About myself
Hi there, nice to meet you! I’m Monika, yoga therapist and yoga teacher, with passion for way more things than can be fit into a single day. Continuously learning is my hobby I would say.
Already as a child I was fascinated by the human body. Becoming a doctor was the obvious direction for me. Then I became a teenager, and with that came the curiosity to explore other fields. So I ended up with a master of economics and worked 16 years in management positions. But soon enough I found my way back to my true passion. I started doing yoga in 2008 in South Africa, and was completely captivated by the experience – which at the time I couldn’t yet explain.
I had a wow feeling from that very first moment. Yoga helped me to feel better at a time of major work-related stress. In a few months time I did my first teacher training.
I started teaching evening yoga classes in 2014, next to my job. After a couple of years I finally made the choice to make the big change. Since 2020 I have been working as a full time therapist, initially as part of a multidisciplinary team at a medical center specialized on burnout. I studied yoga therapy (medically applied yoga) intensively for two and half years, and acquired my 850-hour yoga therapist diploma certified by the IAYT in early 2023.
It’s been and continuing to be an amazing journey. Each client is complex, and different in how their bodies and minds function and interact in their subtle ways. When we get to the necessary insights about these body-mind interactions is when we can make the transformation happen: to have less pain, to feel calmer, to have more energy, to sleep better… to allow people to become healthier and to feel true peace inside their own skin.
