OUR FACULTY

Agustian Supriatna is a multitalented artist and musician. Born in the deep jungle of Lampung in 1981, he came from a traditional healer lineage connected to the nature and wildlife of Sumatra island. Being chosen as a healer from a young age, he dedicated himself to be in the service of his village’s people. Everything he learned was passed on to him from his grandfather, the legendary elderly healer Datuk Raja Jaksa.

In his late teens, he made a big decision – he wanted to be a painter. So, he paused his journey to become a healer to focus on finding himself and fulfilling his dream of becoming an artist. He started the path of teaching himself by exploring a wide variety of artistic expressions such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and music. Along the way, he found his voice and became successful in international art scenes for his musical talents.

Over a 20-years journey of self-development, Agustian claimed back his legacy as a healer and began using sound to heal others. Through music, he found the soulful media to invite people onto their own personal healing journey.

Agustian has found that music is the best media to channel his heritage as a healer as well as sharing his art and heart, to everyone open and willing to dive into themselves.

Sound Healing is a form of meditation, using sound and vibration as the transportation into a deep musical journey. This experience is specially made and composed for healing purposes rooted in ancient techniques. Various musical instruments, representing different elements and creating peaceful vibes, are used and combined with Sanskrit mantras, Sufi chanting, ancient Javanese and Sundanese lullabies. In this private session, Agustian will connect with you and lead you deeper to reactivate your self healing energy.

Alyssa is humbled to share her passion and love for yoga with others on a daily basis. Having grown up between LA, San Francisco, and New York, she found her yoga mat to be one of the first places that truly resonated as home. One that had the ability to change, grow, and support her curious and ambitious heart. In teaching yoga, she hopes to empower others to find a similar feeling on their mat, and more importantly within themselves. Alyssa’s background in storytelling and film weaves its way into her classes, where she utilizes the art of language and music in the asana practice to create what students have called a “full and immersive experience.” Her classes are known to be soulful, permissive, and strong with an energetic warmth. She is often found closing practice with the sounds of her harmonium and voice through song & mantra.  She has immense gratitude for the wisdom shared by her mentors Byron de Marse and Paul Teodo, and is continually inspired by the profound curiosity, generosity, and knowledge that is shared in this Ubud community.

The first time she stepped foot at the Yoga Barn in 2018, a feeling beyond words overcame her — one that left her with a promise to return for her teacher training. To now be both a student and guide at this studio is an honor. Previously challenged by a world that asked her to fit into just one box, Alyssa is inspired by the endless potential within each one of us to be all that we are, the realization that she continues to cultivate through the practice of yoga. She looks forward to seeing you soon — all levels and walks of life welcome.

When life is out of sync, it needs something to restore that balance.

The goal of energy healing is to balance the energy flow in and around the individual.  The emotional, mental, and physical features of the body are intertwined within this subtle energy.

Amit takes the time to understand our body, emotions, behaviors and beliefs.His purpose is to  create coherence amongst the energy flow that  corresponds well with the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of body.

Restoring balance becomes a healing experience of self understanding, clarity and reassurance in one’s abilities.

Amit has a zest for living life with joy, love, and wonder. Born into a family where bhakti yoga is a daily ritual, yoga has always been a strong influence in his life. After sustaining injuries from a collision with a motorcycle, he resorted to yogic practice as a natural path to recovery and a means to strengthen his mind, focus and awareness. The therapeutic benefits and healing power of yoga inspired him to leave his corporate career in NYC and pursue advanced training in Ashtanga, Hatha, Iyengar and Pranayama in Rishikesh, India. His passion is to share his knowledge and help others discover clarity, warmth and power within themselves.

His classes are kind, fun and transformational as he creates an environment for self-healing to happen. Amit has studied various modalities of yoga and focuses his personal practice on kriya yoga and meditation, as taught by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. He is a Yoga Alliance RYT-500 certified instructor and a Reiki Grand Master.

Teaching at the Yoga Barn since 2018, Amit has a wonderful ability to pass down Yogic wisdom to his students in ways that are tangible to modern times.

Anika was initially drawn to yoga as a sanctuary from her demanding corporate career in Australia. The practice of yoga has truly transformed not only her appreciation of movements, but also her entire way of living and loving life. In 2016, she then decided to leave her career in Finance to then become a yoga teacher in Melbourne.

