Meet our team
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Tania Revun
CO-FOUNDER, Certified Yoga Teacher YTT 200hrs
Tania is a co-founder of Lanka Tides, and a certified yoga teacher. She completed her YTT 200hrs dynamic vinyasa training in London with renowned Stewart Gilchrist. Her flowing, mindful style celebrates the deep connection between body and mind, and she weaves yoga into her daily life and work at Google DeepMind.
Having experienced the healing power of Sri Lanka firsthand earlier this year, she felt called to share its magic. Through Lanka Tides, she invites you to rest, move, and reconnect in this coastal paradise. -
Darya Rubashna
CO-FOUNDER, Business Development Director
Darya is a co-founder of Lanka Tides and a business executive in the gaming industry. After 10+ years of building her career in London, she felt called to slow down and made Sri Lanka her home last year. She is now opening hospitality projects in the Ahangama area, inspired by the rhythm of the ocean and the warmth of the community.
Through Lanka Tides, Darya hopes to share the beauty of Sri Lanka with fellow professionals, offering them a chance to pause, reconnect, and find new inspiration in this coastal paradise.
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Emily Cooper
ORGANISER, Event host & Surf program lead
Emily is the host and organizer of Lanka Tides, and a qualified yoga teacher. With a deep passion for surfing, breathwork, and blending Eastern practises/ philosophies with a modern lifestyle, she creates space for others to reconnect with balance, presence, and vitality. Whether on the mat or in the ocean, her approach is rooted in mindfulness, movement, and the healing power of the breath.
First visiting Sri Lanka in 2019 - it is now a second home, she loves showing others the magic of Southern Sri Lanka.
Lanka Tides was born from a real-life friendship, a spontaneous visit, and a shared love for soulful living.
A visit of a close friend became a shift in pace, and the quiet realisation that healing and recharging don’t have to be hard.
Sri Lanka offered something rare: a place where ancient wisdom lives in daily life. Where you can move from an Ayurvedic treatment to a sunrise surf, then rest in stillness under palm trees. It felt like a place where busy minds could finally exhale.
With roots in yoga, surfing, and holistic living, our international team came together to create something thoughtful and real — a retreat where each person can choose their own rhythm. Nothing is forced. Everything is offered with care.
This isn’t a performance or a prescription. It’s a space. For rest. For reconnection. For remembering who you are underneath the noise.