Eridani Baker

Ko Kāi Tahu tōku Iwi | Ko Moeraki tōku marae | Ko Eridani tōku ingoa

Eridani's Godparents are Yoga Teachers, they had a studio and Eridani spent a lot of time there growing up. They had lived and studied in South India with Swami Gitananda Giri.

Eventually, Eridani followed in their footsteps, completing 1600-hour training at the ICYER (international centre for yoga research) in Pondicherry India. As part of the 6-month residential programme, she learned not just about the 8-limbed practice of Yoga but about the culture that traditionally it has sat within. She lived at the Ashram just outside of Pondicherry for a year, getting up every day at 4:30am and going to bed at 10:30pm, she studied and learnt all day, every day. 

Eridani later went on to complete the 300-hour Jivamukti Yoga teacher training. Jivamukti is a vinyasa practice and she studied with the founders of the method in Upstate New York. At that time the Jivamukti training was an intense residential month-long program with exams and practical assessments that you are required to pass in order to get your certificate. The method is based largely off of K. Pattabhi Jois’s Astanga method. 

As well as Yoga, Eridani has a degree in psychology & art history and diplomas in permaculture and therapeutic/sports massage therapy. She is a practising Buddhist and member of SGI (Soka Gakkai International), she is currently completing undergraduate papers with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Her next mission is to get fluent in Te Reo and spend more time at her Marae.