SHRI GAIA YOGA INSTITUTE
Conscious Evolution through Movement and Stillness
Shri Gaia Yoga Institute aims at raising the awareness through mind, body and spirit practices. With the ancient science of Yoga at its core, Shri Gaia focuses on conscious evolution through movement and stillness.
Exploring and observing the movement of patterns of thought, emotion, breath and body, and then our environment and our connection to it, we can validate the interconnectedness, creativity, potential and abundance of existence, using these movements to our advantage. With this in mind we train our students and clients, whether they are aspiring yoga teachers or already leaders in their field.
The transformative learning experiences at Shri Gaia Yoga Institute are designed to develop effective, skillful and inspirational leaders and teachers. Our training programs are directed by Tanya Savitri Popovich, Certified Yoga Teacher with a 20 year yoga experience and Leadership Coach with a 10 year corporate coaching experience..
Shri Gaia Yoga Institute is an education provider specializing in body and mind practices, namely Yoga Teacher Training and Leadership Programs.
MEET OUR
Experienced Certified Teachers
TANYA SAVITRI POPOVICH
FOUNDER
Tanya is a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance ERYT-500, and Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) in classical Sivananda Yoga tradition.
She started her meditation practice at the age of 14 through Transcendental Meditation.
Her 20 years of experience practicing and 17 years of teaching Yoga includes numerable yoga trainings in classical and modern styles of yoga, and long stays at Yoga Ashrams across India.
For the past 16 years Tanya teaches yoga internationally including 200-hr and 500-hr Yoga Alliance certified educational programs, Yin Yoga and Aerial Yoga training programs, Breathwork and Meditation trainings, Vedanta philosophy, workshops, seminars and cultural retreats.
- Swaha Yoga Center founder
- Shri Gaia Institute founder and Yoga Teacher Training director
- Yin Resonanceâ Yin Yoga Teacher Training founder
- Uplift Another – refugee scholarship program and Trauma Informed Teacher Training program founder
- Swaha Aerial Yoga founder
International teaching experience
- Greece 2004 – present, various locations
- USA, New York 2010, various locations
- India 2011 – present, various locations
- Cyprus, Nicosia 2012 – 2018 Akasha Yoga Center
- Costa Rica, Nosara 2013 various locations
- USA, Murfreesboro 2014 Yoga Nest
- Germany, Munich 2014 – 2015
- Jivamukti Yoga Schwabing, Patrick Broome Yoga Studios
- Indonesia, Bali 2015 – present, various locations
- Jordan, Amman 2015 Yoga Jordan
- Turkey, Istanbul 2015 Maya Yoga
- Helsinki, Finland 2015 – 2017 Hima Happiness
- Malaysia, Johor 2016 Peace Studio
- USA, Los Angeles 2016 various locations
- USA, Miami 2016 various locations
- Taiwan, Taipei 2017 Yoga Journey
- Tasmania, Saint Helen’s 2019 Gallery Parnella
- Australia, Melbourne 2019, Bendigo Yoga Festival
LEADERSHIP COACHING
From 2010 onwards Tanya works alongside Barbara Duchow and Stage Directors with executive managers as a leadership coach / consultant in individual and group settings.
Her focus is on leadership through body and mind practices, namely Body-Mind Centering, Breathwork, Creating Presence through Alignment, Awareness in Communication and Leadership, Stress Management, Change Management, Increasing Productivity and Concentration, and Creativity Training.
She uses her deep knowledge of body/mind connection through Yoga, Meditation, Breath-work, RTT (Hypnosis, NLP and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy) to provide coaching in challenging leadership positions.
Consulting and Leadership Coaching Experience
- Evonik, Frankfurt, 2010 – present
- Thales Group, Paris 2014 – present
- ON., Hamburg, 2015 – present
- Management Circle, V.I.E.L, Airbus Group (AC in Cooperation with Kienbaum Management Consultant GmbH), Toulouse – Hamburg – Munich – Ibiza, 2016 – present
Other
- B.A. in Fine Arts
- M.A. in Indigenous Studies, Storytelling and Myth
- RTT Therapist (certification pending)
- Degree in Sound Healing
- Rites of Passage Initiate
- Shamanic Journeying through Dance and Breath fascilitator
