BE A WILD LOVE BEAMER!
Tell us how your journey with yoga started? From early teenage years, I have been interested in positive human psychology, and our capacity to grow. I have been experiencing, and exploring different ways of how to facilitate this capacity for love in academic, esoteric literature, music and arts. My fascination took me to study different sorts of dance, academic psychology, trans personal counseling and of course different styles of yoga. This journey took me to extraordinary places, meeting extraordinary people and experiencing extraordinary life enhancing situations. From an early age, I was intrigued by the ‘love technology’ that resides and comes through us. I often say: ‘I am teaching the technology of love, I am just showing the way how to program ourselves to become more natural and loving human beings’. I chose yoga as a major aspect of my path, as the body seems to me as the most apparent and accessible tool for self-growth and empowerment. I think I have just been sort of genetically predisposed to do so. I am just in love with love and life from an early age. I am not saying my life was super easy, but maybe because it was not easy, I learnt to find beauty in any moment, hence deepening my knowledge, opening up for life and love and inspiring other people to do so too is the biggest blessing for me.
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What styles of yoga do you teach and practice? I am teaching community focused yoga. I am a Partner Yoga, and HuMandala (aka Community) Yoga Teacher. This is a new generation yoga which integrates the principles of yoga in a very practical way, where an individual can simultaneously learn to connect to oneself and another. I teach Yoga for Adults, Families, Kids, Teens and Women at any stage of their lives. Even when I teach pre and post natal classes, we do a chunk of the session in pairs and as a group. After my classes we often go for a cup of tea or a meal to connect as a community. This type of yoga is so beneficial for kids and teens as well, as they learn to cooperate, give and receive, and they learn that they are necessary to each other. I love teaching individuals at different stages of their lives, sort of facilitating them through different rites of passage, in doing so this enhancing the connection to ones self. Better connection to ones self facilitates better connection to the other. Myself, I mainly practise Acro Yoga, as this is a form of Acrobatic Partner Yoga, just seems as a natural transition and a learning path for me. And of course it gives me so much joy too!