Arnbjorg Kristin (Amanroop) is a yoga teacher, artist and sound/healer from Iceland. She has studied and taught yoga and the art of gong playing for the last 10 years. Born and currently reciding in North-Iceland where she runs Ómur Yoga & Gongsetur. She teaches open yogaclasses, events and workshops in Iceland and internationally.
Her educational background is in fine arts/graphic design, Bowen, reiki, playing basketball for 10 years and being a certified tourguide before entering into the ever unfolding path of Yoga and sound. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and attending level 2 courses currently in that genre of yoga. She is a certified Yoga Nidra teacher, Sat Nam Rasayan and teaches and shares the art of the gong sounds. She frequently leads Family Yoga classes or gongbaths for the general public in Reykjavik.
She founded and created HAF Yoga (Holistic Aqua Flow), a water yoga program that focuses on self care, compassion, sounds in water and meditative flow movement. She has trained 20 teachers in HAF Yoga (200 hour Yoga Alliance approved program) that has been taught for over 9 years in public pools in Iceland and has been involved in Gong sailings with North Sail in Iceland where people can get the opportunity to sit back, relax, breathe, connect to the great mother (ocean) and all life in it, including whales. Whales are great sound beings and wisdom carriers that are benevolent frequency holders on this planet.
She published the meditation book True Nature in Iceland in 2013 and soundtrack Peace Resound (available internationally on Itunes and Spotify and as selected relaxing material on Icelandair airplanes) in 2016 that contains gong sounds in several locations in Iceland.
She has completed Kundalini Yoga level 1 teacher training, 2 level 2 programs in that genre of yoga.
She has completed 100 hour of study in Vinyasa Krama Yoga with Ramaswami. 200 hour Radiant Child Family Yoga with Shakta Kaur. Vinyasa Yoga for Youth with Ryan Leier and Lauren Scruton. Childplay childrens yoga course with Gurudass Kaur. And is working on completing 200 hour teacher training in Centered Yoga in Samahita in Thailand in the year 2019. She has attended workshops with teachers such as Harmony Slater (backbends, primary series in Ashtanga Yoga, hip openers, yoga nidra etc), Siri Atma and Nam Kaur, Nirinjan Kaur, gongmaster Don Conreaux and is his coordinator in Iceland when he teaches there.