Anika is trained in various healing modalities such as Theta Healing, Aquatic Bodywork (Healing Dance), Breathwork and Body-Mind Centering practice.

Her classes are a blend of yoga, dance, creative movement and breath practices to nourish the body, mind and heart. A mix of strong alignment-focused practice with a dose of laughter and occasional silence. Her aspiration is to inspire the expansion of our innate ability to feel and experience each moment fully, as it is.

She is a gentle and loving space holder, dedicating her life to create and curate a safe space, especially for women to feel confident to speak their authentic voice and move their body.

“Healing and understanding happen when we fully see, listen and accept ourselves as we are today.”

Relax, reconnect and surrender. Floating in the warm pool surrounded by peaceful jungle nature, while being held, moved and stretched gently.

If you are feeling burnout and disconnected from your body, Watsu is a way to experience a deep state of rest and relaxation. A sense of ‘coming home’ to yourself.

Benefits:

• Reduces anxiety and stress
• A sense of holistic wellbeing
• Improves sleep quality
• Helps the body recover and regenerate

Barbra Noh has been a student of movement her whole life. Growing up in a Korean-Australian martial arts family, she studied ballet in Melbourne and later moved to Europe to dance professionally in theatres.

Today she is an internationally recognized yoga teacher with over 25 years of experience who loves to share her passion for health, healing and personal growth.

In Europe she is established as a leading educator for yoga teachers. Additional to her highly regarded Anusara Yoga teacher trainings she is also co-founder of a healing system that integrates yoga, Ayurveda and bodywork: ThaiVedic.

Her classes are physically challenging, mentally stimulating, and emotionally uplifting. Her precise and structured approach to teaching makes complex material accessible and enjoyable to learn.

Barbra believes the transformational techniques and teachings of yoga empower and encourage us in our quest to sense our worthiness and live our full potential.

She now calls Bali home while still teaching regularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Bali.

Barbra offers Anusara and other classes at The Yoga Barn.

Bex has studied yoga at university level whilst also spending trillions of hours on a yoga mat. She has taught thousands of women and trained hundreds of teachers. In short, Yoga is her passion and her constant companion and most intimate friend. Her homeland is Scotland and she carries its rich wilderness and myths in her heart wherever she goes. She grew up with a passion for social and environmental justice which led to her gaining a MPhil graduate degree in Development Studies at Oxford University.

The results of this maverick position has led her to teach yoga in some unlikely places including Bali’s largest prison, in refugee camps in Palestine, women’s refuges in Kathmandu and sex workers and women branded as witches in Kolkata. Bex has been a resident teacher at the Yoga Barn in Ubud Bali since 2009. This has afforded her with a wealth of experience. She teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Power, Yin/ Yang, Yin, Yoga therapy, Restorative yoga, Acroyoga, Thai Massage as well as the art of teaching, yoga history, philosophy and mythology.

Her work combines the practice and movement of yoga with its deeper roots through intensive research and study of its rich history and philosophy, resulting in a unique and sophisticated approach to yoga that questions the mainstream narrative created by mass media and corporations and is of specific benefit to women’s holistic health. She has been guided by some incredible mentors including Denise Payne, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Angela Farmer, Mark Whitwell and Alexandra Pope.

Having facilitated over 10,000 yoga classes around the world, Byron’s natural approach has an authentic and sincere feel to it. He really understands how to create a special experience through the art of language and knowledge of the body.

He taught many of those classes at the world famous Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga and Equinox in Santa Monica, California for 9 years before moving to Bali in 2020 and primarily working though Yoga Barn. Having been raised on a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma he learned that simplicity is a key component to happiness.

After losing his father at 17, Byron discovered yoga which helped him cope with the tragedy. As a former athlete, yoga immediately spoke to him on a physical and spiritual level. Yoga became his church, gym, therapy, and home away from home. Yoga was helping him helped him confront fears, connect with truth, and prioritize his life’s purpose.

In 2021, Byron created “Empowerment Flow” which blends ancient yoga wisdom with modern arts to go beyond the asana and reveal more truth through written, artistic, and verbal expression.

Over the years, Byron’s style has developed into a method of precision cueing and inspiring dialogue that encourages people to explore their edges while staying connected to something greater than themselves.. His classes are creative emanations of his journey cultivated from diverse life experiences. They are designed to open you up and trust life. They are one of a kind.

