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ROBERT J. BIRNBERG
Yoga has been an important part of Robert's life for over twenty-five years. After practicing Yoga to heal a severe back injury in 1979, Robert began studying with the best teachers in America. Ten years later, he founded Community Yoga and Wellness Center in Los Angeles, California.
In 1990 he was exposed to the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya, the great South Indian Yogi, and his son and student, T.K.V. Desikachar. Over the next several years, Robert studied at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, (KYM) an institution in South India regarded internationally for Yoga Education and Therapy. There Robert met Kausthub Desikachar, T.K.V.'s son, who became Robert’s teacher.
In July 2006, following four years of intensive study with Kausthub and an internship at the KYM, Robert became one of 40 people certified globally by TKV Desikachar to train teachers. Robert teaches private, therapeutic Yoga and trains teachers in the U.S. and internationally. His teachings embrace the many aspects of Yoga philosophy and practice, including postures, breath work, meditation, chanting, and relationship and lifestyle counseling.
Robert specializes in Yoga for addiction and compulsive disorders. He has taught at Promises Treatment Center in Malibu and has designed Yoga, Meditation and Spirituality programs for Clearview Treatment Centers in Southern, California, where he currently teaches and facilitates groups.
Robert has lectured at Harvard Medical school and is currently on the faculty of the Teacher Training Program at Providence Institute in Tucson Arizona, and the Yoga Therapist Program at Loyola Marymount University. He writes for various Yoga periodicals, and is currently working on a book, Yoga, Habit and Addiction, which will be published sometime in 2008.
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 ELENI TSIKRIKAS
Eleni discovered YOGA as a means for reducing stress in 1995 while practicing law in Sydney, Australia. Smitten, Eleni completed the Sydney Yoga Center's teacher training course. In 2000, she became disillusioned with the law and quit the legal profession to teach Yoga full time. Over the years, Eleni has seen Yoga evolve from a part time practice to a full time career and lifelong passion.
In 2001, Eleni was introduced to the teachings of TKV Desikachar by Michael de Manicor, a seniorstudent who became her first serious teacher. Under his tutelage, Eleni offered group classes and private instruction at Yoga Sanga in Sydney. For several years she taught at St. John of God Hospital, applying her knowledge and expertise to patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
In 2004 Eleni moved to Los Angeles, where she began intensive study with Robert Birnberg, who became her husband. She has completed a 200-hour teacher training course with Robert and continues to study privately.
In addition, she completed an in-depth course of study at the KYM in India, an institution regarded globally for Yoga healing and education.
She currently specializes in Yoga for addiction and compulsive disorders, teaching privately, and at Clearview Treatment Centers, Venice, California.
Eleni augments her Yoga practice with studies in Ayurveda, India's classical medical system. She is in her senior year at Californian College of Ayurveda. Upon completion, she will be awarded the title of Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist.
Eleni combines Yoga and Ayurveda to provide highly individualized lifestyle and nutritional counseling. Her HEALTHY, TASTY, COOKING CLASSES are hugely popular, leaving students empowered, educated and nurtured, able to conduct their lives with an open heart and full belly.
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