Driven by a desire to learn more about yoga and to master the art of teaching it, I completed a four-year yoga teacher training program (YCH) at the Swiss Yoga Center. Since 2014, I have been teaching yoga in group and private classes as a side job. In my main career, I have worked to protect the global environment and human health from the negative impacts of toxic substances, spending seven years in the Environment Department of UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and, prior to that, nearly ten years at the Federal Office for the Environment (Switzerland). At the moment, I am taking a break, during which I am dedicating more time to teaching yoga.
My regular, long-standing yoga practice has taught me, among other things, to recognize my physical and mental limits, to accept them, and to continually rediscover them. I am better able to come to terms with my own mortality and with the constant changes in my environment as well as within myself. Yoga is an anchor that gives me stability, no matter where I am.
“The ideal posture is both stable and light.”
Yoga Sutra 2.46
Praying Mantis, Nepal
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Education and Training
2025
- Training as a Childcare Provider and Childcare Worker, BildungsAkademie, Vienna (Austria)
2024
- First Aid Course for Children, Johanniter, Vienna (AT)
- Advanced Meditation Course (online) with Brigitte Feige, https://brigittefeige.de/willkommen.html
2023
- Training: Integrative Shamanic Transformation Therapy, Stefan Limmer, Schamanenpfad, Regensburg (Germany).
2020–2023
- Advanced Training Course: “Individualized Instruction and Yoga Therapy,” Swiss Yoga Center, Grenchen (CH).
2021
Whole-Body Breathing—Based on the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli, seminar led by Sandra Sabatini and Michal Havkin (18.5 class hours), Vienna (AT).
2019
- Since 2019 , I have been pursuing advanced training in body-experiential learning through yoga with Gitta Stagl in Vienna , Austria.
- Vedic Chanting – Sound, Power, Concentration, with Hilde Peer, M.A., yoga teacher (BYO/BDY/EYU), Salzburg, Austria.
2018
- Yoga in a Medical Context – Postural Analysis and Correction (16 hours),with Mag. Martina Sommer-Goldammer and Dr. Andreas Goldammer, Yoga Praxis, Vienna (Austria).
- Ashtanga – 8 Limbs, One Path: A Seminar on Yoga Philosophy (16 sessions) with R. Sriram, Vienna (Austria).
- Yoga in a Medical Context – Yoga and Mindfulness (12 sessions) with Mag. Martina Sommer-Goldammer and Dr. Andreas Goldammer, Yoga Praxis, and Mag. Klaus Kirchmayr, Vienna (AT).
2017
- Yoga in a medical context, focusing on aids and assists, with Mag. Martina Sommer-Goldammer and Dr. Andreas Goldammer, Vienna (Austria).
2014–2016
- The Application of Yoga as a Healing Art (20 lessons) withDr. Imogen Dalman and Martin Soder, Berlin Yoga Center, Weggis (CH)
- Sound Yoga (13 lessons) with R. Sriram, Männedorf (Switzerland)
2013–2016
Certificate from the Swiss Yoga Association, Biel, Winterthur, Weggis (CH)
Publications
Viniyoga and Individual Therapy: Yoga Info 1 2018 published by the Professional Association of Yoga Teachers in Austria (BYO), pp. 11–14. Yoga Info 1 BYO
