Dutch Yoga Festival 2013

The Dutch Yoga Festival takes place from June 28th until 30st 2013 at the Dutch island of Terschelling. Practice a wide variety of yoga styles in beautiful natural surroundings. Immerse in a relaxed yogic atmosphere at the sea side. Enjoy sun, sea and yoga.

Dutch Yoga Festival

This seventh unique festival in pure nature blends yoga and meditation with the characteristics of the Dutch island. The official program starts Friday June 28th at 17.30 and ends Sunday June 30st at 15.30. There is also a pre festival program starting at Thursday June 28th and an after festival program until Monday.

Organization
The Yoga Festival is an initiative of the Yoga Festival Terschelling Foundation in cooperation with yoga schools, training institutes, the tourist bureau of Terschelling and Yogi Tea. Through the organizing of the yearly Yoga Festival the foundation’s mission is to promote and advance the practice of yoga to the international community.

Festival location
The festival will be held at camping site De Kooi on the Dutch island Terschelling. This natural area is magnificently situated next to the dunes, flanked by forest, a swimming lake and within walking/biking distance to the beach. Practice yoga at the sea side and in the dunes or yoga in one of the festival tents where delicious vegetarian meals are also served.

Program
This years festival programme offers the unique opportunity to practice various forms of yoga under the guidance of experienced and inspiring yoga teachers from all over the world. The theme of the festival 2013 is "Yoga of Love ". Yoga to connect with our heart and to shine.

The program offers a wide variety of yoga styles like Hatha, AcroYoga, Anusara, Ashtanga, Chakra, Vinyasa, Power, Kundalini, Raja Yoga as well as special workshops taught by inspiring international yoga teachers. The Yoga Festival as a source of inspiration for both beginners and experienced yogi’s to share experiences and create new ones.

Your stay

It is possible to sleep in your own tent or in a rental tent on the festival site. For more information about staying in one of the nearby hotels or guesthouses, take a look at:www.vvvterschelling.nl

Accommodation
It is possible to sleep in your own tent on the festival site or to rent a tent. For more information about staying in one of the nearby hotels or guesthouses, please check or contact us

Travel information
To travel to Terschelling take the ferry from Harlingen which is about 108 kilometers north of Amsterdam and 120 km from Schiphol, the airport of Amsterdam. When travelling by train, leave the train at the station Harlingen Haven which is about 7 minutes walking from the ferry terminal. The car parking area in Harlingen is about 8 minutes walking from the ferry. For more information about travelling to the festival, please click here

Rental bicycle
A rental bicycle is reserved for you when you arrive with the ferry on Terschelling. The bike rental will take your luggage to the festival site or wherever you stay free of charge

Prices
The fee for the Dutch Yoga Festival 2013 is € 210,- per person. This includes all workshops, classes, live music and staying on the festival site, breakfast, lunch, dinner, fruit, Yogi Tea, VAT & a rental bike.

Staying in your own tent or elswhere € 210
Renting a tent (maximum 3 persons) € 65
Arriving a day earlier or staying an extra day (incl. yoga, rental bike, food) € 55

About the workshops
There is wide variety of yoga styles at the festival, such as diverse styles of Hatha yoga like Anusara Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Dru yoga, Kundalini yoga, AcroYoga, Ashtanga yoga, Chakra yoga, Power yoga and Vinyasa yoga under the guidance of expert yoga teachers. Yoga with attention to posture, movement, breath, music, mantra, relaxation and meditation. Moreover there are workshops in combination with dance, voice, massage, meditation and philosophy. The Yoga Festival for total vitality, harmony, meditation, transformation and intense joy.

The festival team

.The team includes among others the following training institutes and yoga teachers.

