Seda comes from Hatha and Iyengar traditions of yoga, and was introduced to Donna Holeman's principles of yoga by Sharon Matarazzo and Angelika Grohmann at Bodywise in London. She practiced Integral yoga with Sama Fabien who is the founder of Aurolab. She studied Therevada Buddhism and Vipassana at Suan Mokhe in Thailand and Tibetan Buddhism with the renowned Lamas including H.H. Dalai Lama in Dharamasala, India.

She has completed her yoga teacher training at Sivananda Yoga Academy in Madurai Ashram in India. She obtained her certificate in Ayurvedic Massage and Panchakarma Therapy from Dr.M. Sathyanandan - S.M. Ayurveda, Panchakarma and Yoga Therapy Centre, Varkala and a Certificate in Kalari Massage from Dr.Shaji -E.P.V. Kalari Centre, Palai in India. She has participated to some seminars and workshops to contribute to the Ayurvedic Healing Course with Dr. David Frawley, Vedic Institute in Holland.
She’s also done the Yoga and Anatomy and Yin Yoga intensive workshop with the revolutionary Yoga anatomy teacher Paul Grilley at Triyoga in London. She’s been studying Tantra over the last three years and shares her knowledge and experiences with her students.

She gives regular mainstream and over 60 year old yoga classes at the Surya centre, and gives Ayurvedic consultations and treatments by appointment. She gives ayurvedic yoga workshops to individuals or very small groups for 3 to 7 days. You can enquire for the availability. She also gives private classes for specific needs e.g. pregnancy, senior citizen, back pain, body type, heart condition or simply privacy.
Seda believes in constant spiritual development and does relevant courses and workshops to her own development every year. She lives between Datca, UK and India.

Seda has got trained to be an Osho Active Meditation Teacher at Osho Meditation Centre in Pune, India and received a title for Surya as Osho Meditation Activity Centre in January 2008 .

Cela has chosen to join us on our long walk -www.thehaywalk.org - when we were walking at North of Spain in a small village where she takes her name after. We believe she's the longest walked dog as when we walked for 25km. she would extend it to 35-40km. by covering extra area by running up and down the hills during the time -12 months- she companied us.

Now she's practising and being an example in yoga to our students and guests in her new home in Datca. She's a member of Surya family and very friendly with our guests.

Bora Ercan

Bora has been examining and studying eastern cultures both theoretically and practically for 20 years. He has been to many temples and ashrams for studying and training in India, Nepal, Thailand and England. He is a certified thai massage and yoga instructor. He is a founder of Hariom Yoga Center (www.yogahariom.com) in Istanbul and also the writer of the book Muson Şarkıları (Monsoon Songs) which is about ashram life in India.  

Our facilitator, Mr. Jeffrey Oliver, is and Australian with over 13 years experience in meditation. He was trained in Burma under a great international meditation master. Jeff has shared his wisdom and experiences in many countries, including Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and this is his fifth time to be invited to share mindfulness training here in Turkey. These days, Jeff lives in Thailand and runs meditation courses, workshops, camps and gives talks in Universities, government departments, private companies and for anyone interested in developing mindfulness, wisdom and compassion.

Inke started to do yoga in 2000 and yoga became a very important aspect in her life since then. She studied with Pattabhi Jois. Rolf Naujokat and John Scott  have been the biggest influence in her practice. She also took 3 year bodywork training (Deep tissue bodywork and body therapy) with Perry Holloman which gave her a better understaning of the different levels of humanbeing e.g the physical, energy, psychological and the spiritual level. She taught classes in London, Barcelona, istanbul and Hamburg. She’s currently teaching astanga mysore style and yin yoga in Hamburg, Germany.

Karuna Honer

Karuna is an accredited teacher with Satyananda Yoga in Australia.   She has trained in yoga studies in Australia, New Zealand and India.  Karuna has twenty years experience in teaching yoga and meditation and has presented courses, workshops and retreats to a wide range of people.  She has taught extensively in Australia, and in addition has run workshops in Glasgow, Israel and Kenya.  She also has a love of movement, dance and music and will incorporate these into her retreat.  Karuna currently teaches at the ACT Yoga and Meditation Centre, in Canberra, Australia. 

Dr. Madavan Sathyanandan

Dr. Sathyanandan has been a doctor in Ayurvedic Medicine since 1979. He's a specialist in traditional osteopathy (vadha vyadhis) and yoga therapy trained in traditional  gurukula system. He established his practice clinic in Karinganoor in 1979 and in Varkala in 2000 where he treats his patients from all over the world. He also gives training courses on ayurvedic massage and treatments.

Micheala Zettl

Micheala Zettl is an ayurvedic practitioner (diploma) who worked with various ayurvedic doctors in India e.g. Dr. Shaji - E.P.V. Kalari, Dr. Ajit Mandlecha - Vishvanan Kendra and Dr.Sathyanandan - S.M. Ayurveda, Panchakarma and Yoga Therapy Centre.

