I was born in Ukraine, grew up in Canada, and now I live and teach yoga in Berlin. I started practicing Hatha yoga when I was 15 after being diagnosed with a scoliosis. With yoga, I learned how to heal and transform the body, specifically dealing with spine-related problems. After an accident where I had a broken and a paralyzed arm, I learned how to rehabilitate with yoga after an injury. This experience also helped me to understand the nature of a trauma and how to use yoga as to heal it. In August 2013 I completed a 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training in Thailand with the Akasha Yoga Academy. After the training, I started practicing daily in the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga method, although I continued to use the elements of Hatha Yoga in my teachings. After practicing one year with Grischa Steffin, a student of Richard Freeman, I did his Ashtanga yoga Teacher’s Intensive in April 2014. In August 2015, I started to practice Ashtanga with Andrea Lutz, a long-term senior student of Nancy Gilgoff. In August 2017 I did a 10-day Ashtanga Yoga Intensive Teacher Training with Andrea. I have also done workshops with other great Ashtanga yoga teachers such as Manju Jois, Mark and Joan Darby, Danny Paradise, Taylor Hunt, Laruga Glaser, and Ty Landrum. All-together I have been doing Ashtanga regularly for 7 years and practice Advanced A series. Since the end of 2017, most of my work is dedicated to my project, Berlin Yoga Conference, but I do teach occasional specialty events, workshops at yoga festivals, and private classes.
