Kries Mannie Sing

He was born in Suriname (1945), where he also grew up. He is married and has two children. He studied agricultural science, specializing in tropical agriculture and teaching. He started his professional career as an agricultural researcher. Later he worked as a public relations officer and teacher.

In 1975 he started with yoga and meditation under the guidance of Swami Veda Bharati. Swami Veda Bharati, the spiritual leader of an ashram in India, represents a 5000-year old Raja Yoga tradition, namely The Himalayan Tradition for Yoga and meditation.

He followed with success different yoga teacher's training courses, for example in 2003/2004 a course in the Sivananda Ashram in Ahmedabad in India. For a long time, he studied intensively the philosophical background of yoga and he practices yoga in his daily life.

For several years, he has been a board member of HYMNS, the Dutch branch of the Hymalaya Yoga Tradition. In this capacity, he helps organise the yearly silence retreat and also takes part in it.

For several years, he has taught yoga to children in Amsterdam. In 2009 he was yoga teacher at a primary school in Utrecht. At present, he is a raja yoga teacher at the health centre of the Red Cross in Voorschoten in the Netherlands. He is also teaching Raja yoga to students at the university of Leiden, The Netherlands.

He is also regularly asked for lectures on radio and National television (OHM). Recently (July 2011)   OHM TV made a documentary regarding raja yoga with the blessings of SWAMI VEDA in cooperation with HYMNS. See link for this film here below: Link OHM documentary over raja-yoga OHM documentaire. For futher information see his website www.rajayogales.nl;  Phone # 00 31 20 664 9442   Email: info@rajayogales.nl   

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