Our Team
Myriam Bartu
Myriam grew up in Singapore, studied in London, spent most of her adult life in Hong Kong and has a home in Taiwan through marriage. She 'returned' to her birth country Switzerland in 2022 after over four decades away. She learnt - the hard way - how to ground and come home to herself amidst big changes.
Myriam spent the first two decades of her work life supporting underprivileged women as a women’s group facilitator and trainer. In 2007, she co-founded Enrich, a Hong Kong charity empowering migrant women. After becoming a mother in 2009, Myriam struggled with stress and anxiety and realised that her desire to contribute to a better world first required her heal herself. This led her to study meditation and start a daily practice that transformed her.
Since 2016, Myriam has been teaching meditative practices, creating safe spaces for healing, rest, and reconnection. She is passionate about sharing nourishing, restful and heart opening practices and building community through retreats to help humans come back to peace, connection and wellbeing.
Yoga Nidra Facilitation Partners
Linda To
Linda is a former NGO leader and social work teacher devoted to women's rights work, and a learner of mindful / non violent communication practices.
Linda completed her Total Yoga Nidra Facilitation Training in April 2026. She is a mindful yoga nidra facilitator sharing yoga nidra in English and Cantonese.
Mandy Tsui
Mandy is a sound healer and yoga teacher who integrates movement and Tibetan singing bowls into her yoga nidra sessions.
Mandy completed her Total Yoga Nidra Facilitation Training in April 2026 and offers yoga nidra in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Retreat Partners
Amanda Yik
A graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences (Corporate Environmental Governance) at the University of Hong Kong, Amanda is the founder of Shinrin Yoku Hong Kong, the first forest therapy trainer from Asia for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs, and one of Hong Kong's most experienced bilingual guides. Amanda is also an ICF-certified Professional Coach for Transformation, a Women's Circle facilitator trained by the Awakening Women’s Institute, and a collaborator of the Work that Reconnects. Amanda enjoys exploring and practicing simple, yet profound frameworks and tools that align with modern civilized worldviews, bringing creative coherence, heart-centered connections and holistic healing to individuals and communities. Get to know Amanda at www.shinrinyokuhk.com | IG & FB @shinrinyokuhk
Mandy Tsui
Mandy is a mother of three. She moved to the UK from Hong Kong in 2021. Amid the busyness of daily life and the transitions between multiple roles, she serendipitously discovered singing bowls, beginning a journey of learning and sharing. Through sound healing and meditation practices, she gradually learned to quiet her mind, return to inner stability and balance, and connect with her inner wisdom.
Spending time with her children also led her into nature, where she experienced the restorative power of connecting with the natural world, releasing stress, and regaining strength. Mandy loves to learn from the Natural world. She integrates singing bowls, nature connection, yoga nidra and meditation into her daily life and shares these practices with others, gently guiding anyone on the path of self-care and inner exploration.
Svah Wong
Svah, a Spiritual Teacher in the Agni Tradition, is a mother of two. Grew up in Hong Kong and has worked in a number of INGOs and social services for nearly 20 years. With her spiritual practice and parenthood experience, she has set up a Mindfulness for Kids platform and is a co-founder of Parenting Communion (共學起動). Svah co-authored 《陪孩子學靜心 從心做起的教養》(Walking the Mindful Path with Your Child: A Journey of Heartful Parenting) in 2020 with her husband.
As a nature educator in her early career, Svah has incorporated nature appreciation into mindfulness and parenting. Svah attained her social work master's degree in 2012 and was trained as a ‘Parenting for a peaceful world’ facilitator. Parenting for a peaceful world is Svah’s motto, as a peaceful world is possible when adults in the community work together to sow peaceful seeds in souls.
Since 2021, in addition to her mindfulness work, Svah has integrated her service with crystals, akashic reading, chakra and energy work. She has been passionate in promoting holistic wellness, cultivating inner peace and abundance within the community and each of us.
More on Svah here: Mindful Blossom Healing Mindfulness for Kids 幼兒靜心
Josephine Ma
Josephine began her yoga journey in 2006, she was immediately struck by the sense of relaxation and rejuvenation she experienced, and yoga soon became an essential part of her life. Alongside hot yoga, she explored Vinyasa and Yin yoga before discovering Ashtanga yoga in 2010, a practice to which she has remained dedicated ever since.
She completed her 200-hour teacher training in 2017 with Patrick Creelman and Rinat Perlman, followed by a 300-hour teacher training with Jason Crandell in 2019. She has since worked as a full-time yoga teacher, offering both individual and group classes.
After moving to Leeds in 2022, Josephine has been enthusiastic about sharing yoga with the local community. Her teaching style combines dynamic flow with careful attention to detail and alignment. Through her classes, she aims to help students build strength and mobility while leaving them with a lasting sense of calm and inner balance. She welcomes students of all levels and encourages mindful, sustainable practice. See Josephine’s teaching schedule here.
Nicole Toth
Nicole empowers individuals and the collective to rediscover purpose, balance, and vitality through holistic coaching and a multimodality approach. Her mission is to guide humans on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and conscious living.
Drawing on certifications in Integral Coaching, 200h (Kids) Yoga, ChiBall™, Tai Chi & Qi Gong, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Access Consciousness Bars, and the Silva Method, she designs tailored journeys that integrate mind, body, and soul. Her work ranges from Ikigai and purpose coaching to holding Sacred Spaces in modalities such as Conscious Dating, ceremonies, rituals, and embodied workshops that invite clarity, creativity, and joy.
By fostering deeper self-awareness, embodied living, and meaningful connections - with themselves, others, and the world - she empowers participants to create a life of fulfilment, balance, and lasting impact.
More on Nicole: https://www.nicoletoth.com/
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.
Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, which always includes yoga nidrā. Her work intersects intuitive healing arts with yoga nidra and yoga therapy.
Her practice and teaching respects the cyclical powers of the living earth, and honours human life cycles as spiritual initiations (including menarche, conscious menstruation, menopause, birth and postnatal recovery). Uma dedicates her life's work to her three children, and to the future of a rested humanity, reconnected to intuition and to land.