Cecilia W Yu
Hartford, Connecticut
Teaching yoga is part of my life since I was a child growing up in several continents but mainly in Australia I lived in Europe but I taught yoga professionally every summer full-time in the USA and/or Greece I also taught one-one part time sessions face to face or online the rest of the year My yoga lineage: As a teenager I was lucky to learn from an American teacher Liz Coon who was trained directly by Guru BKS Iyengar for many years in India So I belong to the formal yoga lineage of Guru Tirumlai Krishnamacharya I taught informally in my adulthood In I formalised my hours advance yoga teacher education with the generous Bursary offered by Online Yoga school founder Steph Ball-Mitchell during the Global Pandemic Her lineage teacher is via Swami Vidyananda My meditation lineage: I was taught Tai Chi meditation and movements by my Hong Kong-Chinese Grandfather KiTakYu who was trained by a Grandmaster in the Ng style Tai Chi and also studied with Grandmaster Yip Man in his youth As a young adult I was also trained in meditation in the Kagyu tradition I trained formally in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation with a Tibetan Meditation Grandmaster Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche in Nepal and India Yoga is a discipline and a lifestyle for me as a professional artist and an expert consultant who works with Culture and Sustainability at United Nations projects level I am currently doing a Doctorate in Sustainable Culture Development.
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Teaching yoga is part of my life since I was a child growing up in several continents but mainly in Australia I lived in Europe but I taught yoga professionally every summer full-time in the USA and/or Greece I also taught one-one part time sessions face to face or online the rest of the year My yoga lineage: As a teenager I was lucky to learn from an American teacher Liz Coon who was trained directly by Guru BKS Iyengar for many years in India So I belong to the formal yoga lineage of Guru Tirumlai Krishnamacharya I taught informally in my adulthood In I formalised my hours advance yoga teacher education with the generous Bursary offered by Online Yoga school founder Steph Ball-Mitchell during the Global Pandemic Her lineage teacher is via Swami Vidyananda My meditation lineage: I was taught Tai Chi meditation and movements by my Hong Kong-Chinese Grandfather KiTakYu who was trained by a Grandmaster in the Ng style Tai Chi and also studied with Grandmaster Yip Man in his youth As a young adult I was also trained in meditation in the Kagyu tradition I trained formally in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation with a Tibetan Meditation Grandmaster Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche in Nepal and India Yoga is a discipline and a lifestyle for me as a professional artist and an expert consultant who works with Culture and Sustainability at United Nations projects level I am currently doing a Doctorate in Sustainable Culture Development.
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