Retreat Leaders
Discover the passionate individuals dedicated to promoting holistic healing at India Ayurvedic Healing Retreat.
Katie O'Connell
Katie has practiced yoga for over 25 years and is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, and ERYT. Katie owns Dragonfly Yoga Barn in the White Mountains of NH with her husband of 30 years, where they facilitate retreats and events. Katie is a singer, poet, mother, gardener, and life-long student of Nature. She has taught over 15,000 hours of yoga classes, has over 1,400 hours of yoga study and certifications, nearly 1,000 hours in the study of Ayurveda with Dr. Paul Dugliss (New World Ayurveda) and Dr. Marc Halpern (California College of Ayurveda) as well as certifications in Heart Based Meditation, Thai Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, SUP Yoga, Reiki, & more. She runs international retreats, teaches daily yoga classes, provides education in Ayurveda and yoga, offers Ayurveda consultations, private yoga, Thai bodywork, and yoga & wellness coaching at Dragonfly.
John de Kadt
John has practiced acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for over 18 years. He is also an Ayurvedic consultant whose love for more natural healing modalities began at a young age and has always been a central part of his life.John is also an acclaimed percussionist, poet, and storyteller who plays ethnic percussion instruments from across the globe and has a passion for spoken word, whether it’s in poetry, song, rap, or story. John has released 6 albums which are used widely across the globe for deep rest, dance and inspiration. He plays with kirtan artists worldwide and is a founding member of the devotional music group The Hanumen. Motivated by a love of the earth, community, and wisdom traditions, John’s music, story and healing practices stir the heart and awaken us towards a remembrance of ourselves in greater harmony with the wildness of the natural world.
Dr. Sundara
From a place of deep knowing at a very early age, young Sundara took his first step along the path in search of the source of all knowledge. This search lead him to the feet of many great teachers where he immersed himself in the ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts and traditions, which guided him towards his profound connection with classical Ayurvedic teachings. Realization dawned that beyond any doubt he would practice and share the timeless teachings of Ayurveda with many other seekers.
On graduating as a recipient of the prestigious Ayurvisharada gold medal, the highest accolade awarded to a student of Ayurveda in India, Dr. Sundara embarked upon his life’s journey spending all of his time treating patients at his community Ayurveda clinic. As Dr. Sundara’s fame spread, people from all over the world arrived seeking treatment and guidance from him at his clinic in India, eventually inviting him to travel to their home countries to spread the teachings of Ayurveda.
After many years of traveling the globe, Dr. Sundara now practices and resides with his wife Dr. Pranavodgeetha and their two children Samanvita and Shivathmika at the Mountain Top Clinic India.
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