JAN GARUDA

International Tantra Yoga Teacher, Certified Naturopath, Acupuncturist and Bodyworker

An early call towards exploring happiness, spirituality and holistic health led me on a lifelong journey through a broad variety of teachings and traditions. Since finally becoming an “official” Yoga Teacher in 2008, I love sharing what has proven helpful for myself and others in classes, workshops, retreats and Yoga Teacher Trainings across Asia, Europe, and North America.

I humbly pay gratitude to my teachers who have strongly inspired me over the past decades in more than 1800 hours of Yoga Teacher Trainings, as well as in so many workshops and retreats: Sahajananda (Hridaya Yoga), Sri Mooji, Sri Prem Baba (The Path of the Heart), Reinhart Gammenthaler (Hatha-Kundalini Yoga), Mark Whitwell (Vinyasa Yoga), the Akasha Yoga Academy Family (Burkhart, Kirsten and Devdas), Lorraine Taylor (Heart of Ashtanga Yoga), Christopher Wallis (Classical Tantra), Bex Tyrer (Yin Yoga), Mihaeila Pentiuc (Therapeutic Yoga), Swami Vivekananda Saraswati (Agama Yoga), H.H. the Dalai Lama, Lama Ole Nydahl (Karma Kagyü Buddhism), S.N.Goenka (Teravada Vipassana Meditation), Tim Jago (Celtic Sweatlodges), Kare Landfald (Zen Coaching), and Udo Lorenzen (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Daoism).

Furthermore, I extend my gratitude to those teachers who have inspired me tons without us having met directly in person, such as Alan Watts, Osho, David Deida, Marshall Rosenberg, Byron Katie, Georg Feuerstein, Don Miguel Ruiz, B.K.S. Iyengar, Mantak Chia, Sally Kempton, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Joachim-Ernst Behrendt, Saint Francis of Assisi, and many more.

Aside from Yoga, I have studied naturopathy, bodywork and massage, cranial-sacral and hypnotherapy, and I have worked in the fields of Shamanism and Anthropology for quite some years. I am a certified Heilpraktiker since 2001 (the German version of Naturopath) and Acupuncturist since 2005. Travelling, video and photography, playing musical instruments as well as underwater rugby and occasionally snowboarding and surfing are further great passions of mine.

I am very much looking forward to meeting you 🙏🏼