Adela Serrano
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
A former economist and banker, Adela discovered the power of Yoga in 2006 when she was living in New York City. She obtained the 500 hrs (Registered Yoga Teacher) certification by the Yoga Alliance through the Yoga Works Teacher Training program in New York.
Afke Reijenga
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Today, I give away smiles all day! Afke used to live a rock 'n roll life style, working in art, tv, and film, surrounded by a world that felt increasingly artificial. Her longing for real authenticity grew stronger and stronger.
Agnes Vissering
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Hatha, Vinyasa, Restorative
Agnes discovered yoga in 2000 in Bali. Continuing her travels through India and Scandinavia, yoga became her lifelong path. She went back to India many times to deepen her practice and eventually to teach.
Alejandra Kemna
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
Alejandra sees yoga as a tool for life. To stay in balance, as a mom with two kids, yoga connects her to her inner strength and spirit. She is both Chilean and Dutch and has been teaching yoga for over 10 years.
Amanda Dries
Ayurveda
Amanda is from Wales in the UK. She worked for many years in sales, then as a purser for two main airlines, experiencing different cultures. After meeting her Dutch husband she moved to Holland and had three children. Over the last 14 years, she has taken on various studies for health. From 2010-2015 she studied at the Academy of Ayurvedic Studies to become an Ayurvedic practitioner.
Amélie Duvernay
Astanga Led
Amélie is born in France and originally comes from Burgundy. In 2008 her interest in Yoga starts in Paris, where she practices Hatha and Bikram Yoga until she discovers Astanga Yoga. In 2009, she starts a 200-hour Teacher training at Astanga Yoga Paris with Linda Munro and Gerald Disse, and follows them to Auroville, India, for workshops with them and with Monica Marinoni.
Anna Scott Miller
Astanga Led, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
Always attracted to people and the possibilities of the physical body, Anna first started to study Physical Education to become a PE teacher. She started teaching gymnastics in her teens and after college PE.
Anne Vida Ikeda
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang, Mindfulness
Anne initially began practicing yoga to relieve stress and balance her hectic professional life back home in Montreal, Canada. Yoga has since become her journey that would impact every facet of her life, inspiring her to learn presence, patience, compassion, self-love and much more.
Anne Hermans
Hatha, Yin, Prenatal Yoga
Without being consciously aware of it at the time, Anne’s Yoga journey started with her parents. Her first meditation practice was in front of a teddy bear altar when she was 8 years old. After a little detour in the Amsterdam fashion world, she ended up on her Yoga path.
Anouk Neijsen
Astanga Led
Anouk started her yoga path in 2008. While working in a highly stressful environment as a fashion buyer, she turned to yoga to find peace of mind. After trying several styles of yoga she was first introduced to Astanga yoga in 2010, while on a yoga retreat in Italy. It was love at first sight.
Asha Hossain
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Yoga Basics
After working in retail and recruitment for many years, Asha came in contact with her Self through yoga practice. Yoga created awareness, which she applies in every aspect of her life.
Beatrice Savaris
Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga
Born in Germany but raised in Italy, Beatrice comes from a design and communication background; creativity and curiosity have always been her life motives. She met yoga in a period of massive changes, finding herself again as she grounded into the yoga mat.
Bente Groenendaal
Hatha, Vinyasa
As a student of life, guided by the method of Yoga, Bente aims to shed light on peoples unique paths by sharing her understanding and practice of movement, connection, bodymind-breath awareness and being (human).
Berry Lusink
Astanga Led, Hatha, Vinyasa
‘It feels like magic what a yoga session can do for you‘. Berry has been practicing yoga since 2001. The art of living yoga has given her more and more depth.
Brenda van der Toorn
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
Brenda first got in touch with yoga when she was 18. In the beginning, she was mainly interested in the physical aspect of the practice. But slowly she started to become more conscious of the effect yoga had on her.
Chantal Soeters
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
"Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle." – Thich Nhat Hanh. Chantal Soeters is an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher from Amsterdam. Anusara yoga is a vigorous Hatha yoga system developed by John Friend, combining a positive life approach, biomechanical principles and a close community.
Charlotte Simons
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
During her travels in South-America in 2008, Charlotte was introduced to buddism, where it immediately impressed her with its wisdom. Soon after, she started to practice yoga regularly and experienced the benefits of yoga herself.
