Awakening Your Warrior Spirit in Tripsichore Inversions by Kevin & YeongLee (120 min) at 3.45pm Sun on 28 Apr 2024

Awakening Your Warrior Spirit in Tripsichore Inversions by Kevin & YeongLee

Tripsichore Vinyasa as a yoga practice pursues the unification of body, breath and mind through movement. The inversion aspect embodies beauty, strength and grace which is a reflection of our inner state.

During this session, you will be guided on how to tap into your innate warrior spirit and channel it into your inversions. By learning to use these vinyasa techniques, you will discover a new ways to expand your inversion repertoire.

It begins with the fundamental Tripsichore Sun Salutations and moves on to more elaborate ones involving inversions, back bends and etc.

Whether you have an inversion practice or just starting on it, you are bound to be inspired and take home a fresh outlook by the end of this session.

• Class Level: Intermidiate
• Intensity: Moderate to Intermidiate
• Stage: Workshop (Ground floor)
• Venue: Rumah Tangsi, KL
• Duration :  120 mins

KEVIN CHAI (E-RYT 500) : Co-founder of Samana Yoga & Wellness 

Our lead trainer has been in the yoga scene for over 15  years. He is the co-founder of Samana Yoga KL and the principal Yoga Trainer for many faculties around Asia. He is no stranger to conducting Yoga Teacher Trainings, Workshops Retreats and Master Classes. Known for his precision and clarity in class, his style of teaching advocates the harmony of flowing movement (vinyasa) coupled with evenness of breath to expand one’s awareness whilst sharpening their concentration to bring stillness within.

Some of his notable achievements include developing and structuring further the training and educational content such as the new teacher training manual, assessment guidelines, asana syllabus and library, new improved programs while providing continuous education to up skill existing teachers. He has also helped establish and train a new team of yoga teacher trainers for UNDER THE LIGHT Malaysia which hails from Tokyo, Japan who is the largest Yoga Alliance teacher training school in Asia with over 10,000 certified yoga graduates.

Known as a teacher’s teacher, he has thus far graduated over more than 500 new aspiring yoga teachers. His most noteworthy teachers are the late Vincent Tam who was Jiva Yoga’s Founder and Fitness First Flow Yoga Creator, Edward Clark of Tripsichore Vinyasa Yoga, Swamiji Abhishek Chaitanya Giri Maharaj Maha-Mandaleshwar and Parveen Nair. He is strongly immersed in Tripsichore Vinyasa Yoga under the tutelage of Edward Clark for over 15 years which emphasizes synching the breath and movement to create stillness in motion (moving meditation).

As a key member of Tripsichore Theater, he often devise his own yoga choreography. To date, Kevin has produced Tripsichore and performed with them in Kuching (Sarawak), Kuala Lumpur, Sibu, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2011.

Yeong Lee : Co-founder of Samana Yoga & Wellness 

A registered dietitian, yoga teacher, entrepreneur, and lifestyle coach, Yeong Lee has been shaping the wellness community since 2010. She has attained one of the most recognized titles as an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) and certified Lifestyle Modification Coach in Australia where she started her career in the wellness industry. With her interest in holistic wellness, she continued to study yoga, ayurveda, pranayama, and mindfulness meditation.

She believes the key to a sustainable lifestyle change begins with a powerful mindset shift. She is passionate in sharing yoga as a tool to bring clarity to one’s mind and create the life they want.  With more than a decade of experience in advocating well-being and teaching, she is no stranger to conducting yoga courses, workshops, teacher trainings and leading educational health talks.  She was also invited to share her expertise on media shows, yoga festivals, fitness, and wellness events. 

As a yoga teacher, she is known for her clarity and attentiveness. Students tend to describe her class as inclusive, purposeful, and progressive.  She thrives at teaching students from all levels while skilfully incorporating breathwork into yoga movement, using it as a tool to bring clarity to one’s mind and create the life they want. Her strong desire to support others growth and development, has seen her mentoring many promising new teachers and seasoned practitioners alike. 

Yeong Lee has been a dedicated practitioner of Tripsichore Vinyasa, having accumulated over 700 workshop hours with the creator Edward Clark. She was celebrated for her work as a facilitator and translator for her teacher Edward Clark in 2018 at the Asia Yoga Conference in Hong Kong. Since then, she has been teaching internationally and can be found performing yoga choreography on the theatre stage alongside fellow Tripsichore Theatre performers across Asia countries.