About
SatyaShala Soul Travel Retreats offers unique Yoga, Meditation,Transformation, and Wellness Retreats in California and Internationally. We focus on a holistic approach to life including all aspects of wellbeing. We believe that all beings are here to shine their light and radiate happiness. Our retreats and workshops are designed to curate tools to help heal, inspire, and become one with your true nature so you can shine like you're meant to.
Our Retreats are focused on Traditional Yoga Ideals, Farm to Table meals, amazing locations, transformational workshops and enough time to reflect and relax. We have a fun approach to life and don't take ourselves too seriously. All of our retreats are hand crafted and uniquely designed.
Anna Zehringer
FOUNDER
YOGA & MEDITATION TEACHER, AND
RETREAT LEADER
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CaliforniA, USA
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Anna is a 500+ hour International Yoga & Meditation Teacher and Holistic Health Advisor with an emphasis on Transformation and Self Development. Anna’s mission is to help people reach their unique greatness to be all that they are. She loves to combine her passion for travel, yoga, and transformation and has taught and trained in many different countries around the world including Thailand, Bali, India, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, and California, where she is from. After traveling and spending extended amounts of time in magical places around the world and spending years in her own transformation, Anna is excited to bring people to her favorite locations and share tools of ancient teachings that have radically transformed her. Anna’s retreats specialize in wellness, yoga, meditation, healing, transformation, nature, and she always includes amazing food, of course.
Anna's Yoga lineage is of the Shri Vidya (Divine Mother) tradition of South India. It is the oldest goddess tradition and focuses on love being the ultimate state. Through this lens, Anna's teaching's are focused on self love, gentleness, coming into the eternal Self, and realizing your true nature. Her asana classes can be described as Hatha Flow, Chakra Yoga (energy center awareness), breath work, meditation, and restoring.
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Qualifications:
~ 200 HR Traditional Yoga Teacher Training, Blooming Lotus Yoga, Thailand
~ 100 HR Advanced Traditional Yoga Teacher Training, Blooming Lotus Yoga, Bali
~ 300 HR Akhanda Yoga Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, India
~ 100 HR Advanced Meditation Teacher, Blooming Lotus Yoga, Bali
~ 50 HR Yoga Philosophy Training, Laughing Lotus, San Francisco, California
~ 50 HR Chakra Yoga Training, Laughing Lotus, Los Angeles, California
~ 10 HR Hands On Assists, Laughing Lotus, San Francisco, California
~ Holistic Health Coaching Certificate, Integrative Nutrition, New York, NY
~ Thai Massage Training, The Yoga Forest, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
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TEACHERS
Kinan Ballagh
YOGA TEACHER AND
RETREAT LEADER
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SALMIYA, Kuwait
Kinan is a 500 hour qualified Yoga Teacher, he completed his first teacher training with Siddhi Yoga in Goa, India in 2015. He then went on to complete a 300 hour advanced teacher training again in India, this time
with the world renowned Yogrishi Vishvketu of the Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram Rishikesh.
His interest in yoga began in 2010 as an alternate form of therapy to recover from a sports related injury. Since then it has helped him to overcome other chronic injuries such as Carpal Tunnel and Shoulder Impingement Syndrome. It is his goal to share such experiences and knowledge gained along his yogic journey with others, so that they too can benefit from yoga in a similar way.
The aim for each of his classes is to allow for students to gain the maximum benefit during their practice, whilst maintaining structural alignment of the body in order to improve posture, and vitality, as well as establish a deeper mind body connection. He achieves this through various types of yoga practices such as Vinyasa, Hatha, Restorative Yoga, and Pranayama (breath control)
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Qualifications:
~ 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training, Siddhi Yoga, India
~ 300 HR Akhanda Yoga Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, India
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Monica Munguia
colorado, usa
YOGA TEACHER AND
RETREAT LEADER
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Monica is a certified 500-hour teacher from the U.S. with over 600-hours of training. Drawn to yoga off and on since 1997, it was ultimately the thing that helped Monica to find more freedom, and it continues to do so. After attending a yoga retreat in Nicaragua in 2014, she realized how unhappy she was and how disconnected she had become from herself and what she truly wanted. She then began the process of change and left her job, relationship, country, and the societally approved path to follow her heart and pursue her lifelong dream of living abroad.
As such, she believes yoga is a tool of transformation that helps us move beyond the past, social conditioning, unconscious habit patterns, limiting beliefs, and our small separate sense of self in order to rediscover our true nature. It's her life's work to share this with others as she believes that to change the world we must start with ourselves, and as we reconnect with ourselves, we reconnect with others and the planet for the ultimate benefit of all.
A former scientist and one time wilderness therapy field guide, she brings her scientific mind and sense of adventure to her teaching. Monica is currently excited to incorporate into her sessions her studies in Yoga Nidra, polyvagal theory, and the intersection of yoga, mindfulness, neuroscience, and embodiment.
Qualifications:
~ 200-Hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, YogaPod, Colorado
~ 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training (Hatha, Kundalini, Restorative), India
~ 30-Hour Yoga Anatomy with a Therapeutic Emphasis, Colorado
~ 6-Week Yoga Teaching Internship & Spanish Teaching Course, Colombia
~ 50-Hour Yoga Life Coaching Training, Canada
~ Thai Yoga Massage Training, Colorado
~ Reiki Level 1 Training, Colorado