She practises in her own ayurveda clinic in Graz, Austria. She does kalari massage, ayurvedic massage, ancient Thai Massage and classical massage. She also teaches Sanskrit, Samkhya philosophy and massage in various insitutions in Austria.

Hatun Çelebi

She was born in Gümüshane in 1963. In 1972 she settled in Berlin. After a long experience of teaching in Nursery schools, she got trained and specialized in Yoga, Reiki and Feet Reflexology branches during the last 8 years.
Then she traveled to India to attend many practices in her subjects.

Hatun Çelebi started her yoga career in Berlin and continues her in Yoga House Marmaris.

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Luana Cristina Lucas de Lima

She started Swasthya Yogayala in Sao Paulo , Brazil . Since then she has been living and studying in different spots all around the world. She studied Shiatsu in Japan , Thai massage in Indonesia and Thailand , Yiengar in India , Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga Rishikesh, Ayurveda in Kerala.

She had her Shivananda Yoga certificate in Nassau Island/Bahamas in year 2000.

Her target is freeing herself from technical informations and doctrins to get spiritual guidance and to wide open from the heart. Apart from to kick the healing power in our bodies she also lets us to communicate with the kids in ourselves.

Ozlem Liz Kilic

Born in istanbul, I have been living and practicing yoga in Toronto for the past 12 years. Kripalu- a yoga ashram in US has been a big part of my training for yoga and effected my life in a tremendous way inspiring me to practice living a yogic way. İ have had most of my training with valuable teachers from Kripalu including Prana Yoga and Goddess Yoga which focuses on women empowering themselves emotionally and physically. Continued my traning with Swami Mukhtidharma in Toronto on Chakra Yoga and once again got very inspired to teach this profound formula for wholeness that integrates mind, body and spirit. Now living and teaching in istanbul, I integrate hatha, kripalu and prana yoga in all my classes. Respecting the students body I take them on a journey of letting go and bringing the awareness back to them with breathwork ultimately belonging in the moment.

Umit Tacbas

He was born in Izmir in 1973. He studied Latin American and ballroom dances with Tanya mc Cully and Metin Yazir in 1995.Since 2002 He has been working as Latin American and ballrooms dances instructer in Izmir 9 Eylül University. In order to love dance and encourage it to be loved, He manages Latin and modern dance courses in and out of Izmir.

Hema Vyas BSc (Hon’s), DCH, NRAHs

Hema Vyas, is a qualified Psychologist and Hypnotherapist, who has specialised in many area’s including, interpersonal relationships, Psychoneuroimmunology, and advanced training in Psychometric testing and Emotional Intelligence.
Hema has extensive experience of training and helping groups and individuals reach their full potential and find happiness using a variety of techniques including; psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, past life regression, creative visualisation, inner child healing, chakra clearing, meditation work, breath work, quantum and spiritual psychology.
She has run workshops for training organisations and corporate clients. She is also a trained Chopra Centre Instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation and Perfect Health courses.

Raphan-Laye Kebe

Raphan-Laye Kebe is a Certified Jivamukti Teacher who is registered with Yoga Alliance UK & US as well as being accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga. He has taught in various places including New York & Switzerland & is currently found teaching in various centers around London.Raphan finds yoga to be a great metaphor for life, challenging us to be engaged yet relaxed on life’s path and as such his classes are laced with philosophical commentary, discussions on anatomy and posture related topics.

Nigel Warrington

NIGEL WARRINGTON is a theatre and opera director, a teacher of acting to actors and singers, a translator and writer. He read English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and studied directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked in England, Scotland, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Holland, Germany and New Zealand. For four years he was head of the professional actor-training programme at Trinity College, Dublin. He has been a guest artist at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts and a visiting professor at Indiana University, where he taught acting, directing, movement and voice/speech. In addition to his continued teaching, since 1996 his directing work has focused on opera and music theatre. His productions include Mozart’s COSI FAN TUTTE (for which he won “Best Opera Production of the Year Award 2001” in Denmark) and a highly innovative LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR in New Zealand. From 2001 to 2004 he was Artistic Director of the North Jutland Opera Company, a middle-scale touring company producing touring opera for both adults and children. In 2006 his talent met a new challenge, when he was invited by the North Jutland Art Museum to create MOZART FOREVER – a “dramatic exhibition” to celebrate the Mozart 250th anniversary. It was an enormous success. In February Nigel moved with his partner Lau and his border terrier Hector to Datça, Turkey. Directing and teaching will hopefully continue, but writing is now a big priority. Nigel hopes that the move to Datça is the start of a new chapter in his creative and personal life.