Laura Zaccaria

Laura discovered yoga when she moved to Singapore in 2013. In 2017, she created Yoga for a Change for students to practise yoga while contributing to worthy causes that enhance livelihoods for women and children in Singapore. Her style of teaching is inspired by the diversity of her training and teachers, with attention to movement, breath and sound. You will leave her sessions feeling strong and relaxed.

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Certifications:

• 2017 YTT Power Vinyasa Focus with Trish Corley (200 hrs)

• 2018 Yin Fascial YTT Myofascial Release & 5 Elements QiGong with Beta Lisboa (25 hrs)

• 2019 Gong Training Level 1 with Martha Collard, Red Doors Studio (25 hrs)

• 2020 Embodied Woman Prenatal & Postpartum YTT with Amber Sawyer (85 hrs)

• 2021 Awakening Your Inner Teacher with Suraya Sam, House of Ascend (10 hrs)

• 2023 Usui Reiki Intuitive Healing Level 1 with Danielle Van de Velde

Diana Kraemer

Diana started her professional athletic journey at the age of 6 and ever since her dedication to body practice and healthy nutrition is her work and her passion. She has been teaching for over 20 years as a Holistic Fitness Trainer, Yoga Teacher and Health & Wellness Coach. She learned the traditional way of yoga, meditation, and holistic healing from some of the world’s greatest yogis and healers, while she has been living in Thailand, India and China. She thoughtfully integrates meditation, breath-work, mindfulness and inspired living in the classes she conducts so you can create a deeper connection to yourself & everything you care about.

Certification:

• 2000 SCHWINN Spinning instructor

• 2000 POLAR OwnZone Master Guide

• 2004 BEd Diploma in Physical Education & Athletic Sciences

• 2010 Yoga Alliances: Vinyasa Yoga Teacher

• 2020 NAHA Holistic Aromatherapist

• 2022 IIN Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach

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Felicia Sun

Felicia’s yoga journey kick started her quest to shed the layers and return to true self. Trained with lululemon’s yoga leadership teacher training in 2019, she shares a vinyasa practice that connects your mind and body through the power of breath and movement. Get on a journey of self discovery as we get sweaty on the mat.

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Certifications:

• 2019 YTT Yoga Leadership Teacher Training with lululemon, Danielle Mika (200 hrs)

Jaana A.

Jaana has been practising yoga on and off since 2010. She received her training in Classical Hatha Yoga. Bringing feminine softness to structured practice, her classes focus on slowing the breath, relaxing the body and calming the mind. 

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Jaana continues to deepen her knowledge in yoga and other body modalities, with particular interest in women’s health. She has been living in Singapore since 2016 and is a mother of 2 young girls.

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Certifications:

• 2020 Embodied Woman: Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga (85 hrs)

• 2021 Yoga Instructor Certificate Hatha Yoga (200 hrs)

• 2022 Well Woman Yoga Therapy (220 hrs)

• 2022 Menstruality Leadership Program by Red School

• 2023 Yoga Therapy Certificate (300 hrs)
  // expected completion end of 2023

• 2023 Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy practitioner
  // expected completion middle of 2023

Kimberly Mae C.

Kimberly discovered yoga during her time in Hongkong in 2019 and immediately felt a deep connection with it, keeping her grounded throughout a fast paced life that involved raising two children. Her passion led her to complete 200 hours Hatha/Vinyasa teacher training in April of 2022.

In her classes, she tends to hold space for students to build strength and mobility through movement with deep emphasis on using breathing to connect with their bodies. 

Kimberly believes that being kind to everyone makes this world a better place. She will be forever grateful to her own teachers, friends and family that inspire her everyday and is looking forward to sharing her love for yoga with as many people as possible.

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Certifications:

• 2022 Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training at Sweatbox Yoga Studio (200 hrs)

Marie-Pier Biron

Marie is a Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher since 2019. She completed a prenatal and post-partum certification in 2020, after experiencing motherhood for the first time. In her classes, Marie put the focus on the mind and body connection in order for the students to feel balanced.

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Certifications:

• 2019 Vinyasa and Yin Yoga Teacher Certification (200 hrs)

• 2020 Prenatal and Post-Partum Yoga (100 hrs)

Ashita G.

