Soraya Faris

Soraya Faris’s love for Yoga has taken her on many journeys over the last 30 years, beginning in England with a Hatha Yoga class at her local gym. Over the last 15 years Soraya has taught many different kinds of yoga to many different kinds of people.
She has taught classes, workshops & retreats around the world, including England, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China and the USA.
Soraya started practicing Hatha Yoga in her 20’s and then, in search of more structure and precise alignment, became a fan of Iyengar Yoga. 

In 2005, while living in the Middle East, where there were very few yoga teachers, Soraya spent the Summer in a Sivananda Ashram and took her first teacher training. She loved the spiritual aspect highlighted in the Sivananda tradition, as well as the chanting/kirtans and taught yoga classes for the expatriate community in Saudi Arabia for 3 years. 

Soraya moved to Japan in 2009 and for the next 3 years taught Yoga classes on a Marine Corps Base for the Military, their families and the Japanese community. While in Japan Soraya also studied Yin Yoga with Paul Grilly.

In 2010 Soraya visited the Big Island of Hawaii to study Kundalini Yoga with Kundalini Rising Yoga School. This experience inspired her move to Hawaii the following year. She brought her symphonic gong and began teaching New Moon and Full Moon classes in her home in Kaneohe and teaching Kundalini Gong Bliss classes at Open Space Yoga. Soraya has a passion for sound healing and is co-founder of Hawaii Healing Sound School which has inspired an ever expanding community of sound healers and kundalini yogis here on the islands.

Soraya’s classes are an uplifting blend of spiritual and physical practice, incorporating dynamic breathing, beautiful spinal movements to balance the chakras and mantras with meditation to heighten consciousness and the powers of manifestation. She plays the Symphonic Gong and crystal bowls in her classes. The pure sound frequencies of the gong at the end of each yoga class, carry healing vibrations that balance your body, mind and soul for greater health, vitality & bliss.
As a licensed acupuncturist/herbalist with a clinic in Kaneohe – Soulistic Holistics Hawaii, Soraya incorporates the healing of yoga into her clinical practice and the healing of oriental medicine into her yoga practice.

Soraya is on a mission to spread more joy and love! She believes the true purpose of yoga is to inspire more joy & love within oneself and then be inspired to spread more joy and love to our families, communities and the world. Soraya has a facebook group called ‘Kundalini, Gong, Bliss’ where you can find further information and class/event schedules.