I have practised hatha yoga since 2000, taught since 2005, and taught prenatal yoga since 2009. I also practise Slavic women’s gymnastics. I originally trained in Universal Yoga with A. Lappa, and in perinatal yoga at the Birthlight and Adama Yoga schools.

Since it is mostly women who come to my classes, I came to the conclusion that women’s and men’s practices differ. And my teaching style softened considerably. I saw that it is far from every woman who needs or wants to twist herself into a knot, stand on her hands and stretch into the splits. But absolutely every woman needs to be able to balance herself, emotionally and physically. I find that a gentle practice is ideal for that.

What draws me to Hormonal Yoga is precisely its feminine approach to practice and its ways of bringing your inner space into harmony. From what I have observed, many women today are at the “masculine pole” — strong, ambitious, logical. The result is an energetic and hormonal imbalance. In hormonal yoga a woman learns to engage the “feminine pole” — to let go of the mind and develop an inner sensing of herself, her body and her energies, to use imagistic thinking, and to heal herself.