Ashita’s first real encounter with yoga was in 2017, at a yoga studio in Canada. After her first class, she was amazed by how calm and energised she could feel at the same time. As an Indian, she found it ironic that it took a journey halfway across the world to discover her passion for yoga. She now hopes to share the benefits of the practice that has been instrumental in shaping her life on and off the mat.

Certification:

• 2021 Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training (200 hrs)

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Coco

Coco is certified in vinyasa yoga, reiki and crystal singing bowl sound therapy. She’s also an integrative health coach and believes in a holistic approach to wellbeing and that there is no one-size fits all to a balanced lifestyle. Her classes are flowy and grounding, yet challenging at the same time. Aside from yoga, in her free time Coco loves to spend time in nature, cycling and roller-blading along East Coast Park.

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Certifications:

• 2020 Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training (200 hrs)

• 2021 Living Yoga Immersion for Yoga Teachers on the Art and Craft of Sequencing (20 hrs)

• 2021 Usui Reiki Level 1 & 2

• 2021 Crystal Bowl Practitioner Mastery Training Level 1 (6 hrs

• 2021 Crystal Bowl Practitioner Mastery Training Level 2 (4 hrs)

• 2022 Living Yoga Immersion into the Pancha Koshas (12 hrs)

• 2022 Integrative Nutrition Health Coach

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Derrick

Derrick works in the creative spaces of Design and Architecture, Sustainability and Well-being, Leadership and Coaching, Breathwork and Yoga. 

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Derrick appreciates the embodiment of our experiences through the complex interplay of spaces, both externally and internally. He is especially grateful for the embodied practice of Yoga in guiding collective journeys through life with interconnected awareness. 

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Inspired through interaction to learn, experience and share, Derrick serves to integrate kindness and presence in somatic practices that awaken the body, relate with felt senses and clarify the mind. In addition to holding space for wellness as a Yoga and Breathwork Instructor, Derrick is also a Registered Architect and Professional Certified Coach.

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Certifications:

• 2017 Power Vinyasa Focus with Dr Trish Corley (200 hours)

• 2017 Anatomy & Yoga Intensive with Noah Maze, YOGAMAZE (25 hours)

• 2018 Baptiste Yoga Level 1 with Baron Baptiste, Baptiste Institute (100 hours)

• 2018 Yin Yoga with Nik Robson, Yin Culture (50 hours)

• 2019 TCM Meridian Yin Yoga with Jo Phee, Yinspiration (65 hours)

• 2019 Myofascial Release & MyoYin with Jo Phee, Yinspiration (65 hours)

• 2019 Newfield Certified Coach, The Coach Partnership

• 2020 MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Release, Singapore Management University

• 2020 Certified Health Coach, The Coach Partnership

• 2021 Breathing Coach Training with Lucas Rockwood, YOGABODY (15 hours)

• 2022 Pranayama & Breathwork Teacher Training with Wendy Wyvill, Pure Yoga (40 hours)

Gayle

Gayle is a multi-faceted artist, singer, musician, and wellness facilitator who seamlessly weaves together the realms of music, yoga, movement, and art to create transformative and soul-nourishing experiences.

Her infectiously playful spirit and natural ability to hold space for her community helps people feel safe, brave and joyful in their bodies.

With a deep passion for fostering connection and self-expression, Gayle's journey has been dedicated to using her creative gifts to uplift, inspire, and guide others on their path of self-discovery.

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Certifications:

• 2017 Hatha Vinyasa Movement YTT, The Yoga Mandala (200 hours)

• 2021 Creative Yogis Childrens YTT, Pure Yoga (95 hours)

• 2021 The Art of Flow yoga with Hee Boon, Pure Yoga (50 hours)

Ida Liana

Ida is a multi-disciplinary wellness guide with a passion for bringing people home to their bodies. She offers her craft in various modalities centred around fitness, yoga, bodywork and healing music. In much of her life, she struggled with severe depression and burnout, battling a difficult relationship with her body and food. Moving through these struggles brought her deep healing and gifted her wisdom of what life and true health is really about. Her lived experience is weaved within all that she shares in her work. To her, true health is about living life as authentically as one can, bringing us into our most radiant and alive state. Through her work, she wishes to create a space where all feel safe and held to welcome all parts of themselves.

