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Scarlett Dee
Scarlett Dee Quick Facts
Main Areas: Spiritual growth and developmentCareer Focus: Guiding students to a more holistic, spiritual & yogic lifestyle
Affiliation: Yoga Alliance, The Yoga Register, European Yoga Alliance
..Born in England to Jamaican and Irish parents nowadays Scarlett spends her time living in Europe during the summer and teaching or studying in Asia during the winter.
Scarlett has been a yoga practitioner for more than 17 years and sharing her experience of yoga in all its various forms with students for over 10 years. Scarlett is the founder and creater of Tribe, a yoga school offering 200hr & 500 hr yoga teacher trainings at worldwide locations since 2008.
Her teaching style for asana originates from her years of study and training in many different styles including Ashtanga and Dynamic yoga. Through simple and clear instructions Scarlett offers a practical, light hearted, fun, creative, and spontaneous approach to yoga suited to both beginners and more advanced students.
Her main source of inspiration comes from Godfrey Devereux who devised the dynamic yoga method and with whom she spent time studying as his apprentice and as a teacher trainee in 2004.
In 2005 Scarlett also studied intensively with Larry Schultz at 'Itsyoga' in San francisco where she trained as an ashtanga vinyasa yoga teacher and also learnt to 'fly' training in his 'Rocket' series which focuses on arm balancing postures and strongly influences her self-practice and teaching to her more advanced students.
Another of Scarlett's important influences comes from Agama Yoga. In 1998 Scarlett was in Rishikesh and completed the Level 1 month long intensive with Swarmi Vivekananda, the spiritual leader of the Agama yoga school. The course offered her a rich source of ancient and modern disciplines which gave her a deeper connection and understanding of the subtle bodies, subtle energies and the different levels of conciousness fundamental to our existance and evolution. Since that time she has returned to the agama teachings and and studied Levels 2 and 3 and in 2011 she completed the Agama 500hr TTC.
Scarlett's main focus is to guide students towards having the confidence and understanding to develop a self-practice and to personally experience the transformative power of yoga. Her emphasis in her teaching is 'its not what you do but how you do it!' encouraging students to journey inward and explore the possibility of culitvating awareness and concentration of the mind, creating openings for self development and empowering students by reconnecting them to their own inner wisdom and divinity.
As well as teaching yoga Scarlett complements her understanding of the body, mind and spirit as an accomplished and skillful massage therapist. Trained in 8 different styles of massage she has developed her own unique style of deep tissue remedial massage which honours the individual needs of the person she is treating to create therapeutic and deeply relaxing results
“At the age of 20 frazzled by my circumstances and the age-long question ’what should I do with my life?’ I headed out to Asia. Through my travels encountering different people and places it became transparent that I was at my happiest either deep in the heart of nature or in a place of worship. So I travelled exhaustively through Asia and most extensively through India which I had a special affinity for feeling it to be a country deeply rooted in spiritual practices throughout the whole of its society with a legacy of thousands of years great teachings and teachers..
I delved in and out of different yoga, meditation and spiritual practices for a number of turbulent years never really satisfied until I met a teacher of great significance to my life …Godfrey Devereux. With great clarity he shared his understanding of Ashtanga-the eightfold path and the teachings of Advaita with me. I enthusiastically spent time as his apprentice and completed a teacher training which gave me an in-depth understanding and experience of yoga. Under guidance I began to grasp the fundamentals to the practice of asana, which led to realizations on and off the mat. Through a deepening appreciation and practice of meditation and asana, study of the Patanjalis sutras and the absorption of the teachings of Advaita, life began to make sense and I relaxed more and more into the 'Flow'. This was life-changing stuff! Yoga became an arena of discovery and exploration into my true nature and ultimately into the nature of life itself. On the mat concepts became experienced realities and the fuzziness of daily existence began to clear as my various practices offered deepening transformations in my emotional, physical and mental being.
Like any great joy in life I hope that the precious jewel of yoga can be experienced and shared all over the world. I would love to see people live through the yoga teachings to explore their true nature and realize their full potential. It would be great if all of us that have been touched by yoga can find ourselves journeying inward with awareness, good intentions and a connection to our inner wisdom to enrich our own, and the lives of people all around us, with relaxation, peace, joy, smiles, laughter and love. Most of all I would like yoga aspirants to rediscover yoga as a spiritual path in a relaxed, easy going and nourishing atmosphere, learning through the intergral teachings that have been graciously left to us by the great yogis, saints and spiritual master of our past.'"
Scarlett has a passion for travelling and welcomes invitations to teach yoga classes, yoga retreats/holidays, yoga workshops and yoga teacher trainings anywhere in the world.