Chiara Vegt
Hatha, Vinyasa
Whilst yoga was all around when Chiara was younger, her mum teached and practiced yoga, she wasn’t attracted to it at all. She thought of it like kind of Goofy, while at the same time she loved to turn the pages of her mums’ yoga books and just stare at the exotic postures and people.
Chrisey den Ouden
Hatha
Chrisey has always been looking for the essence of things. First she tried to understand people and their behaviour better by studying Acting and Theatre. It was observing in a playful way. In 2009 she visited India for the first time and felt connected to this country instantly.
Claudia Pradella
Mysore Program
Originally from Italy, Claudia moved to London after college when she was in her mid 20's and incidentally started her yoga journey there. Her therapist said "do some yoga, it will be good for you", and so she did. This was 20 years ago.
Claudia Kratzheller
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yang, Restorative
Dancing. Breathing. Yoga. Being. That's her life in four words. :) She helps people discover new insights about their bodies, so they can embrace their spiritual and energetic state wholeheartedly.
Dana Marshall
Yin, Meditation, Mindfulness
Dana Marshall (Brooklyn, New York 1962) teaches Mindfulness and Yin Yoga. Dana is known for her heartfelt way of teaching and applies it to daily life. She creates an atmosphere of warmth and kindness in her classes which encourages students to relax into their bodies and minds.
Daniel Maciejewski
Vinyasa
Joy and lightness are the driving forces behind Daniels yoga practice. His vinyasa classes include elements from various practices. Tibetan joint loosening warmups, an astanga inspired flow and mindful observation of stillness and movement; Together with the use of sound in the form of your own voice reciting mantras, music he creates or songs he selects, Daniel invites you to an inward journey beyond the stories of the mind.
Daniela Agius
Astanga Led, Vinyasa
Daniela was introduced to yoga and joined her first class primarily out of curiosity back in 2006 while studying for a Masters Degree in Sweden. Little did she know then, how much she would grow to enjoy such practice.
Daphne Luttger
Astanga Led, Yin
Originally from Amsterdam, Daphne’s search in the outside world has brought her to her inner world. In 2008 she decided to take the Astanga Yoga Teacher Training with Johan Noorloos and Marcel van de Vis Heil.
Daria Mnych
Astanga Led, Meditation
Since a young age, Daria has always been fascinated by spirituality and the cultural condition. Beyond asana, Yoga is a way of life that enables Daria to continue to reflect, to feel and be present – on and off the mat.
Davide Piai
Meditation
Davide studied contemplative practices for 20 years, spending five years at a traditional Buddhist philosophy college in Nepal as well as time in long practice retreats.
Dylan Hendrix
Astanga Led
Life Journey Since a young age, Dylan has always been fascinated with life’s great questions; his own life journey has given him an unusual eye for the beauty and interconnectedness of life, and made him sensitive to the human condition.
Ellen Paalman
Astanga Led, Vinyasa
Ellen Paalman is a Astanga en Vinyasa yoga teacher and dedicated yogi with a deep interest in yoga postures and their mechanics. As a child and teenager she was fascinated by dance, but finding yoga felt like coming home. She felt she was finally allowed to look within, instead of focussing on picture perfect.
Emma Brasser
Hatha, Yin, Prenatal Yoga
Emma’s exploration along the path of self-enquiry started with a journey around the globe in 2011. These travels also guided her to India, a place that became a second home over the years and helped her find a deeper, more meaningful yoga practise that focussed less on just the physical part of yoga.
Ergün Polat
Yin, Mindfulness
Physical practice has always been a part of Ergün's life. For years he played soccer and spent many hours at the gym. But in his searched for more meaning he switched to the practice of martial arts (Wing Chun) which gave him the opportunity to combine physical practice with the principles of Eastern philosophy.
Eric Weber
Vinyasa, Restorative
In 1996 sparked by personal interest and curiosity Eric Weber set off to discover the world of Iyengar yoga. He immersed himself in the yoga philosophy and concentrated specifically on the alignment of asanas. His discovery of yoga started as a passion, to this day it has not let him go and allows him to travel far abroad.
Erica Jago
Hatha, Vinyasa, Meditation, Pranayama, Restorative Yoga
Combining storytelling, emotionally connected classes, visionary art and framed nature, her way of teaching inspires inner knowing, interconnectedness and spiritual care.
Eva Ugolini
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Eva’s passion for Yoga and Ayurveda started almost 15 years ago whilst taking a course in Ayurveda-Yoga massage in Rome, her hometown.
