teachers

Erwin Eknath Vanslembrouck

Sampoorna Yoga Teacher (RYT500), Certified YogaKids® Teacher (CYKT /RCYT)

After 25 years as a musician (Erwin Vann), Eknath decided to lower the volume, slow down the tempo, and explore his other passions. Eknath grew up in a vegetarian family where nature and respect for all beings was the daily theme song. Over the years, he has been practicing Tai Chi, Aïkido, Yoga and Chi Kung. Already in his teens – while practicing the saxophone – he got interested in yogic breathing techniques. He started a regular yoga practice in 1994, followed workshops with André Van Lysbeth, Kamini Desai, Shri Yogi Hari, Paul Grilley, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and others, and finally became a certified yoga teacher (Sampoorna Yoga) at Yogi Hari’s Ashram in 2008–2009.

Father of two, wishing to share the yogic way of life with his children, Eknath graduated as a Certified YogaKids® Teacher in 2010.

As a musician, Eknath was already attracted to sound as a healing medium. In 2010, he trained as a sound massage therapist at the Belgisch Instituut voor Klankmassage en Klankpedagogie, and now offers personalized sound massages at the studio.

Hanna Summanen

Sampoorna Yoga Teacher (RYT500)

Hanna first discovered yoga in 2001 during a burn-out after many years of corporate career in the automotive industry and management consulting. She personally experienced the amazing healing and transformation that yoga can bring on all levels, and wanted to share what she had learned.

Hanna became a certified yoga teacher (Sampoorna Yoga) at Yogi Hari’s ashram in 2008, and has continued to study with other respected teachers including Max Strom, Tias Little, Rolf Sovik and Judith Hanson Lasater. Before co-founding the Sampoorna Yoga Studio in Brussels, Hanna has been teaching weekly yoga classes at The Hub and other venues in Brussels.

Hanna is originally from Finland and now lives in Leuven. She also works as a management consultant and facilitator, sometimes integrating yoga tools in business challenges.

Susie Jones

Kundalini Yoga KRI, Certified Sivananda Hatha Yoga Teacher

Susie has been practicing Yoga since 2000, Vipassana meditation since 2003, and has been teaching since 2005. She has been trained in Europe and in India.  More recently, through her joy of working with children, she has trained in Radiant Child Yoga (2010) and Yoga for children with developmental challenges (2009).

In 2006, disillusioned and seeking something more, Susie left her office job to embark on a spiritual journey that over two years would take her from the ashrams in South India, to meditation retreats in Thailand, up through China to reach the Himalayas in Tibet, Nepal & India. This was a soul-searching time of meeting many teachers and opening to new experiences that would ultimately lead her back to her own heart and inner guide.

Feeling blessed and grateful for the yogic journey she is on, Susie enjoys meeting and accompanying others on this path.

Marjan Medha De Schutter

Certified Sampoorna Yoga Teacher (500h)

After a few hectic years of combining working life with classical music studies, Medha started to practice yoga, looking for a healthier way of living.

Gradually she discovered that there’s much more to yoga than just the physical benefits.

Curious to find out more she took the Teachers Training Courses at Yogi Hari’s Ashram in Florida.

During her 6 weeks there, she experienced the incredible transformational power of Yoga and likes to share it now with other people.

Sophie Girard-Sequeira

Certified Active Birth Yoga teacher, Associate of the Active Birth Centre (London), Certified Relax and Renew® Trainer

Sophie’s yoga journey started in her late 20s in the Scaravelli tradition in the UK. More recently, her interest has opened towards more traditional schools of yoga and philosophy from North India.

Sophie has long experience in prenatal yoga, acquired through her own pregnancies and teaching pregnancy yoga to mothers-to-be in London and Brussels since 2007. Sophie is committed to transmitting a gentle and respectful approach to yoga, allowing each woman to let her intuitive wisdom guide her in the life-changing experience of motherhood.

To support the experience of pregnancy, birth and motherhood as joyful and unique paths, Sophie has also qualified in teaching postnatal yoga, training with renowned teachers such as Uma Dinsmore-Tuli. She has also qualified in prenatal sophrology and is working towards certification as a Restore & Renew teacher.

Sophie also leads Active Birth Preparation Workshops for couples, offering partners the opportunity to get actively involved in the birth of their baby(ies).

Vyasa Ameeuw

Sampoorna Yoga Teacher (RYT500)

Already during his studies of electrical engineering Vyasa realised that his fulfilment was not in the technical field but in working with human beings and touch. He first trained as a shiatsu practitioner at the School for Yoga and Shiatsu “Yoshi” in Düsseldorf, following a 2.5 years programme based on the guidelines of the German Foundation for Shiatsu (GSD), where he also came in contact with yoga.

Despite his initial prejudices against anything spiritual, Vyasa dived passionately into the boundless ocean of practice and knowledge of yoga. When he came in contact with Shri Yogi Hari, he knew he would eventually abandon his engineering job and dedicate his efforts to yoga.

Vyasa has spent two years at Yogi Hari’s ashram in Florida, living and working in permanent personal contact with Yogi Hari.

Originally from Germany, Vyasa now lives in Brugge with his family of three children. In Brugge Vyasa runs a Sampoorna Yoga Studio with his wife Gauri, also a Sampoorna yoga teacher.

Vyasa leads satsangs and yoga days at the yoga studio in Brussels.