Sicily, Italy, 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

With over 12 years of teaching experience, including more than 10,000 hours spent with students in over 15 countries, Dav Jones has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Raja Yoga, kinesiology, yoga therapy, relative motion and joint-end range training principles. He’s a certified senior yoga teacher who has led over 10 yoga teacher training programs internationally. Dav’s mission is to empower practitioners and teachers to encourage people to enjoy their body they’re living in, cultivate a sustainable yoga practice, and create a world that supports community and interdependence.

Salma Othman is an interdisciplinary worker of yoga, energetics, bodywork, and integrated somatic trauma therapeutics. A benevolent investigator with a Jungian curiosity, Salma’s personal journey has and will continue to be a dance within dualities. Based from a culmination of esoteric Taoist and Buddhist practices, Shamanic therapeutics, Bodywork, Reiki, Psychomagick, Tarot, and teachings of the Munay Ki, the PsychoSomatic understanding is a baseline thread throughout her work and practices; allowing an integrated trauma informed approach to healing the mind, body, and Spirit.

Salma regularly runs circles, workshops, trainings, and somatic trauma therapy 1-1’s for her business OHM ILLUMINATED, a hub for alternative healing modalities. When teaching Asana, Salma pulls from different schools and lineages with an awareness to allow accessibility and curiosity into every person’s personal practice. Instilling autonomy and establishing higher levels of self awareness, or proprioception, is a key theme in her classes. Penduluming play and presence. Salma’s value is in creating a space wherein one can feel at ease with unpacking their tensions, from psycho, to soma.

She co-hosts international yoga retreats with Dav Jones Yoga, and together have co-created The Moksha Method: An approach to personal practice that’s been weaved into retreats recently held in Sicily, Italy, and Wales, UK.

My journey into the world of yoga began quite unexpectedly, sparked by a Hatha Yoga DVD I found tucked inside a newspaper. Something about the practice resonated with me immediately, and I soon enrolled in a local class as a student. From those very first sessions, I felt a deep connection—not only to the physical practice but also to the inner stillness it revealed.

The desire to teach emerged early on, but I chose to honour the path of the student first. Life, too, had its own beautiful timing: I became a mother—first to one child, then five years later to another—and for a while, my energy was devoted entirely to nurturing my growing family.

It was only after a full decade of dedicated personal practice that I felt ready to step into the role of teacher. That time allowed the teachings to truly settle in my body and heart. When I finally embarked on my instructor training, it was with deep respect for the tradition and a strong sense of purpose—to share the transformative power of yoga that had quietly reshaped my life.

Teaching yoga has always been my way of sharing a path that helped me understand myself more deeply—embracing contradictions, and navigating inner conflicts. Yoga, for me, is far more than postures or philosophical ideas; it’s a journey toward wholeness—a reconnection with nature, the universe, and the divine. This sense of unity is at the heart of my teaching.

Today, along with my business partner and fellow teacher Giuseppe La Barbera, I regularly teach and run my own yoga studio in Palermo—a space I’m deeply proud of and grateful to hold.

I have been teaching yoga since 2020, after completing a 200-hour certification at the “Metamorphosis” school in Trieste, led by Raffaella Bellen. During this time, I developed a deep interest in the therapeutic and medical aspects of yoga, which led me to further specialize in Postural Yoga through an additional 50-hour training, also under Bellen’s guidance.

My journey continued with the practice of Awakening Yoga, studying directly with its founder Patrick Beach and attending intensive training in Germany and the Netherlands. At the same time, I pursued a personal path in Ashtanga Yoga, following the teachings of Patanjali. I completed a 50-hour training with Davin Jones, which culminated in a one-on-one intensive over 10-days in Wales, United Kingdom.

My teaching and personal practice are grounded in an integrated approach that brings together body awareness, postural alignment, and a deep connection to the energetic and spiritual dimensions of yoga.