Why choose Ubud?

Ubud is located in the central part of Bali Island. The name Ubud comes from the Balinese word Ubad that means medicine, inspired by the abundance of medicinal plants & herbs, and considered as a place of “holy inspiration”.

What makes this place so attractive is not only the breathtaking nature, but particularly because Ubud has long been known as the heart of the heritage, arts, and culture of Bali since the 1930s. More than that, Ubud is a special place for meditation, contemplation and self discovery because of its people, Hindu Balinese who preserve their religion as their daily life style. Balinese people have naturally been a real yogi since they were born. Their tradition, shown in any aspects of their life; activities, architecture, culture are naturally yoga practice. This is what makes Ubud become a special place to study yoga and spiritualism.

Soul Yoga Bali

Soul Yoga is Yoga School and Yoga studio, located in Ubud, Bali, founded by yoga teacher couple. Soul Yoga mission is to provide a yoga community where students and teachers feel safe, welcome and appreciated. It is our goal to offer yoga classes, workshops and trainings to motivate and empower students to continually build on their personal yoga journey, physically, mentally and spiritually. We create a professional, caring and approachable atmosphere for yoga teachers and students. Soul Yoga Bali deeply appreciates the great commitment a teacher makes to providing innovative, cohesive and exciting class sequencing for their students. Our teachers commit to yoga through continued education, study and dedication to their own practice. We take deep pride in supporting, and encouraging our teachers, our students and the whole yoga community found here.

Sandi Kalifadani

Bali-based yoga teacher, musician and DJ, Sandi Kalifadani has been a dedicated explorer of yoga since 2002. He has been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 2005 and Ashtanga Mysore since 2015. Sandi is a Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher and has taught thousands hours of daily classes, workshops, training, retreat and TTC programs since 2006 in several top yoga schools and yoga studios in Indonesia and Bali. By the spirit of Bali, Sandi also actively held training abroad in several countries in America and Asia.

In his teaching, Sandi combines many aspects; detailed alignment, creative sequencing, precise hands on and use of multiple props in different ways, making a unique style of his signature Alignment Hatha. He has also been studying mindfulness meditation, zen meditation and several healing techniques that include zen counselling, jin shin jyutsu, hypnotherapy, NLP, bringing many elements of these practices into his yoga teachings.

With more than 20 years expertise in the yoga & wellness industry, in 2015 Sandi settled down in Ubud and founded Soul Yoga Bali in 2020. A yoga school, yoga studio and yoga community, to motivate and empower students to continually build on their personal yoga journey, physically, mentally and spiritually. Off the mat Sandi is also busy as a DJ and music producer.

Sera

Sera had a big passion in dance since teenager and brought herself to become K-Pop and Pole Dance Senior Teacher in Korea and Australia. After suffering from injury, she started practicing yoga from various disciplines and also learned academically in Korea Wongwang University. She took a Yoga & Meditation bachelor major until becoming a yoga teacher. Sera is a member of the Korean Yoga Instructor Association and had the chance to teach in many top studios in Seoul including the biggest Korean Yoga studio franchise, Tao Yoga. She taught mostly Hatha, Vinyasa and Mahahatha Yoga. She also teaches Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga and Baby Massage as her passion in woman & maternity since her previous work as a baby planner.
 
Recently Sera focused on teaching Inside Flow because of her dance passion and also teaching Recovering Yoga as she experienced great progress during the rehabilitation for her previous injury. Sera is also one of few Recovering Yoga Masters in Korea. Sera found how Recovering is a very unique prop as a complimentary for several conventional yoga props like strap, block or fascia ball that give more effective benefit to improve both the practice and therapy.
 
Sera now teaches in Bali and is also the co-founder of Soul Yoga, yoga school in Ubud, Bali.