Candice’s background started with 17 years of Movement, dance and dramatic arts, She is a creative old soul that shines a lot of light. She immersed herself into a journey of Deeper self-expansion And self discovery through various spiritual practices, meditation techniques and healing modalities, which has lead her to a higher path of himalayan kriya yoga, evolving along the path of ‘Sampoorna Shakti Vidya’ under the guidance of Peewee sanchez and Dr Pradeep Ulllal.

Candice holds space with Shamanic influences, and her classes/workshops focus on self love, allowing people to let go of drama and baggage. Removing stagnation and blocked energy points, decorbonizing the human blood and preventing decay of tissues, while restoring balance and harmony to the physical, mental, emotional, casual and astral bodies and allowing self realisation, remembrance and love to flow.

Candice has lived in Bali for several years and began offering Himalayan Kriya and Meditation classes at the Yoga Barn in December, 2020.

As seen in Massage Magazine, the #1 magazine for massage and manual therapy in the United States, featured therapist Carey Benenson D.O., has been invited as visiting faculty by the YogaBarn to provide her biomechanical and biodynamic Osteopathic sessions, Bioresonance (Hair Test with Lecher device,) Visceral Lengthening for postural integration and integrative work inspired by the Continuum Movement to the clients of the YB wellness center.

Carey is a classically and traditionally-trained biomechanically & biodynamic Osteopath who trained in Switzerland and in Canada with the College d’Etudes Osteopatiques and has been in practice for over 20 years. Specializing in chronic pain and autoimmune dysfunction, she helps people align so that the body can self-regulate and finds its way to relief once again. She started her teaching career at Bastyr University and has been a featured speaker and teacher with the North American Biodynamic Craniosacral Society of North America. She is known for developing the Three Bodies Method which she applies to each session supporting the structural, fluidic, and electromagnetic bodies.

In her Osteopathic sessions she applies traditional and modern Osteopathic Manual Therapy techniques to support the visceral and boney spines including:

• Visceral Manipulation
• Cranial Ostoepathy
• Functional Release/Orthobionomy
• Myofascial Release
• Muscle Energy Techniques
• Energetic Impulsing on the Joints

She has trained extensively with the Native American Church and has been an Osteopath to the monks in Florence for three years. She recognizes that Osteopathy is accredited to Andrew T. Still’s 22 years that were spent with the Shawnee people of North America. Carey also studied and was connected to Emilie Conrad, the founder of the Continuum Movement as Emilie greatly believed in Osteopathy.

In this session, you will work with a traditional and indigenous-trained Osteopath with 20 years experience to works metaphysically & biomechanically to release deep and acute strains in the tissues. While clothed and laying on a massage table, Carey will read through her touch and/or non touch using her internationally-renowned Three Bodies Method to locate the strain and to determine whether it rests on the physical, fluidic, or energetic body (or multilayered.) She will track where the health or trauma may be entrapped and pulling the mechanism out of alignment or off of life center. Then through her through her traditional and biodynamic work, she will deep dive with the tissues and energetic bodies by invite to help the mechanism release its strains. She combines shamanic-influenced and traditional Osteopathic techniques including energetic impulsing, visceral manipulation, functional release, cranial osteopathy, muscle energy, etc. in her sessions as well as the Continuum Movement to facilitate better integration and to help the innate intelligence of the system re-engage to bring all systems home into health and into alignment. Good for acute and chronic pain (structural & emotional) as well as discomfort in all systems including Gastrointestinal, Cardiorespiratory, Urogenital, Lymphatic, and Neuroendocrine that may be related to allergy response or immune system overload.

Biodynamic Osteopathic Manual Therapy in the pool with Master Osteopath. including visceral manipulation and spinal alignment and unwinding, resetting birth spiral in the pool. Good for people with chronic joint issues, scoliosis, TMJ, chronic lifelong issues. Adjustments and alignment without the imposition of gravity. Visceral lengthening and continuum movement work to envelop and integrate the profound experience. Carey was a close student of Emilie Conrad the founder of the Continuum Movement who loved Osteopathy.

