Today, all branches of Surya Yoga come to share their love
and happiness on Get-Together for the first time. There are over 40 of yoga enthusiasts
came with glamourous wear in white for early celebration of Christmas and
family dinner.
Correspond with the organizer: Surya Yoga founder:
Josephine, she is an entrepreneur with a unique perspective in life. She is very
diligent yet challenger. She soars her ambition to do extraordinary miles in
yoga and thus grow and reinvent her yoga business by developing from one yoga centre
to five yoga centres now, one person manage yoga centre to now family like
management. Josephine overwhelmed how much she has grown and she will continue
to grow.
She host and welcome the Get-Together dinner with heart
warmth filled. The room is full of surprises with Christmas decoration and it
has the most visual impact with Christmas lighting and colour scheme that
embrace with the Christmas festive mood while keeping the theme and colour at
home intact. The space mimic the glitter and allure of shiny ornaments that
full of surprises exclusivity room for set to the mood of joy and fun.
Jospehine welcomed the group by offering sumptuous dinner ranging
from salads, to main course with selection of chicken satays, lamb shank,
chicken skewers, spaghetti and many more. It has desserts that everyone likes
too.The Get together was fun and
Josephine opens her speech by thank you everyone in presence and officially
announce and introduce each yoga entrepreneurs whom managed the other branches
of Surya Yoga.It received the most
applaud when Josephine announces that there will be more Surya Yoga centres to
come for next year that excites the group. In year 2016, Surya Yoga will be
expecting to have another 3 more operators in Klang Valley. Wow, this is a way
forward and be it aggressively grown.
Family of Surya Yoga Aman Suria
Family of Surya Yoga Kuchai
Family of Surya Yoga Cheras
Family of Surya Yoga Bukit Tinggi
Family of Surya Yoga Sri Petaling
The dinner hikes up when Josephine invites one of the
pioneer yoga instructor Dennis to be on the stage. Dennis is a humble and low
profile instructor by telling all of yoga enthusiasts in presence that the
power of this Get together is great and even meaningful to yoga enthusiasts.
Yoga needs dedicated passion to grow, and all of presence are there with heart
filled passion. Trust is amicably not forgotten as we place trust in Josephine,
which we belief in the character, strength or truth of Josephine will sail all
of us to better tomorrow.
This integrity level is undeniable and we are taking a
quantum leap in yoga industry, believe it or not, we are! You have helped
Josephine to make it, and you did it for yourself and your personal goal too.
Now, both of them are trusting each other to step further to make it happen
even in bigger prospective, taking the advantage of Pre-Natal Yoga is a plus
point to promote.Nevertheless, love is
aired around the room with group photos among the operators and the get
together dinner ends with fun, cheerful and make way forward to grow with Surya
Yoga.
Surya Yoga as a family wishes you Merry
"Twistness" and welcoming you to have Surya Yoga by your side, every
yoga journey is a gift.Visit any of the
Surya Yoga branches:-
Surya Yoga Aman Suria;
Suria Yoga Bukit Tinggi,
Surya Yoga Cheras,
Surya Yoga Kuchai, Surya Yoga Sri Petaling
Rather
than competing with the confines of the existing yoga industry or trying to
steal customers from rivals, Josephine Chan, the Surya yoga owner cum operator
with more than 5 yoga centres around Klang Valley find the way to create Blue
Ocean Strategy: developing the uncontested market space that makes the
competition irrelevant.
In Josephine’s
eyes, yoga industry businesses viciously fight against each other for a share
of the marketplace. In the area of Sri Petaling, it has more than ten yoga
centre and how many yoga centres today will exist (in the future)? Yoga
centres, a fact that is reflected in the deep changes that have been necessary
in changing lifestyles towards wellness and ultimately, self-awareness and
self-actualization, a sense of fulfilling human’s potential.
Of
course competition matters, but by focusing on quality of yoga teachers and
quantitative of yoga training course expands the boundaries of the existing
yoga industry. Having said that, Josephine deserve credits for having made the
point of the ever focus on competitive advantage and also for the beautiful
metaphor of this.
