WHO IS FERDİYE YURDAKUL?

Ferdiye Yurdakul was born on 05.02.1976 at Kalkanlı village in Cyprus. She completed her primary, secondary, and high school education in North Cyprus then she graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of "Turkish Language and Literature" in 1997 and worked in banking at Finansbank A.Ş. between 1998-2001.

From the years 2001 untıl 2008, she worked as a Turkish Language and Literature teacher in various schools affiliated with The Turkish Republic Ministry of National Education. She then returned to The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 2008 and continued her teaching at Near East College until 2010.

Meanwhile, she completed her master's degree in the "Department of Educational Management, Supervision and Planning" at Near East University. In 2010, she started working in schools affiliated with The TRNC Ministry of National Education and currently, she works as a Turkish teacher at Oğuz Veli Secondary School affiliated with The TRNC Ministry of Education.

FERDİYE YURDAKUL

She graduated from Anadolu University's "Philosophy" department in 2015 when she attended various Personal Development Training courses. Her path crossed with yoga in 2016 and she started taking Yin Yoga classes and continued with Devrim Akkaya's "Yin Yoga Teacher Training, 200 Hours" training in Istanbul, in 2018; In 2018, she took the "Psychology of The Chakras, 100 Hours" and "Meridian Theories and 5 Element Yoga Series, 50 Hours" training and carried the discplines forward to this day.

She received Reiki 1st, 2nd and 3rd-degree training in Istanbul in 2018 – 2019, and then she attended "Life Coaching", "Fairy Tale Therapy" and "Picture Analysis" training from Ademer Institutions, Ankara, and then "Children's Yoga Instructor Training" (2-7 years old) at Etkin Development Institute, Istanbul in April 2019;

Further successes came when she received the "Children's Yoga Instructor Training" (ages 8-15) from the same institution in Izmir. She completed the "Mandala (1st level) Training", which was opened privately by Gülben Aykaç, on April 5, 2019. In December 2019, she also attended Aslıhan Aksun's sixteen-hour "Mandala Teacher Training" in Izmir. She completed Yeditepe University's "Breathing Techniques Coaching" and "NLP" training in April 2020.

She successfully completed the Pendulum Training in March 2022, and finally in that year, she attended the Rune Reader Training and Natural Stones Training from the Middle East Campus. For a while, she gave Yin Yoga lessons in her home studio under the name "Vishnu Lotus Yoga Studio", at Bella View Boutique Hotel, at Effective Gym, and at Kalkanlı Solidarity and Solidarity Association; where she meditated.

FERDİYE YURDAKUL MANDALA ART

Nowadays, in addition to private Yin Yoga and Children's Yoga classes; provides face-to-face and online life coaching services. She regularly opens mandala workshops in Nicosia and Kyrenia and she voluntarily conducts mandala sessions in public schools. In individual and/or group mandala workshops; in child/adult mandala sessions, she has devoted herself to teaching this therapy method, rather than colouring it; she also focuses on mandala workshops and mandala instructor training to teach mandala drawing. She teaches Mandala, Philosophy and Yin Yoga at the University of Kyrenia 60+ Years Refreshment University.

On entering her fourth year of classes at the university she conducts interviews with various magazines and newspapers in order to reach the public. She has appeared on the leading TV channels of TRNC explaining about mandala and continues to do so. The first edition of the mandala colouring book, "Follow Your Dreams", with Turkish and English explanations, containing twenty nine ready to color mandala drawings, including quotes from celebrities, philosophers and scientists, was published in Ankara in July 2019.

FERDİYE YURDAKU BOOKS

Later, She released her second adult book, "Follow Your Dreams". There are two mandala colouring books with the same name for children. In 2020, she published her book "Mantras Yantras Mandalas", in which she explains various methods of meditation. In 2021, her book "Remember Me", which contains philosophical columns about life written in the conversation-memoir genre, was published. Her book “Breath” was published in June 2022, and her book “67 and a Half” was published in January 2023.

The author also has 4 e-books on the internet. She works as a columnist at Star Kıbrıs newspaper. She has been writing for Ailemiz magazine for nearly three years; In this magazine, she provides special yoga practices for children and young people. Her articles are regularly published in En Moda magazine and Olay Aydın newspaper.

She designs malas and bracelets from natural stones and draws personalized mandalas in her own style. She exhibits all she does on her website www.ferdiyeyurdakul.com, on her Facebook page “Vishnu Lotus” and on her Instagram account @mandala_by ferdiyeyurdakul. She likes to start the day with meditation, protect nature and all beings in nature, produce, travel, do sports and most importantly, run outdoors for the unity of soul and body. She is a member of KIBATEK (Cyprus Balkans Eurasian Turkish Literature Community). She received the International Honor Award with her book "Lives Like Broken Glass" at the Feminenart Festival 2023 in Istanbul.

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