ABOUT US

ACHARYA SHAMBAVI DEVI

Acharya Shambhavi Devi (Deviji) has practiced yoga and meditation since an early age and has gone through extensive training. In a period of working in a very demanding and stressful job as a Creative Director in various agencies in Switzerland, she felt the need to work more deeply on her inner life, and she went to South-East-Asia to continue her yoga training. She studied with various teachers on Bali and realized that she wanted to be a yoga teacher.

When she returned to Switzerland, she entered teacher training in the Sivananda tradition. Already a completely dedicated Yoga & Meditation teacher, she met Acharya Premananda on a Meditation Retreat in the mountains of Switzerland. The meeting introduced her to the Rising Energy practice and teaching. After many years of practicing and teaching Yoga she developed her own unique style with focus on the deeper consciousness at the core of our being.

After receiving a Thai Yoga Massage she felt that becoming a Massage therapist in this tradition would compliment her yoga and meditation teaching and expand her offering to people. The approach she learned and was certified in by the well known Thai Yoga Massage teacher Takis from Greece, Sunshinehouse, focuses on the deepest self healing energy of the individual.

For a long time she had a deep wish to study Craniosacral Therapy because some treatments she received in Switzerland showed her that it was very closely related to the deep transformative meditation work she had been doing for many years. Auspiciously, she encountered one of the foremost practitioner and teachers of this work, Howard Evans. She began intense training with him. Evans has been trained by and has worked with the best known and highly recognized teachers in the field: Franklin Sills, Michael Shea, Helen Davies, John Rowan, Dr. Brenda Davies and others. To deepen her expertise she continued training at the school for Craniosacral healing with the well known Ramraj Ullrich Loewe who studied with Dr. John Upledger and Franklyn Sills. He is also the author of several books on the topic. By now she has many years of practice as a Craniosacral practitioner.

ACHARYA PREMANANDA

Acharya Premananda (Premiji) has for more than 50 years practiced a form of meditation he learned from his teacher Swami Rudrananda (Rudi). It is a practice that focuses on releasing tension and allowing the creative energy to flow. He has taught the practice for many years while guiding students primarily from the US and Europe in their transformation process.

Premiji has written the books "Why Not Open Your Eyes", "Freedom from the Web of Karma", "Poems to the Bliss of Awareness" and most recently “Journey into the Heart of Being”. The books are available on amazon in paperback and kindle versions.

He has a Doctorate Degree in Education, with focus on teacher training. He was for five years professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He has also worked for many years as a consultant and trainer in industry, both in Europe and the USA, focusing on creativity, team building and improvement methods.
Premiji was a student of Swami Rudrananda (Rudi) in New York City in the early seventies. After that, he studied and practiced for many years in an ashram established by his teacher in the USA.

He has also studied Kashmir Shaivism and other Indian traditions. For a number of years, Premiji studied Tibetan Buddhist practices with Wangdu Lama Rimpoche, who runs a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Currently, he and his wife and partner Deviji run Rudra Retreat Center in Buger, Mallorca.

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