Annelies is a physiotherapist since 2005. She worked in a rehabilitation 
centre for four years. Through her career she has developed a great interest in physical and mental health. Now she studies a master psychology at the University and works at a physiotherapy practice in Utrecht. She has been practicing pilates for a few years and started to give classes as a part of her work in the practice. Her first contact with yoga was in 2007, through a friend who learned it in India. In the pilates classes at Yoga Moves she combines Perfect Pilates with yoga stretches.
Teachers
Our studio is only as good as our teachers. And we are very proud of our school, and thus our teachers. Their commitment, passion and dedication to providing the very best Yoga classes and instruction are admirable. As a group, they are incredibly well trained, experienced and talented. As individuals, they each have their own unique style, approach and creativity to bring to their classes and their students. All of our teachers have participated in our rigorous, highly respected Teacher Training programs or an equivalent training program (min: 200, most at the 500 hour levels from Yoga Alliance or the equivalent).
We believe you cannot teach what you do not practice and thus, we screen our teachers to make sure each one of them has experienced firsthand the incredible transformative power of Yoga and are real and honest practitioners of this art and science. We are honored to have them on our teaching staff.
For more information about a specific teacher please click the name.
Annette Polman is a therapist, teacher of meditation and artist. Between 1993 and 2003 she intensively studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism. She has complemented her knowledge and expertise with hypnotherapy, which she studied at the Atma Institute in Amersfoort. At the moment she finds most of her inspiration in the teachings of Pema Chodron and Eckhart Tolle. She initiated a Love Meditation group that has been running since 2000 and frequently hosts courses and workshops, such as: Developing Love, Living like this year is your last, Forgiveness and letting go. In 2004 she started her private practice. As an artist she designs and tailors exclusive party -and theater gowns and costumes, which she mostly sells at art fairs.
Asaf is a dedicated Yoga practitioner and a long time mind-body explorer. Since 1998 when he received his first yoga lesson the seed has never stopped growing. During the past 10 years Asaf visited India 4 times and studied with different teachers in various disciplines before falling in love with the beauty and richness of the Iyengar Yoga method. Ever since, Asaf has been practicing worldwide with senior teachers such as Cle’ Souren, Birju and Rajvi Metha (Bombay), Manouso Manos (San Francisco), Usha Devi (Rishikesh, India), Rajiv Chanchani (Dehradun, India), and Rita Keller (Koln, Geramany). Asaf is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who gives great emphasis in his teaching to going deeper towards integration of body, breath, and awareness.
Asaf holds university degrees in Law (LL.B) and Business Administration (MBA) and has worked for seven years both as lawyer and as business director in international organizations. This professional experience gave him an in-depth insight into the psycho-somatic challenges of office work and was a catalyst for the realization of the importance of mind-body balance.
Asaf teaches his regular weekly group classes as well as offering workshops, private yoga lessons and corporate-Yoga programs in Holland. www.liveyoga.nl
Barbara is a globetrotter!
She has taught yoga in Lisbon, New York, Rio Janeiro, Patagonia, London, Barcelona, Amsterdam and now we are lucky to have her share her love of yoga at Yoga Moves, Utrecht! At the age of 17 she was introduced to Iyengar yoga and she went on to receive a degree in Physical Education and Dance. Barbara’s life is dedicated to the art of movement and yoga. She has studied Iyengar yoga and Ashtanga yoga with many seniors teachers: Sri. Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Rangaswamy, Nancy Gilgoff, Manju Jois, Rolf Naujokat, BKS Iyengar, Mary Dunn to name the most known yogis. In addition she has undertaken periods of Vipassana meditation in Europe, South America and Asia and of course in daily life. She is also an Ayurvedic Therapist. Barbara has experienced so many benefits from the traditional approach to yoga as taught by Sri. Pattabhi Jois that she dedicates her teaching style to express this tradition, with of course the addition of her own personal expression of love and playful inspiration.
Carin started practicing yoga in 2003 in Utrecht by Liese. She was im
mediately taken by this way of yoga; the body and mind develope to more and more strenght and flexibility. After a lot of classes and retraets she completed in 2007 the Sivananda Teachers Training course in Poland. Started classes in Utrecht and since 2008 also in Culemborg. In the summer of 2009 she did the Sivananda-classes of Liese in Yogamoves. And she is happy to started regular Sivanada class is Yogamoves on tuesday.
