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.
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.
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
Breean Brasile has recently moved to Utrecht from New York City. She began her career as a professional dancer after she graduated from New York University with a degree in Fine Arts. She then spent a number of years dancing with Ballet Hispanico of New York, The Cherylyn Lavgnino Dance company and Refractions Dance Collective. She has performed as a guest artist at The Pusan International Film Festival. She has also been featured in a workout video Fit Pack, by Joel Harper. She has taught Ballet and Movement classes at Albany Dance Academy and The Hartford Albano Ballet.
After a serious back injury Bree began searching for new methods to strengthen and balance the body. She became certified in Gyrotonic, Pilates mat and CranioSacral Therapy (CST I and II) . She has done extensive training in Gyrotonic Level I and II along with specialized course Gyrotonic for dancers. She has taught Gyrotonic at East Village Movements, Gyrotonic Institute Brasil and at her own studio Centered Motion in NYC. Bree has partnered up with Tina Orloff to co-create a innovative class, Body Contour, and has taught in NYC and Saratoga Springs. She currently teaches private Gyrotonic equipment classes at The White Cloud Studio in Amsterdam and is very excited to begin working at Yoga Moves this year.
Chantal Soeters is an Anusara-inspired® yoga teacher from Amsterdam. Anusara® yoga is a powerful Hatha yoga system, developed by John Friend, that weaves a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness with intelligent biomechanical principles of alignment and a strong sense of community.Chantal fully embraces the playful , creative and uplifting nature of this form of yoga and sees yoga as a way to experience freedom in the body, mind, and heart, both on and off the mat.
As Anusara yoga® helped her heal from a serious neck injury where other treatments failed, she acquired a special interest in the therapeutic benefits of yoga and the innate healing capacity of the body. In her classes, she emphasizes safety through alignment and encourages a mindful practice, while, at the same time, encouraging you to expand your boundaries and to embrace new challenges.
Chantal is known for her enthusiasm, her dedication and her compassion. Her teaching style is precise, accessible and uplifting, always looking for possibility first, seeing your potential. Her classes are challenging but relaxed, serious but light-hearted, mindful but expressive. Each class will focus on empowering you by exploring a deeper connection to your heart and by learning more about the workings of your own body, helping you to transform and deepen your practice, to feel good in your body and to gain a more expansive view of life.
www.opentothepresent.com
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.
In 2008 he graduated for the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training level: Introductary I. In 2009 he graduated for the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training level: Introductary II. Claas Hille is registered as a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher in the official Indian Iyengar Yoga register. Claas Hille has taught over 2000 hours of yoga and assists with the alignment & practice module in Yoga Moves teacher training course.
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 Anne Brown, American born and living in the Netherlands since 1997, 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 holds a teacher certificates in Iyengar and Vinyasa yoga (It's Yoga, Shiva Rea) and is recognized by Yoga Alliance as an experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500). She has studied with numerous known and unknown yogis to whom she is ever grateful, and which she finds a silly exercise to mention all their names in a bio! She is teaching primarily a lyrical form of vinyasa yoga, a fluid but precise, dynamic yet relaxed method that incorporates the breath as a focus of moving meditation. She teaches with sensitivity to letting people discover what yoga can bring to their life in a real and tangible way. Breath is always a theme in her work, but equally understanding and feeling what you are doing. Alignment is always a key ingredient and joy is a natural outcome of her teaching. Sometimes you will laugh, cry or dance in her classes! Hilary is a committed yogi that will help you take a step closer to your self.
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. Along with 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 studied for a month with the Iyengars at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Puna, India. Since 2011, she is certified at the Junior Intermediate 1-level.
“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.”
Ina is an observer who asks questions that are to the point. Trained as journalist and educated as social scientist with experience as project manager in the commercial services and communication sector. In 2011 Ina finished the Vinyasa Teacher Training at YogaMoves and started her own business Yourganization. With Yourganization Ina wants to introduce yoga in organizations. Yoga brings Ina relaxation through practice, strength and awareness. She wants to share these experiences and positive effects with others.
A competitive swimmer and passionate surfer for many years, I am used to dealing with the constraints of tight, short muscles. My personal experience has taught me what Pilates and yoga can do for your body, particularly when combined with the right food, sleep and attitude.
With a natural thirst for knowledge and new experiences, I have traveled extensively throughout my life, and love the energy that movement, nature, music, creativity and self-awareness can bring. It is an honor to help each of my clients increase awareness of their bodies, minds and souls and tap into the energy that lies within them!
A certified Pilates instructor since 2007, I use both mat and reformer in my classes (a special machine for Pilates exercises). Working with all kinds of clients has deepened my fascination for the human body, health and wellbeing.
In December 2010 I qualified as an Ashtanga Yoga teacher and in 2011 I became certified in Vinyasa yoga at the Yoga Moves Teacher Training program Utrecht. My passion for yoga has led and still leads me to classes and workshops across the world.
