Réka’s Qualifications

Certification-6-1180

My teachers, diplomas and certificates are (but not exclusive to) the following:
  • 2003. London, UK: Francoise Freedman, Birthlight© Perinatal Yoga Part 1 (Pregnancy Yoga) Teacher certification (www.birthlight.org)
  • 2003. London, UK:  Uma Dinsmore-Tuli — Pregnancy and Woman Yoga workshop (www.sitaram.org)
  • 2003. Glastonbury, UK: Wendy Teasdill — Pregnancy and Woman Yoga workshop (www.teasdill.com)
  • 2003. Budapest, Hungary: Dr. Ágnes Geréb — Independent Doula Training certification (she is a world famous, pioneering gynecologist and home birth midwife from Hungary) (www.szuleteshaz.hu)
  • 2005. Budapest: Francoise Freedman, Birthlight© Perinatal Yoga Part 2 (Yoga for Birth) Teacher Diploma
  • 2009-10. Wroclaw, Poland, KRI 220-hour professional certification as Kundalini Yoga Teacher, fulfilling the Yoga Alliance RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) requirement
  • 2010. Wroclaw, Poland: Tarn Taran Kaur — Conscious Pregnancy Educator certification (www.kundaliniwomen.org)
  • 2011. Budapest: Gurujagat Kaur — Yoga Doula training (www.yoga-doula.eu/en)
  • 2013. Budapest: Dr. Katalin Simon — Bach Flower Essences Practitioner certification (www.chironstudio.hu)
  • 2015. Budapest: Diána Horváth-Kovács (www.ayurvedaoktatas.hu)

    • Complementary Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach certification,
    • Ayurvedic Baby Massage Instructor certification
  • 2019. Budapest: Réka Dézsi — DONA doula© first step certification (www.dezsireka.hu)
  • 2019. Budapest: Jennifer Walker – Spinning Babies© international workshop (www.spinningbabies.com)
  • 2021. Christine Devlin Eck – ayurvedic postpartum care (Center for Sacred Windows Studies)
  • 2021-22. Dr Francoise Freedman, Birthlight© Well Woman Yoga Therapy Diploma (in progress) (www.birthlight.com)
Other (not perinatal related) studies, certificates and diplomas:

Holistic Health Studies:

  • 1987-90. Yoga in the Swami Maheswarananda system (www.joga.hu)
  • 2002-03. Reiki I. and II. with Angela Robertshaw (www.reiki-train.co.uk)
  • 2002-03. Polarity Therapy with Phil Young (www.polaritymasters.com)
  • 2003-2011. KRI Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer (www.3ho.org)
  • 2011-2016. Openhand Facilitator – Chris Bourne / Open (www.openhandweb.org)

Academic:

  • 1989-92. BA studies in French Language and Literature, Philosophy and Aesthetics
  • 1989-94. MA in English Language and Literature
  • 1994-97. doctoral studies at the ELTE University (Budapest)
  • 1995-96. doctoral studies (PhD, DPhil) English Literature at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College)
  • 1996-2000. lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Miskolc, Hungary
  • 1997. research scholar at the Zurich James Joyce Archives