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about<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Yoga had a profound impact on me from the start. I remember well my very first session in 2012, at university. I woke up from my first ever Savasana (there resting pose at the end of each session), thanked the teacher and walked down the hallway. I remember the white pattern on the green carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not know what it was exactly, but I knew that this is what life was meant to feel like. <\/strong>This was also where the work started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mind was racing and my breath was shallow and my body unfamiliar. I was inflexible- could barely touch my toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

years of practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of my fellow students had been practicing Ashtanga Yoga throughout her childhood with her mother. I was luck to learn from her soon after discovering yoga, and in 2013 i bought Gregor Maehle’s book Ashtanga Yoga – Practice & Philosophy<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregor’s teaching became my steady companion, but it did not save me from making every possible mistake- except one: I overstretched, glared ambitiously at others during lessons, used Asana asa way to punish myself and (much later) identified myself with my now fit and flexible body. But I never stopped practicing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At university I studies philosophy, and from what I understood about phenomenology and epistemology I knew that working with my sensory system and the way I was looking at the world from within my body-mind was profound. This kept me on the mat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

becoming a teacher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2025, after 13 years of practice, I finally took the step and traveled to Bali to study with Gregor and Monica<\/a> in person. Their teaching \u2014 rooted in deep knowledge, humility, and compassion \u2014 changed me profoundly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it sounds like a clich\u00e9: Bali, yoga, fruit bowls, life-changing.
And yet, it truly was. Not because of the setting, but because I was ready<\/em>:
I had practiced, I had failed, I had returned \u2014 again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

why I teach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the training I took some time traveling, teaching and enjoying a new state of peace and clarity. It is this state, which I want to share with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Yoga is an act of service. Sharing a practice that has given me so much is a great honor for me, and I wish for everyone to have a chance to discover this gift. You will know if you want to. You will know when you are ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoga can change your life too, and I am here to guide you on this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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