I R I S center for alternative holidays,Amorgos,




	Karin Oscarson is a meditation teacher and practices mindfulness meditation since 1998. She trained in Swedish massage, reiki and other body work since early 90s and has completed a Yoga teacher training in NYSY studios in Athens. She lives on Amorgos since 1993 where she is running the IRIS centre together with Vasilis Savvas.




	Vasilis Savvas has studied physics at the University of Patras and his special interest for Astronomy begun when he first came to Amorgos in early 80:s. He is practicing Tai Chi and Qi Gong with different teachers and styles since 1989. In 1996 he began to teach in Iris centre.

OTHER TEACHERS AT IRIS CENTER



			Vagelis Vassalos. Neurophysiologist graduated at UCL, London and acupuncturist from I.C.O.M, Sussex. He has studied Time Therapy (a new approach to psychotherapy) with Manuel Shoch, which he uses in combination with therapeutic body work. He teaches and develops the "Subtle Body Dance" which he bases on Body Contact Improvisation and Chinese traditional arts like Tai Chi and Qigong. Vangelis is based on Amorgos where he works at his applied physiology studio (IAMA), where he also works with the Amorgian herbs.



			Mahan Atma Kaur (Sol Morejon) was born in Ecuador in 1968. She is a Dipl. psychologist also trained in Karlfried Graaf von Durckheim/s Initiatic therapy and Dr. Roberto Assagioli/s Psychosynthesis Therapy and in Grief Therapy. Mahan Atma Kaur teaches the Nia technique and classes of Free dance inspired by Gabrielle Roth’s Five Rythms. She is a Yoga Allience certified teacher in Ashatanga Vinyasa and also teaches Anusara influenced Vinyasa Flow. "Movement and the regular practice of Yoga is for me the ultimate window to my soul: a vehicle towards my true essence, joy, self-knowledge and focus, an endless space where I can grow, experiment and rest " Mahan Atma Kaur has studied Tantric Numerology with Dharma Kaur Khalsa and Guridass Singh, direct disciples of Yogi Bhajan, master of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation who brought the knowledge of this thousands years old science to the west in its original form.


			Theodossia Stathi was born in Athens where she started her contemporary dance education which she continued in Brussels. In 2006 she graduated from P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts, Research and Training Studios), the school of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Through PARTS she was introduced to Yoga, a practice that gradually grew into her heart. Theodossia sees yoga as a profound way to cleanse the body and the mind and to connect with the divine nature within. Her love and trust towards yoga took her to India two times, once to an Ashtanga ashram of the Shivanda tradition, outside the holy city of Nasik and once in the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune. She teaches in Greece and Brussels since 2005. Through yoga, Theodossia wishes to contribute to the health, flexibility, strength and balance in body and mind and to the peace and clarity of spirit in her students but also to the deepening of her own practice and learning process.


			Dorina Kalethrianou. Was born in Athens where she graduated with honors from the State Dance School. She has studied contemporary techniques and dance therapy in New York, Germany and London. She has danced in a various of performances since the eighties and taught in State School of Athens and at most of the private professional schools of dance and drama since 1985. She has choreographed all productions of the contemporary dance group ‘Temporary Synthesis’ since 1986 and other theatre plays. In the field of dance therapy she worked at mental health centers for children and adults. She has been an external examiner on the board of the ministry of culture for the professional dance schools and a member of the jury for the international prizes for choreography of the Alexander S. Onassis public benefit foundation. She is directing the dance school of Agios Dimitrios municipality. She is teaching contemporary dance at the school of the Athens opera house (Lyriki skini)


			Panagiotis Kontaxakis . Was an athletic champion in Greece for years. He holds the Greek record in track and field for 1988, while he was also applying systematically in his trainings the Chinese yoga, the Tai Chi Chuan, the meditation, the qigong and athletic psychology. Panagiotis began his study and his practice in Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and meditation in 1983 in Switzerland, New York, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Boston, Los Angeles, Japan, Turkey, Minneapolis, Washington. He began to teach in Greece individually and in groups from 1988. 1992 he opened his GREEK HEALING TAO CENTER which functions until today. In 1993 he was given the international title < Superior instructor > of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and meditation after having studied with Master Mantak Tsia for 15 years.He has many other teachers as well and in his center many of their methods, such as push hands and the inner smile, are being teached.