Fleur Van Zonneveld
Vinyasa, Meditation
Fleur first came in contact with yoga while studying at the Dance Academy. Having started her career as a dancer, she now finds dance and yoga to be the perfect combination.
Francesca Gobeille
Yin, Meditation, Restorative, Mindfulness
Francesca Gobeille has been immersed in Eastern philosophy and spiritual practice since birth. Her father taught yoga and meditation in the 1980s, and mother is also a longtime yogi.
Froukje den Nijs
Hatha, Vinyasa
Froukje started practicing yoga while working in fashion fulltime. When yoga started connecting her more to her heart she realized she needed to change her path. She quit her job and started deepening her practice, first 50 hours Pre-Teacher training at Delight Yoga, later 200 hours Hatha Teacher training at Tattvaa Yoga Shala in India and then 200 hours Vinyasa Teacher training at Yagoy.
Garmt Wiersma
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yang
As a teenager, Garmt went to his first Yoga class and had a hard time understanding what he was doing there. At the meditation group that he joined his greatest interest was the time, the clock. "How to bare this for one full hour!” The spiritual lessons didn't fit at all to his adolescent lifestyle.
Hanna Paz
Vinyasa, Yin, Meditation, Yin Yang
Hanna started practicing yoga during her professional dance training. She soon discovered the beneficial effects of yoga on the body and mind, and it became part of her.
Hedi de Vree
Hatha, Yin, Meditation, Yin Yang
Hedi de Vree (1976, Stavanger Norway) has vivid childhood memories of watching her girlfriends drop to the floor in splits and do cartwheels, while she wondered why her own body wouldn’t move in that easy way.
Ike Dielesen
Yin
From her younger years, Ike was searching for things to make sense in life. When she started with yoga she found that connection. Yoga for her is a way to explore and to be still.
Inge Peters
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Inge Peters started practicing meditation in her early twenties. While being a filmstudent, she was looking for more peace of mind and for ‘Truth’, which led her to meditation. She studied at Brahma Kumaris, Rigpa (Sogyal Rinpoche) and practiced Vipassana meditation.
Ingrid Notten
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Ingrid has been practicing Yoga since 1998, when she took her very first Astanga Yoga class in London. This class made a deep impression on her and it became the starting point of an ongoing practice and study on the path of Yoga.
Ira Hardjosusono
Hatha, Meditation
Ira’s yoga classes are characterized by her students as very careful and direct, moving deeply in the energy of the moment, to the rhythm of the breath.
Irene Sportel
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Irene's yoga classes are a fusion of her passions: Yin and/or Vinyasa Yoga, healing and live music. Everything Irene shares comes straight from her heart and is there to help you drop down from the mind into the heart. To remember your true nature. To embrace yourself as you are and as you feel. Her classes are taught in a safe, simple and clear way, so you can completely focus on your inner experience. And when you lay yourself down for Savasana, Irene shares some live mantra music!
Irene Lomer
Astanga Led, Vinyasa
Irene grew up in England and moved to the Netherlands in 2010. From a young age she was introduced to eastern health and movement practices by her parents and since her early 20's yoga has been her biggest passion. After completing her first teacher training at Yogasite with Robert Boustany in 2015, Irene began teaching.
Irina van der Sluijs
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Yin, Mindfulness
Irina feels a deep longing for exploring consciousness. She used to sit in silence for hours in the church of her hometown and felt at ease in the surrounding nature with animal life. Later on it was in dance where she experienced the freedom and endless space that is ours to roam.
Janneke Krijgsman
Hatha, Vinyasa, Mindfulness
Janneke believes that the outer world is seen through the eyes of the inner world. Yoga and meditation are her favorite ways to connect to that inner world. Sometimes through a powerful flow that fires your body up, sometimes by being still and simply listening to what your body has to say. Always with awareness of the breath.
Jasmijn Koelink
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang, Mindfulness
Trained in social and organizational psychology, Jasmijn was thrilled to discover yoga at age 25. A few years later she completed the vinyasa ashtanga yoga teacher training (300+ hrs).
Jen Orlando
Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative
Jen Orlando moved to Den Haag in 2017 from New York, where she spent the last 9 years learning yoga and using it as a tool for thriving in a fast-paced world. What started off as a physical practice evolved into a practice of self-transformation and self-regulation.
