Meet the teachers, their background stories, motivation and experience
Coen van der Kroon
Coen was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1962. He has an academic background in Greek and Latin Languages and Culture. His MA thesis was on ancient Greek gynaecology with a comparison between Hippocratic and Ayurvedic Medicine. This was the …
Martine van Beusekom
Martine has an outspoken vision on spreading the word of Ayurveda in the Netherlands. Through her active involvement in education for practitioners, she contributes to increasing familiarity with Ayurveda as a healing system in the Netherlands that can benefit many …
Vd. Alaknanda Rao
Vd. Rao is a consulting physician (BAMS, India) practising Ayurveda for over 27 years. Initially, for several years she was managing a community-based clinic in Pune India treating patients from different parts of India and overseas. She was also involved …
Liese van Dam
Liese is originally trained as a hatha yoga teacher in India. Her journey with yoga started at a time when life didn’t give her a lot of satisfaction and she was looking for a way to bring spirituality into her …
Susan Pulley
Absorbed by Ayurveda for more than a decade, Susan is deeply invested in helping people transform their vitality and become their best selves through practical use of classic Ayurvedic nutrition, herbs, warm oil treatments, education and yoga. She is the …
Kirsten Drooger
Having spent most of her childhood years on horseback in nature, Kirsten has found in yoga a new way to connect with nature now that she lives in Amsterdam. Kirsten studied Prana Yoga at the Prana Yoga College in Vancouver, …
Nicha Sukhraj
Nicha works as an Ayurvedic Practitioner in her own clinic in Zoetermeer. The science of Ayurveda has captured her since the first day she ever started her training over 10 years ago, mostly because of the practicality and at the …
Vd. Sayali Kendarkar
With the urge to help people Vd. Kendarkar has dreamt of becoming a doctor since she was a child. During school years she learnt Sanskrit where Ayurveda was also a topic, this sparked interest and from there on she knew …
Vd. Shailesh Muli
Vd. Muli lives in Pune, India and has been practicing Ayurveda for many years. After his degree in Ayurveda, he has post graduated in Pancha Karma and specialized in Garbhasanskar, Yoga, Pranayama and Asanas. He has his own clinic in …
Ombretta Dettori
Ombretta holds a Master Degree in Psychology with a special focus on group dynamics. She runs the Mysore Program at the Yoga Circle (together with Claudia Pradella), teaching Ashtanga Yoga and other yoga styles. Ombretta also has her own Ayurvedic …
Eva Ugolini
Eva’s passion for Yoga and Ayurveda began 20 years ago and the experience changed her life forever, giving her a new awareness and a sense of connection and integration of body, mind and soul, according to the ancient Ayurvedic medicine. …