			Bettina Agathonos has been studying art therapy and art animation over the past three years in centre Rhapsodie ( http://www.rhapsodie.be ) in Brussels which is part of the international association ARC for the promotion of art, expression, creativity and art therapy. Furthermore Bettina has specialized in painting and body-mind movement over the past seven years. The workshops she offers encourage spontaneity and creativity in different artistic fields such as dance, painting, creative writing, theatre, music, games and playfully offer the possibility for personel development. The aim of her work is the encouragement of creativity, self-discovery and expression and not the creation of beauty. Non -judgement is a strict principle in her workshops.

MARIE-PAULE THIJSSEN                  
Marie-Paule Thijssen studied music in the Netherlands.
Her fascination for sound and the human processes continued more 
in a physical and spiritual way.Since 1993 she has been trained in
 Voicework (trademark) by the founder Jean-René Toussaint.
In this work she found the combination of Voice and Body which 
forms a bridge between the inner and outer world.
Beside this, she teaches music to children and gives massages.


			Sunnah Rose has been practicing yoga for many years but became truly inspired by it when she started learning on a trip to India. 'It is amazing how your mind and body feels after just doing a few simple exercises. I love the awareness Yoga has given me of my body and mind. Yoga brings not only stillness and calm but also an indescribably energy and feeling of bliss.’ Having trained with many different teachers she takes her main influence from scaravelli yoga , intent on relaxing and releasing the spine alongside a gentle vinyasa (Flow) hatha yoga, bringing creativity and dynamism to a practice. www.stretchingpeople.co.uk


			Iren Zeljko Is an Ashtanga yoga teacher certified by Yoga Alliance (trained in the Primary series at ‘Its yoga’ in Sweden and with David Swenson in Scotland) Her interest for yoga, meditation, alternative medicine/treatments etc, grew when she practiced Ashtanga yoga in New York 1998. Iren has traveled many times in India and visited several yoga and Ayurvedic health centers in Goa, Nasik , Rishkesh and Mysore at Sri.K Pattabhi Jois. She has also undertaken teacher trainings in pregnancy yoga, kids yoga and Yin yoga.Iren has also studied classical Swedish massage, Ayurvedic body therapies, reiki healing and meditation. She is born and lives in Sweden where she teaches yoga and gives ayurvedic body treatments.



			Sallie Rose has been practising yoga and meditation for 20 years. She trained in Scaravelli yoga and Sivananda Yoga in India. She brings to her classes a very relaxing and meditative approach to help people enter the postures from a very open and relaxed place. So what seems difficult becomes easy.... www.sallierose.co.uk


			James McIntyre was born and lives in Perth, Western Australia. He first began practising Yoga in 1983 and became a more dedicated practitioner when he commenced regular classes with Kale Leaf and other teachers at the Fremantle Yoga Centre in 1990.[ www.fremantleyoga.com ]. From 1992-2002 he assisted in Yoga Therapy classes. Since 2007 he has been running his own Yoga Therapy classes and is also involved in training Yoga teachers. He has taught both beginner & experienced level classes since 1993. These have been further inspired by visiting teachers, mostly in the Iyengar tradition, but he remains a diligent student of many different styles. On three occasions he has taught Yoga to a group of Australian students on tour through India. James is also a Homoeopath since 1992 and his interest in health has translated into the way he teaches and practises Yoga. He is interested in both the physiological and psychological effects of the Yoga Asanas and the subtle play between activity & rest that occur while being present within any posture. He puts a strong emphasis on the breath and its link to a more introspective and meditative practise.

 Irini Sanikou

trained in the Sacred school of Lynn Andrews and she is a member of the 
Sisters of Shields, a circle of women who work on empowering 
the female energy that exists in everybody, an energy that the 
Mother Earth is in so much need of in these times. Irini is also 
reikimaster, schiatsu teacher, aura soma therapist, tai chi and
qigong teacher and runs the Centre of Irini in Athens .


			Alexander Stavrinos Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Alexander was from his early teen years interested in the more spiritual and "esoteric" matters of life. He has been traveling extensively throughout Africa and Asia and has always been interested in the healing traditions of these cultures. After some years of job-hopping in different areas of employment he decided to change his lifestyle towards a more spiritual path. Suffering himself from a cervical spine syndrome he thought that an alternative method may help him. He discovered that Traditional Thai Massage or Thai Yoga Massage is not only a very deep and powerful form of healing for him, but also a spiritual path. Read more...