By
having to open a new branch in Sri Petaling, Josephine focuses on what
yoga-lovers in Sri Petaling needs and wants. The classes range to offer connecting
the breath and movement and balance shifts from doing mostly what the yoga-lovers
wants to doing a lot more of what you think they need. These classes are create
for the yoga lovers to feel being present and open. It offer yoga class for
Senior, Yoga for men are tailor made yoga program for the specific group.
Other
than that, Surya Yoga Sri Petaling focuses on ambience. Relax, Focus, Explore
is key “environment enhancer” that creates the best atmosphere for yoga. The
greens surrounds create ecology and help mitigate the phenomenon of being
stressful and essentially, relax.
The
Surya Yoga Sri Petaling with its garden theme combines the synergy of ‘chi’,
mind and body. This uniquely opens the eyes of the yoga-lovers in Sri Petaling
and best fit the meaning of yoga.
Welcome to join us onto green lush yoga studio - Surya Yoga Sri Petaling!
Regardless
of what type of business you have, bottleneck in small businesses are norm.
When it comes to the stage where you find limitation of process in the business
system, it is time to take a change.
A
married couple expressed their sympathy when finding a bottleneck in their yoga
business operating for over 5 years.Both of them neither know yoga nor running a business, yet they know the
way to eliminate the biggest bottleneck from the business – THEMSELVES.
Let’s
dive in how they look onto this.
Stanley
and Chrystine is a dream catcher, they are running a yoga business as an
innovator and a builder of systems. Both of them know nothing either on yoga or
running a yoga business. No one knows exactly how big the yoga market is, but
with the number of yoga practitioners in Malaysia are improving day by day,
both of them author their yoga business and decided to take over the yoga
centre and run as a new one. Though there are no hard and fast rule, the rule
of thumb is to run as realistic as possible to kick start it.Unfortunately, their business has come to
bottleneck and immediate take them to think long term and think big. They have
get the idea.
Be
part of Surya Yoga licencing program is a way to perform creating business that
will move as fast as it can. By investing efforts in the right place, they have
found that Surya Yoga create opportunities and possibilities that can’t be
fully realized by themselves. There, they has now turn to the 3rd
Surya Yoga licencing program, Surya Yoga Kuchai Lama!
The entrance
Surya
Yoga unblock bottlenecks in the business and they discover the true low hanging
fruit in the business. Finally, Surya Yoga Kuchai Lama focuses on substance
over style. Surya Yoga has built marketing that is important to business success,
of course ability of personal ability to communicate with members will be true
key to abundance.
Supported
by Josephine, Surya Yoga owner says: Speaking from own experiences and sharing
from heart has been the best way to encourage people to try yoga. Literally,
the disillusion has turn to more reality and now the yoga centre has the most
classes ranging from beginner until technical yoga that caters every yoga
practitioners.
Welcome
to be part of Surya Yoga Kuchai. Contact us now:-
Yoga
is the key!We are two good intimates
get to know each other from yoga. Yoga has company us through moments. Yoga bond
in our living and has a healing power that surrender our hearts in yoga
philosophy.
She
is Ginny and she is Jocelyn, both said simultaneously. We are the owner of
Surya Yoga Bukit Tinggi. Ultimately, we are considerably Yogipreneurs under the
licencing program of Surya Yoga.
Prior
to that, Jocelyn owned a yoga centre – Bliss & Joy Yoga Centre, and Ginny
is yoga teacher in there. Coincidentally, both of them share the same passion in
yoga that led them to be yogipreneurs. Jocelyn intends to reigniting the market
hoping to see more people are expose to yoga whilst Ginny takes the Yoga of money!
Of course, this isn’t as easy as it sounds. In the process, Ginny find Yoga, is
an art of going professional and able to elevate this career to the same
professional status of other respected career paths.
Collectively,
Surya yoga, a brand in the yoga industry is their preferred choice to go
forward and they are committed to be there just for yoga practitioners in Bukit
Tinggi. The adaptive of Surya Yoga brand has come alive! Rebrand has transform
the studio to more lively and most rewarding to the members. Each studio corner
filled with hand drawn yoga style and posture that motivates in a way.
