VIKRAM
SINGH

Born and raised in Rishikesh, India, Vikram comes from a family of yoga teachers and practitioners. He holds an international 500-hour RYT certification and a specialisation in Therapeutic Yoga from the prestigious Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute & Research Center in Lonavala, India, one of the world’s most renowned institutions for yoga education and research. He also studied Psychology at university, deepening his understanding of the connection between body, mind and consciousness.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Surinder Singh, Vikram has adapted these teachings to modern times without losing the essence or depth of traditional yoga. He has extensive experience teaching teacher-training programmes and Therapeutic Yoga courses at his school, Swasti Yogashala, in Rishikesh, and travels internationally to lead retreats and advanced programmes for teachers.
His approach integrates traditional Hatha Yoga with principles of Iyengar Yoga and Vinyasa, combining a somatic methodology, mindfulness, conscious breathing, alignment and the use of props. The result is a deep and accessible practice for everyone.

ALEJANDRA
ESTRADA

Alejandra entered the world of yoga in 2005, guided by the need to ease the pain carried by her physical and emotional body.
Although she studied Biological Sciences, she pursued a professional career in photography. At the same time, she began studying contemporary dance at the Madrid Conservatory, despite being told she did not have «physical qualities», but did have great sensitivity. Her yoga practice became part of her life as a mirror in which to look within: at times a great challenge, and at others, a refuge.
After nine years of travelling to India, she found a balance between a modern perspective and a deep respect for tradition, an approach with which she feels profoundly aligned. Over the past ten years, a path towards the liberation of the Self has gradually opened for her, one that involves integrating our own shadows and vulnerability, anchoring this memory in the body through not only yoga practice, but also energy work, sound, symbol and circular breathing.
Through individual and group sessions, workshops and trainings, she cultivates and shares tools for emptying ourselves again and again, shedding the masks and armour we have believed would protect or elevate us, and thereby recovering the ability to return to our essence and connect with our sovereignty through vulnerability.
She currently carries out all her work at Casa Raíz Málaga, where she lives with her human, animal and plant family, and which she tends every day with her hands and her heart.

PEDRO
ARCE

Pedro Arce is the director of AIYA, Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda, and for the past twenty years has pursued ongoing research and teaching in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, massage and somatic techniques. His work is distinguished by an integration of tradition, technical rigour and embodied experience, giving rise to an approach that is solid, precise and deeply contemporary.
With a degree in Chemistry, he brings a structured and analytical perspective that enriches his teaching. His approach coherently integrates postural practice, fascial work, somatic regulation, therapeutic touch, Ayurvedic massage, meditation and inner work—not as isolated disciplines, but as complementary dimensions of a single process of transformation.
Over the years, he has trained teachers and accompanied students through processes of deepening aimed at a clearer understanding of the body, energy, attention and consciousness. Also influenced by the internal arts, his work is characterised by sobriety, precision and a demanding approach to practice, far removed from superficial formulas.
At a time when much of the wellness discourse tends towards simplification, Pedro Arce represents a distinctive voice: an approach grounded in method and depth, with a genuine ability to build bridges between traditional knowledge, somatic awareness and human experience.

EVA
OLLER

With more than 30 years dedicated to the practice and teaching of Yoga, Eva supports her students from a place of presence, sensitivity, and transformation.
Recognized for her ability to guide, her empathy, and her human warmth, her teaching integrates traditional techniques with a meditative and healing-oriented approach, inviting each person to return to the body, inner listening, and authenticity, while creating a safe space in all her sessions.
A Yoga Teacher at The Yoga Gallery Festival since its beginnings, she shares a living and deeply human practice, shaped through a long journey alongside great teachers of the tradition. With one foot rooted in the classical legacy of yoga and the other in contemporary life, she brings both worlds together through intuitive alchemy and a wild intuition.
Eva understands the importance of bringing yoga beyond the mat, as a living practice woven into everyday life. Her choice as a woman in these times is deeply connected to a commitment to equality, peace, and a more conscious and respectful way of inhabiting the world.

GONZALO
BRITO

Gonzalo Brito is a clinical psychologist and holds a PhD in Psychology. Since 1999, he has maintained a personal Buddhist meditation practice, which deepened in 2000 after attending a three-month retreat at Plum Village with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Compassion lies at the heart of both his professional work and personal practice. In addition to his clinical practice, he works with groups in emotional regulation, mindfulness, and Buddhist psychology. Trained at Stanford University, he has trained more than 1,200 therapists in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) throughout the Spanish-speaking world. He also trains instructors in the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), Compassionate Mind Training (CMT), and Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance (MBEB) programs.
Gonzalo is also a yoga practitioner and trained as a yoga instructor in India, an experience that complements his integrative understanding of mind and body.
Through his platform Cultivar la Mente, he actively shares and teaches these practices. He is co-author of books such as Warm Heart, Serene Mind and Mindfulness and Emotional Balance. Throughout his work, he seeks to integrate individual wellbeing with the creation of more compassionate and just societies and cultures.

MIREIA
COMA-CROS

Mireia has practised yoga since adolescence. In 2007, she began integrating yoga into programmes supporting people experiencing extreme poverty, gender-based violence and incarceration. Witnessing its profound impact on complex trauma changed the course of her professional life.
She then embarked on a path of commitment to bringing yoga to people in situations of particular vulnerability, sharing tools that facilitate access to an inner space of peace, love and safety.
To approach this work with rigour, she has trained with international leaders in yoga applied to trauma, cancer and chronic illness, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health from King’s College London. A pioneer in bringing yoga into the healthcare system, she presented her book Yoga para alejarnos del dolor (Arpa) at Hospital del Mar alongside Dr Joan Albanell, Head of Medical Oncology and author of the foreword. The initiative received extensive media coverage and was followed by the introduction of yoga programmes in several Spanish hospitals.
She currently directs the Yoga for People with Cancer and Chronic Illness Teacher Training, together with Yoga Sin Fronteras.

ROCÍO
MACÍAS NAVÍO

Rocío facilitates from a perspective that integrates body, mind, emotions, and the spiritual dimension as a lived unity.
Her relationship with the body begins in childhood, through her training in classical dance at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, where she discovers the body as language and a place of truth. After a demanding professional stage in the legal, financial, and sustainability fields, an illness marks a profound turning point toward what is essential.
For more than 15 years she has accompanied individual and group processes, integrating her training as a mindfulness instructor (MBSR, University of Massachusetts), Cognitive Coaching (Denver), Mystagogical Spiritual Accompaniment (University of Mysticism, Ávila) and Biblical Spirituality (Pontifical University of Comillas), together with non-duality yoga (José Luis Cabezas, Evolation USA and Nirakara UCM), somatic approach (introduction to Somatic Experiencing and trauma-sensitive yoga, Rádika Foundation), compassionate inquiry (Dr. Gabor Maté) and applied neuroscience (Nazaret Castellanos).
Creator of Mystic Embodiment, The Blessing of Water and The Word that Brings Life, she facilitates individual support processes, retreats, and spaces where these processes can be lived.
Her proposal is an embodied spirituality: a path where the profound is not explained, it is lived.