My main base is Geneva and its surroundings but I spend a lot of time in Greece and Slovakia, too.
The yoga style I do is hatha yoga with an emphasis on body awareness and respect to our bodies. I take inspiration from other disciplines like qi gong or Feldenkrais method.
I try to help people listen to their body and understand what it needs - and to define an individual program for everyone according to his/her needs, expectations, physical fitness and health issues.
Your yoga practice may be focused on strengthening asanas, relaxation or breathing techniques... it all depends on you.
Starting at the beginning, we will pay a lot of attention to body posture and breath and we will discover together which asanas are the most suitable for you.
The asanas I teach are simple and static, sometimes connected into a slow flow, other times practiced separately in a spirit of experimentation. I believe that yoga is not a synonym for stretching and that it requires balance between flexibility and strength. Usually, the structure of my personal practice is: breathing technique, followed by a warm-up, asana practice and relaxation or meditation. However, working with you, I will adapt to your personal needs. This means that the practice can be very gentle and contemplative or it can get more vigorous for those who seek a physical workout.
The keys of the practice are awareness, softness and patience.
Aware of the increasing number of injuries in yoga worldwide, one of my main aims is to make yoga practice as safe as possible by fostering respect to our proper body and its constitution and deconstructing fixed ideas about the perfect asana/ the perfect yogi.
What I'm trying to pass on is that yoga is not just a physical exercise but mainly a way to find inner peace and well-being. It's a means to achieve a state of consciousness characterized by a feeling of unity of all that exists.
Yoga and me
Yoga is one of my great passions. I have been practicing for about 15 years. For a longtime, I was practicing on my own. Then there came a moment I felt like sharing this feeling of well-being that yoga gives us. That's why I decided to do a yoga teacher training (Yoga Alliance registered school in Berlin from 2015-16) and then I started teaching. Today, I give private and group classes in Geneva, as well as various themed workshops.
Subjects that fascinate me
I'm passionate about studying both theoretically and practically various subjects:
Anatomy and its application in yoga practice, which allows us to find pure movement without pain and compensation – one of the most important principles of yoga and a basis of physical improvement.
I'm also exploring the role of sound in relaxation and self-improvement. As a music lover and a self-taught musician, I try to integrate the use of the beneficial power of sound, voice and music into the yoga practice.
There's a lot of subjects and practices that I find interesting not only for yoga practice but also for personal development and that I'm discovering recently, such as neuromuscular communication, acupuncture, reflexology, massage, qi gong, tai chi and others.
But the field where we can feel energy flowing, events connecting and everything coming together is much bigger: our life is this field, the world around us is this endless field...