Gwendolyn
Wenli has been practicing yoga for nearly half
a decade and is the founder and owner of WabiSabi
- Wasabi Yoga group. Her innate fascination with
all disciplines that involve physical movement,
full concentration on the present moment, and with
aesthetics led her to study jazz dance, karate,
tea ceremony and Japanese harp during her 8 years
in Japan, where she graduated from the Bunka Joshi
University.
After returning to Singapore, she found herself restless in her career in the corporate worlds of finance and telecommunications, and she decided to focus on her passions and discovered yoga. In 2004, she studied with the Bihar school of yoga in Banglore, India, and received a teacher's certificate. In addition to Hatha yoga, Gwen practices Ashtanga Yoga and various forms of Vinyasa Yoga.
Yoga appealed to her philosophy of life, which is called Wabi Sabi, a Japanese phrase associated with Japanese Tea Ceremony. Applying the principles of Wabi Sabi to your life is to find the value, wisdom and joy in imperfection. When we practice yoga, we enhance our body awareness and discover our strengths and weaknesses. When we apply the Wabi Sabi principles, it means accepting our strengths and weaknesses alike, yet keeping ourselves open to improvements.
ヨガは、彼女の人生哲学でもある“侘び・寂”（それは日本滞在中に茶道を通じて彼女が学んだ哲学である）に訴えるものがあった。生活に侘び・寂の原理を取り入れるということは、不完全な物から価値や知恵、また喜びを見つけ出すということである。ヨガを学ぶ時、我々は肉体の知力を養い、そして自己の強さと弱さについて発見することが出来るのだ back to the top
Manoji Thakur Profile (MSc
in Yoga)
Manoj Thakur has been practicing yoga for the past
20 years. For 10 years, he worked as a senior
yoga instructor and yoga therapist for Vivekananda
Yoga Research Foundation, Banglaore, India the parent
body of ‘VYASA’ (Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
(Research Foundation), the Yoga University in India.
His philosophy in life is, ‘to spread yoga for good
health, peace and harmony in society’. For the
last two decades, he has been working for that, and
is able to share with his students many interesting
stories, enlightening experiences and wonderful encounters
with Swamijis and Gurujis.
In India, he was the Organizing Secretary for numerous
International Yoga Conferences in Bangalore, Dehli
and Rishikesh. He was in-charge of the renowned Yoga
Hospital ‘Arogyadhama’ and Yoga Therapy course in Prashanti,
Bangalore for three years.
He moved on to work in a Cancer hospital and research
centre in Gwalior for two years as a Yoga Therapist. Prior
to arriving in Singapore, he was in-charge of the Yoga
Department in MDS University, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
(a Government University) for four years, and has conducted
many Certificate and Diploma courses.
Based in Singapore since September 2003, he has trained
400 yoga instructors and has given Yoga Therapy treatment
to more than 40 patients suffering from psychosomatic
ailments.
June
has always been an active person. So when she
met with a car accident in 2004 in Sweden and had to
start learning to walk again, it made her realized
that overall health and mobility cannot be taken for
granted. With intensive physiotherapy while recovering,
June started to train and managed to complete the Malmö-Copenhagen
half-marathon event in June 2005. Since then, regular
exercising has become part of her life.
Her first introduction to yoga was in 2003 and she
has been practicing it since then as an alternative
training to complement her running. It was in 2006
that she discovered her calling for yoga when she was
living in Shanghai. What started as an escape from
the busy and crowded streets, she found new strength
and energy and realized the limitless benefits of yoga
and how it improved her stamina, posture and total
well-being.
Graduated from IT, June decided to pursue her interest
in yoga and received her Teaching Certificate from
Institute of Vivekananda Yoga and Research Development.
She is constantly continuing her yoga practice with
her teacher-mentor Gwen and is also a certified First-Aider
and Heart Saver.
We hope you will enjoy her class as much as she enjoys
sharing her yoga experience with anyone on this wonderful
journey of Yoga.
Eddie’s education in started yoga nearly a decade
ago, and he continues to pursue it fervently; believing
that it is a never-ending learning process of self-discovery.
He adopts a holistic approach towards lifestyle, fitness,
health and martial arts. His skills and knowledge
are therefore not limited to various martial arts,
tae-kwon do, judo, unarmed combat, traditional Chinese
kung fu, Chinese boxing and “freestyle” sparring.
Eddie is also trained in bodyworks therapy. With
this varied background, he has developed his own
unique regime of exercise and training (fitness,
martial arts), which he generously shares with his
students.
As a bodyworks therapists trained in the traditional
art of healing: ‘tendon pinching’, he has, over the
years, evolved into his own unique touch of treatment,
executed purely with the intention to heal from the
Heart, an embodiment of love and compassion: NOT just a mechanical mantra of “the harder, the better”.
Ultimately, you have to experience to feel the difference!
Gwendolyn
Wenli has been practicing yoga for nearly half
a decade and is the founder and owner of WabiSabi
- Wasabi Yoga group. Her innate fascination with
all disciplines that involve physical movement,
full concentration on the present moment, and with
aesthetics led her to study jazz dance, karate,
tea ceremony and Japanese harp during her 8 years
in Japan, where she graduated from the Bunka Joshi
University.
Manoj Thakur has been practicing yoga for the past
20 years. For 10 years, he worked as a senior
yoga instructor and yoga therapist for Vivekananda
Yoga Research Foundation, Banglaore, India the parent
body of ‘VYASA’ (Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
(Research Foundation), the Yoga University in India.
彼女は幼少の頃から好奇心旺盛で、何事にも躊躇せず取り組み、集中して探求していく姿勢の持ち主である。
幼少の頃より、運動に対し過度の苦手意識や劣等感を持ったまま、学生時代を過ごす。
June
has always been an active person. So when she
met with a car accident in 2004 in Sweden and had to
start learning to walk again, it made her realized
that overall health and mobility cannot be taken for
granted. With intensive physiotherapy while recovering,
June started to train and managed to complete the Malmö-Copenhagen
half-marathon event in June 2005. Since then, regular
exercising has become part of her life. 
Eddie’s education in started yoga nearly a decade
ago, and he continues to pursue it fervently; believing
that it is a never-ending learning process of self-discovery.
