Everyone has an innate desire to live healthily. In SunUp Yoga, we understand people's inclination towards professional and responsible yoga guidance within a safe container. SunUp Yoga is created as a learning pad under this backdrop.

We promote mutual respect and our aim is to cultivate students who respect themselves. This value is infused during the yoga lessons when the teacher reminds the students to listen to their bodies. Students are given the space to heal and grow according to his own condition. The same respect for self is extended towards the teacher and fellow students.

Our Expertise

Elaine (SunUp Yoga’s Founder/Yoga Therapist) possesses an expertise to work through a student’s physical limitation to drill down to its emotional cause and break through that armour. The meltdown (performed through yoga, not counseling) works retrospectively to heal the physical body.

Our Background

Propelled by her passion for health prevention and natural healing, Elaine travelled to India to study yoga therapy at 2 famous Yoga and Naturopathy Therapy Centers. She is stunned at the extent of patients' self-negligence, eventually leading to serious chronic illnesses, and, excited with yoga's curative effect. She aims to guide fellow human beings to be compassionate to self and enjoy life through the practice of Yoga.

Elaine’s yoga teaching style is heavily influenced by the gurus and lineage that she trained under - Satyananda Yoga™, Satya Narayan Goenka and Dr. H. R. Nagendra.

SunUp Yoga does not postulate any religious belief.

How It Got Started

Elaine starts her meditation yoga journey since year 2000. She initiates her inner search path in Singapore, and has travelled to the forests in Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand in search of gurus' guidance.

During her deep practices, she realizes the meaning of The Truth within her own body - the Truth that she travelled far and wide to seek in the external world. When one embraces life with an equanimous mind, the fountain of joy starts to flow and the body reflects the inner self's wellbeing.

When Elaine subsequently researches on yoga philosophy for her yoga teacher training course, she immediately recognizes that meditation is the ultimate step of what the great sages have been teaching in Yoga for the last 5000 years - the union of mind and body. She decides to transform yoga into her new profession.

Testimonial

"Elaine is committed and passionate about imparting the benefits of practicing yoga to our patients. She is a competent yoga educator - organized and efficient in planning the lessons to meet the different functional abilities of the patients.

Elaine does not carry any prejudices and is comfortable socializing with our patients. She is very patient to help the patients go through the various postures. She communicated well with the patients and has good rapport with them.

Elaine is compassionate yet managed to instill discipline to help our patients reap the benefits of the yoga sessions.

We are confident she will be able to contribute in any organization."

-Ms. Ting Mei See
Director of Corporate Communications
Institute of Mental Health (IMH)
Singapore

Elaine's Yoga and related training:

·Diploma in Yoga Therapy from Yoga Vidya Gurukul, India.

·Diploma in Yoga Education from Yoga Vidya Gurukul, India.

·Yoga Instructor Certificate from sVYASA Yoga University.

·Internship with Arogyadham Yoga and Naturopathy Therapy Center, India.

·Internship with Pichey Phimpson Yoga Therapy Centre, India.

·A practitioner of Insight Meditation.

·A practitioner of Gentle Bio-Energetics Butterfly Therapy Touch, developed by Dr. Eva Reich.