Meet Our Teachers

Vanessa

Founder | teacher

Vanessa is E-RYT 500 (Hatha/Vinyasa), KRI 300 (Kundalini), RPYT 85 (Pre-and Postnatal), YIN 100 (Yin Yoga) certified, and a certified Ayurveda Wellness Coach (Shakti School). She combines the five elements and teachings from all of her teachers she has encountered during her travels around the world including Kundalini, Yin, Pranayama, and Vinyasa.

Simone

Simone teaches Yoga from the heart. Her passion is teaching pregnant women and new mothers, this powerful energy is beautiful and magical and fills her with pure joy.

Simone is a certified 300h Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga teacher since 2018.

Since 2020 she is trained in Pre- and Postnatalyoga and completes her Ayur Doula training in 2023.

Chris

Chris is UX Designer, founder and 800h+ certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher who discovered the magic of Jivamukti back in 2015. Chris’s classes are dynamic and challenging, yet accessible to all levels. He guides his students through the practice with compassion, helping them discover the transformative power of the practice.

Sahra

Sahra is a yoga and meditation teacher in Hatha Yoga and pre- and postnatal yoga. She fell in love with Yoga in Cape Town, South Africa, her so called 2nd home and decided to join a yoga teacher training in Bali in 2018. Since then she loves to inspire people to live a mindful and fulfilled life including Yoga and meditation practice. Her classes are mostly strong Yoga Sculpt classes and dynamic Hatha Yoga classes for everyone containing breath work, meditation and sometimes a deep relaxation with Yoga Nidra. She does also Meditation workshops for beginners.

Misa

Misa Mladenovic is originally from Belgrade. Prolific in sport from his early days, he explored martial arts including Karate, Kung Fu, Capoeira as well as Gymnastics and Parkour, Misa fell in love with Yoga  while studying sports on the faculty of sport and physical education. It is no surprise then, that Misa teaches Rocket yoga. Plenty of arm balances and uplifting energy awaits you.

Geraldine

Geraldine has a 500 hr certification bz the Yoga Alliance in Vinyasa Krama Yoga through WT Yoga Teacher Training program in Chile. She also holds a Ayurvedic Nutritionist certification, which combines her passion for healthy food with the yogic philosophy.

Adriana

Adriana is a classically trained ballet dancer from Rio de Janeiro. She has been performing in Germany since 2003  and loves to share her knowledge in her ballet barre and pilates classes.

Gerit

Gerit is a qualified teacher and personal trainer specializing in the field of sports rehabilitation/orthopaedics.  Her classes are full of energy, joy, heart and great music, and that’s contagious.

Anja

Anja von Behr is a Vinyasa Yoga teacher, Founder of „SUP-Yogis“ and SYA Ambassador for Germany (International SUPyoga academy). As a SUPyoga teacher she focus on keeping the outer and inner balance.

Saifohn

Saifohn is a certified Yoga Alliance Teacher (E-RYT 500) and Hatha Yoga teacher. She have been practicing yoga since 1999. What started out as a hobby developed more and more into a passion and eventually into a profession. After a number of training courses in various yoga styles to expand and deepen my practice, she was particularly influenced by Vinyasa Flow and Anusara Yoga. In 2000 she got to know the Pilates method and since then I have been practicing this holistic form of training with devotion, which for me is the ideal complement to yoga.

Eva

Eva is a contemporary dancer and multidisciplinary teacher.
She loves to be versatile and to explore many movement disciplines to enrich her knowledge and technique.
After moving to Berlin from Italy, she started to work as a fitness instructor, started her pathway with yoga completing a 200hr YTT and became a certified Animal Flow instructor.
Today she teaches contemporary dance, yoga, pilates and fitness workouts.
In her classes she combines power, body strengthening and mobility through a playful flow.

Eva believes that the human body has the power of being free and constantly searching new ways of expression.

Anusheh

Anusheh has been practicing Yoga since 2006 and accumulated more than 1000 hours of teacher training and continuing professional development in that time. Her classes are authentic, heart-opening, fun, deep and calm. She takes her time when practicing and conveying knowledge, making sure the body is aligned correctly and the breath is in tune with the body’s movement. Come try out her “Move & Meditate” classes at Viva.

Jennifer

Jennifer discovered yoga in 2015 and completed her 200-hour RYT at the Asheville Yoga Centre in February 2018. After moving back to Berlin in September 2018, she studied vegan nutrition and started teaching Restorative and Yin Yoga, as well as giving Yoga Nidra sessions and sound baths.

Maria

As a professional ballet dancer with over 15 years of experience in different countries, Maria has always been passionate about functional movements and effective training to build up lean muscle. She combines her knowledge of barre workouts and pilates to create her functional movement training.

Courtney

A Colorado native, Courtney believes that yoga can connect you to your truest self and help you move through the world in a beautiful way. Her classes are sweaty, soulful and centered around super healthy alignment. Expect opportunities to up the ante with arm balances and inversions as well as moments of surrender, all set to a soulful soundtrack. She holds a 200 hour RYT from Saraswati’s Yoga Joint in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Marie

Marie is bilingual (half American/ half German) and can teach in both languages. She just got back from 6 months in Carbondale, CO where she taught at both True Nature and Kulayoga.
She brings with her several teacher trainings (2008-2018), yoga therapeutics, Yinyoga tt (2012) and yoga nidra tt (2017), AYS (Ayurveda Yoga Specialist 2020) meditation tt (2020-2022 Himalyan Institute, Homesdale, PA)