985. She has choreographed all productions of the contemporary dance group ‘Temporary Synthesis’ since 1986 and other theatre plays.
In the field of dance therapy she worked at mental health centers for children and adults. She has been an external examiner on the board of the ministry of culture for the professional dance schools and a member of the jury for the international prizes for choreography of the Alexander S. Onassis public benefit foundation. She is directing the dance school of Agios Dimitrios municipality.
She is teaching contemporary dance at the school of the Athens opera house (Lyriki skini)
Panagiotis Kontaxakis . Was an athletic champion in Greece for years. He holds the Greek record in track and field for 1988, while he was also applying systematically in his trainings the Chinese yoga, the Tai Chi Chuan, the meditation, the qigong and athletic psychology. Panagiotis began his study and his practice in Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and meditation in 1983 in Switzerland, New York, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Boston, Los Angeles, Japan, Turkey, Minneapolis, Washington. He began to teach in Greece individually and in groups from 1988. 1992 he opened his GREEK HEALING TAO CENTER which functions until today. In 1993 he was given the international title < Superior instructor > of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and meditation after having studied with Master Mantak Tsia for 15 years.He has many other teachers as well and in his center many of their methods, such as push hands and the inner smile, are being teached.
Bettina Agathonos has been studying art therapy and art animation over the past three years in centre Rhapsodie ( http://www.rhapsodie.be ) in Brussels which is part of the international association ARC for the promotion of art, expression, creativity and art therapy.Furthermore Bettina has specialized in painting and body-mind movement over the past five years. The workshops she offers encourage spontaneity and creativity in different artistic fields such as dance, painting, creative writing, theatre, music, games and playfully offer the possibility for personel development. The aim of her work is the encouragement of creativity, self-discovery and expression and not the creation of beauty. Non -judgement is a strict principle in her workshops.
MARIE-PAULE THIJSSENMarie-Paule Thijssen studied music in the Netherlands.
Her fascination for sound and the human processes continued more
in a physical and spiritual way.Since 1993 she has been trained in
Voicework (trademark) by the founder Jean-René Toussaint.
In this work she found the combination of Voice and Body which
forms a bridge between the inner and outer world.
Beside this, she teaches music to children and gives massages.
Sunnah Rose has been practicing yoga for many years but became truly inspired by it when she started learning on a trip to India. 'It is amazing how your mind and body feels after just doing a few simple exercises. I love the awareness Yoga has given me of my body and mind. Yoga brings not only stillness and calm but also an indescribably energy and feeling of bliss.’ Having trained with many different teachers she takes her main influence from scaravelli yoga , intent on relaxing and releasing the spine alongside a gentle vinyasa (Flow) hatha yoga, bringing creativity and dynamism to a practice.
Is an Ashtanga yoga teacher certified by Yoga Alliance (trained in the Primary series at ‘Its yoga’ in Sweden and with David Swenson in Scotland) Her interest for yoga, meditation, alternative medicine/treatments etc, grew when she practiced Ashtanga yoga in New York 1998. Iren has traveled many times in India and visited several yoga and Ayurvedic health centers in Goa, Nasik , Rishkesh and Mysore at Sri.K Pattabhi Jois. She has also undertaken teacher trainings in pregnancy yoga, kids yoga and Yin yoga.Iren has also studied classical Swedish massage, Ayurvedic body therapies, reiki healing and meditation. She is born and lives in Sweden where she teaches yoga and gives ayurvedic body treatments.
Sallie Rose
has been practising yoga and meditation for 20 years. She trained in
Scaravelli yoga and Sivananda Yoga in India.
She brings to her classes a very relaxing and meditative approach to
help people enter the postures from a very open and relaxed place.
So what seems difficult becomes easy....
www.sallierose.co.uk
Manos Mamidakis
He dealt with the Chinese martial arts (Wu Shu and other stjl)
2000-2003. In 2002 he begins with the alternative treatments.
He studied Chinese Traditional Medicine, Chinese
Herbs, and Ilektrovelonjsmo. He has dealt with chi kung and
with other energy techniques. In 2003 he followed intensive
seminar in Pilion with Giorgos Pappas.
He has written two books that are under publication.
Irini Sanikou
trained in the Sacred school of Lynn Andrews , a member of the
Sisters of Shields, a circle of women who work on empowering
the female energy that exists in everybody, an energy that the
Mother Earth is in so much need of in these times. Irini is also
reikimaster, schiatsu teacher, aura soma therapist, tai chi and
qigong teacher and runs the Centre of Irini in Athens .
Christina Pissanidou
became intensely interested in yoga during her stay in
chicago where she had the good luck to study in the prestigious moksha yoga
center. There, she practiced with many different teachers and studied different
styles of yoga.She is mostly inspired by all teachers who dare follow a truly
personal and original path and feels especially grateful to her teachers angela
farmer and victor van kooten for their beautiful example and encouragement.
Her teaching is informed by her own practice which is a blend of sometimes slow,
sometimes dynamic vinyasa, Iyengar yoga and yin yoga. In her classes, she
aims to arouse her students' natural sense of curiosity, adventure and pure,
unmediated pleasure of their own bodies. She lives in athens greece .
I R I S Center-Aegiali beach-84008 Amorgos-Cyclades
tel:0030 22850 73545 iris@nax.forthnet.gr
