Tove Palmgren is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with an approved and active Registered Yoga School (RYS).
- Tove Palmgren, E-RYT 500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher,
- Yoga Alliance), M Pol Sc, found Ashtanga vinyasa yoga on a Greek island in the summer of 1988. For many years her teachers were Derek Ireland and Radha Warrell.
- “It was like meeting a long lost friend and turned into a profound relationship. It brought together the yearning to go within, in search for what is hidden from the eye and the yearning to move the body in a way where new layers of understanding can constantly be uncovered.”
- Tove was the first person to practice and teach Ashtanga vinyasa yoga in Finland. Her methods of teaching changed much over the years through both intense study and the work she did with different teachers along the way.
- She also studied with Aadil Palkhivala for several years.
- Tove has completed YA certified a 200 hr TT in Cornwall with John Scott, a 500 hr and 2000 hour teacher training program in Washington, USA and was a certified Purna Yoga instructor until the spring of 2020, when she decided it was time to move on.
- Tove has also completed a training in how to teach teachers in October 2012.
- In all Tove has assisted Drew Stallcop and co-taught two 200 hr TT:s with him and additionally taught six more 200-hr trainings and been the main assistant in a 500-hour TT and several Therapeutic TT:s.
- Tove has recently had her own private yoga studio built on the island Nagu in the Finnish archipelago where she will teach weekend retreats and private classes. Slowly also adding on online classes.
- She will also continue to lead retreats at Santillán retreat centre close to Málaga, Spain.
- "I hope that through my teaching I can help my students become happier, healthier and more connected in their lives, so that they can find their own potential and growth."