Claas started to practice yoga in 1997. He was a slow starter. The first 4 years he enjoyed one class a week at an Iyengar school. Then he discovered Yoga Moves, the school of Hilary Menting. He gradually intensified his practice and in 2005 he followed the teacher-training program at Yoga Moves. By then yoga became a serious part of his life. He is now in the middle of the teacher-training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Amsterdam. He enjoys teaching Iyengar yoga with some more playful ingredients.
Claudia Pradella has been involved with transformation work since 1997, having studied a variety of disciplines from personal coaching, vipassana meditation, thai massage, biodanza and many more. However, her affinity and interest in Eastern philosophy, reinforced by several journeys through Asia, led her to a deeper connection to the Yoga tradition, over several years of personal practice and various studies with teachers from all over the world. Claudia is a fully committed student of yoga. After moving from the UK to the Netherlands at the end of 2002, she followed a year long teacher training program by YogaMoves and trained directly with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and TKV Desikachar. She has been teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, as well as giving 1-to-1 lessons, applying the concepts of yoga therapy to create a practice that suits each person's individual needs.
Dana Marshall was born and raised in New York City and moved to Holland in 1989. Brought up as a second generation Shambhala Buddhist she has been involved with the path of meditation for thirty years. In 2003 she completed the 100 hour Vinyasa Yoga teachers training Level One and in 2004 she completed the 170 hour Vinyasa Yoga teachers training Level Two at Yoga Moves. In 2010 she completed a 60 hour Insight Yoga teachers training with Sarah Powers. Dana is a visual artist and has been practicing fine art photography for as long as she has been practicing the Shambhala Buddha dharma. To learn more about Dana’s art and her spiritual tradition you are welcome to visit the following websites.
www.dmarshall.nl
www.shambhala.nl
Hilary Menting is the founder of Yoga Moves, which she opened in Utrecht in summer of 2001. A native Californian, Hilary has studied and practiced many forms of yoga, healing arts, massage & bodywork and dance since the early 1980's.
She has also been practicing yoga during these years and she holds a teacher certification in Iyengar Yoga & Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and has studied with numerous unknown and well-known teachers. She teaches primarily Vinyasa Yoga - a fluid but precise, dynamic yet relaxed method that incorporates the breath as a focus of moving meditation. She has worked and studied in the field of communication, health, movement, and business for over 25 years and has a Masters Degree in Health Prevention Services from the University of California, Berkeley. She brings her love of movement, yoga and her interest in personal expression to all her teaching work.
Hildegard is teaching our childrens yoga classes...more on her soon!
Hiske was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her first contact with yoga was at the age of 11, through the book The king, the cat and the fiddle by Yehudi Menuhin. Intrigued by the yoga poses Menuhin described for young violinists, she started exploring Hatha Yoga. Years later, as a student and part-time group fitness instructor, she started to take yoga classes regularly. A couple of years after discovering Yoga Moves and taking classes with Hilary, she enrolled in the teacher-training program, and started to teach when she finished it.
Since that time she completed the three-year Iyengar yoga teacher-training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Amsterdam with Clé Souren, Charles Hond and Annemieke Post. She is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher since 2009. During her teacher training she participated in many workshops with internationally renowned teachers, amongst others a workshop with BKS Iyengar in Moscow, and a 7-day intensive with Geeta Iyengar in London. She continues to take regular classes and workshops with several senior Iyengar Yoga teachers. In 2010 she will follow a month-long course at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Puna, India. She started working towards her Junior Intermediate 1-certificate.
“The body is the most important instrument we learn to play. Yoga assists me in making and keeping my body strong and healthy, gives me mental calmness and clarity. In my classes I hope I can help others to experience the same.”
Katarzyna was born in Poland. Since childhood she was busy with dance. In 2001 she moved to Austria for modern dance course. Then she moved to Holland to study dance choreography. In 2004 she finished Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts), on dance choreography department, where she got her bachelor degree.
The art of dance brought her first to Pilates. In 2007 she got her Perfect Pilates Instructor diploma and after that she decided to share her knowledge to students. The enthusiasm of her students helped her to decide about opening own studio. At the moment she gives classes in PILOGIN Pilates & Yoga Studio in Rotterdam.