		David Lurey (USA) teaches yogaworkshops all over the world. He is an international highly rated yogateacher and teacher trainer. His classes are a blending of an active asana practise in combination with lifemusic that deepens the breath and creates a tremendous flow. A unique expierence in which power and flexibility grow through the magic of breathing and pure consciousness is activated. For more information go to: www.findbalance.net.
		Deborah Neubauer (USA) is known as a very inspiring, warm-hearted and excellent hatha yoga teacher trainer. Her classes are technically clear, highly spiritual and very inspiring: a well-rounded blend of poetic inspiration and a deep feeling of the heart. Her teaching embodies dedication and commitment to the practices as tools for healing, transformation & empowerment. Through her guidance every yoga class becomes an exploration into the art of revealing of the light of one’s true essence. For more information: www.anahatayogacenter.com
		Daniel Strausser was initiated into the ancient brotherhood of Himalayan yogis. He lived many years in the Indian Himalaya, studied Yoga at Banaras Hindu University in Varanassi, worked at a Yoga Therapy Clinic in the Himalayan foothills and studied Ayurveda in Kerala. He has practiced all contemporary forms of yoga. Daniel lives now in India and travels globally to share through workshops and retreats. For more information: www.yogadaniel.com
		Clayton Horton is an highly appreciated Ashtanga teacher. He has been a student of yoga for over 22 years and is a student of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and the Greensufi. His practice is deeply rooted in the Ashtanga Tradition and daily meditation. Clayton received Formal Authorization to teach Ashtanga Yoga from the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute of Mysore, South India in 2003. He teaches workshops, trainings and retreats all over the world. For more information: www.greenpathyoga.org
		Esther Ekhart teaches yoga, workshops, and retreats internationally for more then 15 years now. She trained in Hatha and Vinyasa flow yoga. Through her mixture of yoga training and extensive meditation and self development training she naturally started to blend awareness, posture alignment, flow and meditation into her yoga classes. She founded a youtube channel called Yogatic and Ekhartyoga.com an online yoga studio. More information: www.ekhartyoga.com
		Hilary Menting Brown (USA) is the founder of Yoga Moves in Utrecht. She is a certified Iyengar & Vinyasa yoga teacher. She has studied with numerous known and unknown yogis to whom she is ever grateful. Her workshops will follow the natural krama or stages of opening the areas usually tight, open to the sky above, feel supported by the core and the ground beneath to experience love for movement and expression! Please check: www.yogamoves.nl.
		Praful is a great sax & flute player, producer, charismatic performer and pioneer in the world music community.He embraces jazz, soul, dance, Indian and new world fusion with grace and passion.Especially music but not only of India and Brazil conquers his heart. Praful's six solo albums garnered great international success. He gives solo concerts and is Red Fulka with Kareem Raїhani. He is also world renowned for his work with Deva Premal & Miten. For more information: www.praful.nl
		Martyn Hoogstra is a yoga teacher professional for more than 15 years and a dedicated practitioner of Hatha yoga. For a wide range of yoga teacher trainings he frequently appears as a guest trainer. He leads intensive yoga trainings and master classes (inter)nationally. He is extremely competent in Asanas, Pranayamas, Mudras & Bandhas and has a broad working knowledge of yoga and meditation. For more information go to: www.yogadlite.com
		Myrna van Kemenade runs her own yoga studio, Yoga Dreams in Zaandam. At the festival Myrna will give Prana flow energetic vinyasa and a relaxing stress-relief. They will also have various yoga items for sale during the festival such as yoga clothing, mats, bags and cd’s. For more information see their website: www.yogadreams.nl
		Peter van der Burg (1971) is an international certified yoga teacher and on behalf of the foundation the initiator of the Dutch Yoga Festival. He practises with a lot of enthousiasm various forms of yoga such as Hatha yoga, Anusara yoga, Kundalini yoga as well as different dynamic forms of yoga and Kriya yoga and meditation. He organizes also other events such as yoga week(end)s at Terschelling. For more information: www.yogaterschelling.nl
		Pam Paramjit Anand was born and raised in the UK and moved to Goa India, where she has got her own yoga center. She is a Himalayan Kriya yoga teacher and advanced healer. She guides and supports one on their journey of self-discovery and a healthier life through regular practice of asana, pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, self-healing and general wellbeing. ‘Allowing the light, the star within us to shine brightly’. More information: www.u-yoga.co.uk or www.riversideshaktiretreat.com
		Angelique brings people closer to themselve and eachother through dance, by using a combination of relaxation excercises, body & mind balancing and improvisational dancing. She teaches trance dance, dancemeditation, tantric dance and authentic sjamanic ceremonies, massage and breatingsessions. Dance, movement and breathing, the entrance to the subconcious, to be complete. For more information see her website: www.danceoflife.nl
		Anoshe Overington Having been based in Byron Bay for 20 years she studied dance and many forms of moving meditation like T'ai Chi and Bharata Natyam. She teaches feminine, creative and with love, inspired by dance and meditation. She offers in her fluid Vinyasa classes a dynamic workout and explores the silence of the heart through maintaining a close connection with the breath and being present. She run, a yoga and meditation centre in Doorn. For more information: www.stillnessinyoga.net
		Avi Adir multi instrumentalist improvisational performer, singer and yogi. He studied flute with the Indian Bansuri flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia. With more than 35 years of musical practice and performing experience he teaches and uses music as the main tool to live without fear, to flower of love and to become consciously one. For more information: www.woodswhistling.com
