Ms Louise Shum, founder and instructor at the Macau Yoga Centre, graduated with outstanding results from the famous and historic Kaivalaydhama Yoga Institute in India. She was then appointed as the official Chinese translator for the Institute’s publications and research reports.

Louise received education and professional training at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute operated by B.K.S. Iyengar, a national yoga master in India. It was her honour to be personally awarded by Iyengar the qualification of a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher.

Ms Shum taught yoga classes for the former Municipal Council before the establishment of the IACM. She also hosts yoga courses for the Sports Development Institute, the Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, and other organisations, with the aim of promoting yoga as a sport to all levels of the community.

In 2002, Louise founded the Macau Yoga Centre with the mission to train quality yoga instructors, and she gradually developed yoga as a popular leisure sport for Macau people today.

As a result of Louise’s efforts, the Macau Yoga & Fitness Association was established in 2007 to provide training for yoga devotees and to promote yoga. The Association is committed to enhancing yoga skills, facilitating exchange and enabling learners to know more about yoga through interaction. It also encourages yoga devotees to strengthen their bodies, purify their souls and relieve their stress from family, society and work through practising yoga. Through years of relationship building with yoga communities around the world, participants can exchange and interact with people overseas via the association’s network.

The association also established the Macau Yoga & Fitness Association Trust. This is a charitable organisation with a mission to contribute to society and to sustain the truth of sharing through yoga training.

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Yoga is a scientific system of physical and mental practices

with roots in ancient India but with relevance to daily life in modern times.

With a regular practice of yoga, you will experience many benefits such as : 

 reduce stress and stress related illness;

stimulate circulation  & eliminate excess body fat and toxins.

 As a result of better health;

improvement in one's ability to concentrate and think;

stronger self-confidence and self-realization.