Genevieve Tan Shu Thung (also known as Sandhya), LL.B (Hons), DipNutri, DipAro, DipYoga, CertEd, Ph.D, is the Spiritual Master for the Sandhya Maarga Mission, the founder of the Sandhya Maarga Holistic Living Academy.

So Rong Kwan
Freelance Personal Trainer & Student

So Rong Kwan is a freelance personal trainer and student. Inspired by the health benefits, environmental and ethical reasons to switch to a vegan lifestyle, she strives to introduce the variety of foods that Mother Nature has to offer to build a strong and healthy body.

Yap Siou Yu
Sandhya Maarga Diploma in Diet & Nutrition Student

Yap Siou Yu, one of Sandhya Maarga's Diploma in Diet & Nutrition (UK) students, is a family-oriented daughter who is continuously influenced by her health-enthusiast mother, resulting in her taking a deep interest in a healthy living lifestyle.

Phoon See Mun, M.Ed (Early Childhood), BBS (Business), Montessori Dip (Early Childhood)
Sandhya Maarga Diploma in Yoga Student & Instructor-in- Training

Phoon See Mun, one of Sandhya Maarga's Diploma in Yoga Teaching (UK) students, started off with a Business Degree in a corporate world. However, she ventured into the education line after she discovered her
love and passion for children.

Kang Pei Pei, M.Ed (ECE), BBA (Business Administration & International Business)
Sandhya Maarga Diploma in Yoga Student & Instructor-in- Training

Kang Pei Pei, one of Sandhya Maarga's Diploma in Yoga Teaching (UK) students, holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration - International Business (UKM) in 2000 and a Master Degree in Early Childhood Education (UM) in 2011. She was invited as a speaker in the 4th National Early Childhood International Council (NECIC) Sibu, 2012 to share her research on Teacher’s Competency in Early identification of Children at Risk for Early Intervention.

Sudha (Karuppiah) Kanisan, B.Sc (Nursing), DipNutri, is a registered nurse at a renowned private hospital in Malaysia who also holds a professional certificate in Renal Nursing. She has many years of wide multi-disciplinary clinical nursing as well as nursing management experiences, whose responsibilities also include guiding and giving lectures to other nursing staff and students.

Dwayne Tan Lih How is the co-founder and instructor for the Sandhya Maarga's Ab-Morphing™ course, a course that is designed to train you for the 6-packs that you have always dreamed of from nothing at all.

N. Naga Bharathi Nesan is a 4th year MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery) student who is also an expert in graphics designing. His passion for the digital arts led him to be the founder of Psychorelic Artwork 4 years ago. Naga enjoys spending time on his digital playground, the Adobe Creative Suite to produce beautiful masterpieces.

The talented freelance graphics designer's eye for innovation, inspiration and pixel perfection caught the attention of many, which led him to contribute to many projects at the university and national level. Examples include (but not limited to) Malaysia's Yale Convention 2011 and the National Intervarsity Biotechnology Debate Competition 2011.

With his talent in the digital arts, Naga aims to deliver the holistic message of life, love and motivation via graphical presentations. He believes that images can throw the message across to the audience more effective than mere words. Images engage one's imagination as a picture is worth a thousand words.

Naga is Holistic Living Annex' Creative Graphics Designer who will be sharing his amazing masterpieces to inspire our readers.

More of his work may also be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/psychorelic.artwork .

Ronan Echerbault is a freelance photographer who studied Art, Cinéma and Photography. He was taught since his childhood days to look at things differently and be sensitive of his surroundings.

The young French manager spends most of his free time travelling and photographing landscapes, people and unique moments with his camera. He was also shooting short movies before delving into the art of photography.

He always does his best to bring a smile on other people's faces. His photographs have been used in exhibitions in France before (eg. his Japan photographs were on display in the House of Youthfulness and Culture).

Ronan is HLA's head photographer and will contribute some of his work for readers to use as their desktop wallpapers.

Sukhbir Cheema, graduate in Bachelors of Journalism and Mass Communication (B.J.M.C.), is a young journalist with the New Straits Times (Malaysian newspaper) and a budding philosopher who uses writing to express his curiosity about life. He enjoys observing people; the way they behave and react to situations.

Also a dreamer, Sukhbir finds his inspiration in nature, music, films and his surroundings. He believes all that he experiences with his five senses are nothing more than just a vivid dream that he will wake up from one day.

The 26-year-old believes that everyone serves as an inspiration to others in their own unique ways.

Sukhbir will be sharing with Holistic Living Annex' readers some of his short inspirational stories containing philosophical ideas.

Adam Radhi Agaki is 23 year-old undergraduate student majoring in Journalism and International Studies at Monash University, who lives in his love for language and its poetic expression.

Poetry came to Adam at the age of 14 through a history project in school where he had to write a personal account of a soldier in World War I. Since then writing has always played a significant role in his life. Adam composes poetry almost daily and has worked as a journalist with The Brunei Times for two years.

Ang Mei Hwa graduated with a degree in Education and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Linguistics.

Hamid Reza Sheikh Roshandel, M.A. (Iranian Traditional Medicine), Ph.D (Nutrition & Holistic Health) is a leading dietician and nutritionist in Iran.

People visit his successful Sib Diet Clinic of 17 years in Tehran to obtain advice on how to adhere to a balanced and healthy diet to maximise health. He also specialises in pulse reading, an art which he has learned from the famous veteran Ayurvedic physician Dr. Brihaspati Dev Triguna (an expert in nadivigyan, the ayurvedic technique of pulse diagnosis) in New Delhi.

Vinodhini Naidu Munikrishnayya is 21 year-old final year undergraduate student majoring in Optometry at the National Institute of Opthalmic Sciences - the Academic Arm of the Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital (one of Malaysia's largest eye hospitals).

Sight is one of the important senses, loosing it is like loosing the light in life. Her aim is to prevent people from getting blind from sickness which could have been avoided. As a primary eye-care professional, she is responsible to ensure that children, youths and the elderly do not miss 'seeing' the beauty in their life.