THE YOGA TEACHERS

All Bali Yoga & Wellness Yoga teachers are certified (as recognized by Yoga Alliance) and from international backgrounds, specializing in various yoga styles. Classes may be taught in English, French, German, Indonesian or Japanese.

Beate “Billy” McLatchie is originally from Austria but Asian in her soul and lives in Bali since 1992. After obtaining an international business degree and many years in politics, hospitality industry and real estate, she devoted her life wholeheartedly to yoga, running her yoga & wellness company and teaching full time yoga, pranayama and meditation.

Beate has received two international yoga teaching certifications with Yoga Alliance: through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Neyar Dam, Kerala, South India and through Vibrant Living Yoga in Bali.

She has joined two further Teacher Training Intensives: Fluid Power with Shiva Rea and an Iyengar Intensive with Aadil Palkhivala. Beate also studied with Sharon Gannon and David Life from Jivamukti Yoga.

Besides her full time yoga & wellness studies and teachings and further education in yoga therapy, her interests lie with languages, especially ancient ones, holistic healing therapies and wholesome nutrition wrapped with a passion for architecture and interior design

Hiroshi Funakoshi moved to Bali in June 2006 and shares Beate's passion for cacao.

He teaches yoga in Japanese and English.

His background includes the cultivation of the Yogic, Martial and Living Arts.
His intention in every yoga session is to create a safe and supportive environment to evoke the inherent powers and wisdom of each individual yoga student.

He finished two international yoga teacher trainings, ISHTA Yoga and Vibrant Living Yoga, and training with top yoga professionals.
He is also one of the Japanese top yoga promoters, and is the director of a yoga non-profit organization in Japan.

He obtained his M.S. in 2000. Since 2001, he studies internet technology and still active in the internet business.

His yogic journey started 10 years ago when he worked at a Yoga and Meditation retreat in his village in Tabanan. Wayan was in charge of all guest activities at the retreat. He met several yoga teachers at the retreat who inspired him to do more Yoga.

Wayan taught at the retreat for about 3 years.
In 2001 he was given the chance to join a raw-food yoga seminar with an American group for two weeks in the Northern part of Bali. From then on, he kept teaching at the retreat until The GHM Management, which operates contemporary luxury hotels in Kuta and Ubud,
hired him in 2003 to teach their guests daily until today.

In 2006 Wayan attended the Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training in Ubud, Bali where he was instructed by several international yoga teachers in different styles.

After working on a cruise ship for six years that had taken him all around the world, he devoted his life to yoga, meditation and spirituality - something he has been interested in since childhood and even practiced it while on board.

He realised that for him happiness can only be found when practicing yoga and meditation continuously. He decided to take a new path in his life and became a Yoga and Meditation Teacher.

Putu received an International Yoga Teacher Certificate from The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Neyar Dam, Kerala, South India.

He is very happy to join Bali Yoga & Wellness and also teaches yoga and meditation in some of the resorts in Nusa Dua, Seminyak, and Sanur. Putu has a strong desire to promote Bali to be known as a Yoga & Meditation Destination and only for its culture.

As a veteran on the international dance scene for many years, she decided to follow her next passion and dream to become a yoga teacher with a difference.

Amanda has studied with teachers such as Shiva Rea, Daniel Aaron, Louisa Sears, Rachel Hull and Julie Martin. TheYogini has 10 years of practising worldwide in India,Australia, USA and Indonesia. Amanda is trained in Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga Vinyasa, alignment, philosophy, pranayama and ayuvedic nutrition. She is recognised and certified under the Yoga Aliance
worldwide.

"My inner experience of motion and creativity awakened through living in India followed through my study with my teachers and now guiding Vinyasa flow yoga to people of all ages and backgrounds over the last 6 years."

Amanda is spiritually bound by a passionate desire to provide students the ultimate yoga and spiritual experience.

Joko Tri.L. is originally from Solo, Java , has studied inner martial arts and energy movements with many different masters and is active in natural healing arts since 15 years.

When Joko finished the acupuncture and traditional medicine course in 1999 in Java, he moved to Bali to practice as a personal healing practitioner, massage therapist and natural treatment trainer with his work focusing on acupressure, acupuncture, reflexology, Reiki, chakra & body rebalancing, energy flow facilitation and traditional herbal medicine.

Joko received his government certificate in 2004 and has now trained his own massage team to spread his deep healing and massage knowledge.

His brother Toto follows right in his foot steps using the same technique.

Toto has been learning and practicing traditional therapy since he is 15 years old, even while he was still studying at high school.

In 2004 he finished his studies in acupuncture, acupressure, healing massage and traditional Indonesian medicine in the Kita Sehat Natural Therapy Clinic in Denpasar, Bali, whose owner is his brother Joko, a renown a traditional medicine therapist.

In 2005, Toto finished an additional private course in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Solo, Central Java. Until today he is actively participating in natural therapy seminars to extend his knowledge and studies.

THE MASSEURS
All the Bali Yoga & Wellness masseurs have been trained to highest standards by Joko Tri.L.