My ongoing thirst for new awareness and connection and my natural curiosity mean I constantly seek opportunities to learn how I can better serve those I meet. In addition to my yoga and Pilates practice, I am constantly inspired by music of all kinds, the natural world around us, travel to new places and the people I encounter.
I look forward to sharing my passion, knowledge and awareness with you.
Ever since her childhood, classical and modern ballet have been Jose’s passion. In her teenage years she became interested in psychology and philosophy and since then has become more engaged in self-development, increasing her awareness and enjoying the magic of the present moment. After studying Journalism and, in part Social Therapy, Jose worked for a few years as a therapist in various institutions in Holland. Unsatisfied with that line and method of work, she decided to look for a different and more holistic way of working with people.
Jose started practicing yoga seriously in 2006, in Barcelona, and was greatly inspired by its potential for healing at a physical, emotional and spiritual level. She saw the possibilities of combining her interests, therapeutic and dance experiences with yoga classes. After a Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) of 200 hours Yoga Alliance (YA) in August 2006, she started teaching a mix of Hatha, Vinyasa and Vini Yoga (Yang Yoga) in Barcelona. At the end of 2006 she discovered Yin Yoga and since then, this has been her primary passion and specialization. Jose started teaching Yin Yoga classes in 2007.
Jose’s classes are guided in a warm, clear and hopefully humorous way, with compassion by adapting the practice where necessary to the student’s specific needs. She encourages you to experience, observe and become aware of your bodily sensations, emotions, quality of breath, intuition, thoughts and habitual patterns. Her goal is to stimulate you to discover, to strengthen, to trust, to accept and to be happy with yourself the just the way you are.
Jose has completed several workshops and a Yin Yoga YTT (200hYA) with Paul Grilley, several workshops with Sarah Powers, a Vini Yoga immersion with T.K.V Desikachar in India and a couple of Anusara Yoga immersions. Jose has also studied other styles of Yoga including Yoga Dinámico, Iyengar anKriya Vajra Yoga. She is a regular practitioner of Vipassana and Shamatha Vipaysana meditation.
The breath is magic to Jurre “It takes me to places in the body, that might feel like inner to outer space.” His classes are focused on moving with the breath, being the breath and using this to find space and peace. Practising with different teachers, like Prem Carlisi, Heather Duplex and Rolf Naujokat, inspired him to deepen his practice in a 500hr teacher training at Brahmani Yoga in Goa India. Here he started to practice with Ken 'the Rolfer' and later assisted him at YogaSala in 2009. After assisting Ken 'the Rolfer' in Istanbul, Jurre is substituting the Ashtanga program at YogaSala for Ken. A mission Jurre has in the Netherlands, to get more yoga in the prisons as an transformative practice to enjoy life. Apart for this Jurre is also teaching outside prisons, because he feels the biggest prison is the mind! After being in Mysore and practising with Sarasvati Jois, left him with the wish to practice with Sharath Rangaswamy 'Jois'.
Breath and feel free!
Kim started yoga a few years ago when her best friend recognized her struggle with daily life; the combination of a busy job and a young family. Since that day, Kim didn’t let go of yoga anymore.
In 2010 she finished a Hatha Yoga training and started the intense Vinyasa Teacher Training at Yoga Moves (2011). Meanwhile, the busy job is history. Currently she teaches yoga with lots of pleasure in and around Utrecht.
“Effortless effort and breath control gives that wonderful feeling which grows every day. Almost without a notice you learn about yourself more and more, which makes it easier to make the right choices. Acquire stillness brings balance in all you do.”
Kim’s classes are strong, simple and relaxing with a smile. Joy is leading!
Lara is from early age trained as a classical and modern dancer. Her dance career stopped after 10 years because of a persistent back injury, which brought her on the path of yoga and meditation. In the practice of yoga her spiritual hunger was satisfied. She found then what she was actually doing already for so long. The way of reflection and connection.
Her training ts a professional dancer formed a good basis for the discipline which is necessaryfor the yogapad. Lara is practising yoga since 1998. Since 2009 she works as a teacher. Lara has completed the 3 year Iyengar Yoga teacher training in Amsterdam. There, she was trained by Cle Souren, Charles Hond, Annemieke Post, Dililah King and Rembert Petrus. In addition she follows workshops of senior teachers from The Netherlands and abroad. In 2012 she will study at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune.
'The body gives us the opportunity to be here. We must therefore look good after our body '. Iyengar yoga helps to keep my body strong and healthy. So I can live happy, creative, energetic and grateful. I would like to give through this experience to my students.'
I consider teaching a beautiful, intensive and fascinating experience. I hope to keep teaching for many more years.
