Marc & Meng Foong
Lai Meng Foong first came in contact with Yoga as a child and much later was blessed with the chance to study Yoga in India under different teachers. Former Malaysian National Sports Aerobics Champion, Meng Foong has more than twenty years experience in practising Yoga and teaching bodywork. Today, retired from aerobics, her focus is purely on teaching Yoga.
Meng Foong speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, English, a little Hindi and French.
Marc de Faoite is originally from Ireland, but has spent the last twenty years living overseas. He has practised Yoga for more than twelve years and spent more than a year and a half in India studying Yoga, Sanskrit, Meditation and other techniques including Watsu and Reiki under a variety of different teachers. He has taught yoga in France, Ireland, India and presently Malaysia. He believes in sharing his experience and enthusiasm for Yoga.
Marc speaks English, French, Dutch and Spanish and is presently making slow, but steady progress in Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay and Tamil.
Co-founders of Yoga Now, Meng Foong and Marc first met in an ashram in India in 2005 while studying yoga. A year later they ran into each other again in the same place. Then Marc moved to Malaysia in 2007 to be with Meng Foong. Now they are married and teach yoga together. In 2009 they moved their yoga studio from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi. They are both vipassana meditation practitioners.
