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Tedd Surman テッド·サーマン
Founding Director
Honolulu Hawaii & Tokyo Japan
Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500, YACEP) registered
Yoga Awareness Yoga & Ayurveda (YAT 3000) certified
Tedd Surman is from New Zealand and began practicing Yoga in 1990. He immigrated to the United States in 1997 and founded Yoga Awareness on Maui, Hawaii.
Tedd studied for several years with Gary Kraftsow at the American Viniyoga Institute (AVI). In 2001 he began traveling to Chennai, India and studied at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) with TKV Desikachar, his son Kausthub Desikachar and with the senior teachers of the KYM. Since then Tedd continues to travel each year to Chennai for ongoing studies with his current teachers DV Sridhar, Radha Sridhar and Viji Vasu at Yoga Raksanam. He also studies and practices Ayurveda with Dr Ganesh at Ayu Wellness.
Since 2015 Tedd and his wife Masumi reside in Honolulu, Hawaii and Tokyo, Japan where they have Yoga Ayurveda studios offering training programs, workshops, private therapy and open classes.