As you walked up the yoga studio
Inside
the studio, the ample space yet cosy is the perfect setting for Surya Yoga
Bukit Tinggi. Both Jocelyn and Ginny would love to call the yoga centre that
the members would love to call their own. They believe that a yoga centre can
be a home taking the “Klangites” ought to be welcomed and able to radiates an
infectious enthusiasm in everything they do.
Further
to that, it surrounds filled with aromatherapy, the art and science for
aromatic essences from pure plants to balance, harmonize and promote the health
of body, mind and spirit.
Yes,
Yoga can help everybody with the same focus. Their burning passionate desire to
achieve their vision motivates them to forge ahead. Both of them setting
themselves up with aid of Surya Yoga for an uphill battle to attract more
students so that enable them to find the niche and naturally resonates with
their members.
Both
of them finds the ties that bind and evolving their passion in yoga, a forward
thinking business. Now, Surya Yoga Bukit Tinggi is fully resourceful that is
blessing from the support from members surround Bukit Tinggi.
Come
and join Surya Yoga Bukit Tinggi to be a sustainable yoga career they both
love.
Surya Yoga Bukit Tinggi, Klang
12A-B, Jalan Bayu
Tinggi 6,
Taman Bayu Tinggi,
41200, Selangor
Telephone: +6019 337
8200 or +6012 278 3331
P/S: You are invited
to visit Surya Yoga Headquarter (Aman Suria) open day on this Sunday, October 18, 2015!
Hello, I am Felicia, a wedding decorator, and I am Yoon, a yoga instructor. We are the owner of Surya Yoga Cheras.
Our Yoga studio
Opening of Surya Yoga Cheras is the stunning decision we ever made. We have no experience of running a business, yet, our yoga knowledge and experiences has depicted us to be yoga operator, a business owner.
With
the support from Surya Yoga, which is the prominent brand in the Yoga industry
has easily held up our dream. The Surya Yoga owner, Josephine teaches us to be
instinctual beings and to always trust our guts when making any decision in
life.
With
the licencing program, we took up the program and start our journey. Surya Yoga
putting us into the spotlight, and makes us more visible. We stand out as a
boutique yoga centre with its relatively small in size business operation in
Cheras area comparatively to other major yoga operators. Taking the advantage
of its size, we have designed our own yoga boutique with Do It Yourself corner
that carry out theme of operation.
Yoga studio outlook
Josephine advocates on knowing what we want and support us through to make it happened. The transition period of starting a yoga business has bring life, laugh and love to our life components. Yoga has embedded our daily values and working through it, we have overwhelming response sign outs within 2 weeks of operation.
It inspires us that the yoga industry are full of flamboyant personalities, egregious shows of attention and evidently discovering yoga values that lead to beautiful results.
House brand merchandise for sales
We
can put a stamp on Surya Yoga that is the way to be applauded. And, all of this
came to fruition because of a little help from Surya Yoga.
Let us
shine you through with Yoga! Come and join us in:-
Renew . Refresh . Reenergized . Yoga Centre Branding
What if the yoga centre that you manned gained the second chance?
What if the yoga centre strive to success?
What if Surya Yoga could uplift your yoga centre business
that you are manning? What if Surya Yoga could unite yoga operators?
The owner of Surya Yoga, Josephine Chan has this dream.
To connect to this dream, back to basic, the very word
"yoga" makes reference to this. The root, "yuj" (meaning
"unity" or "yoke"), indicates that the purpose of yoga is
to unite ourselves with our highest nature. And, Josephine has bigger dream to
unite yoga operators, yoga practitioners and yoga centres as one. With her external achievements, she obsessed
one yoga centre to two, two to four and multiply the success.
Paths to the Summit
Josephine outbreak the traditional way of doing business in manning
yoga centres. She make contacts around
yoga operators, yoga practitioners, yoga centres that are low in manning, yoga centres
that are low in commitment, small yoga centres that are low in investing time,
low in performance and make connection and bond to one. Imagine this, how could
this happen?
Licencing is the key.
What is yoga licencing
mean and what the objectives lies behind?
Yoga licencing is a yoga enthusiast whom requires support in
various aspects like marketing to uplift its’ business regardless of revenue
nor membership, making eminent mark to give you a major edge in increasingly
competitive markets.
