Yoga has been one of the more popular exercise activity since the Covid-19 pandemic hit us. Not only that we are more cautious about living a healthy life, but yoga seems to be the alternative form of activity when we need to stay home most of the time.
With the ease of accessibility of Youtube, Instagram and other video platforms, many yoga instructors have moved towards online to inspire and teach their students.
If living a healthier life by practicing yoga or you just want to explore more about this type of fitness regime, these are the few yoga influencers that you can look to.
Edward Chung
There is always a perception that yoga practitioners are always female. but we must always remind ourselves that healthy activities does not discriminate gender. With over 3k followers on Instagram, Edward Chung is one of the most inspirational teachers to follow especially if you’re well into the intermediate levels of yoga. He not only hosts virtual classes to help restore balance to your body and mind, but also showcases his own progress on Instagram – emphasising how everyone is constantly in a learning process.
Shelyne Leng
Shelyne Leng is known for her passionate guidance on every detail and growth of those pursuing yoga. Her content is as approachable and relatable as her style. Her background as an Audio Engineering graduate is also inextricably linked to her teachings, where she feels a good curation of Lo-Fi during practice can greatly enhance a class. Trained under MAYI International Instructor Yoga Course, she also specialises in prenatal yoga – which is particularly great for expecting moms out there looking to continue their yoga routine.
Sandra Woo
Sandra Woo started off as a yoga practitioner of 3 years before she was encouraged to take her YTT200 (Yoga Teacher Training 200 hours) by her Guruji. She has grown into a multi-disciplinarian and she has extended her practice and studies into mobility and functional range movement of the human body.
Sandra explores all things recovery, strengthening and conditioning in various different disciplines in her own time and has been coaching yoga since 2016.
Wendy Tan
After working in the corporate world for over 20 years, Wendy decided to pursue her passion in yoga. She then went on to spend 4 weeks in Misano Adriatico, Italy to complete her 200-hour yoga teacher training with the Yogamea school, and is now a registered yoga teacher. Specialising in Hatha and Ashtanga, her style of teaching mainly focuses on vinyasa flow, Hatha alignment, and Ashtanga-inspired sequences. She is also a founder of her own fitness apparel label OHMfinity.
Lim Shinyee
An ex-cheerleader in past school days, Lim Shinyee is a yoga and a Pilates instructor. Lim has been coaching since 2016. In Lim’s past school days, she discovered yoga in the form of DVDs. Having graduated from college, Lim landed a job in advertising.
Fast forward a couple of years, Lim left her job to pursue teaching yoga, which she is passionate about. There are many industries to go into but Shinyee chose yoga because this is what she feel people need more of.
In her everyday life, she will not forget to remind herself to just keep moving, breathing and being kinder to yourself.
Lay Gaik
56 year-old Lim Lay Gaik has coached yoga since 2005 with 20 years experience. Lim’s life changed for the better ever since she started practicing yoga.
For more than a decade, Lim was crippled by migraine attacks. Even though Lim was a fairly active person and relatively healthy, the frequent attacks would leave her nauseous and unwell. Yoga was recommended to Lim as a possible cure.
After practicing for a few months, Lim noticed that her migraine attacks became lesser and lesser and eventually, almost non-existent. From then onwards, Lim went from being just a practitioner to becoming a yoga teacher so that she can help propagate and spread the enormous benefits of yoga.
