About this retreat
Meditheum is a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with Yoga Alliance that runs a 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training programme
We are a group of yoga sadhakas who have been trained in traditional hatha yoga and raja yoga in India. All our instructors are either Yoga Professionals certified by the Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India or Registered Yoga Teachers accreditated by Yoga Alliance.
We teach asana, pranayama and meditation practice, and run an ONLINE RYS 300-hour Teacher Training Programme. Anatomy lectures are given by Dr. Visalam, an experienced practising physician and regular yoga sadhaka.
Our teaching team consists of native Indian yogis who share and teach the authentic form of yoga and of Chinese yogis who are familiar with the needs and wants of Chinese students. Diksha, Raghunandan, Santhosh and Dr. Visalam all come from South India and have been practising yoga since their school days. Amos and Luke became acquainted with yoga in their early adolescent and have studied yoga at the lotus feet of several Indian masters.
Amos E-RYT® 500, RPYT® and YACEP®, he has been teaching in Taiwan since April 2024. He gave his first yoga lessons in 2010 and ran his own studio in Guangzhou, China until April 2024, China. He received formal training in traditional hatha yoga, Iyengar-style yoga and Pilates. During the last ten years he has grasped every opportunity to enrich and diversify his personal practice and teaching by attending specialized workshops in India and China. His primary focuses are pregnancy care, spinal care and senior care through yoga practice.
Diksha E-RYT® 200 RYT® 500, is an eternal disciple of the Krishnamacharya lineage. She is an experienced and passionate Yoga Instructor with over ten years of learning experience and advanced training in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Ashtanga and Viniyasa approaches. She has a MA in Business Economics and has attended several eminent Indian institutions including but not limited to A1000 Yoga, Bangalore, Swami Krishnananda Yoga Vidyapeeth, Mysore and Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation, Chennai, India. Diksha has been practising yoga since 2009 and became a regular teacher in 2017. She could be spotted in many Community Centres in Chennai, India where she has been serving wholeheartedly the local Yoga community. She is accredited by Yoga Alliance, World Yoga Federation and Yoga Alliance International. Besides being trained professionally in teaching yoga to kids, the elders and pregnant ladies, Diksha is also well-versed in Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali's Yogasutra, Dhyanamalika, Yoga Rahasya of Nathamuni, Samantraka Pranayama, Samantraka Mudra and Gayathri Dhyanam. She has acquired a very rich experience in teaching the yogic wisdom from the classical texts and vedic chanting over the years.
Luke attended the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy founded by Swami Sivananda and is a Yoga Master certified by Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India. He is an E-RYT® 500 and YACEP® with Yoga Alliance. He specialises in teaching the internal aspects of yoga (antaranga yoga) and teaches yoga nidra, dharana practice, chakra balancing and meditation. He is also teaching Japanese tea ceremony across several locations in China. Luke's sadhana/personal practice is based on the teachings of Swami Sivananda who founded the Divine Life Society and Swami Rama who founded the Himalayan Institute. Luke has been pursuing further studies in meditation techniques, yoga philosophy and yoga psychology. He offers individual and small group classes conducted in person or online upon request in one of the following languages, Cantonese Chinese, English, French and Mandarin Chinese. He also teaches in a couple of RYS200 and RYS300 programmes.
Raghunandan is a yoga teacher accredited by Yoga Alliance, World Yoga Federation and Yoga Alliance International, and has a MBA from Andhra University, India. He has been practising hatha yoga since 2009 and has been teaching since 2018. He has teaching certification from Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari and Swami Krishnananda Yoga Vidyapeeth, Mysore and ISHA Yoga. As a yoga teacher he strives to help yogis to learn essential postures and to feel comfortable in their practice, and to ensure safe practice. His training as a yoga teacher has taught him to inspire his students to perceive yogic practices as the link between the body and the mind, and encourage them to live mindfully, both on an off the mat. Raghunandan is an advocate of Integrated Restorative Yoga, designed to restore health and wellness from within, the Integrated Restorative Yoga process helps individuals identify the yogic regimen to fulfill their respective health goals.
Santhosh is a skilled and certified yoga instructor with an ability to build effective relationships with students of all background and skill levels. He has a MBA from the University of Madras, India and has completed his Yoga Teacher Training at Sri Krishnananda Inteyoga School of Yoga, India. Santhosh has been teaching yoga since 2017 and is well-known for being hardworking, dedicated and supportive with excellent communication skills. He is well praised by his colleagues and students for his Alignment Techniques, Asana and Pranayama Demonstration, Group Instructions, Strong Communication Skills and clear Safety Techniques.
Dr. Visalam holds a Doctorate in Medicine from India and Functional medicine super speciality from The US. She has been practising yoga since school days and was given state level awards conducted at school level. She has completed 300 hr Yoga TTC from Sri Krishnananda Inteyoga School of Yoga, India. She believes and preaches holistic treatment to chronic diseases and inculcates Asana, Pranayama, Diet counselling, Sleep aid, Pain aid and Shatkarmas as a part of her regular patient treatment practice for Chronic diseases which has yielded great results in terms of reversal of a diseases and patient satisfaction. She also specialises in Auto-Immune Conditions Management, Sports Nutrition and Ayurveda. Teaching students to spread knowledge on the human body and let people understand their own body has been her biggest passion. Dr. Visalam's teaching career started very young at the age of 18 when she started teaching kindergarten children and continues to teach physiology and medicine to medical students out of reputed medical institutions in India namely Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Indian Institute of Sports Medicine and Sri Lakshminarayana Medical College.