Jenny Schoenmann
Astanga Led, Vinyasa
Jenny Schoenmann is a Yoga Alliance certified Yoga teacher, teaching Ashtanga and Vinyasa. Born in Germany, she was exposed to Yoga from a very young age as her mother is a dedicated Yoga teacher.
Johanna Eliasson
Astanga Led, Vinyasa, Yin
Johanna was born on a cloudy and cold May day in the year of the Ox in Örebro, Sweden. Already in early teenage years, she was interested in Eastern philosophies, continuously searching for the answers to questions that could not be answered by Google. It was in 2006 when she took her first yoga class that things started to fall into place. The body felt like jello, the heart was light as a feather and the mind was still.
Jolijn Bruijnaers
Vinyasa
Yoga came to Jolijn 10 years ago. She found peace and her true self by practicing asanas and pranayama. She went to India to study as a yoga teacher and there she was also charmed by the beauty of Ayurveda. She then decided to undertake the path to become an Ayurvedic massage therapist and practitioner.
Jonas Nathan
Yin
After a turbulent life Jonas felt stuck in the moment. There was no where to go but to surrender and to go inwards. Connecting more and more to a spiritual practice with different kinds of yoga he eventually fell in love with yin yoga. This was coming home for him. Following his heart he signed up for a teacher training with José de Groot.
Josta van der Kolk
Astanga Led
As an interim manager and coach, Josta has helped many people and organisations through change and transition. She started practising yoga more than ten years ago and immediately felt a connection between her personal development and the yoga practice, and she now helps others with that same connection.
Judith van der Klink
Hatha, Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga, Restorative
Judith has been teaching movement and dance for more then twenty years. She initially trained as a contemporary dancer at London Contemporary dance school, later as a teacher and choreographer at Codarts in Rotterdam.
Julia Blohberger
Astanga Led, Yin
With wanderlust in her blood, the desire to help and inspire people to connect to themselves she has decided to become a Yoga teacher. She has been a dedicated yoga practitioner on and off the mat since 2009.
Jurre Twijnstra
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Yoga Basics
The breath is magic to Jurre. “The breath takes me to places in the body that feel like inner in outerspace”.
Juul Hagemeijer
Astanga Led, Vinyasa
When Juul Hagemeijer was just a baby, the pulsation of music already made her body move, since then she has been fascinated and inspired by the human body in all its aspects, which eventually led to a bachelor in theater dance.
Kamini Stam
Prenatal Yoga
Kamini has always had a passion for movement. As a kid she was always outside, exploring her boundaries; climbing, dancing, moving! Kamini took a break of her study in psychology to travel to India in 1997 where she learned and practised different methods of bodywork.
Kasia Pokrop
Prenatal Yoga
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1983 Born and raised in Poland, Kasia left her home country at the age of 22. Starting her journey in Ireland, she continued to Belgium, Amsterdam, Singapore, and back to Amsterdam, where she found her new home. It was also here in Amsterdam where her yoga journey began.
Kathrin Bindig
Astanga Led
Kathrin started her Yoga Journey in 2010 when she embarked on a Study in Daoism with the focus on Daoyin and Taiji. Originally from Germany, Kathrin left her Country when she was 19 years old.
Katiza Satya
Astanga Led, Hatha, Vinyasa, Meditation, Healing Yoga, Restorative, Satsang
Katiza Satya is a yogini in heart and soul. She is An experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (ERYT500-RYT 500) and licensed to certify students at the 200 & 500 hour levels.
Katka Jacz
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Katka discovered yoga quite unexpectedly. While taking time off and traveling after her studies she found herself on a Caribbean beach in an impromptu yoga class, and immediately knew that something had shifted in her life forever.
Katrin Kögel
Yin
After moving from Germany to Amsterdam for love and music at the turn of the century, Katrin took her first yoga class – which turned out to be a life changing experience. Yoga has made her life richer and more beautiful.
Kelsey Beth Paul
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yang
Kelsey Beth believes that there exists magic in the connection of one's heart, mind, and body. Practicing Yoga and Mindfulness is her favourite way to feel connected - both to her own inner world, to the external world, and all beings on our Planet.
Kevin Sahaj
Hatha, Meditation, Pranayama, Healing Yoga
Kevin Sahaj is a dedicated yoga practitioner who has been studying and practicing yoga for 30 years. His approach to teaching is eclectic and draws from many different methods and teachings to help students align their lives towards awakening.
