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 many years in strategic marketing. But I soon enough 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 the 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 module.
I started teaching evening yoga classes in 2014, next to my job for a couple of years, when I finally made my choice to make the big change. In 2020 I quit my job to become a relaxation therapist at a medical center specialized on treating burnout patients, and simultaneously started to study yoga therapy. After two and half years of intensive study I acquired my 850-hour yoga therapist diploma certified by the IAYT.
It’s been and continuing to be an amazing journey. Each client is different and complex in their own ways, how their bodies and minds function and interact in subtle ways. When we get to the necessary insights 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.
