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Retreat Host - Prague, Czech Republic
personal. I started going on retreats and studying with teachers who opened the doors to the philosophical and internal layers of the practice. In 2022 I completed my 200 hour training without ever planning to teach. Yet the more I learned, the more I felt pulled to share....
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Teacher TrainingAt 26, I left London to travel in Australia, where I discovered a yoga ashram. This led to a year in India immersed in ashram life, meditation and silence, before moving to Thailand for two decades and later to Bali....
Teacher Traininginjuries from conventional fitness methods, I've found yoga which provided relief for that - after that everything clicked and I dove deep into practicing more than 6h daily for the next decade....
Teacher TrainingIn 2003, I got married and moved to Vancouver, Canada, where my life pretty quickly fell apart. Newly divorced, in a new country, and emotionally raw, yoga created a very important space for self-reflection and healing....
Teacher TrainingYoga gave me tools to regulate my nervous system and reconnect with my own voice. It helped me move through depression and burnout and tune in to something deeper. What started as physical practice quickly became a lifeline....
Teacher TrainingIndia changed everything. Over 30 years, I kept returning. I met powerful, peaceful teachers doing real work in the world....
Teacher Trainingmasters in Ayurveda, Self-Knowledge, and Earth-based traditions, all of which are now weaving into my own teachings. What a path this is to be devoted to. Every day, I thank yoga for the graceful way it brought me home....
Teacher Trainingled me to my first teacher training, and from that point on, yoga became my life's path. The first step into the yoga business came when I co-created a holistic healing concept with my ex-wife called Feel 2 Heal....
Teacher TrainingI've always had a love for movement. Sports like basketball and rowing were my first passions, but when yoga found me at 18—right as I was entering university—it felt like a homecoming. It didn't just capture my body, it captured my heart....
Teacher TrainingIn 2015, she opened her own hot yoga studio. It was exciting, but it came with a reality check. Teaching brought her joy, but running the business drained her. Admin, operations, managing a team—it wasn’t her thing. Still, she kept going....
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