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Certifications:

• 2018 TRX Level 1

• 2019 Vinyasa YTT, Radiantly Alive Yoga Studio, Ubud (200h)

• 2019 Bhakti Yoga Immersion, White Peacock Yoga (50hrs)

• 2019 Rise in Resonance Immersion with Amy Thiessen

• 2019 Agatsu Speed and Strength Course, Kettlebell Level 1 Course

• 2019 EXOS Phase 1 Mentorship Course

• 2022 8 week Coaches Development Program with Anatomy In Motion 

• 2022 SOL House Ayurvedic Bodywork Immersion

• 2022 Functional Fitness for Pregnancy and Post Partum with Balance Fitness and Nutrition

Janet Voo

The reason that Janet teaches yoga is simple – because she aims to share her passion about how it has touched and transformed her. Her classes are mainly Vinyasa-based. In her classes, she likes to encourage people to move with intention and love, to go inward, to feel, to be expressive with the beauty of the body, and to delight in this sacred scientific art of practising yoga. 

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Certifications:

• 2007 Bachelor Degree in Kinesiology

• 2012 Inyasa Yoga: Yoga Alliance Teacher Training with Leah Kim (200hrs) 

• 2016 Universal Yoga: Yoga Alliance Teacher Training Parts 1 & 2 with Andrey Lappa & Copper Crow (200hrs)

• 2018 Yoga Therapy CET with Arun (50hrs)

• 2019 Advanced Diploma in Yoga with Yoga Vidya Gurukul, India (200hrs) 

• 2019 Acrovinyasa Teacher Training with Yoga Beyond (100hrs)

• 2019 Wild Lotus Yoga progression with Patrick Creelman (4hrs)

• 2022 Wheel Yoga Teacher Training ( level 1& 2) with Miryam Acosta (30hrs)

• 2022 Wildlotus 2-Day Teacher Training with Patrick Creelman

• 2022 2-Day Chair Yoga Intensive with Cora Lee

Lina Soho

Lina regards herself as a 'Forever Student' who finds joy in constant learning of new things to feed her hunger and inquisitive mind. Her sharing of practices includes the Classical Rajadhiraja & Raja Yoga which she started with 2021. She continues to widen her practices into Hatha/ Vinsyasa Yoga focusing on Pranayama as the practice of the Regulation of life giving energy using the Breath.

Lina’s main dharma as a mother of two serves as her core inspiration to take priority in one’s own body and mind wellness first-  in order to take good care of her family & people around her. She believes that any form of consistent Yoga practices would ‘bear fruits and be beneficial to self and everyone around them too.

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Certifications:

• 2021 Yoga Teacher Training Certificate by Ánanda Márga International Academy - Dada Premamayananda (216 hrs)

• 2021 Certificate in Yoga Science, Practice and Lifestyle by Ánanda Márga International Academy - Dada Premamayananda

• 2021 Diploma in Yoga Science, Practice and Lifestyle by Ánanda Márga International Academy - Dada Premamayananda (216 hrs)

• 2022 RYT200 Yoga Alliance Certified Hatha & Vinyasa Teacher Training by Nithya Priyan School of Yoga - Guruji Nithya Priyan 

• 2022 Meditation Teacher Training- Continual Education Credits Yoga Alliance by Nithya Priyan School of Yoga - Guruji Nithya Priyan

• 2022-Current RYT300 Yoga Alliance Certified Hatha & Vinyasa Teacher Training by Nithya Priyan School of Yoga - Guruji Nithya Priyan

Marian Dang

Marian is a conscious living enthusiast, described by her students as: "Marian’s style of teaching is grounding, assertive and energetic”. She teaches accessible classes with simple yet dynamic and creative sequences, guiding you to mindfully move freely.

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Certifications:

• 2021 Yoga Teacher Certification YTT  (200 hrs)

• 2021 Singing Bowl Certification Level 1

• 2021/22 Reiki Certification Level 1&2

• 2022 Living Yoga Immersion into the Pancha Koshas (12 hrs)

• 2022 Yin Yang Yoga (12 hrs)

• 2022 Earth Medicine (100 hrs)

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Other practices: breath work, shamanism, intuitive vocalist, feminine flow activations

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Satori K.

Satori is a Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher with a background in sports science and functional training. She first discovered the benefits of yoga through sports rehabilitation and has since then developed a fascination towards the restorative and mindful practices and benefits of yoga, on and off the mat. Her classes are focused on simple, dynamic sequences that leave you feeling energised and grounded. A huge nature and dog lover, she is very open to dog sitting (or having your dog join her yoga classes by the beach!)

