TEACHERS

Nea Ferrier


Nea is the founder of Ashtanga Yoga Dubai and Nilaya House.

Nea has been teaching Ashtanga Yoga internationally since 2008. She was authorised level 2 by Guruji Sharath Jois in 2010, has made 12 individual trips to Mysore and was one of the first students to assist in the Mysore shala.

Nea started the first Mysore programme in Nagoya Japan and taught at the Jois Yoga Shala in Sydney. She has also taught Mysore classes and workshops in Aberdeen, Beijing, Istanbul, Jeddah, Karachi, Mumbai, Moscow and Perth. She has been teaching in Dubai since 2013.

An avid student of yoga for 20 years, Nea continues her studies in the darshans of Vedanta, Tantra, Ayurveda and Veda Chanting, alongside remaining a committed practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga yoga.

Nea’s teaching style is gentle, compassionate and intuitive, drawing on 15 years of daily teaching and focused on guiding students to find their own balance between effort and letting go, and to practice in a way that is sustainable and supportive for various life stages

Alexey Pavlyukov


Alexey has been practising Ashtanga yoga since 2007 studying with authorised teachers in Moscow.

In 2010 he became a student of KPJAYI and has made five individual trips to Mysore since that time, as well as attending multiple trainings, three workshops with Sharath Jois, and classes with David Swenson, Richard Freeman, Lino Miele, Petri Raisanen, Eddie Stern and Mark Darby.

Alexey has been teaching Ashtanga yoga for the last eleven years, firstly at the Ashtanga Yoga Shala and Ashtanga Yoga Center in Moscow, and at Ashtanga Yoga Dubai since 2015.