Yoga
Already in my early teenage years I stumbled across yoga books, in the search of healing my skin illness. Years later I went to my first random yoga class and although I was a physical education teacher at that time, I knew straight away that this what I want to be: a yoga teacher!!
I’m teaching yoga since more over 20 years. My teaching is a product out of my own research of what yoga means to me. To put it only in a few words, yoga helps me to connect to my body, to my inner world, to ground and to fly, to strengthen and to lengthen, but most of all to soften and open, so I can breathe, so I can feel.
Although I graduated in other yoga styles, my main yoga teaching I received from Teresa Caldas - an amazing woman with endless knowledge and wisdom. I studied with her and graduated 2019 as a Vijnana Yoga Teacher. She gave me profound knowledge in all aspects of yoga and I’m for ever grateful to her for the heart connection I can experience between teacher and student and for the fact that she keeps on lightening the spark inside my belly, when ever I go to her.
It is her teaching that I pass on in my own ways in all my yoga classes, workshops and retreats.
Vijñāna Yoga
Vijñāna Yoga is a form of Hatha Yoga, which emphasizes on the effortless movement of the body. Rather than having the main focus on the physical structure, Vijñāna Yoga brings a deeper understanding that comes from within and the energetic power takes over the muscular strength.
It is a very unique yoga practice and it includes: just sitting (meditation), energy work (vayus*), breathing exercises (pranayama), yoga poses (asanas) and relaxation (savasana). Guiding principles include body relaxation, quieting of the mind, focusing through intention, grounding, connecting, expansion and awareness of the breath, all enable us to shift the awareness inwards, so we can understand and practice from within.
*5 inner vayus: apana (anus), samana (navel), prana (heart), udana (throat) and vyana (skin), 5 outer vayus: naga (purge), kurma (tears), krikara (sneeze), devadatta (yawn) and dhananjaya (elongate)
I’m very grateful to the lineage of Vijñāna Yoga, most of all to my teacher Teresa Caldas, who passed on the depth yoga to me, which I find often gets lost in the modern yogic world. She was part of the foundation of Vijñāna Yoga in 2008, together with Orit Sen Gupta (who translated the wisdom of the vayus). Teresa was a student of Dona Holleman. Vijñāna Yoga is a fusion out of B.K.S Iyengar (the anatomy and postures), K.Pattbhi Jois (the movement and flow of asthanga) and T.K.V. Desikachar (pranayama, meditation and study of text), all of them were students of Sri Krishnamacharya. There is very old knowledge, but at the end, we are still looking for the same: shining the light on our essence, which brings contentment and health and happiness in life.
Other Yoga trainings: In 2003 I qualified as a yoga teacher at the Sivananda Ashram in Austria / for many years I attended workshops (and read her books back and forth) with Donna Farhi / in 2018 I qualified as Yoga Nidra teacher by Swami Vedantananda, a close disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
Thank you from my heart to all the teachers!
Local class
Every Tuesday 10:00 – 11:30 @ Moinho Calmo, Vila do Bispo • 90 MINUTES
Yoga Style: Vijnana Yoga (Hatha Yoga)
Prices:
15 Euros per class for drop-ins
10 Euros for regulars / locals
Everybody is welcomed to the classes. The level of tuition is adjusted to the experience of the students.
I do have the knowledge and experience for teaching students with special needs and pregnant women.
If you have any questions regarding my local classes, please contact me on: 00351 962492607 or send me an email.
Yoga on the beach
If you like to breathe the ocean air while doing yoga, I can be booked for a private session/ groups.
Price: 60 Eur per hour per person, +10 for any extra persons
Location: I’ll find the best, most quiet and most suitable beach according to the weather conditions in Vila do Bispo/Sagres area
It is also possible to book me for a session in your home, if you stay in the south western Algarve
Please call me for availability: 00351 962492607 or send me an email.
Deep Touch
Holistic Full Body Massage
1 hour = 70 Euros, 1 1/2 hours = 100 Euros, booked via appointment, Vila do Bispo
I’m trained in many different kind of massages and will listen to your wishes, but also tune into your body to understand what’s needed in the moment.