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Certifications:

• 2015 NASM Certified Personal Trainer

• 2021 Vinyasa Flow Certification (200 hrs)

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Stephanie B.

Stephanie is a certified yoga and meditation teacher living in Singapore, with over 1000 hours dedicated to various avenues of practice. She specialises in the yin style of practice, but she is also passionate about mobility and self expression. Her classes are gentle, and she brings with her a repertoire of nurturing practices that are heart opening and expansive, with methods tailored to meet and guide individuals wherever they are in their journey.

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Certifications: 

• 2015 Elemental Yoga Therapy - Swara Yoga School, (200hrs)

• 2015 Active Meditation Training - Satsanga, Singapore

• 2018 Yin Yoga Certification - Sampoorna Yoga School, Goa, India (65 hrs)

• 2019 Jo Phee, AcuYin Teacher Training - Hong Kong (60 hrs) 

• 2020 Sarah Powers, Primary Level 1 Training - Bali (70 hrs)

• 2020 Fascia 101 - Sati Yoga (20hrs)

• 2020 Your Spine, Your Yoga: Online Course with Bernie Clark & Dr. Stuart Mcgill (20 hrs)

• 2021 Awakening Your Inner Teacher Training - House of Ascend, Singapore (10 hrs)

• 2021-2023 2-Year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach (2021-2023)

• 2021 Embodied Woman: Pre-Natal & Post-Natal Yoga Teacher Training (RYS) with Amber Sawyer PhD - Singapore (90 hrs)

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Wendy G.

Wendy’s yoga journey started at her work place some years ago.  She attended a weekly lunchtime class and was intrigued week after week by the various yoga shapes and movements. She discovered yoga's benefits in promoting body awareness, mental focus and managing aches and pain. Her practice is gentle, with emphasis on body awareness through mobility work and basic yoga movements.  She believes that yoga is for everyone and all ages, and seeks to help more people discover the joy and benefits of yoga.

Certifications:

• 2019   Hatha Vinyasa (200 hrs)

• 2020   Restorative Yoga (50 hrs)

• 2022   Yoga and Meditation (300 hrs)

• 2022   Meridians and Hip Anatomy (100 hrs)

• 2022   Resting Conversation 1 (50 hrs)

Yun N.

Yun believes that when you give, you receive. As a full-time teacher for more than a decade, and currently with HOM Yoga, all kinds of movement practices inspire her. Her teachings are mostly alignment-focused and heart-based, with a touch of mantra music. Most recently, she has become a mama and found deeper service in holding space for crystal bowl sound baths and alignment-based hatha flow classes. Yun’s curiosity and hunger for knowledge keeps her on the mat and fuels her desire to learn and evolve every single day.

Certifications:​

• 2010 Yoga Teacher Training (200 hrs)

• 2011 - 2014 Anusara Immersions (150 hrs)

• 2014 Fitflow Yoga Teacher Training (45 hrs)

• 2015 AcroYoga Elemental Immersion (30 hrs)

• 2015 Active Meditation Facilitator Training 

• 2019 Yin /Meditation Module of Yoga Medicine (60 hrs)

• 2020 History and Philosophy of Yoga (18 hrs) 

• 2021 Tantric Hatha Yoga (50 hrs) 

• 2022 Prenatal /Postpartum Yoga Training (95 hrs) 

Agathe Colom

Agathe has supported Yoga for a Change early on - as a student and photographer behind the lens of most Yoga for a Change photos used on this website.

"Enabling creativity, creating lasting memories, empowering people and bringing joy, these are the reasons I am a photographer."

Agathe Colom

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She has definitely enabled us to visualise YfaC with the gorgeous photos provided. Thank you Agathe, next to your busy corporate day job and photography engagements, we sure appreciate you for making the time! 

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Check out her website Agathe Colom Photography

Sarah Theus

Like many, Sarah started practising yoga more regularly during the covid lockdown. After moving from London to Singapore in early 2021, Yoga for a Change was not only a way to connect with new friends but also enjoying some of Singapore's finest landmarks in full relaxation.

Ever since she's become one of our regular students and supports Yoga for a Change as a volunteer. With her background in Marketing & Communications, Interior Design and Government Services, she's an excellent networker and also helped us build a web platform to  spread the word and grow our YfaC community.