Surya Yoga expands through re-establish the business by
providing marketing strategy that involve creating a differentiated name and
image for brand identity. Other than that, the process include advertising
campaigns with a consistent theme.
The application of this technique carry the main
functionality associated with its objectives like:-
1.Help me to help you
2.Enable to uplift brand
3.Primarily, increase the business volume
financially
Ultimately, it aims to establish a differentiated presence
in market, attract and retains loyal customers.
With Josephine’s capabilities, she managed to support
through at least three (3) yoga centres for new opening in August, and two (2)
in September and few more on the queue. These yoga centres shares the one motto. Each yoga centre has distinctive theme and able to make it personal and meaningful, and create space for members and yoga practitioners a space to linger.
To start with, Josephine has the first area spotted:-
1. Cheras, Grand opening on 02 Aug 2015
Before, it was relatively small in size studio. After yoga licencing, Surya Yoga utilize its size and turn onto boutique yoga studio.
The corridor shares the heart warmth filled moment
Unexpectedly, the studio has turn into bright and distinctive feeling
A contemplative spirit in the space
At the edge, the rest area design
2. Bukit Tinggi, Grand opening on 16 Aug 2015 Before, it was low business investment. After licencing, Surya Yoga turn onto merrier studio with kids' corner on the row.
Welcome to Grand opening on 16 August 2015, you will witness the transformation!
3. Kuchai represents healthy corner, shakes and replacement meal is available after yoga.
4. Puchong has Zen ambience that offers yoga practitioners to observe the breath, and the mind.
5. Sri Petaling welcomes garden feel provides comfortable and coherent environment.
Geographically, these are success transformation of renew,
refresh and re-energized. Change begins with Surya Yoga. Branding is what you are. Surya Yoga is your direction.
What are you waiting for? Contact us now!
Wednesday 29 July 2015
Discover . Experience
. PreNatal Yoga
Welcome to Pregnancy! This is
the start of an incredible journey for you, your spouse and your family. When
you hit the first sign of pregnancy, the most common symptoms are unpleasant as
you thought. Yet, the inner of you, you feel the baby, the joy and excitement inside
you is unbeatable.
All you need to know about
Pregnancy is available everywhere. However, because of the earliest symptoms
don’t begin until after the embryo is formed, it is important to take good care
of yourself and various physical symptoms and new emotions arise. Your health
and safety, diet and fitness, body, life, relationship changes from Day 1 when
it begins.
From what to expect each week
and how to prepare for labor and beyond. Here’s one of the information you need
to as parenting tools – Prenatal Yoga by Josephine Chan. Josephine Chan, a
certified and experienced prenatal yoga instructor teaches you right yoga
practise for you during pregnancy.
Prenatal yoga is one of the
best things that you can do for yourself, and your growing baby. This book discover
the physical and mental benefits of yoga during pregnancy, which yoga poses are
safe when you are pregnant, and how to do yoga safely.
Prenatal yoga is multifaceted
approach to exercise that encourage stretching, mental centering and focused
breathing. It is an amazing way to prepare your body and mind for labor and
motherhood while relieving pains and discomfort during pregnancy. This book
includes step by step photographs of each pose at every stage of your pregnancy
from first trimester (0-12 weeks); second trimester (14-25 weeks) and third
trimester. It also illustrate postnatal yoga journey that will form a great
experience for you and baby.
Most pregnant women resist to try and doing yoga because perceive sense of inflexibility and some taboo-minded. Let's break it and most researchers studied that to do Yoga during pregnancy is wonderful practice, and moderate and right pose tend to eliminate pains over pregnancy. Detailing on this book contains comprehensive information on why, how, what can you do and don't during yoga practise and equips with pictorial that ease you to start your experience with prenatal yoga.
This book is beyond the
physical on what you can reach, but it is to prepare your mind, body and spirit
to the best for childbirth and motherhood.
Pregnancy is something
cheerful to celebrate and come and meet to bond with other pregnant women at
the spectacular free event –“CELEBRATING YOUR PREGNANCY @ SURYA YOGA” on 09 Aug 2015 (Sunday) from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
to Discover. Experience. Prenatal Yoga and personally meet with the author,
Josephine Chan – Prenatal Yoga, the most comprehensive resourceful guide,
available at any MPH nationwide store.
