Meet The Team

Peter is the founder of Vala House and a registered 500RYT with Yoga Alliance. Peter teaches Classical Yoga using the Vinyasa Krama system and Hatha Yoga principles for all levels from beginners to advanced yogis. His teaching is rooted in both the lineage of Krishnamacharya and Swami Sivananda. His specific concentration is on yoga Nidra as taught by by Swami Satyananda Saraswati.

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Peter is also a registered YTT therapist, breathwork counsellor and life coach.

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Amy is a Master Reiki practitioner.

“I have healed myself from a tumour and infertility, and have applied the same techniques to my clients who have found relief from a range of ailments, including anxiety, depression,  cancer,  infertility, epilepsy, neurological disease and more.

“In my practice, I concentrate on the whole person and not just the disease, taking them on a healing journey, which ultimately introduces them to their true selves, healing body, mind and soul.”

Amy offers:

• Reiki

• Matrix Shifting (Opening a space to invite Miracles into your life)

• Core Regeneration Therapy

• Hydrotherapy

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As a qualified nature conservationist with extensive experience in environmental education and a certified teacher of biomimicry with a palpable passion for trees, forests and our planetary home, Sue offers a unique and fresh perspective into our living world and the magnificent interconnectedness of all Life on Earth.

Sue’s “Earth Awakenings & Forest Immersion” and “Earth Basking & Forest Bathing” offerings are an opportunity to experience the essence of living and the art of being.  They instil a sense of wonder and awe;  they ignite understanding and appreciation for Nature’s wisdom and ways; they bring about a deep re-connecting with self and with Nature; and facilitate a profound stirring, a remembering and a sense of coming home.

Sue offers:

 

• “Earth Awakenings & Forest Immersion” which focuses on discovering and learning from the essence and wisdom of our planetary home and the forest.  This experience involves a 3.5km moderate hike and

• “Earth Basking and Forest Bathing” which focuses on re-connecting with self, with the forest and with our planetary home through ‘bathing’ in the earthly elements & the forest sights, scents and sounds.  It includes some intuitive movement, poetry & creative writing and solo quiet time. It involves some simple sitting and “being”  in the forest, and gentle strolling and wandering only – no hiking.

Trained in Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga in Nepal, at Shivalaya Ashram, certified Yoga alliance. I follow the lineage of BKS Iyengar Hatha yoga with respect and intuition. 

Since childhood, I have enjoyed gymnastics, dance and music. I was introduced to this ancient wisdom during a university exchange in China; an intensive approach that is far from the pure essence of this ancient art. 

Back in France, I discovered an understanding of body awareness, breathing and energy channel alignment (chakras). A whole universe emerged. Powerful experiences related to the physical body, such as releasing traumas, allowed me to measure how yoga benefits the spirit – a path to healing. 

I integrate body awareness (asanas), breathing (pranayama), (meditation), and mantras (kirtan) as part of the teaching.

Singing is a true purification instrument; to sing is to let your soul express itself. 

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The practice of Yoga is first to purify the mind and body, then to strengthen, open, create stability and balance which leads to the state of Union, a sense of connection with all life.

The wisdom of yoga was introduced to me through sacred Indian texts, for years I practiced only the first steps in yoga, which is the Yama and Niyama principles together with meditation, pranayama and the use of cold water.

With this strong foundation, my yoga journey continued to unfold, revealing more practices and wisdom along the way, daily practice and experience being the key ingredient to development.

In recent years I have completed a variety of workshops, a 200 hour YTT with Jim Harrington at Reunion Yoga in Cape Town and a 100 hour advanced YTT with Tamsin Sheehy at the Shala studio in Cape Town.

I am grateful to share the practice and support you on your journey to a vibrant, balanced and peaceful state of being. I aim to help you find the right tools and practice for you so that you may develop your own personal practice.

 

Vishal started practicing Yoga with the sole aim to overcome his Anxiety, Stress and Trauma related problems. Little did he know that what had begun as a self discovery journey, would end up becoming his most loved profession. He considers himself as a lifelong learner and believes the whole world to be his teacher, which has allowed him to explore multiple paths in Yoga with a more therapeutic approach that is focused upon physical, mental & spiritual wellbeing. 

 

His sessions are a combination of Hatha Yoga, Vedanta & Tantra, according to him, these three paths complement one another, leading the seeker systematically along the path of Self-realization. They were not meant to be treated separately nor looked upon as different paths. The aspirant first clears the mind through the practice of Hatha Yoga, does self-enquiry through Vedanta, and then breaks through the final barrier with Tantra experiencing the heights of inner awakening.

He invites anyone and everyone irrespective of their experience in Yoga to join his sessions to experience higher levels of bliss.