Teacher Traing Program Instructors

	Shata Ben-Avari Shata, owner of Yoga Central in Mount Dora, FL, brings 17 years experience teaching to our program. She has passionately shared her love for Yoga since her healing journey through a life threatening illness in her early 20’s. From wheelchair to classrooms, through Yoga and conscious nutrition she emerged transformed. Shata, certified E-RYT-500, has studied with prominent Yogis and Yoginis Shiva Rea, Gurumukh, Swami Bua-ji, John Friend, Yogi Hari and Kali Ray. She has facilitated workshops and retreats in Florida and Costa Rica and has many students who have evolved into teachers. She offers Thai Yoga Bodywork sessions and her life-long experience in dance and movement has inspired her teaching style, which draws upon years of studies in Raja, Kriya, Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga.

	Polo Bonati Polo Bonati is a certified Yoga Therapist and has an ERYT-500 Yoga Alliance Certification. His training includes: RYT-200 from The Chopra Center, California; RYT-500 from Integrative Yoga Therapy with J. LePage, Brazil; and Stress Management and Cardiac Yoga certification from Dr.Cunningham, Virginia. For more than 15 years, Polo has had a profound interest in the study and practice of Raja Yoga and Ayurveda.