Being a certified and passionate naturopath, working with groups and giving lifestyle and nutritional advice, it was inevitable for Kyra to be inspired by yoga. After practicing at home and in various places like Australia, Thailand, Costa Rica and Portugal for a number of years she decided to deepen her practice and start the Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Moves. Yoga for her is part of a lifestyle and something that she likes to share through teaching classes but also by using it (asana, breath, awareness and philosophy) during her workshops and in her articles on nutrition and conscious living. Other than that Kyra loves music, hammocks, traveling and surfing the waves when the sky turns pink and the sea shines like gold.
Liese started practicing yoga in 1997 in London. She was immediately inspired by the practice and since then successfully completed the Sivananda Teachers Training course in India.This was an intensive experience with focus on all aspects of yoga including meditation, chanting, philosophy and of course asanas and pranayama. She has been teaching extensively throughout the international Sivananda Organization, and since her return to The Netherlands in 2002 teaches classes in the Sivananda tradition in Utrecht. ILiese trained as a pre- and postnatal teacher with Francoise Barbira Freedman of Birthlight (UK).
In the meantime Liese developed an interest in Ayurvedic therapy and is currently finishing off her training to become an Ayurvedic Practioner. She is connected to the Academy of Ayurvedic Studies in Amsterdam as a teacher in Ayurvedic nutrition. At Yoga Moves Liese offers Sivananda Hatha yoga classes, prenatal classes and several workshops on Ayurveda. www.shantiyoga.nl
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Marlene Henny has been a certified Iyengar yoga teacher since 2003. She is currently teaching in Amsterdam and at Yoga Moves. In addition, she is a faculty member of the teacher-training program at Yoga Moves. Her teaching style is a combination of Vinyasa and Iyengar yoga. She teaches with a clear eye on body alignment and gives clear descriptions on how to work intelligently with yoga, but also incorporates the influence of her dance training where she lets students move the body through its entire range of motion on the wave of breath.
She lives in Amsterdam and in the past few years has spent her winters teaching in India/Goa where she has organized a number of yoga retreats. In the past, Marlene performed and taught dance in several professional studios in the Netherlands and Israel. Marlene enjoys teaching and connecting to her students and helping them to find their bodies, grace, power and essence.
Matthijs Brouwer heeft ruim 10 jaar ervaring met boeddhistische meditatie en doet regelmatig korte retraites. Dit jaar begint hij eveneens met het geven van Mindfulness trainingen volgens de methode ontwikkeld door John Kabat-Zinn. "Meditatie is ontnuchterend. Je komt je eigen gedrag en gedachten steeds tegen, je leert er om lachen en het leven wordt een stuk lichter, ook de regenachtige maandagen. Ik vind het leuk dat er tegenwoordig zoveel wetenschappelijke interesse bestaat voor mindfulness en meditatie, het haalt meditatie uit de zweverige context en plaatst het meer direct in het leven."
Neda has lived in the Netherlands since 2001 as an employee of the UN. She discovered yoga as a student in Liverpool in the late 1990s and has been hooked ever since. She has been teaching yoga since completing teacher training at Yoga Moves in 2007. She is a dedicated Ashtangi and has studied with a number of international teachers, Nancy Gilgoff and Radha and Pierre among others. In 2008, Neda did Module 1 of the Birthlight pregnancy yoga teacher training at Yoga Moves and started teaching pregnancy yoga as well as Ashtanga and Power Yoga. Soon after, she fell pregnant as well, and was in the position to experience the effects of yoga on pregnancy herself. She uses this experience in her teaching.
Pieter Vlugt studied history and English in Amsterdam and works as a freelance translator. In 2002 he moved to Utrecht, where he discovered dynamic yoga. This form of mind/bodywork allowed him to combine an old love for sports with a deep interest in eastern philosophy and meditation. Pieter has completed both levels of the Yoga Moves Teacher Training and is a regular teacher at Yoga Moves and elsewhere and is currently also enrolled in the Iyengar Yoga teacher training in Amsterdam. His goal is to help people find their path to inner discovery through yoga.
