LALITADEVI, founder and director of Little Mango Tree – Yoga for Life, has been inspired by the teachings of yoga since her teen years. She began more seriously on her journey in Vancouver with her teachers Radhasri and Grant Couture of The Wandering Yogi Studio. After completing her teacher training program she began teaching in and around Vancouver at different locations. Lalitadevi has taught in several yoga studios, she has taught corporate yoga, yoga in a fitness gyms and she has volunteered her time teaching underprivilaged people. In 2004 Lalitadevi spent time in India at a Satyananda Yoga ashram where she met her Guru Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (and her husband Anandaroopa!). She has continued to study with senior teachers in the tradition and her teaching is very much inspired by the systematic approach of Satyananda Yoga. Most recently Lalitadevi has been teaching yoga classes and workhops in her Woodstock yoga studio “Little Mango Tree – Yoga for Life. She teaches at South Gate 50+ Centre, also in her home town of Woodstock and regularly speaks and teaches at community events. For Lalitadevi yoga is about how we live each moment of our lives. It is not just about the practices, although they are very important. Yoga is about discovering our highest potential in every aspect of life through connecting with a state of balance and harmony. Lalitadevi is very passionate about her own spiritual journey and this comes through in her dedication to inspiring others to achieve optimal health and reveal their full creative potential in life.

Madhuri is a certified Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist (CAS), Pancha Karma Specialist (PKS) and Ayurvedic Body Therapist receiving certification from the California College of Ayurveda. She has done advanced study with world renowned, Dr. Vasant Lad as well as with Jaisri Lambert, completing her Turiya Therapy training, levels 1 & 2. Madhuri has been a head faculty member of the Langara College Yoga Teacher Training Program since its inception in 2008 and is currently the co-organizer of the Vancouver Ayurveda meet up group. She is a certified Senior Teacher with YogaBC and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with Yoga Alliance. Madhuri has shared her knowledge and wisdom with students across Canada, in England and India for more than a decade.

Bhramavidya is an enthusiastic and certified Satyananda Yoga® teacher. Her official journey began at Anahata Yoga Retreat in New Zealand in 2005, where she first experienced the profound effects of yoga practice and lifestyle. Bhramavidya later completed the 4-month Certificate Course with the renowned Bihar School of Yoga in India and received mantra diksha initiation from Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati.  She returned home to the USA and completed the Satyananda Yoga ® teacher-training in 2009.  Since then she has been teaching yoga in Cleveland Heights, OH, at the Atma Center and with the Yoga Academy of North America.  She enjoys working with a wide range of students – from children to seniors – and finds particular joy in sharing the bhakti yoga practice of kirtan.

SWAMI MUKTIDHARMA is an inspiring speaker and teacher who has dedicated his life to yoga. He shares a deeply experiential and practical understanding of yoga, having begun his spiritual journey as a young man in his native Colombia, before spending 16 years in India living directly with Yoga Master Paramahamsa Satyananda Saraswati. He lectures throughout the world and imparts more than 35 years of yoga practice. His main purpose is to inspire and uplift humanity.
Swami Muktidharma approaches yoga from a scientific point of view to bring it into the 21st century in a valid way. He uses scientifically proven Yoga techniques to treat asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, high blood pressure, diabetes and other physical and mental imbalances.
Swami Muktidharma postulates bringing yoga into daily life. He says, “that practice should not be on-off, on-off, but that yoga is a 24 hour, 7 day a week, all year long practice!” People who take his courses and spend time at Anahata Yoga Retreat receive inspiration and techniques to transform their daily lives into a yogic life.
Swami Muktidharma spends several months a year at Anahata Yoga Retreat giving programmes and retreats, working therapeutically with people from around the world and training residents in living a yogic lifestyle. He also travels throughout the world for part of the year, dedicated to bringing the wisdom of yoga to as many people as possible.

SWAMI KARMA KARUNA is a founding member and director of Anahata Yoga Retreat, New Zealand, and a dedicated, intuitive yoga teacher with years of experience working with a wide range of people. Swami Karma Karuna has received yoga training in Nepal, India and Australia. She spends 3 months each year living and teaching in India at the home and sadhana place of Swami Satyananda. She also travels internationally part of the year, committed to sharing Yoga Solutions for Life™ - simple & powerful techniques for transformation. During past tours, Swami Karma Karuna has been involved in workshops, retreats, trained teacher trainees at the Australasian Satyananda Yoga Academy, and worked with groups of Yoga Therapists throughout the USA.

Catherine has been studying and practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching for 9 years. She completed her Hatha Yoga teacher training in 2000 at the Yoga Studio in Toronto. In 2004 her journey called her to the source of yoga in India where she lived and studied for 6 months at Rikhia Peeth Ashram, home of Paramahamsa Satyananda, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga. She has since returned to India twice more to deepen her experience of yogic life and she has continued her studies in the Satyananda lineage with several senior teachers in India and Canada. Catherine has also explored and practiced sacred sound for over 10 years. She learned chanting and nada yoga (sound) during her studies in India and lead weekly kirtan (devotional singing) in Vancouver with Lalitadevi. On her most recent trip to India she studied Indian singing and sitar. Catherine is also a member of Hathorah, a Toronto-based sound healing collective and vocal improvisation group. Catherine's experiences with the healing power of sound have inspired her to share these practices in her yoga teaching.