Set aside your ego and honor where your body is at today. Practice loving compassion for yourself and baby. Listen to your body and do what feels right to you. Surya Yoga is your companion throughout your pregnancy stage.
This time round, Surya Yoga brought you Surya boutique, offering wide range of quality yoga apparel and yoga props.
Surya Boutique product range include Yoga Props, Yoga Top and pants, yoga leggings and yoga T-shirts.
Whether you are new to yoga looking for a basic yoga map; or you are at the advanced level searching for props to enhance your workout, we've got you covered!
Surya Signature Brand exclusively hand-picked and manufactured by Surya Yoga, bringing you quality yoga bottom and tops in variety of choices with the best value!
We also bring in a few of our favourite Yoga apparel brands around the world such as 'Tonic' from Canada and Brazil brand 'Callmecozy'.
Surya Yoga is your one-stop Yoga station, from head-to-toe, inside-out!
A lil' Q & A with Ed Namchai Ed's dropping by in September to conduct his very own workshop at Surya Yoga & Pilates! We managed to get him to do a little Q & A session with us. This is how it went.
But first, let's read up a little on Ed!
Ed Namchai or Kanisorn Namchaiswadwong, hails from Bangkok, Thailand. He is known forplacing 1st in Thailand's 5th Yoga Asana Championship in Bangkok 2008. He is a 4-time Thailand Yoga Asana Champion and placed 2nd in International Yoga Asana Championship in Los Angeles in 2011. He is also the overall champion of the Malaysia International Yoga Competition in Kuala Lumpur in 2013.
Ed is a Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200) and now recently also a Bikram Yoga instructor. Ed currently teaches at Yoga Elements Studio and Lullaby Yoga in Bangkok. His class is always energetic, informative and good fun. He enjoys volunteering his time in nonprofit organizations teaching yoga to kids and the elderly.
Watch Ed in action at the 2012 Malaysian International Yoga Competition
Check out this other snippet of Ed!
Before yoga, Ed pursued sports and many exercises including even aero boxing! Since he exercised regularly, he just decided to try out yoga because it seemed interesting. Ed did not take it with any faith that it will change his life, but it did! With continuous practice, yoga has blended completely into his life. It has brought him not only physical health improvement, but also a peaceful state of mind.
Now, on with the Q & A? Here we go..
You mentioned that Yoga has now completely blended into your life. What little daily things Yoga related do you do? In what way did your life change? Was there a transition period or did the changes happen instantly and naturally?
My friends said my personality changed. Perhaps the practice of yoga gives me a sense of how to align my body when I stand, walk, sit and so on. That’s some of the physical changes. In mental level, Natarajasana invited me to come out of comfort zone, Sirsasana armed me a weapon to fight the fear, Urdva Dhanurasana revealed my hidden potential and Shavasana equipped me an ability to find peace in the chaos of daily life, for example. There are many ways in which yoga practice has changed the experience of myself and living. So if you ask in what way my life change. The better way! The line between old and new me is blurred. These changes are the continuous process and still keep transforming me and everyone who practice yoga.
Before you started Yoga you were an exercise buff, whoah! It says you were into dance exercise and even aero boxing and only by chance did you do yoga and thus began your lifelong love affair. Did you ever wish you started yoga earlier? What would you tell other exercise/cardio buffs about yoga?
Everything happens for a reason in the right place and time. If I started yoga earlier I’m not sure if I’m going to carry the practice along or quit yoga before I love it. So it doesn’t matter at what time or age I started my first yoga class. I just continue my practice and find that it always brings joy to my life. Yes I would encourage everyone including those exercise buffs to try their first yoga class. But I would let their learning habit reveals the answer to themselves how yoga brings joy to their life. They have to experience by themselves, cannot be told.
You have impressively won many international yoga championships. You are Thailand's Yoga Asana Champion 4 times in a row! Also, champion of Malaysia's International Yoga Competition and not forgetting ranked number 2 in the world for the international yoga asana championship in 2011. How do you prepare for these competitions? Any memorable moments? Any funny moments?