Khadija Maros
Yoga Nidra
She was born in Morocco and this country awakened a deep connection with nature within her from a young age. This stimulated her curiosity in the seasons and the food that nature brings with it.
Kimberly Poppe
Meditation, Mindfulness
An international meditation teacher, Kimberly leads courses, workshops & retreats and has been doing so worldwide for over 12 years. Deeply respected for her clarity and warmth, Kimberly was immersed in Buddhist study and practice for 20 years with some of the greatest Tibetan teachers of our time who personally trained her to teach.
Kirsten Drooger
Hatha, Yin
Kirsten is an ayurvedic practitioner, a Yoga and Ayurveda teacher, and most importantly, the mother of two wonderful boys. She is endlessly curious about the deeper layers of life and feels the necessity of slowing down and to soften in order to connect with life on these deeper levels.
Kristin Vikjord Paternotte
Hatha, Yin, Meditation, Yin Yang, Restorative
‘Wherever you go, there you are’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn. Kristin is the co-director of Delight Yoga. When her yoga journey began, it was like a piece of the puzzle was found. Yoga inspires Kristin in her everyday life, bringing her much joy and perspective.
Lauranza Harvey
Prenatal Yoga
Lauranza started practicing yoga whilst at university studying for a Fine Art degree over 15 years ago. After her studies came to an end she travelled from India to South East Asia and deepened her yoga practice and knowledge along the way.
Lidewij Severins
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Yin
For Lidewij a life without yoga is unimaginable. At a very early age she was introduced to yoga and after various trips to India, Thailand and Bali she decided to follow her heart and dedicate her full attention to yoga.
Liisa Russmann
Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Liisa’s yoga journey began in 2005 in London where she discovered the balancing benefits of yoga for body and mind in a traditional Hatha class.
Lilian Kai
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Since Lilian was a little girl, Reiki, Healing, Massage and Yoga were part of her life (even though she didn't know it was called that way). This entire unknown yet very familiar world of healing, energy and Yoga in all its forms, felt like home from the moment she discovered that there was indeed; way more than the eyes can see.
Lindsay Stellaard
Astanga Led, Prenatal Yoga, Astanga Mysore Beginners
Lindsay her passion for yoga started at the age of 19, soon she discovered Astanga yoga and fell in love with this dynamic type of yoga. This unique yoga style has changed her life and transformed her way of seeing things in a more forgiving and loving way.
Lisa Weijburg
Astanga Led, Hatha, Yoga Basics
From the moment Lisa was introduced to yoga she knew the yoga philosophy suited her. Having tried different yoga styles she has found that her heart is in Astanga Yoga, which she has been practicing intensively since 2011.
Lisanne Lambert-Stoop
Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga
Lisanne’s passion for yoga started in a hot and sweaty Bikram Yoga room in 2008. The intense practice, which started as a way to blow off some steam from a stressful life in fashion design, brought her some sincerely spiritual moments that slowly resonated with the rest of her life.
Lonneke Lamers
Hatha, Yin, Yoga Basics, Meditation, Yin Yang, Restorative, Mindfulness
After years of practicing yoga next to a busy office job, Lonneke's curiosity for yoga had grown. A couple of things came together, which led her to yoga philosophy, mindfulness and Chinese medicine. It was a process of healing in itself.
Lotte Ritzer
Vinyasa, Yin, Yoga Basics, Yin Yang
For as long as she can remember Lotte has been interested in the workings of the body, emotions and mind. So when she encountered yoga during one of her trips to Asia, and discovered the deep healing effect, she immediately realized its invaluable significance.
Luca Bellucci
Hatha, Vinyasa
Luca, born and raised in Florence, Italy, is a passionate teacher that explores practising through a dynamic vision of the traditional Astanga Vinyasa Yoga method. Trained in Florence by Larry Schultz Rocket movement “It’s Yoga”, he became certified Astanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher in 2015 and, following the path of Larry Schultz method, became a certified Rocket teacher in 2016.
Lydia Aytogmus
Astanga Led, Vinyasa, Mantra Meditation
“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.” Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati Since her very first class, Lydia Aytogmus has been mesmerized by the transformative power and therapeutic impact of yoga; that by means of breath and movement on the mat, we can explore the interconnectedness of all off the mat.
Maartje Bakker
Meditation, Mindfulness
After getting her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology Maartje immersed herself in mindfulness. It became her passion and specialization both on a personal and professional level. The benefits of a calm and focused mind are incredible valuable and worth sharing with as many people possible.
