Meet the Mandalablue Yoga TEAM

 

Maite on the Fly High Yoga belt at Mandalablue´s Studio back in the years on Gili air, Indonesia.

Maite

Founder of Mandalablue Yoga in Gili Air (Indonesia) in 2014 and Creator of Tarifa Spirit Festival, this Spanish woman with Colombian roots decides to share her experience in Spain in the summer of 2017, in one of her favorite places on the planet: Tarifa (Cádiz).

One of her passions is to be by the sea and within it. Diving, freedive, swimming, dance and, of course, yoga... All of them are for her different versions of the same: to connect with the depth and essence of being that connects with the Whole. And it is what she transmits in her classes.

She is an Experienced Yoga Teacher 500hrs by Yoga Alliance and YACEP in Hatha Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga, Traditional Hatha Tantra and Aerial Yoga (FlyHighYoga), Fundaments of Traditional Chinese medicine and Mindfulness meditation. Maite has been fortunate to gather more than 1000 certified hours of study with professors of the stature of Mark Stephens, Sarah Powers, Tina Nance, The School of Sacred Arts, Mark Whitwell, Simon Borg-Olivier, among others... And she counts with more than 3000 hours of class instructing students and future teachers in places such as Yoga Barn in Ubud (Bali), Yoga Viva and Yoga Space in Colombia and different locations in Europe.

Passionate about Zen meditation, she invites in her classes to quiet the mind through the choreography of the body and the breath. Trained in Berlin, Hamburg, Indonesia and India, her passion for work is to contribute to the knowledge of the True Self through practice: "the body is the channel. Through the practice of asana and directed breathing we move energy to connect with "something" much higher that ultimately is who we really are ".

Maite Méndez organizes group and private Yin Yoga workshops based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fly High Yoga and traditional Tantra aerial yoga workshops and trainings, as well as yoga and meditation retreats throughout the year in Indonesia and since 2018 also in Europe and South America. Since 2020 also in Online format!

Don't miss her Akashic Records Readings, Water Therapy sessions and the private mentoring sessions she offers, in which she guides people to make creative changes to achieve the life they have always dreamed of living.


Sandrine

Sandrine Dos Santos is an energy therapist, Reiki Master and Hatha yoga teacher. Her main purpose is to help others connect with their own strength, beauty and wisdom, so they can follow their life path and express their true and unique essence to the world. On her Guided meditations she helps you connect and synergize with your Higher Self so you can start functioning from your higher dimensional expressions and continue your day with a sense of peace and the profoundness of who you are. No meditation experience needed, just curiosity and an open heart.


Lourdes

“I have been working the body through dance, music and improvised movement for more than 10 years. When I start practicing yoga, I realize the closeness and similarity that I feel between dance and yoga, between stretching and dance movements with respect to stretching and yoga asanas, between the discipline that both entail and respect for oneself and for others. The practice of yoga has helped me to deepen even more in the corporal and mental consciousness as an individual being and the learning and transformation of the individual as a social being ”.

Lourdes Tello is a native of Algeciras (Cádiz) with a degree in Pedagogy from the University of Granada and a Senior Technician in Social Integration. She also has a degree in contemporary dance from the Professional Conservatory "Reina Sofía" of Granada. She continues her dance studies by completing a Master in Girona and researching about the movement offered by the Zappalá company in Catania (Sicily). Years later she studies two years of studies at the "María de Ávila" Superior Dance Conservatory in Madrid . It is in Madrid where he is part of the cast of the collective "Connective tissue" and participates in several dance festivals in the street and in the theaters of the Madrid channel. Simultaneously his studies, working in various dance academies with children and adults. For investigating and continuing to learn the search for movement and body development in other techniques, arts and disciplines lead her to attend a yoga practice and that is when she realizes the union between dance and yoga. The work of balance, flexibility and elasticity, coordination, concentration and perseverance make him hooked on yoga. For this reason, she decides to do the Yoga for Children training at Zentro Urban Yoga Madrid and the Asthanga Yoga and Progressive Yoga Instructor endorsed by the European Institute of Yoga.


Sandra

Sandra Benegas is the second thinking head of Mandalablue in Spain (often the first or the only one… 😉).

Without the help of this very special woman, many of the advances that we are making in Mandalablue Yoga would not be possible. Working "from behind the scenes", Sandra - mother, yogini and exceptional woman - takes care of all the part of organizing courses in the Spanish and neighboring territory, the financial part and the projection of Mandalablue. Sandra is the spring that is anchored in the ground and whose force propels you towards the sky.

Without it, the giant steps that are taken would be unthinkable. In short, she is an essential piece in all the logistics dynamics of Mandalablue in Spain. And hopefully we can enjoy her classes soon ...

Sandra began in Ashtanga, but as she advances in the practice she becomes a greater fan of the deep teachings of traditional hatha yoga, more static and leisurely. She is a fierce learner, a restless yogini who since she began she enjoys every second that she can practice and study. And she to collaborate so that Yoga is implanted in a successful and inspiring way in the heart of each of the people who come into contact with it.