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About your hosts and fellow yogis

Om suastiastu beautiful people.
 
Thank you for visiting this page. We are Pragyadhara and Alicja, currently feeling utterly lucky to host you on our annual yoga retreats, meditation immersion and teacher teacher training in Bali, Indonesia.
 
We are looking forward to share the mindfulness practices we have integrated in our lives and share with our communities. Further more we are excited to share the love we have for Bali and create a little bit of magic during the 8 days together.

Here is a little bit more about us as individuals.

Namaste & Hari aum
Pragyadhara and Alicja

Sannyasi Pragyadhara
Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Mentor, Teacher Trainer,
Kirtanist & Mantra Enthusiast

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Hi, Im Pragyadhara from Pure Yoga & I love to share holistic wellness tools through the sacred portal of Yoga. Some of my favourite practices to share are those which foster deeper self reflective awareness, build energy & soothe the soul.

 

I teach community courses, one to ones from my home based studio in Torbay, Auckland. Outside of this, specialised workshops that find me in some of the most stunning places in the country. I've trained teachers since for over ten years & invest time in the graduates ensuring they are well supported on their journey.

 

I've taught overseas to specialised populations & every year I spend time keeping my connection alive with my yoga lineage in India.

I'm passionate about building community & bridging the modern world with the timeless technology of classical Yoga.  There are so many aspects to explore.

 

Some of my favourite practices to share are; Yoga Nidra, Mantra Yoga, Meditation techniques, Restorative Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, kirtan & Havan (Traditional Vedic practice) & Yogic Lifestyle routines & rituals.

 

Our shared practice will bring us closer to ourselves, disperse any tension or tiredness and reset our body & mind amidst the beauty and rhythms of Bali's natural world.

 

When I'm not teaching yoga I love to get amongst nature.  I foster cats & have developed slight addiction to chai.  I can be found sipping some homemade chai on my deck taking in the oceans moods with my two favourite cats. 

​Qualifications and Recognition


Lead Trainer and Program Consultant, RYS, E-RYT® 500
Continuing Education Provider, Yoga Alliance, U.S. YACEP®

Senior Teacher, Level 4, Yoga NZ.  Yoga NZ Council Member.

3 year residential immersion, Sannyasa Training, Sannyas Peeth,

Ganga Darshan Bihar School of Yoga, India, 2012 - 2015

Certificate - Training and Assessment Adult Education
TAFE, Australia, 2011

Diploma in Satyananda Yoga Training ( 1500 hrs +)
Yoga Academy Australia, 2009

Masters in Yoga Psychology.  2 Year residential qualification.
Bihar Yoga Bharati, Ganga Darshan, 2005

B.A./B.ED. Diploma of Secondary Teaching
Waikato University, 1996.

Alicja Skop
Yoga Teacher, retreat creator, mountain biker,
forever a sunshine seeker

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Kia ora, aloha and hello. I am Alicja, one of the co-creators of Bali Retreats and I really care about people and their wellbeing. Over the last few years I have been very lucky to spend some extended time in Bali, and have fallen in love with the beauty, kindness and outstanding hospitality of this special place and people.

I started my yoga practice in 2007, in an attempt to manage my constant back pain. I will never forget my first class and its impact on my wellbeing. Encouraged by my very first teachers, in 2017 I became a teacher myself and never looked back. I seek to teach yoga to empower others in the same way it has helped me both physically and mentally.

I completed two teacher trainings, hundreds of workshops, and I am registered with the International Yoga Alliance with over 300 hours in Yin and Yang yoga. I love to merge those two practices into one, and get the best of both worlds. Besides studio classes I taught on sound journeys, many retreats, festivals like the renowned Splore Festival, support a great number of students through 1-1 classes and community engagement, at my day jobs, in my backyard, friends' lounges and I taught a high performing U18 girls football team. The list is long, and hopefully it reflects that creating wellbeing in communities is my main driver and the reason I get up in the morning. I take that passion further through my day job. Working for New Zealand’s largest cycle tour operator gives me a platform to shine a light on wellbeing through cycling.

In my free time I love to learn more about the science of yoga, how to enhance my own wellbeing and find myself in nature most the time. I love mountain biking, hiking, reading, taking photos, I appreciate art, connecting with my friends and community, and traveling. Lots of traveling!

​Qualifications and Recognition

 

200 hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training, Kawai Purapura, Auckland 2017​

 

100 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training, Yin Therapy, Wellington 2017

L3 National Certificate in Tikanga Māori and Te Reo, Skills Active Aotearoa, Wellington 2018​

B.A. Business economics and tourism, Institut für Tourismus & Sport, Germany 2006

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