Maggie Bijl
Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga
Maggie Bijl was born on Earth Day (April 22nd 1980) in the midwestern United States. She is a true Taurus: reliable, practical, ambitious and fiercely loyal.
Mariette de Kroon
Meditation, Mindfulness, Tibetan Healing Yoga
Tibetan Yoga Lu Jong, 5 Elements & Awareness Meditation, Tsa Lung, Mindfulness, Full Moon Tibetan practice & Meditation In 2007 Mariette met her teacher Tulku Lobsang – a Buddhist master and physician – and his warmness teachings arrived directly in her heart.
Marije Roede
Astanga Led
Movement has always been an integral part of Marije’s life and when she decided to go to university to study psychology instead of continuing with the dance academy she was attending at the time, yoga came into her life and filled the gap that was left behind.
Marilou van Hoek
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Hatha, Pranayama
Born in the Philippines, Marilou came to the Netherlands in her teens. She feels blessed with the best of both worlds: East and West.
Marsha Broeke
Astanga Led
After a period with a lot of lower backpain, wich finaly resulted in a hernia Marsha came in contact with Ashtanga Yoga. She immediately fell in love with the movements of body and breath connection. She noticed that not only physically she was healing, but after a long period of being really shy and insecure she started feeling better in her own body. One day her teacher advised her to become a teacher.
Martine Wieten
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Who am I to say who I am? I read that somewhere and liked it a lot. After all, to write a bio is only to state who you think you are. It’s a concept. And I’m learning more and more not to believe everything I think. But let’s give it a go :-)
Matsyendra
Meditation, Pranayama, Restorative
Matsyendra teaches from and to the heart, connecting the outer yoga of posture and breath to the inner yoga of concentration and meditation. Teaching the classical style of Hatha Yoga, it is influenced by his own practice of Kundalini Tantra and Kriya Yoga.
Maximiliaan Cohen
Astanga Led
In 2012 Max decided to quit his job and move to Manila to travel and work. Just before he left for Manila, he discovered meditation. Amazed by the positive results in his daily life, his first Vinyasa yoga class soon followed. He loved moving the body in a flow and the awareness on the breath.
Megan Riley
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Megan began an Astanga practice at the start of her career in higher education after completing her graduate work in creative writing in the U.S. What started as a search for an exercise to reduce stress and connect philosophy to practice, the yoga led her to her first teacher and, eventually, to her first trip to the Krishna Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India.
Mirjam Lieffering
Prenatal Yoga
For more than 20 years Mirjam is a passionate yogi. After a turbulent life, she completed the 500hrs Sivananda Teacher Training of two years. In the ashram of Swami Nirgunananda Saraswati, she received her spiritual name Mahasiddhi. She has followed numerous additional trainings and workshops. Her philosophy is, even as a teacher you are a student, and learning is a never-ending process.
Nancy Reyerts
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
Travelling by sailing boat across the oceans for over 10 years made Nancy see the effects that external world has on the mind. Being in complete focus, acceptance and calmness when at sea and unrest and distractions when returning to land. This created a awareness that needed further exploring.
Nanneke Landman
Hatha, Yin, Yin Yang
Growing up in South Africa, Nanneke was inspired by African Dance which eluded an interest in physical movement early on. Curious about the deeper essence of life, she found that studying yogic philosophy and Buddhism were the only things that truly made sense to her.
Natasa Mojsilovic
Hatha, Yoga Basics
Natasa had her first hatha yoga class in Belgrade, Serbia before the year 2000. Yoga practice felt right from the start, with the resonant feeling of joyful presence. On a quest to further explore this feeling the yoga path has brought her to various karma and hatha yoga practices.
Nathalie Ho-Kang-You
Hatha, Vinyasa, Restorative
Her historical foundation leads back to scholarly training in classical and modern ballet. She worked as a performing artist and still teaches classical ballet and contemporary dance. She discovered and fell in love with B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga technique right after her dancing career.
Nora Schrijver
Hatha, Yin, Yin Yang
Triple (!) scorpio. Soulsearcher en truthseeker. Determined to live her life wholeheartedly, doing things she loves and let everything have it’s time. Still ambitious, though softened through her journey. Aspiring minimalist, though spending on quality food is an exception. Chocolate addict.
