Edgar Ortiz: E-RYT 500, Mantra & Mythology Magician

Physical Therapist, yoga instructor, artist

Edgar Ortiz is a physiotherapist, body therapist and yoga instructor with more than 15 years of experience in the field. He has offered workshops and seminars on yoga and Thai massage in Costa Rica, Guatemala, California, Canada, India, Mexico, the United States, Thailand, and Cuba with the Cuban Association of Yoga Instructors. Edgar graduated as an instructor of Integral Balance at the GAIA Institute, physiotherapy at the Santa Paula University and advanced studies in manual therapies at the University of San Agustin (Florida, United States).

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He lived for over a year between India and Thailand studying yoga in Rishikesh (with emphasis on Iyengar Yoga), in southern India he studied Ashtanga (in Mysore) and Vini-yoga studies in Tamil Nadu (in Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram). His Thai massage studies began in Auroville in southern India and then traveled to Chiang Mai, north of Bangkok city in Thailand to study at Sunshine Massage School under the Asokananda tradition and with Pichest Boonthume one of the most recognized masters worldwide in this art. For four years he has continued studying and working with Itzhak Helman, his teacher, friend and great inspiration in the work of Thai massage.

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He is currently the director of Yoga Mandir, School of Yoga and Thai Massage located in San Pedro de Montes de Oca, a school that specializes in training yoga instructors in levels of 300 and 400 hours, and also in training therapists in the tradition of Thai massage. He is a founding member of the Costa Rican Association of Yoga Teachers (www.asoyogacr.org) of which he was president from 2010 to 2012. ASOyoga seeks to integrate the country’s yoga teachers, as well as expand the reach of yoga in our society and make this practice more accessible to as many people as possible.

Edgar joins the Caribe Yoga Academy Foundational Level program to give the students an experience in Iyengar style yoga, sing and story tell the myths and Yoga Sutra, and study biomechanics.