Viktoriia Savytska _ Sava Ria is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).

Victoria was born in the iron heart of Ukraine - Krivoy Rog, where she started practicing yoga in 2008. It was a passion that burns to this day, transforming and transforming her and her life.

Interest in yoga grew into studying asanas and reading books, including Iyengar, attending various practical seminars, and a few years later manifested itself with the first course for teachers and holding the first classes in 2014.

After university she worked as an engineer, but in 2015 yoga completely changed her mind and outlook on life.

In 2017-2018 she traveled to India where she met new friends in the yoga world and changed her mind again about the purpose of yoga, learning asanas, shatkarmas and pranayamas.

In 2018 she completed a 90 hour YTTC in Kharkiv school Yoga light system, taught online to her students from Ukraine and as a volunteer at the center for integration of foreigners in Sopot.

Since 2018, Victoria lives in Gdynia, having gone through a difficult path of integration and searching in a new society, now works with immigrants in the same center as a consultant.

In 2022 working with refugees for a while shifts the focus from teaching yoga.

In 2023 she gets involved in a project that renews her faith in her abilities and the importance of following the path of Yoga and passing on her experience to people, especially those living in exile. 

In the summer of 2023 she completed 200 hours of training at Balkan Yoga Academy with Anna Vesna and returned to teaching with new strength, developing the Namaste space in Sopot and Gdynia.