Our teachers & facilitators
Birute Kaminskaite - Yoga Stretch & Hatha Yoga & LYS Marketing
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With a passion for an active and healthy lifestyle, Birute discovered yoga more than a decade ago and fell in love almost instantly with the discipline. While traveling and living in different parts of the world, she realized that meeting all the psychological needs is so much more important than focusing on physical appearance.
After years of exploring various styles of yoga as a dedicated student, Birute completed her formal teacher's training and received RYTT 200 Hour Hatha Yoga Certificate in Nepal. Her classes are relaxed explorations of the presence and ownself with traditional Hatha yoga principles. She chooses different asanas so the practitioners would cultivate awareness, mindfulness, concentration, and relaxation. Birute firmly believes that yoga is for EVERYONE, no matter what age, shape, or gender they are. She considers it a privilege to be guiding other practitioners through their own journeys. As much as she loves yoga, she is also fond of running, photography, spending time in nature, learning & discovering new cultures. |
Johanna Hellinger - Hatha Flow Yoga, Yin/Yang Yoga, Laughter Yoga
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Johanna is a passionate yogi and surfer. She is a registered and experienced RYT 500 Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, a certified Thai Yoga massage therapist and Laughter Yoga leader.
After quitting her Marketing job in Austria and travelling around the world Johanna started experimenting with different yoga styles and methods. In 2015 her travels brought her to India where she completed her first yoga teacher training with Trimurti Yoga school in the Himalayan mountain province of Dharamsala focusing on Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Yin Yoga. Back in Lisbon she started teaching at Little yoga space Lisboa whilst training as a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner with Hadadi School of Thai Massage. In 2018 Johanna did further training in Goa, focusing on the Philosophy of 5 Elements from Ayurvedic & Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective. Johanna loves being out in nature and in touch with the elements; be it surfing in the ocean, walking her dog in the park or hiking in the mountains. She likes to meditate, laugh and to meet people from different places all over the world. Yoga is the ultimate form of balance for Johanna, bringing focus, peace and harmony into every part of her daily life by practising and sharing. From spring to summer Johanna organises outdoor Yoga classes with Rooftop Yoga Lisboa and hosts Yoga & Surf events. She also leads Laughter Yoga sessions and Yoga workshops at Little Yoga space. More Info: www.yoganalisboa.com facebook: www.facebook.com/yoganalisboa/ Instagram: yogana_love_this |
Isabel C. Macedo - Hatha and Yin Yoga
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Isabel went to her first Yoga class when she was 16 years old and the practice always found a way into her life until she decided in 2015 to embarque on 250h Yoga teacher training with Yoga Alliance. Two years later she discovered and fell in love with Yin Yoga and decided to qualify as a Yin Yoga teacher.
Isabel has a background in acting and dance so she teaches with an inclusive approach that Yoga is for every body as each person has their own unique body anatomy and personal history. Through the practice of Yoga and Meditation, Isabel shares the joy of self inquiry and exploration of a deeper awareness and acceptance within ourselves. More information: https://linktr.ee/isabelcostamacedo |
Katrin Heuser - Somatic therapeutic Yoga & LYS director
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Yoga teacher and bodyworker, Katrin has always been interested in the body and movement. After many years of dance, her Scoliosis lead her to Pilates and finally to Yoga and Thai Massage, which then became her path in life. For her it’s about the never ending discovery of body and mind, to deepen the awareness and to release all tension and stagnation. Only then, the journey towards healing and transformation can begin, the capacity and power of resilience of the body can grow, and more space for positive life energy and joy can develop. She holds a 500h Level 4 NVQ Yoga Teaching qualification, trained in Manual Lymph Drainage and has studied extensively in Thai Yoga Massage and Osteothai, including a Master Osteothai qualification, over the past years. She used to run a Yoga Festival in London and launched an online anti-stress breathing programme. Since 2015 Katrin lives in Lisbon and co-runs Little Yoga Space, where she teaches and gives Osteothai treatments, and is the director of Hadadi School of Thai Yoga Massage, offering foundation and advanced training courses worldwide.
More information: www.hadadithaimassage.com/ |
Kirsten Wilkinson - Vinyasa Yoga
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Kirsten (Kaye) Wilkinson, MA, TCTSY-F, E-RYT, RCYT, Mind/Body Practitioner, SEP Student Cohort, IAYT Candidate, Qi-Gong Certificate Student, R-DMT Candidate, PhD Student Psychology/Somatic Therapy, Meridian University
Kirsten is the Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Motion, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation committed to sustaining the ongoing preservation and documentation of endangered ancient dance forms, as well as promoting resiliency, empowerment, trauma resolution, psychosocial coexistence, community and peace building through restorative, movement based practices. Through interrelated projects Legacy Motion dedicates itself to evaluating, creating and implementing high quality sustainable programs based on experience and collaborations in the field. Her professional dance career spans over 10 years during which she performed with such companies as The San Francisco Ballet, David Dorfman and Heidelberg Ballet. She has held positions at The Library of Congress, Dance Heritage Coalition, and various adjunct professorships at American University Cairo, University of Oregon, University of Hawaii and many more. After much physical trauma sustained in a car accident, she has found sanctuary in her yoga practice and teaching. She is a certified Hot Yoga and 200YTT yoga instructor with thousands of hours teaching moving bodies. Kirsten’s training comes from a broad background including Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Nidra, Alexander Technique, LabanNotation, Dance Therapy, TCTSY, and Mind/Body Therapy. She is also the Founder of Healing Motion, a place where you can discover your innate wisdom, restore yourself, and transcend to holistic wellbeing through private sessions, community events, and free offerings. www.legacymotion.org / www.healing-motion.org |
Lucy Bryan-Smith - Restorative Yoga and Ayurveda for women
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Having originally trained in Hatha/Ashtanga, Lucy now practices and teaches in a much more embodied way, allowing space to drop out of the mind and into the body. She uses a combination of Yoga Asana, somatic movement and breathwork to rebalance and calm the nervous system. These have been the practices that have been most profound in her own personal practice. Lucy's style is soft, fluid and often breath led. There's no strict alignment, just you and your body, however, it needs to be in that moment.