The competition has changed the way I practice. I take less group class, but more practicing on my own. People think I’ve been working on many advanced poses, but I’m actually working on basic. Strong basic will build up the advanced one naturally. Every moment is memorable. Behind the stage we, the competitors, shared the love of yoga with each other. We shared our practice and techniques in asana. And you know that the fun is doubled when we share and practice together.
Your blog posts at yogacadabra.com are very good! Very detailed and passionately written! Do you have a personal life motto? Something you hold true to your heart?
I like Aristotle’s quote – “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” That summarizes the way I practice.
It seems that yoga has brought you places! You have practically traveled the world! Any particular place you love the most and hope to return?
I love to travel and see the world. There’re still many places I’ve never been to. And I hope the path of yoga will lead me to those places. I love sea and beach. So if I have time for vacation I always return to my favorite beaches in Phuket or Krabi in Thailand.
Would you like to say anything in particular to us Malaysian yoga enthusiasts about your workshop this Sept 6th and 7th at Surya Yoga Studio?
The name of this workshop is “Deepen Your Practice”, not “Deepen Your Pose”. So it would help you find the way you practice. After that you will be able to work on the depth of the pose on your own later. You will see the new possibilities because some obstacles will be removed. So come with the open mind to experiment what your body can really do, and then just have fun with it.
..... Overall, we at Surya Yoga feel that Ed is a pretty nice guy with incredible skill and talent! Gotta love how he is fantastic with kids too. Join us this September for Ed's workshop! More details below. Have a great day guys! Don't miss out on the early bird promotion.
Namaste
Deepen Your Practice : Yoga Workshop with Ed Namchai
Per Session : RM100
Per Session Early bird (before Aug 17th 2014) : RM 80
Backbend Breath by Breath (2.5 hours)
Saturday, 6th Sept 2014 11am - 1.30pm
Backward bending is the natural ability of human. But if you always have a hard time doing backbend, this workshop will provide you a toolkit to help you deal with it. We are going to explore a breathing mechanism of our body and find out the appropriate way to breathe while doing backbend. Working on some key muscles involved in backbend, strengthen and then stretch them out. Building a strong and stable foundation of backbend. And learn how to deal with the gravity as you go against it in some backbends, and go with it in other backbends. Overcome all physical and emotional limits and let's bend like a pro!
Neck, Shoulders and Back Therapy (2.5 hours)
Saturday, 6th Sept 2014 2.30pm - 5pm
Many people spend many hours a day at the office desk or in front of the computer, reading, writing, texting, mousing, typing and so on. If you are also doing so, you might notice each day how tight, even painful, your neck and shoulders are. Even though yoga should be the answer to this problem, sometime careless practice of yoga aggravates it especially if you are too much crazy doing backbend and inversion. This workshop will introduce to you many gentle movements around your neck area and some asana that help relieve the tension in that particular part. Also you will learn some easy exercises you can do during the day at your desk.
Arms in Action (2.5 hours)
Sunday, 7th Sept 2014 11am - 1.30pm
Playing with many arm poses will stretch you in new ways. A little bit more openness in your shoulders, elbows and wrists can make a big improvement in many more complicated poses. In this workshop you are going to play around these joints of your arms and create different and much deeper stretches for them. It also includes strengthening exercises for your arm muscles. At the end you are going to experience how your amazing arms help you perform many different poses, especially inversion and arm balance.
Demystify Your Hips (2.5 hours)
Sunday, 7th Sept 2014 2.30pm - 5pm
Perhaps there is nothing wrong with your back or your knees. If they are hurt, maybe you can blame your hips. Tight hips can lead to problem in many parts of your body; lower back, pelvis, sciatic nerve, knee pain, to name but a few. Leave your comfy sofa and come to this workshop to explore the mobility of your hips. We are going to work on many big and small muscles around hips and thighs, relieve their tightness and strengthen and energize them. And, of course, you probably want to try some asana that challenges your hips. You got it!
Please contact us at mysuryayoga@gmail.com or 0162027417 Jo/ 0378036044 (studio)
