Olivier will be back teaching at the retreat from 15th January 2012.

Olivier-David was born in Melbourne, Australia but was raised on the tropical island of Vanuatu in the south pacific. There was the base of a life surrounded by health and nature. After studying and working in the U.S. Olivier discovered yoga. He started practicing in 2004 and started teaching in 2006 at the Ki-Atsu Institute in Las Vegas, NV. In 2008 Olivier started touring and teaching retreats in Hawaii, Peru, Argentina, India, South Africa, Australia and Thailand.

Olivier is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of hatha and Ashtanga Yoga after the examples and teachings of Doug Swenson, Johnny Kest, Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his main and current teacher Sri V Sheshadri. In 2006 Olivier also discovered and developed the practice and art of TrustYoga (mixture of yoga, acrobatics and thai massage) and has been a practitioner since. He started teaching TrustYoga (AcroYoga) in 2008.
Olivier loves to practice and share this philosophy and lifestyle with others.

Rory was born in Scotland in 1979, left in 1998 to begin his overseas travels and first started practicing Yoga in 1998 whilst living in Byron Bay, Australia. He moved to Queenstown, New Zealand in 2000 and began a career in the outdoors environment working in the snow sports industry and in the summer seasons kayak guiding and outdoor training.

Having studied Yoga for 10 years he began teaching Yoga in the summer of 2008 having discovered the indepth and profound teachings of Tantric Yoga in 2006. His knowledge of Hatha, Ashtanga, Tantra, Kundalini Yoga and Advaita Vedanta has been deepened over the years by the guidance of many teachers namely Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekenanada Saraswati, Reinhard Gammenthaller and Sahajananda (Hridaya Yoga).

His knowledge and experience of these many disciplines from asana to meditation and philosophy has been deepened through many years of practice, aspiration and self discipline. He has taught Yoga full time in Scotland, India (Rishikesh) and Thailand (Koh Phangan). He is a dedicated Yoga teacher and Sadhaka (practitioner) who brings strength of teaching through previous experience and extensive knowledge of the Yoga tradition.