The training program is directed by Tanya Savitri Popovich, founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its training programs, Certified Yoga Teacher with a 20-year yoga experience and Leadership Coach with a 10-year corporate coaching experience.

Tanya is a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher with a 20-year teaching experience, a certified Hypnotherapist specializing in trauma release and a Sound Healer. She is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its training programs. Tanya has been teaching 200hr and 500hr Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training programs across Asia and Europe for the past 14 years in over 20 countries, and more recently Yin Resonance®, Metta Ecstatic Dance, Pranayama Teacher Training, Vital Wheels – yoga psychology through the chakric system, and other continuing education programs. Tanya has also been invited to direct other schools’ training programs in Finland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her experience in Yoga, Hypnotherapy, and Leadership through mind and body practices has led her to be a sought-after Leadership Coach in numerous international companies, including Airbus and Thales Group. 

As a teenager and young adult, Tanya studied Fine Art, Dance and practised Transcendental Meditation, travelled extensively through India and trained in various classical and modern styles of Yoga. She is a lover of yoga philosophy and can take her students effortlessly down the rabbit hole of amusing yogic thought. More recently Tanya has completed her MA in Indigenous Studies, with a focus on Myth, Storytelling and Dance. Her experience in all these modalities has culminated in a plethora of rich training programs of the highest calibre, where she gives her students selflessly all her knowledge and experience in hope to preserve the old traditions and the way communities came together in the past.