Mayte Criado, E-RYT 500, E500H, T500H, is a yoga teacher trainer registered with Yoga Alliance and the European Yoga Federation. She participates as a delegate in Spain for The World Community of Indian Culture and Traditional Disciplines, is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Yoga Federation, and the President of the Professional Yoga Federation of Spain. Ms. Criado is the co-founder of the Federation of Teacher Training Schools of Spain, and was part of the experts’ committee that wrote the regulating bylaw to Qualify as Yoga Instructor and Teacher (bylaw: RD 1034/2011) in the Ministry of Education of Spain.

She has trained more than 5,000 yoga teachers (in Spanish) over the past 20 years, and created methodology compiled in two teacher manuals (“Manuales Profesor de Yoga I y II”) published in the ISBN system in 2004 by Escuela Internacional de Yoga, where she teaches. Her work focuses on yoga teacher training and specialized training in restorative yoga, Nada yoga, and sensory yoga, and she developed her own teacher training program in 2002. Since 2005, with the assistance of her friend and colleague Manuel Luque, she has worked with students with multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy as well as blind and deaf students. She has expanded her training with a course on Drhupad (classical Hindu singing), which exposed her to the harmonic effects of sound, mantras, and music on the body, the energy, and the integrative consciousness of the human being. 

Her book Yoga en Evolución was published in November 2017. It compiles her experience, vision, and a great part of her methodology for teacher training programs. She is a contributor to Yoga Journal, Yoga en Red, Cuerpo y Mente, Psychologist, Espacio Humano, Universo Holístico, and others.

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