Overview
Zen Yoga is home to the widest range of yoga and pilates classes suitable for all levels, and taught by the most qualified instructors.
We also host many Workshops and Teacher Training courses by renowned local and international teachers for those student wishing to take their practice to the next level!
Zen Yoga provides its students with a diverse range of Yoga classes to choose from including Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Power Yoga, Jivamukti, Yin, Yoga Nidra and more.
We also offer a host of Pilates classes, including Pilates Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Chair and Tower – all catered to students’ preferences.
ZenYoga goes a step further in offering regular Prenatal & Postnatal classes, Kid’s Yoga and Mummy/Baby classes. Zen Yoga also dedicates a significant portion of our schedule to ladies-only classes.
So if you’ve never experienced a yoga and/or Pilates class in Dubai, or you’ve tried it once and didn’t like it, here’s your opportunity to give it a go (or a second go) to see what Yoga and Pilates are really about.
Namaste, and see you soon!
Our Instructors
Zamira
Zamira is RYT500 Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher, Reiki Master and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She believes the body, mind and soul connection is a sacred one and it should be nurtured and inspired. With that mentality she teaches her classes from her heart, creating an uplifting, safe environment for students to begin to explore and expand within their own body and consciousness towards a journey inward.
Amelia
Amelia is an experienced yogi with a love of Vinyasa flow & the journey of evolving yoga focusing on calm, power & precision. She qualified in London & then completed her Level 2 in Goa. She embraces the teachings of Vinyasa flow, Hatha & prenatal yoga.
Anna
Anna is a caring, enthusiastic yoga teacher with a strong commitment to student’s health development and body fit. Excellent background, inspiring others to improve wellness and commit to long-term health and fitness goals. Easily interacts with students , children and parents ..
Diana
Diana gravitates most naturally to the more subtle aspects of the culture of Yoga. She kindled this flame further by studying and learning the methodologies thereby completing her teacher training, RYT-200 hrs in Hatha Yoga, Level 2 in Vinyasa Flow. She was endowed with Yoga Siromani to teach from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, India. She also specializes in teaching prenatal & postnatal yoga.
Jatta
Jatta is a certified 500hr Yoga Alliance Astanga Vinyasa teacher from Tattvaa Yoga Shala in Rishikesh with Yogi Kamal Singh. Her classes are energetic and inspiring with the traditional approach coupled with adjustments to align students and assisting them to achieve deeper opening of the body and at the same time she encourages students to confront themselves on the mat through the physical challenge delving into the mind and spirit.
Laura
Laura’s journey into Yoga started 12 years ago and typically focused on Asanas (the physical aspect of the practice). Seeking out Yoga in each country that she lived in, she began to develop an awareness and appreciation of the inner peace that it ultimately brings into ones life. This included an in depth study of the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga system as well as learning safe adjustment techniques for students with all levels of practice.
Yousra
Yousra discovered Yoga 7 years ago through a corporate Yoga class when she was working as a full time banker. Early 2014, she completed her TTC at Sivananda Ashram in Bahamas. Her discovery of Yin Yoga was post a personal emotional trauma and shortly after, she completed her Yin Yoga training in Bali. Yousra’s teaching style focuses on introducing the practices of guided meditation and mindfulness along with the Yin asana practice. Her classes focus on balancing the action with inaction by feeling more and doing less. For her, Yoga is an ongoing journey of self discovery and the restoration of the fullest potential of herself.
Charity
Charity was introduced to yoga in 1996 shortly after her arrival in New York City. It quickly became the one constant in her life in the hectic world of fashion. She credits her love of the practice to two early teachers, Amy Ippoliti and Paul Dallaghan. By a chance reconnection with Paul more than ten years later, she was inspired to delve deeper into her practice and complete her 200 hour teacher training with him at Centered Yoga Thailand. Charity continues her education with Centered Yoga in Pranayama, Asana, and Philosophy and will forever be grateful to Paul for his guidance as well as her husband and son, as without them the journey wouldn’t have been possible. Charity’s Asana classes emphasize the connection with the breath in addition to proper alignment and acknowledgement of one’s own limitation. She believes in the beginning yoga is a physical practice but with sincere commitment you can find a cultivated freedom leading you to a deeper, meditative practice.
Cheryl
Cheryl first found yoga at 16 & quickly developed a passion for the practice. She is an E-RYT 500+ Yoga Alliance registered teacher, having trained under the expert eye of the Yoga Arts team, and also holds over 85 hours of pre-natal yoga teaching qualifications. Cheryl has been instructing Vinyasa and Hatha Flow at Zen since March 2008 and loves to add an element of fun to her classes, encouraging students to laugh & enjoy their yoga practice.
Joanna
Joanna completed Pilates Mat & Reformer Instructor Training through Balanced Body University, followed by Prenatal & Postnatal Pilates Instructor training through The Center for Women’s Fitness. She was excited to become certified Instructor in The Booty Barre method as it complements Pilates wonderfully.
Neha
Neha’s yoga journey began five years ago as a means to balance work life and a rigorous gym workout. After two years of an on-off relationship with Bikram yoga, Neha decided to take on a 30-day yoga challenge. What started as a month of daily practice turned into 200 days non-stop and she’s never looked back since! Going beyond the physical, she realized that yoga is mental stretch. Stretching limitations, imaginations and possibilities! Neha’s personal practice includes Absolute yoga, Bikram, Ashtanga and Vinyasa flow. Her Vinyasa Flow classes are vigorous yet spiritual and focus on alignment, core strength and expanding student knowledge of their own bodies through postures and variations. With a love of teaching, Neha will guide your practice to new depths. Her training includes YA 200hr training from Absolute Yoga Academy, YR 100hr Advanced Vinyasa training from the Lila School of Vinyasa Yoga and many workshops in various styles of yoga.