We are a group of yoga sadhakas who have been trained in traditional hatha yoga and raja yoga in India. All our instructors are either Yoga Professionals certified by the Yoga Certification Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India or Registered Yoga Teachers accreditated by Yoga Alliance.
We teach asana, pranayama and meditation practice, and run an ONLINE RYS 300-hour Teacher Training Programme. Anatomy lectures are given by Dr. Visalam, an experienced practising physician and regular yoga sadhaka.
Our teaching team consists of native Indian yogis who share and teach the authentic form of yoga and of Chinese yogis who are familiar with the needs and wants of Chinese students. Diksha, Raghunandan, Santhosh and Dr. Visalam all come from South India and have been practising yoga since their school days. Amos and Luke became acquainted with yoga in their early adolescent and have studied yoga at the lotus feet of several Indian masters.
Amos E-RYT® 500, RPYT® and YACEP®, he has been teaching in Taiwan since April 2024. He gave his first yoga lessons in 2010 and ran his own studio in Guangzhou, China until April 2024, China. He received formal training in traditional hatha yoga, Iyengar-style yoga and Pilates. During the last ten years he has grasped every opportunity to enrich and diversify his personal practice and teaching by attending specialized workshops in India and China. His primary focuses are pregnancy care, spinal care and senior care through yoga practice.
Diksha E-RYT® 200 RYT® 500, is an eternal disciple of the Krishnamacharya lineage. She is an experienced and passionate Yoga Instructor with over ten years of learning experience and advanced training in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Ashtanga and Viniyasa approaches. She has a MA in Business Economics and has attended several eminent Indian institutions including but not limited to A1000 Yoga, Bangalore, Swami Krishnananda Yoga Vidyapeeth, Mysore and Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation, Chennai, India. Diksha has been practising yoga since 2009 and became a regular teacher in 2017. She could be spotted in many Community Centres in Chennai, India where she has been serving wholeheartedly the local Yoga community. She is accredited by Yoga Alliance, World Yoga Federation and Yoga Alliance International. Besides being trained professionally in teaching yoga to kids, the elders and pregnant ladies, Diksha is also well-versed in Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali's Yogasutra, Dhyanamalika, Yoga Rahasya of Nathamuni, Samantraka Pranayama, Samantraka Mudra and Gayathri Dhyanam. She has acquired a very rich experience in teaching the yogic wisdom from the classical texts and vedic chanting over the years.
Luke attended the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy founded by Swami Sivananda and is a Yoga Master certified by Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India. He is an E-RYT® 500 and YACEP® with Yoga Alliance. He specialises in teaching the internal aspects of yoga (antaranga yoga) and teaches yoga nidra, dharana practice, chakra balancing and meditation. He is also teaching Japanese tea ceremony across several locations in China. Luke's sadhana/personal practice is based on the teachings of Swami Sivananda who founded the Divine Life Society and Swami Rama who founded the Himalayan Institute. Luke has been pursuing further studies in meditation techniques, yoga philosophy and yoga psychology. He offers individual and small group classes conducted in person or online upon request in one of the following languages, Cantonese Chinese, English, French and Mandarin Chinese. He also teaches in a couple of RYS200 and RYS300 programmes.
Raghunandan is a yoga teacher accredited by Yoga Alliance, World Yoga Federation and Yoga Alliance International, and has a MBA from Andhra University, India. He has been practising hatha yoga since 2009 and has been teaching since 2018. He has teaching certification from Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari and Swami Krishnananda Yoga Vidyapeeth, Mysore and ISHA Yoga. As a yoga teacher he strives to help yogis to learn essential postures and to feel comfortable in their practice, and to ensure safe practice. His training as a yoga teacher has taught him to inspire his students to perceive yogic practices as the link between the body and the mind, and encourage them to live mindfully, both on an off the mat. Raghunandan is an advocate of Integrated Restorative Yoga, designed to restore health and wellness from within, the Integrated Restorative Yoga process helps individuals identify the yogic regimen to fulfill their respective health goals.
Santhosh is a skilled and certified yoga instructor with an ability to build effective relationships with students of all background and skill levels. He has a MBA from the University of Madras, India and has completed his Yoga Teacher Training at Sri Krishnananda Inteyoga School of Yoga, India. Santhosh has been teaching yoga since 2017 and is well-known for being hardworking, dedicated and supportive with excellent communication skills. He is well praised by his colleagues and students for his Alignment Techniques, Asana and Pranayama Demonstration, Group Instructions, Strong Communication Skills and clear Safety Techniques.
Dr. Visalam holds a Doctorate in Medicine from India and Functional medicine super speciality from The US. She has been practising yoga since school days and was given state level awards conducted at school level. She has completed 300 hr Yoga TTC from Sri Krishnananda Inteyoga School of Yoga, India. She believes and preaches holistic treatment to chronic diseases and inculcates Asana, Pranayama, Diet counselling, Sleep aid, Pain aid and Shatkarmas as a part of her regular patient treatment practice for Chronic diseases which has yielded great results in terms of reversal of a diseases and patient satisfaction. She also specialises in Auto-Immune Conditions Management, Sports Nutrition and Ayurveda. Teaching students to spread knowledge on the human body and let people understand their own body has been her biggest passion. Dr. Visalam's teaching career started very young at the age of 18 when she started teaching kindergarten children and continues to teach physiology and medicine to medical students out of reputed medical institutions in India namely Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Indian Institute of Sports Medicine and Sri Lakshminarayana Medical College.
What they offer
Full-time (usually intensive/immersion), Part-time (spread out over time), Weekends only, Modules (several, shorter immersions), Non-residential (trainees commute to the program)
Yoga styles taught
Flow Yoga, Alignment-Oriented Yoga, Spiritually-Oriented Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Specialty Yoga