Lucy initially came to yoga feeling unfulfilled. She was also looking for something to help calm the anxiety and stress she was facing at the time. Over her years of practice, she has gained tools to help her manage her energies and anxieties and has found an access to an inner peace and quiet (this of course, needs consistent maintenance and is why it’s called a 'Practice'). |
Marie Keutler - Vinyasa Flow
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Marie is a Yoga Alliance-qualified Vinyasa, Yin, and Trauma-Informed Yoga teacher. As an ex-gymnast, dancer, and now yoga teacher, she has always had a passion for movement. Yoga has taught her to celebrate her body for what it is and not what’s expected of it.
More information: https://www.marieluyoga.com |
Martina Anguelova - Vinyasa & Yoga Nidra
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Martina is the Creator of “Yoga Time YAY!” - a place for yoga, cooking and healing practices for children, teens and families to inspire curiosity, creativity and connection and “The Seekers Circle” - a place for healing arts, astrology and oracle decks, where you’re guided to find the guru within the seeker.
She’s a Bulgarian by birth and roots, a Londoner by nurture and expression and a Lisbonite through transformation. Martina is a certified Family Yoga Teacher, a Yoga Nidra and EFT (Tapping) Facilitator, a Second Degree Usui Reiki Practitioner and an Astrologer. She's accredited by The International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine. Martina believes wholeness is the essence of wellness and shares the practices that make her feel as she was meant to. Whole. You can find her on yogatimeyay.com and theseekerscircle.com |
Myrthe Peters - End-of-life Doula
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Myrthe is a certified birth and end-of-life doula, offering people choice and companionship during life’s most significant transitions. The end-of-life space is one of her biggest passions, and she firmly believes that embracing this particular space as an entire chapter opens up a whole new experience of life.
She creates a safe space for individuals and groups to explore and experience death and dying, grief and loss. This space is characterised by comforting transparency, bridge-building between the medical world and our human experience, and simple ways to integrate new perspectives. Additionally, working with altered states of consciousness also takes an important place in her work as this can be a powerful catalyst for healing, becoming familiar with death and grief and, therefore, living life more fully. More information: https://www.fullcircledoula.org |
Nicolas Bal - Breathwork
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Nicolas is a certified breathwork facilitator & Enrootment Method practitioner. He combines his experience as a DJ and extensive knowledge of music to create a unique breathwork journey. For him, altered states are not only a tool to heal our deepest wounds and obtain new insights, but also a key to surpassing our economic, cultural and environmental challenges.
More information: www.mudmossmagic.com |
Gonçalo Roquette - Soundhealing
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"Everything is energy." This is the sentence that has always been present since Gonçalo can remember. He is a Reiki Master and Crystal Therapy Enthusiast. Also a Sound Healer passionate. It was in sound therapy that he discovered that in harmonic sounds you can find your inner silence.
His mission is to share what he learns, to help and bring more balance into people's lives physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. More information: www.instagram.com/goncaloroquette/ |
Tessa Garrelts - Meditation
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Tessa has lived most of her life in a very adapted way, studying and working a lot, trying to reach her own high expectations, being used to suppressing her emotions and needs without even realising it.
One day she got a wake-up call in the form of panic and anxiety that led her to realising that she had no idea what she really wanted, how to deeply feel and how to be herself without constantly trying to please everyone else. Diving deeply into meditation and into her own spiritual journey has helped her to connect back to herself. In her work she combines her psychological knowledge (M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology) with her spiritual experience (trained in meditation and energy work). After working in a psychosomatic clinic for half a year, she became self-employed and has been guiding others for over a year now back to their connection with themselves, their emotions and their inner voice with meditations, workshops, courses and 1:1 coaching. More information: https://joyful-transformation.de/en/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089605307876 https://www.instagram.com/tessajoy_garrelts/ |
Bruno Morais - Spanda Vinyasa
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Born in Portugal, Bruno is a nomad in love with nature, movement, the body-brain, biomechanics, neuroscience, music, food and dogs.
After studying psychology for two years, Bruno switched to the arts, completing his bachelor's degree in contemporary dance in Amsterdam. He worked as a dancer in Europe, Israel and Brazil. During those years, he practised yoga as a warm-up before rehearsals and shows, but it was in 2018 that he decided to take it a step further and joined his first yoga teacher training in Sri Lanka. He started teaching straight away, both in Portugal and around the world during his travels. After he completed his 300h teacher training, Bruno soon became a lead teacher in 200h teacher training courses in Portugal, India and Sri Lanka. He continued adding to his education and did other teacher training, namely somatic awareness, aerial yoga and trauma-sensitive yoga. Bruno brings his dance background and creativity into his sequences, always and inevitably inspired by the Spanda method. More information: https://www.instagram.com/bruno.moves/ https://www.youtube.com/@BrunoMoraisvinyasa |
Milagros Virasoro - Prenatal Yoga
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Milagros Virasoro has been a Kundalini Yoga teacher for more than 11 years now. She's a postpartum doula, trainer of the Mother's Journey, as well as a pre & postnatal yoga teacher trainer. Milagros teaches couples to prepare for birth, in her project "Seed of Life".
Her passion is working with women to support them during this journey of motherhood. More information: www.milagrosvirasoro.com instagram.com/milagros_yoga_doula |