Daisy

Daisy is a 590-hours trained travelling yoga teacher, content creator and social media manager, originally from England. She completed her yoga teacher training in the birthplace of yoga in Rishikesh, India and since then has been travelling and working remotely around the world.

Daisy specialises in Vinyasa and Yin styles of yoga, as well as Meditation and Yoga Nidra. In her Vinyasa classes you will explore the balance between dynamic flow to ignite the internal fire, and slower, graceful movement, to find softness. Each class incorporates pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation and mantra, with a strong emphasis on the synergy of breath and body. With a background in dance, Daisy loves to create playful sequences that transition creatively from one pose into the other, allowing the practitioner to move with fluidity and expression.

Daisy is passionate about sharing a safe space for her students that is free from judgement, comparison and expectation, and looks forward to welcoming you into class soon!

Anaïs

Vinyasa Ashtanga yoga teacher.

It all started in 2011 when a friend of hers invited him to accompany her to a yoga class in the Retiro park, in Madrid.

Thus she discovered yoga and awakened in her the need to stretch her entire body. At this time she was very focused on running. Then, little by little she realized that yoga not only allowed her to be physically flexible, that there was something else that was changing in her.

What the teacher transmitted caught her attention and she began to read, seek more information about the World of yoga, its philosophy, its history, its origins ...

Her yoga practice began to become more constant and she focused on Ashtanga.

Her deep interest in this yoga and the support of her teacher encouraged him to go to the Mysore Mandala Yogashala school in India to train as an Ashtanga teacher (first series).

She discovered her _dharma_ (the kind of life she wanted to live and why of her) and on her return she began to teach in Tarifa and a new life!

For her, since then each yoga practice is a learning process, for what she can feel with herself, for her wonderful encounters with her students or other teachers, for the infinite universe that is Yoga.

She now teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, a demanding and dynamic practice that she loves for the diversity and freedom that it allows in the development of her classes.

Certified by the Yoga Alliance RCYT200, she performed numerous yoga Masterclasses (Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Rocket, Jivamukti) and practiced in different countries (India, Bali, Costa Rica and France) to deepen her knowledge and enrich her classes.

_ "A yoga teacher is always a student!" _

During the winter season, she teaches ski instructors in Baqueira, but every summer she returns to teach in Tarifa.

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.

Miguel

Based in Algeciras, Miguel del Pino (Vinyasa Flow, Hatha and Acro Yoga teacher) collaborates as a teacher with Maite at Mandalablue Yoga.

Miguel comments on himself and his practice: “Passionate about body movement, I started my Yoga practice with the aim of exploring the connection with my body, learning to communicate with it and express my creativity through movement. Experimenting, in parallel, other disciplines, such as gymnastics, acrobatics and calisthenics and integrating them into my practice. Currently, my practice and methodology is the result of the fusion and integration of these disciplines with a notable influence of different styles of Yoga, such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Power Yoga, Iyengar and even Yin Yoga.

Paying special attention to anatomical precision and the elaboration of progressions to achieve postures and body movements that require more specific work.

All this, without forgetting the true purpose and intention of a Yoga practice. "

Chiara

Hello! Delighted, I am Chiara Mancin, Italian from origin Hello! They love them, I have always had a great interest in cooking and since I was a child, I have had excellent cooking teachers: watching the women in my family cooking for their loved ones has taught me to pour love and creativity into food. forget the aroma of ripe tomatoes from my grandmother Maria's garden, simmering in a giant pot? Or the afternoons at my aunt's house, where friends and neighbors met to make trays and trays of fresh pasta. I have learned from my mother that sometimes, you just have to take the pleasure of adding a personal touch to each recipe.Some circumstances in life have made it possible for me to also get started in Senegalese cuisine (slow preparations, rich and enveloping spices, the beauty of sharing the same plate and the naturalness of eating with my hands) and assisting cooks in a rural community in Tanzania, so the decision to embrace the vegan philosophy has certainly introduced a new level of consciousness and new challenges to my dishes . And finally it was in Tarifa that I had the opportunity to start catering, to learn a lot about healthy and conscious cooking, and to discover some of the secrets of Indian and Thai cuisine.Now that you know how my history of love with cooking, you can easily understand why I take care of the catering of this retreat, it represents for me a connection between the past, the large family gatherings around the table, and the present, the possibility of making known and spreading a new way of sustainable eating. What I would like to do on this occasion is combine old and new knowledge to stay true to the type of cuisine I love: the one that chooses quality ingredients to transform them with care, creativity and, above all, a lot of love, into dishes that feed body and soul!

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.

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