Rebecca Andrist is the co-founder of Jiva Healing, and has been running healthy eating, detox and yoga retreats in the UK and abroad since 2004. She is a qualified Nutritional Advisor, Yoga teacher and Massage Therapist who has worked in healing centres in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Thailand and the United States before starting her own business. Her healing work ranges across yoga, meditation, bodywork, nutrition, exercise, mind-body healing and colon care. She strives to inspire and motivate all guests to live happy and healthy lives and impart the necessary tools in order to achieve this

Jed’s first encounter with yoga was on the hilltops of Vagator beach in Goa, India. At that time she began to study and practice Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga. It was 1992 and she has practiced and made yoga a part of her life ever since. Jed has spent many years in India where the teachings really get under your skin. She likes to pull together many different influences and aspects of yoga in order to offer a potent practice that delights the senses and awakens the participants to the mystery of the magical design that we call life. The bliss that yoga offers through the asanas (postures) ,pranayama (breathing practices) and meditation allow one to open to yoga beyond the physical. Jed also likes to explore the philosophy of the ancient texts and the teachings of the Buddha and show how these ancient arts can lay the foundation for a happy healthy life.

Laura is passionate about creating plant-based menus using locally sourced seasonal ingredients which are nutritious, wholesome and bursting with flavour! She advocates a holistic approach to food; combining pulses, gluten free grains, legumes, fruit and vegetables which aim to keep you satiated whilst full of energy and mental clarity. She adds the magic ingredient of love into each mouthful. Laura has always held a deep belief that nutrition plays a huge role in our overall wellbeing. Her passion was ignited many years ago when she saw the quote by Hippocrates which states, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food". Wishing to combine her love for food with her new way of eating she went on to study at The College of Naturopathic Medicine in London. She interned with Jiva Healing in 2019 and graduated with a diploma as a Natual Vegan Chef in 2020. She has since joined us at our retreats in Oxford and Devon.

Uma is a Yoga Therapist, a Thai Yoga Massage Therapist and an Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapist. Her journey into Yoga and Tantra was set in motion in her late teens while experiencing persistent bouts of anxiety and depression along with gastric distress, addiction, and a constant feeling of being stuck in an existential crisis. Yoga was her way of feeling better and she would regularly attend a variety of yoga classes, as well as practicing at home from books. Uma then spent the best of five years in India and with the help of her teachers and much dedication to learning and practice, she recovered her mental and physical health and began to experience ever evolving levels of vitality and clarity through the practice of Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda. She found her true passion and purpose - to share in Yoga as a way of life that allows for meaningful transformation. She believes that through yogic practices one can bridge deeper levels of consciousness, empowering one’s own healing and clarity of perception. Uma believes that we all have a deep capacity to heal and transform not only ourselves, but the entire collective.