In this session, Master Osteopath and Native American educated practitioner will use a non-electric lecher device to help clients discover what modalities and chemical/nutritional support will work to help find relief. Through hair analysis, quantum & biochemical reading, Carey provides a nutritional and chemical analysis to determine what is disrupting the mechanism and helps find resolve. The analysis screens over 300,000 factors and provides discovery of where both life force and trauma may have been entrapped or encapsulated. With this energetic medicine, the client will discover what the system needs structurally, fluidically (supplemental/remedies, and nutritional support) and electromagnetically gaining insight and a clearing of transmissions through the family line. Good for clients suffering from acute and chronic pain, allergy, immune, digestive, cardiorespiratory, urogenital, lymphatic, neuroendocrine, circadian disrupt, and more. She applies intuition, shamanic-influenced clearing (when indicated) and often integrates the session with sound and with use of the Continuum Movement practice to help the organs and spine clear energetic stagnance.

Carlos is a Surfer yogi devoted yoga teacher, originally from Venezuela. He has been immersed in the journey of self-exploration over the last 20 years, including Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra Yoga, Anusara, Yin and Embodied Flow. As an E-RYT 500 instructor, he offers ongoing classes, workshops, immersions, retreats and teacher trainings. He is the kind of a yoga teacher who artfully curates every moment of the mind-body-spirit journey, leaving just enough space for silence.

His fascination with the healing arts, connective tissues, working with the fascia and the cellular intelligence of the body inspired his quest to create a space where yogis can find their own meaningful connection to life force, while opening up the energetic lines of the body and uncovering spaces through conscious breath and movement.

Carlos is known to take you for a journey into the sensations of your inner universe, dropping deeper into stillness and awareness, where you can experience your own uninterrupted rhythm and frequency.

Known as a Teacher’s teacher, Cat Kabira s a world-renowned Yoga teacher trainer and Master of the Subtle and Shamanic Energetics Arts.

Originally from the US, Cat moved to Bali more than 15 years ago where she helped launch Ubud’s first Yoga Studio, known as BaliSpirit Studio at the time, which eventually transformed into what is known as The Yoga Barn of today.

Cat started on the yogic path at the age of 17 looking for a way to heal her own history of abuse, eating disorders, and feminine power.

Over the past two decades, Cat has studied under many masters in several traditions of yoga, movement, energy work and shamanism. She has been sharing the magical gifts that she’s made her own both in Bali, and globally, all this time. As a result of her own healing journey and continued studies, Cat has found a niche specializing in helping others to heal from eating disorders, trauma and abuse with the aim of owning one’s purpose.

Cat is known for teaching those who experience a ‘heightened sensitivity to energy’ ways to manage their own energy and how to work in the healing arts, alongside others. As a master teacher in her niche, Cat also works with other yoga teachers on how to work with energy as well as refined body movement.

Cat is the Yoga Teacher Trainer and Creatrix of Yoga Energetics, Founder and Creatrix of Kabira Energetics and Founder and Creatrix of The Kabira School of Energy.

Cat has been a long term member of The Yoga Barn faculty, teaches occasionally, and offers private sessions, Vision Quests, Yoga and Energy Workshops, Retreats, Teacher Trainings globally.

Chocolako is the first woman in her lineage to not have an arranged marriage. She helps freedom seekers tune inward to breakthrough ancestral shackles and shine at full wattage.

For nearly 20 years, Chocolako has guided people to cultivate inner energy through embodied introspection and compassionate presence.

Her Womb Wisdom yoga teachings stem from healing tumors in her womb, which sparked a calling to help women connect to the rhythms of womanhood. When not teaching, Chocolako travels worldwide and gathers adventurous insights from shamans and elders to incorporate into her offerings.

Before teaching yoga internationally, Chocolako worked in the high-pressure worlds of pharmaceuticals and hospital administration at GlaxoSmithKline in London and Nigeria, and as the Critical Care Division Manager at Harvard’s teaching hospital – Massachusetts General Hospital. She understands burnout and guides people to reclaim health and harmony as priorities.

Through her school Innergy, Chocolako leads Womb Wisdom Yoga Teacher Trainings and certifies Cacao Ceremony Facilitators in Bali and globally. She partners with wellness innovators and exudes warmth gained from continuous self-inquiry and decades of global teachings.

Sessions with Chocolako leave people feeling lit from within, and ready for more Innergy upgrades. She holds advanced yoga and meditation certifications along with MBA, MPH and BS degrees, uniquely blending spiritual wisdom and professional expertise. Chocolako loves Bali for its spiritual devotion and calls The Yoga Barn – “The DisneyWorld of Yoga”.