About Shamana Center

Meet the Founders!

Our vision is for you to be a shining human being, vibrant and healthy. Our holistic approach is about creating harmony in your body, mind and spirit. We integrate many fields of knowledge in order to give you practical tools to make a real change in your life.

Joining us on this journey together, will allow you to emerge with a concrete vision of how to live your life as your own healer and guide.

Eran Dolev

Eran is known for his inspiring presence, empathetic heart, wisdom, and insight. From a young age, he felt a deep connection to the elements of nature and to the philosophies and spiritual traditions of the East.

Over more than a decade of extensive travel throughout India, Eran immersed himself in the study and practice of Yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and Eastern philosophy. His journey led him on yogic pilgrimages, into ashrams and ancient sacred sites, and through teachings and initiations with healers, teachers, and spiritual masters. Through these experiences, he discovered the yogi within and underwent a profound process of awakening, healing, and personal transformation

Eran sought to integrate the wisdom of the ancient Vedic traditions with contemporary Western life. He began his formal studies of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Eastern religions through academies and universities, deepening both his theoretical understanding and practical application.

After completing his studies Eran return once again to Mother India, this time in the spirit of service. Inspired by his yogic lineage and its emphasis on seva, selfless service , he dedicated the following years to volunteer work in South India as Project Director at Sadhana Forest, an international reforestation and sustainable-living community.

Eran later moved with his wife, Batya, to the sacred landscape of Lake Atitlán in the western highlands of Guatemala. Surrounded by volcanoes, mountains, and the living presence of nature, he continued to deepen his practice and study of Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda, and the Vedic sciences.

For the past decade at Lake Atitlán, Eran has devoted himself to sharing these teachings with an international community of students and practitioners. He has taught extensively in Yoga Teacher Trainings, retreats, workshops, and immersions, guiding students through the deeper dimensions of Yoga philosophy, meditation, pranayama, self-inquiry, and embodied practice. Alongside his teaching, he has maintained an active Ayurvedic practice, offering consultations, traditional therapies, and personalized guidance to support healing, balance, and wellbeing.

Drawing from many years of study, practice, self-inquiry, service, and initiation, Eran now shares his experience through Yoga and Meditation classes, Ayurvedic consultations and healing therapies, retreats, workshops, and teacher training programs.

In 2015, he founded Atitlán Ayurveda, and in 2019 he co-founded Shamana Atitlán with Batya. Through Shamana, Eran continues to dedicate his life to creating spaces for healing, transformation, self-discovery, and deeper connection , supporting others on their own journey toward greater awareness, balance, and wholeness.

Batya Dolev

Batya has followed a spiritual path from a young age, guided by a deep curiosity about healing, consciousness, creativity, and the nature of the human experience. At the age of 21, she traveled to India for the first time and went on to spend seven years living in the Himalayas, immersed in a simple and contemplative way of life. Through this journey, a calling gradually emerged: to bring her passion for healing into a professional setting and accompany others through their own processes of transformation.

Batya devoted the following years to both conventional and holistic approaches to healing. She completed formal studies in homeopathy and holistic psychotherapy, as well as a B.A. and M.A. in Social Work, weaving together psychological understanding, therapeutic practice, spirituality, and complementary healing modalities.

After completing seven years of studies, she returned to India, this time in the spirit of service. Together with her partner, Eran, she became a project manager and community leader at Sadhana Forest, a reforestation and sustainable-living community in Auroville, South India. There, she supported an international community of volunteers. These years of community life and service gave her invaluable experience and deepened the many tools she carries today in supporting people through healing, transition, and self-discovery.

In 2015, Batya and Eran moved to Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, where she has now lives and works for more than a decade. Becoming a mother during these years was a profound and transformative experience, further deepening her understanding of love, compassion, presence, and service.

At Lake Atitlán, Batya established a thriving holistic psychotherapy practice, accompanying people through emotional healing, personal transformation, relationships, life transitions, and deeper processes of self-exploration. Her therapeutic work draws upon her academic background together with decades of personal practice and experience in holistic healing, meditation, embodiment, and spiritual inquiry.

In 2019, Batya co-founded Shamana Atitlán with Eran, bringing together many of the threads of their lives and work into one space. Today, she continues to dedicate herself to psychotherapy, teacher trainings, retreats, healing work, creative expression, music, and community, supporting people in reconnecting with themselves and discovering greater freedom, authenticity, creativity, and wholeness in their lives.

Over the years, she has also taught Yoga and Meditation, facilitated retreats, workshops, women’s circles, voice and healing practices, and supported countless participants through Shamana's retreats and teacher trainings and transformational programs. Her work brings together psychological depth, intuitive guidance, embodied awareness, creativity, and a deeply human approach to healing.

Creativity has always been an essential part of Batya’s path. Singing, dancing, working with the voice and artistic expression have accompanied her throughout her life. In recent years, songwriting and music creation have become an increasingly important part of her work, allowing her to share prayer, emotion, healing, and spiritual experience through music and song, releasing her first album "Coming home" in 2021 and about to release her second album.

In 2017, she founded Shamana Creations, a clothing line born from her love of beauty, harmony, color, textiles, and the feminine form. Her designs reflect the same philosophy that runs through her therapeutic and spiritual work , freedom of expression, authenticity, beauty, and honoring the uniqueness of each person.