Ombretta Dettori
Ayurveda, Astanga Mysore Beginners
Ombretta encounters Yoga in 2012, shortly after moving to Amsterdam: reluctant at first she comes out of the class feeling slightly high and willing to try again but is only after her first Ashtanga class that she is hooked. Ashtanga and Yin are her “playground” during the first years: she experiences the gift of her body and realizes how disconnected and out of balance she is.
Pascale Bonnet
Hatha, Prenatal Yoga
Pascale started practicing yoga following the home birth of her son in 1992, with a Shivananda book in the Philippines where she was living. She felt so empowered that she decided to make it her profession after the homebirth of her daughter in 1994. She certified with yoga and massage at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the USA, in 1996.
Patricia Veltri
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Yin Yang
Yoga has been in Patricia’s life for a long time. She was 9 years old when for the first time she saw someone practicing yoga. That person was her grandmother who, after living 6 months in an Ashram in India, came back and started practicing yoga every morning.
Paulien Ten Brinke
Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga
Yoga came to her path in 2008. First the physical part and later the healing aspect of it. After doing more and more yoga she started with a teacher training in vinyasa yoga. She loves to combine the classic asana’s in easy slow flows to come into a moving meditation.
Peter Roussel
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics, Restorative
A new level of self enquiry started with spontaneous insights in hot spring in the Himalaya 1998. On returning to UK at the age of 23, Peter was gifted yoga classes that sparked fervent practice of Astanga until he completed Yoga Arts TT under Louisa Sear in 2001. Three more teacher trainings and many workshops since, Peter learned the structure and knowledge of Iyengar Yoga with Glenn Ceresoli.
Philine Nugteren
Vinyasa
Philine’s first encounter with yoga was as a young girl watching her grandfather going up into headstand every morning. She was intrigued and joyfully started copying these shapes and she discovered that moving, dancing and being upside down created freedom and happiness in her body.
Regina Németh
Hatha, Yin, Prenatal Yoga
Gymnastics, dance and music have been part of her life since very early age. Regina's love for yoga started in 2010 in India, and in 2012 she completed her 200hrs Yoga Teacher Training with Dr. Sushil, and deepend her knowledge about Thai Yoga Massage, Reiki and Meditation.
Reinier Dorrepaal
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Reinier has started practicing yoga in 2003. After years of led classes in various styles of yoga, the authentic ashtanga yoga fascinated him completely and in 2009 he became a dedicated practitioner of the traditional ashtanga yoga method.
Rolandjan Van Mulligen
Yin, Meditation, Yin Yang, Restorative, Mindfulness
For over 15 years Rolandjan dived deeply into various Yoga systems, like Anusara, Kundalini, Yin and Iyengar yoga, while also studying and practicing several massage treatments such as ThaiYoga/ assisted Yin massage, Shiatsu on-site massage and Fascia therapy.
Roos Neeter
Hatha, Vinyasa
Roos her yoga journey started while living in Florence for her studies. From that very first class in 2008 she felt that yoga was something very special… while at that time not yet understanding how special exactly.
Roos Metje
Vinyasa, Prenatal Yoga
Roos’ yogic journey started a couple of years ago when she felt a strong urge to ground herself and to discover different ways to be in the present moment and to find harmony in all her ways of ‘being’. Coming from a high demanding acting world where everything is focused on appearance she felt like it was time for a change and for finding time to open up and get a clearer view of her 'Dharma'.
Royce Benda
Meditation
Who am I? At a young age Royce knew his heart wish was to serve all beings. Struggling with how to implement this in every day life, he found that to truly help others, he first needed to listen to his own heart. Through experience Royce learned how easy it is to outrun yourself and ended up in a burnout in 2010.
Sasha Van Aalst
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
I first came in to contact with yoga in a white room with a tree in the middle and Katiza Satya gently guiding how to salute and acknowledge the sun. I was young, tender and touched - a trace of wonder left behind. Years later while studying Art History at the University of Amsterdam, I began discovering Ashtanga Yoga in 2009 here at Delight Yoga. I've been practicing daily since 2012.
Saske Wentink
Astanga Led, Mysore Program
Saske started practicing yoga during her (surf)travels in 2008. After practicing yoga around the world for a year, Saske wanted more deepening and in 2010 she went to Kathmandu, Nepal for her first TTC. She was very much inspired by her teacher Chintamani Gautam, but had not found her own practice yet.