Melissa
Melissa is an experienced E-RYT 500 Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor. After completing her training at Brahmani Centre in Goa 2009, she has been teaching vinyasa flow and ashtanga yoga both in India and the UAE. Melissa’s philosophy is to share the gift of yoga from a place of authenticity and integrity. Filled with technique, alignment, and a systematic approach to building strength and balance, her classes offer an array of intelligent sequences covering a wide variety of themes.
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Anishka
Yoga gave me the tools to break away counter-productive habits while cultivating new positive ones. With a mind that was flexible I was able to stretch the body and the soul to unleash its optimum potential. I teach from my practice: soulful, happy and free flowing movements that are guided by safety.
Jessica
Jessica comes all the way from Brazil and through out her life she has worked full time in the corporate world, including various different industries, such as Legal, Technology and Aviation. However she only found real fulfillment when she decided to follow her passion for Fitness, Health and Mind, and found the life balance that she has always been looking for.Jessica is a qualified STOTT Pilates and Barre Instructor and a qualified Yoga Instructor. Her classes are challenging but yet fun, with a lot of emphasis in proper alignment.She is always looking forward to improve her skills and knowledge so she can help her students to achieve their fitness and health goals.
Penny
Penny is Yoga Arts 200hrs trained and has taken Teacher Training Intensives with Max Strom and in Yin Yoga with Corina Benner (a student of Paul Grilley), as well as being a Kids Yoga instructor training with Yoga Bananas (UK). Penny teaches both Yin Yoga and Children’s Yoga at ZenYoga. She believes that Yoga is a gift that can encourage us on a path to discover a sense of inner peace in a very busy and fast moving world.
Anuradha
To strengthen her Mind-Body-Energy connection, she embarked on an extensive study of various Alternate healing modalities such as Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Sound Healing, Drawing Analysis, Access Consciousness & Theta. This transformational journey encouraged her practice as a Holistic Consultant with an aim to build a successful bridge between corporate & personal wellness. The tag line “My Life My Miracle”, is backed by the philosophy that every individual has equal potential to achieve anything & everything they want in life by just switching on the spot light within themselves.
Lara
Lara trained for her 200 hr teaching here at Zen Yoga, having been practicing yoga with dedication and commitment for 3 years previously. Her love for the physical aspects of yoga started first but she quickly fell in love with meditation, pranayama and the philosophical elements of the practice. She believes that yoga is for everyone and gives us all a chance to step away from our hectic lives to find inner peace and self awareness.
Jessica
Jessica comes all the way from Brazil and through out her life she has worked full time in the corporate world, including various different industries, such as Legal, Technology and Aviation. However she only found real fulfillment when she decided to follow her passion for Fitness, Health and Mind, and found the life balance that she has always been looking for.Jessica is a qualified STOTT Pilates and Barre Instructor and a qualified Yoga Instructor. Her classes are challenging but yet fun, with a lot of emphasis in proper alignment.She is always looking forward to improve her skills and knowledge so she can help her students to achieve their fitness and health goals.
Penny
Penny is Yoga Arts 200hrs trained and has taken Teacher Training Intensives with Max Strom and in Yin Yoga with Corina Benner (a student of Paul Grilley), as well as being a Kids Yoga instructor training with Yoga Bananas (UK). Penny teaches both Yin Yoga and Children’s Yoga at ZenYoga. She believes that Yoga is a gift that can encourage us on a path to discover a sense of inner peace in a very busy and fast moving world.
Simone
Simone first get in contact with yoga in 2008 looking for inner peace and a solution for longterm neck problems. Since that time yoga became an important part of her life. She is an RYT 200 Yoga Alliance teacher and completed the Anusara Elements teacher training in Germany and started teaching in studios and for companies. Its her goal to show everyone the great gift of yoga and meditation and how helpful it is to practice with an intention. Her hearty classes are full of alignment and fun. She continuously studies to deepen her practice and knowledge in yoga, meditation and pranayama.
Leona
From an early age Leona practised various types of dance. Pilates mat was a natural progression & a way of maintaining & increasing her core strength, posture & flexibility. Leona believes Pilates is excellent for all ages & fitness levels, compliments other forms of exercise, strengthens the core & body, improves balance, increase co-ordination all of which benefits us in our everyday life. She teaches Pilates mat & Reformer.
Claire
Breathwork whilst running was the start and then her asana and pranayama practice really deepened during four years in India. Claire appreciates the Yin and Yang of Yoga so you will feel an undercurrent of gentle yet nurturing strength in her teaching style: her classes & workshops will help you find the balance between sincere effort, grace and surrender, especially in her Yin and Pre-Natal sessions. Claire is E-RYT 200, registered RPYT (pre-natal) and Usui Tibetan Reiki Master.
Karina
Karina grew up in Mexico City where she majored in Organizational Psychology, worked as an Organizational Development consultant and Business-Life Coach. Her first certification began in 2010 as Hatha Yoga instructor in Yoga Espacio (Mexico City), including elements of Iyengar methodology, anatomy, philosophy, and Buddhist meditation, during 600 hours in 2 years. In 2014 she completed the second certification in Advanced Ashtanga Vinyasa, under the instruction of Jamie Clark E-RYT 500 in Koh Samui, Thailand, specializing in the Rocket sequences of Larry Schultz.