Rogier came to yoga from an athletic background. His specialisation was 400 meter hurdles. “Competing at the highest of one’s capabilities, being fully in the moment with the mind completely focussed on only the next hurdle to come, staying relaxed even when the going gets tough – I have run magical races, although they were rare, in which everything seemed to happen of its self.”
But sports have a downside: injury. And injuries came. And they came more and more. In the end they prevented Rogier from reaching his former levels of competition. It was at that time that he discovered yoga. After a while of practice he started to have similar ‘flow-experiences’ as he had as an athlete, but now without any sense of competition. Surprisingly, through the yoga practice his injuries diminished and eventually disappeared all together. “It felt as if yoga was taking care of my body again.”
In yoga also Rogier’s education as a scientist and his interests in psychology and philosophy come together. He feels a deep gratitude and love for the yoga way of life. “In the end yoga is nothing special: it’s about living and being human. Yoga provides the tools.
Rosemarie Peerenboom is Australian and has lived in The Netherlands since 1990. She began yoga classes with Hilary in 2001 and quickly became attracted to the multifaceted influences of vinyasa style yoga on her physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. In 2004 she completed the Teacher Training course and began teaching yoga in Yoga Moves. Rosemarie has worked as an economist and physiotherapist and is now a fulltime teacher and performer of Oriental dance (belly dance).
Sandra Wind-Carson was born and raised in Holland and was introduced to Yoga when she was living in Toronto in 1997. From that time on, her interest in this ancient practice has only deepened. After becoming a certified teacher in 2002 (ryt500) she was introduced to Anusara Yoga. Today, she is studying with renowned teachers toward an Anusara Yoga teacher certification. Anusara Yoga is an elegant yoga style that combines universal principles of alignment with the non-dual Tantric philosophy that everything is an expression of the divine. Sandra’s classes are challenging, allowing students to explore their boundaries in a safe, fun way. Yoga philosophy, humour, chanting and vinyasa flow are key ingredients in a regular class. Having taught in the USA and England for several years, she is excited to share her experience here and learn from her students. Sandra wishes to express her gratitude to her teachers, in particular Bridget Woods-Kramer and John Friend.
Shauna Slingsby is originally from California and lives in Nijmegen with her family. Shauna teaches a transformative and empowering style of vinyasa yoga called Prana Flow® inspired by her teachers Shiva Rea and Twee Merrigan, who she has studied with for five years. She also specializes in pre-and post-natal yoga, conscious birth preparation, infant massage, and Trance DanceTM. Shauna is a mother of two, has experienced birth at home and in the hospital, has practiced yoga for 20 years, taught yoga for six years, and works with doulas and other international yoga teachers to educate women on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. She is an E-RYT (Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga AllianceTM, an internationally-recognized organization for yoga teachers. Her goal as a teacher is to invoke prana ~ life’s vital and creative energy ~ so that we can move/breathe/live from our natural source/center. Shauna also offers private sessions to all levels, beginner students to yoga teachers. For more information on Shauna, please visit www.waveyoga.com.
Skadi van Paasschen teaches yoga and pilates all over the world. With success she gives workshops in
A teacher of hatha yoga since 2005, and more recently infusing her classes with Ayurveda, Susan’s teaching approach makes yoga individual for each season, body type and imbalance.
She has a life-long fascination with self-exploration, and is delighted that yoga practice is the perfect vehicle for this. After all, every time you come to the mat there is a meeting of the mind and body, and an opportunity to learn about yourself!
Susan is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, offering Ayurvedic wellness & nutrition consultations and therapies, and specializing in women’s health. She teaches Ayurveda in an academic setting in addition to offering public workshops in Yoga and Ayurveda.
www.atma-ayurveda.com
Trix Marinusse started practicing yoga in 2002. After practicing yoga for a year she started the teachertraining at Yogamoves. After succesfully completing this training, she started teaching Vinyasa yoga in 2004. In 2006 at a yoga conference in New York she met John Friend, the founder of Anusara yoga. She became inspired by this form of yoga and soon after started the Immersion, followed by the teachertraining. Now she is an Anusara inspired yoga teacher. Besides yoga Trix her other passion is surfing, on a regular bases she leads yoga & surf retreats in Portugal. Trix her main goal is that the participants will leave her class feeling good about themselves and carry this out into the world.
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