RICHARD FISCHER

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Rishi Fischer, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist

Richard Fischer (Rishi) - Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist
B.A Degree. (Psych) - Dip. Yoga Teaching - Dip. Yoga Therapy - E-RYT500

Richard is a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist Based in Auckland New Zealand. He offer classes both locally in the greater Auckland area, and internationally via his the internet.

Richard has been teaching yoga since 2010 and continues to teach and share the insights and lessons from his own life and yoga practice with his students.
He enthusiastically teaches the many techniques from the yoga 'toolkit' such as physical postures, breathing and relaxation techniques, as well as meditation. All of which can have profound transformational effects in one's life.

Richard likes to emphasise making his yoga classes safe, suitable, accessible and relevant to his students. He gently encourages them to not only come for a weekly 'workout', but rather, to take these yogic tools and techniques off the mat and implement them into their daily lives, and use them to create positive change in their lives.

Richard first became interested in Yoga in his early twenties when he stumbled across a simple book on meditation. Throughout his twenties he delved further into this ancient path, reading, discovering and practising many techniques. Intrigued and fascinated by the mysteries of the mind and its connection to the body, he took up the study of Psychology at the University of Waikato, going on to graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and although this served him in a lot of ways, he was still left with many unanswered questions.

Upon graduating from his Psychology Degree, Richard decided to undertake two more years of fulltime study, completing a Diploma in Yoga Teaching (720 Hour) and then going on to deepen this knowledge by completing a Diploma in Yoga Therapy (720 Hour) under the guidance of his revered teachers Doctors Sridhar and Pooja Maddela. Finally he found the knowledge he had been seeking and since 2010 he has been fully committed to living, breathing and teaching an authentic yoga lifestyle.

Richard is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hours (E-RYT500)

In 2013, Richard traveled to India with Swami Yogamani from MYC Yoga and was initiated into the ancient Saraswati lineage by Swami Satyasangananda of Rikhiapeeth and given his spiritual name... Rishi.

In addition to working as a Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist, Richard also works part-time as a Support Worker for members of the community with special needs and the elderly.

Richard is very passionate about learning languages (Spanish & French at the moment), travel, playing the guitar, spending time in nature and living a Plant-Based lifestyle.