About Berta
Credentials
Meditation
Berta is the founder and creator of The Jiiva Center and The Raja Center’s 50/100-hour Meditation Teacher Training. She has taught hundreds of people the art of meditation. She received her 100HR Yoga Alliance Certified Meditation Teacher Training from Sarvaguna Yoga & Meditation School in Dharmasala, India.
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Teaching Meditation is Berta’s passion and she believes that it is her Dharma to continue to support and teach as many people as are searching.
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She is a non-denominational interfaith minister in the Order of Melchizedek and uses her spiritual counseling to link body, mind, and spirit to address physical, mental, and emotional imbalances.
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Berta has also studied extensively in the art of Shamanic healing, drumming, soul retrievals, and divination.
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Yoga
​Berta completed her first 500-hour YTT with the late Roberta Dale Fortune, as well as studying Ashtanga Yoga under Jon Borus in 1999. She is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist from the Kripalu Institute of Yoga. Berta is an E-RYT 500hr certified Yoga Alliance teacher and a YACEP provider, with over 1000 hours of continuing education.
She is the founder and creator of The Jiiva Center and The Raja Center’s Yoga and Meditation certification programs, including their 200 and 300 Yoga Teacher Training Programs.
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Reiki
Berta is a certified Reiki Master in Usui and Karuna Systems of Universal Hands on Reiki Healing Healing. She has worked with thousands of men, women, and children for over 30 years in both education and helping the overall balance of their bodies through energy work and healing. She is certified from Body Ecology, Angelic Healing Touch Center, and the International Center for Reiki Training.
Berta is the founder and creator of CurAnna Energy Healing, and advanced method of hands on healing ,and she is the founder and creator of The Jiiva Center and The Raja Center's Reiki I, II, & Masters Programs.
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Consulting
Berta is a Student of Raja Yoga
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Metaphysical Studies
Her Dharma in this life is to continue to study and teach on many different subject matters.
She lectures regularly on Astanga - Eight Limbs of Yoga, The Chakras, Healing, and Disease, as well as the teaching of The Bhagavad Gita, Raja Yoga & Meditation
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She is available to consult with Yoga Teacher Training Programs and Teach CEU's
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Berta is the Co-owner of Rajayogini LLC
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She is also the Founder of Jiiva Yoga, Healing & Meditation Center in Stratford, CT
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