Liese van Dam is a Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga teacher. Liese started practicing yoga in 1997 and was immediately inspired by the way each asana is a reflection of our life and how the practice of Yoga teaches us how we can best deal with the challenges we come across. Originally trained as a Sivananda Teacher she taught extensively throughout the International Sivananda Organization for several years. In 1996 she commenced training with Birthlight and completed pre- and postnatal Yoga courses and continued to train as an Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Academy of Ayurvedic Studies in Amsterdam. Yoga and Ayurveda are two sides of the same coin and practice of the one deepens the experience of the other and vice versa. Both disciplines provide easy to follow guidelines. Liese continuously looks for the link between Yoga and Ayurveda and how these two practises combined can best support health and well-being. Since completing her training Liese teaches classical hatha yoga, pre- and postnatal yoga and offering ayurvedic consultations and treatments. She teaches Ayurvedic nutrition at the Academy of Ayurvedic Studies and various workshops on Yoga and Ayurveda.
Liese specializes in nutrition and women's health offering education during pregnancy and the postnatal period.
Ancient wisdom made practical for you. www.shantiyoga.nl
Marilou was born and raised in the Philippines and living in Holland for 25 years now. She believes she has the best of both worlds, the East and West!
Working in business by profession she integrates Yoga Philosophy in her daily life. Marilou has developed a great passion for Ashtanga Yoga. She started teaching more than 9 years ago right after she obtained her teaching certificate for Power Yoga. Since then she has been a life time yogini student. Followed many workshops and trainings from world class known teachers to whom she is grateful including one of her favorites: Katiza Satya, Paul Dallaghan, David Swensson and Richard Freeman. Since 2 years she started her pranayama practice with Paul Dallaghan at Yoga Thailand, which allows her a great transformation that changed her life.
This year she started an Intensive Ashtanga Teacher Training with Claudia Pradella in Eindhoven from the Yoga Alliance with RYT200.
Yoga has been a journey to awareness and spirituality. Yoga has not only given her the balance and stability she needs in her hectic weeks, Yoga has become “The Heart of her being” and gives her confidence and fun in everything she does. With this experience she loves to inspire others. www.pranayama.nl
Marjolein has been working at Yoga Moves as Studio Manager since August 2009 and thoroughly enjoys her job! For most of you she will be the familiar face behind the front desk and answering your e-mails and phone calls. But in 2010 she finished the Yoga Moves teacher training program, so you will be seeing her inside the studio as well, subbing classes and teaching slow flow on Saturdays. Expect flow, fun, poetry and relaxation in her classes. You might find her classes surprisingly relaxed, for such a busy bee.
Marlene Henny is a Certified Iyengar/Vinyasa Yoga Teacher since 2003. After following a number of workshop by Shiva Rea and Shiva Rea’s Prana flow teacher training taught by Twee Merrigan it is Vinyasa flow which has captured her heart. She has been teaching regular classes in Amsterdam and Utrecht for over 9 years and is a faculty member of the Teacher Training Program at Yoga Moves, Utrecht.
Marlene leads inspirational yoga classes and has a unique ability to naturally inspire a deeper understanding of the flow of breath, movement and the mindful connections of yoga. Her teaching emphasizes on energetic alignment, creating space in the body and synchronizing movement and breath. In her classes she creates a creative flow of movements on the rithem of the breath. She introduced a new kind of yoga practice in Holland called Coreflow which has she has develloped through her personal practice and is a certified Coreflow instructor now.
She teaches with a clear eye on body alignment and gives precise guidance 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. Marlene is known for her skill in sequencing and she allows everybody to join the ride.
Marlene currently lives in Amsterdam but spends her winters teaching in India/Goa where she has organized a number of yoga retreats and taught at the Brahmani yoga center in Anjuna.
She thoroughly enjoys teaching yoga, connecting with her students and helping them to find their body's grace, power and essence.
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 is an Anusara Inspired® yoga teacher and RYT500 (Yoga Alliance). She teaches Anusara Inspired® classes and Basic Yoga Therapy. Sandra took her first yoga class in 1997 while living in Toronto. The seed was planted and in 2002 she completed a Vinyasa teacher training in New Jersey, USA. She taught classes there with great pleasure untill moving to London in 2003. There she met and trained under guidance of Anusara teacher Bridget Woods-Kramer who inspired her to make a big shift and turn onto the Anusara yoga path. Attracted to and continously inspired by Anusara’s uplifting and life affirming philosophy, the set of elegant alignment principles and the close knit Anusara community she has become completely dedicated to this modern and dynamic yoga style.
Sandra trains intensively with Anusara’s top teachers such as Anusara’s founder John Friend, Ross Rayburn, Sianna Sherman, Desiree Rumbaugh, Martin Kirk and many others. She is deeply grateful for all the teachers who continue to guide her on her path to become fully Anusara certified.
Sandra’s classes are physically challenging, allowing students to explore their boundaries in a safe, fun way. Philosophy, chanting, Universal Alignment Principles are ingredients in a regular class. Sandra’s classes are open to anyone who likes to combine a physical practice with opening their Hearts and Minds!
“We practice on the edge with enthousiasm, playfulness and lightheartedness because it is there where we will discover our Essence and the transformational power of revelation”
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
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