		Christine Hariang Michon (1948) is owner of her own yoga center in Enschede and for more than 30 years she has been giving yoga lessons. She instructs Hatha yoga and Kundalini yoga. She is also the head of the KRI Kundalini yoga teacher training school in Enschede. She is author of various books and publications about yoga and nutrition including The Green Diet. For more information check out her website at: www.michon.org
		Coco Bliss gives Hatha yoga lessons in the tradition of Sivananda yoga together with Chakra yoga, a still form van Hatha yoga with special attention for the consciousness. Yoga is her passion and moreover she will be giving a special yoga workshop for women and yoga & dance. For more information check out her website at www.cocobliss.nl
		Eva de Haan (1967) is a certified Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga teacher who has had the blessing of studying and training in India. She has her own vibrant and dynamic yoga studio in the heart of Leiden, Holland. Each week her studio offers more than 25 varied forms of yoga lessons ranging from Ashtanga yoga, Vinyasa yoga, Power yoga, Hatha yoga and Partner yoga. For more information check out her website at: www.yoga-spirit.com
		Lilian van Dam is a certified Jivamukti yoga teacher, artist, musician and world traveler. While living in New York she discovered 'hot hip and holy' Jivamukti yoga and connected with this practice which finds its roots in compassion, kindness and joy. While the asana flow of her classes can be demanding, the elements of chanting, meditation, hands-on assists and a carefully chosen music make the experience easeful and full of light. www.yogasalon.nl
		Indra Bose is an internationally certified Hatha yoga teacher. Yoga reconnected her with her father’s homeland India. She has gained most of her yoga experience (University level teacher training) in India and Thailand. The Chakra yoga she teaches originates from the ancient Indian & Tibetan Tantra traditions. Yoga opens her heart and connects her to the essence. Sharing yoga is still a life changing experience and her continuous source of inspiration!
		Marlies de Kort (1975), a certified Iyengar yoga teacher in Amsterdam, has given yoga lessons at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Amsterdam and elsewhere. She has studied yoga for many years at different yoga ashrams in India where under 3 months by Iyengar himself. Since 1997 she intensively practices yoga under the supervision of the founder of Anusara yoga, John Friend, amongst others. For more information: www.chitrayogashala.nl
		Michael van Maasdijk, a certified Kundalini yoga teacher, musician and owner of the Golden Temple Restaurant on the Utrechtsestraat 126 in Amsterdam. From early in the morning till late in the evening he along with other musicians will be playing inspiring life music, with movement, passion, and warmth in and around the tipi where the fire burns. For more information: www.restaurantgoldentemple.com
		Nigam has been singing kirtan for 30 years. On his journey meditation, mantra, kirtan and heart songs have been his constant companions, leading him to Osho sannyas in Pune in 1991. He has spent much time on silent sitting retreats around the world with Baba Purnanand. Currently he and his partner Anoshe run Stillnessinyoga Doorn, a yoga and meditation centre amidst a forest in Doorn. More information: www.stillnessinyoga.net
		Nathalie Peters gives yoga, Shakti dance and meditation. During the festival she will give special workshops in Shakti dance, the yoga of the dance. A harmonious combination of yoga, energy work, breathing techniques, movement mechanics and worldwide dance styles. Yoga and dance, exertion and relaxation, surrender and freedom, flowing and graceful, health and energetic. For more information check out her website at www. bodymindsoul.nl
		Olav Aarts Works as a religion sociologist at the University of Nijmegen and gives classic Hatha yoga at the universities sport center. He has a broad scientific knowledge in the fields of philosophy and the history of yoga. During the festival he will give classic yoga lessons and give a lively philosophy lesson over the origin of yoga paying special attention to the sutras of Patanjali. For more information: www.yogadipa.nl
		Roy Groeneveld offers percussion classes, workshops and performances with musicians and dancers in Holland and abroad. At the Festival he will play as percussionist and he will also lead a drum journey. A journey through the world of percussion: expierence the essence of rhythm and movement, find how vibrations all flow together to express what comes up naturally and celebrate the joy of live! For more information: www.royalpercussion.com
		Tineke van Dieren is a Dru yoga instructer on Terscheling island and will be giving relaxing workshops in Dru yoga and meditations for balance, relaxation, and vitality. For more information check out her website at www.dru-nl.org
		Tom van Huijstee has his own “Transformational Breathing” practice in Amsterdam. This is a powerful method to assist in getting the body’s life energy flowing again through using the connected breath that results in increased awareness., . Furthermore he is a musician and poet. One can enjoy his many talents by participating in one of his workshops from breathing sessions to the making of poetic life music. For more information go to: www.levensadem.nu
		Wouter Smit, certified yoga teacher and living at Ibiza, Spain. He completed his teacher training at Svaha Yoga School Amsterdam. Dynamic Hatha yoga in a flowing movement to the rhythm of the breath and music. Their classes are challenging for everybody and characterize themselves by sublime instructions, full of devotion, philosophic insights and inspiring music. For more information visit his classes at the festival.
		Andries Berghuis is one of the initiators of the Dutch Yoga Festival. Together with a team of yoga teachers, workshop leaders, cooks, technicians and volunteers he is working together to make this festival possible. More information about the team and the festival can be found in the programme and on the volunteer and coworkers page. *Namasté*