Shari Iskandar
Yin, Mindfulness
After studying Econometrics and working for several start up companies, Shari became aware that the way she lived was too stressful for her and found herself burned out for about a year. During that period she started doing yoga everyday, mostly Yin yoga, and felt that it was exactly what she needed in her life.
Sido Wijga
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Yin, Yoga Basics, Restorative
In 2008 out of curiosity Sido found his way to a yoga class above his working place, one of the first classes of Kristin Vikjord in Amsterdam (co-founder of Delight Yoga). This is where he discovered Astanga Vinyasa Yoga. He soon noticed the positive effect of yoga on his physical and mental condition.
Simona Schimanovich
Vinyasa
Simona takes people on powerful journeys guiding them into a deeper connection with themselves and to live more fully from the heart. She is passionate about sharing yoga as a powerful practice for healing and growth. She loves the richness and expression of Vinyasa Flow and teaches vibrant, soulful classes with creative sequencing. Her teaching is inspired by the elements and cycles of nature.
Simona Benvenuti
Astanga Led
Simona was born in Italy and since her youth has been living abroad, following her passion for different cultures and languages. Since 1999 she has settled in Amsterdam where she lives with her 2 daughters.
Sjoerd Dragtsma
Hatha, Vinyasa
After flirting with yoga in his twenties, this time (2015) he was naturally and unavoidable drawn into the yogic fire. The sacred Amazone ceremonies gave Sjoerd many glimpses about what it means to be a human being, to live with other beings and how we tend to keep ourselves small and ‘secure’.
Skadi van Paasschen
Astanga Led, Yin, Yin Yang
Skadi teaches yoga and pilates. She’s been practicing posture and movement therapy since 1995 and has worked with rehab patients for many years.
Sonja Radvila
Mysore Program
Originally from Colorado, Sonja Radvila has been a daily practitioner of Ashtanga yoga for over fifteen years and teaching since 2008. She is authorized to share this method as a Level 2 instructor by the KPJAYI, in Mysore, India and teaches internationally.
Sophie Schaefgen
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics
Originally from Germany, Sophie came to Amsterdam to pursue a Master degree in Environment & Resource Management.
Susan Pulley
Hatha, Ayurveda
Absorbed by Ayurveda for more than a decade, Susan is deeply invested in helping people transform their vitality and become their best selves through practical use of classic Ayurvedic nutrition, herbs, warm oil treatments, education and yoga. She is the founder & lead practitioner at Atma Ayurveda, a full- spectrum wellness clinic offering Ayurvedic consult & treatment programs in Amsterdam, where she specializes in women’s health & menopause.
Tanisha Lindeman
Astanga Led, Mysore Program, Vinyasa
Being born in Singapore with a Peruvian and Dutch background Tanisha is a truly international Yogi. She speaks fluent English, Dutch and Spanish and gets her inspiration from all over the world, giving her a heart for traveling.
Tara Chirimar
Hatha, Vinyasa
Growing up in the light of spirituality made Tara ever looking for a deeper purpose in life. Her background in Psychology didn't seem to reach the aspiration she was searching for. Not until she started deepening her Yoga and Meditation practice, this inner search was fulfilled. This made her travel to her fatherland, India, to study Vinyasa, Hatha, Astanga and therapeutical Yoga.
Tessa Schiebroek
Hatha, Hatha & Pranayama
While traveling Asia in 2014, Tessa experienced her first Yoga class and immediately fell in love. Her journey within started and questions like 'who am I and what makes me going?' came up. She constantly got confronted with the fact that things just happen, and that she responds out of old habits and patterns.
Vera Kaye
Yin, Restorative, Restorative Yoga
Vera Kaye took her first yoga class in 2002, during her theatre studies, to keep the performers’ body in shape. After taking a fall on stage in 2012 and getting injured, yoga became the healthy way to explore the new physical state. She quickly realised it was working on levels beyond the physical. The intensified practice revealed patterns and habits, some not constructive (anymore) or even destructive.
Victoria (Tory) Hyndman
Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Basics, Pranayama, Restorative, Ayurveda
In a light-spirited manner yet sticking to the authentic teachings of yoga, Victoria uses the wisdom of Ayurveda in her yoga classes for students to experience spiritual access through physical practice.
Wendy Wanner
Yin, Prenatal Yoga
At first combining her calling with a hectic job in communications, Wendy has worked as a massage therapist and yoga teacher for 6 years now.