Odelia has practiced yoga and pursued spiritual inquiry for many years with different teachers, both in India and Israel. She was certified as a yoga teacher by Orit Sen Gupta in a three-year program at the Wingate Institute in Israel in 2001 and has been teaching full time ever since. In recent years she has been co-teaching yoga and Vipassana retreats together with Open Dharma and Christopher Titmuss.

Odelia feels enormous gratitude to her teachers Orit and Ajay Singh and to many teachers whose voices and presence reached and touched her, among them Ramana Maharshi, the great Saint of Tiruvannamalai and Ramakrishna of Calcutta. And from the provisional perspective she has now, she also feels grateful to her own passion for the quest, which has taken her through an exploration of many methods and spiritual traditions, and even more grateful to the grace which has softened this impetus into devotion and appreciation for all the tools of growth and evolution available to us, which have been discovered and rediscovered and passed on through the ages.

 

Nitzan Peri is a dedicated yogi. He has been training and practicing intensively in martial arts and Vijnana Yoga for many years. In the past few years, he has added yoga teaching to the long list of his activities, giving yoga an even more central place in his life. This past year he has begun teaching yoga retreats and workshops with his wife Odelia in Israel, Australia and India.

Nitzan is also a musician and musicologist who lectures on rock and ethnic music at the Hebrew University. He is founder of Joseph & One, a Jewish-Arab world music ensemble.

Nitzan feels his yoga practice lends both physical and spiritual support to the strenuous demands of his other occupations, particularly the intensity of performing and composing.