NAMASTE!
WELCOME TO OUR BAJA YOGA & SELF AWARENESS PROGRAM LEADERS
HERIZEN™ Yoga & Self Awareness Program Leaders are dedicated and committed to BEING there for all students to inspire, encourage and teach in a way that serves with loving, nurturing and compassionate values.
Valma Brenton E-RYT. Valma is a transformational trainer. She discovered Qigong and Kundalini yoga 14 years ago while working in Chile. Within a short time, Valma noticed that the benefits of her practice of yoga raised her level of awareness, allowed her to stay focused, healthy and present in her own physical body. This was important to her as she had lost the use of her legs temporarily in the recovery of a back injury some years before. In her continued exploration of yoga, Qigong and other healing modalities she found her practice to create a bridge between the body and the spirit and she believes this will also play an important role in the global awakening. Valma studied in India, Chile, Mexico, Canada and the US. She has been teaching yoga teacher trainings for the last three years. As an E-RYT in Iyengar 200 Hrs & Ashtanga 200 Hrs based Hatha yoga, Iyengar precision & Ashtanga Hatha Yoga and Qi Yoga flow are practices that Valma incorporates in her daily life as well as offerings in her women only adventure programs. She is certified in Qigong (Cloudy Satchel form) and believes yoga, Qigong and movement gets people into their bodies, deeply connects them to themselves, and more openly connects them with nature and others. It is a transformational practice. "My purpose, says Valma "Is to be a mirror for other women, to share my knowledge and wisdom of life and encouraging them to reach their desired dreams, reach their fullest potential and live their ultimate life. To inspire them to create miracles in their lives and be open to the present moment… creating balance through awareness, self-confidence, intention and faith. I invite you to celebrate personal success and well-being through awareness, motion and nature. Join me on the journey of freedom through Yoga and Qigong and let your Spirit fly.
Elizabeth Martin, RYT, RMT, CH. Elizabeth is a natural teacher and leader and through teaching yoga has found her place of balance both on the mat as well as in her heart. She lives on Vancouver Island BC running her Massage Therapy practice, teaching yoga, making and selling herbal medicine and helping families have natural empowered births. Her education began 13 years ago in Alternative Medicine, Ayurveda and Nutrition. She earned her Chartered Herbalist Diploma and continued on to study Women’s Reproductive Health and Childbearing. She received her Doula Certification and attended both hospital and home births. She has trained with midwives, and offers Belly casting, Blessing way Ceremonies, and Breastfeeding support. Throughout the years she has taught many bellydance classes, specializing in pregnant students, and performs this ancient art of dance on occasion. For 5 years she facilitated Women’s’ Healing Circles, focusing on positive parenting, healthy lifestyle and sharing of community. This was mostly for new, single or low income mothers, and had guest speakers on Fertility Awareness/ Birth Control, Moontime Wisdom, and Breastfeeding. At age 23 she started Massage Therapy College in BC Canada, a 3000 hour medical modeled, therapy-based program with the highest standards for Massage Therapy Training in the world. She trained with Chiropractors, RMT's, and Nurses Specializing in Prenatal Care. She has since been training to teach the Jusstise Method of Fertility Awareness. In 2005 she attended a Yoga Teacher Training in Baja Mexico and had one of the best months of life, learning and living communally and expanding as a human. She has been dedicated to Yoga since, teaching classes, workshops and living her life in a new, more balanced way. She lived in Hawaii for 2 months of 2006 at a yoga retreat community, doing a karma yoga work trade program and taking yoga and dance classes every day. Here she took the yoga Intensive teacher trainings with Darren Main and learned even more about living the yoga life in today’s world. In 2007 she began her training as a Bellyfit Instructor, and continues to pursue this goal. She is happily dedicated to sharing what she knows, and learns incredibly much through teaching. Her classes are Free Flowing, Iyengar based and extremely positive, so be ready to smile all day after a class!
*Additional instructors & leaders will be brought in during the training in Baja
