Originally from Los Angeles, California, Bryanna found yoga when she was 17 after being diagnosed with scoliosis. Coming from the world of competitive sports, this was a tough transition to make. She took some time away from yoga to focus on other things, but in 2017 she was called back to it. After moving from L.A to Zürich in 2015, she was feeling ungrounded and unsure of her life in Europe. After a couple of years, yoga provided a way to ground herself to her new home and reminded her how to come back to herself. In 2019, she completed her 200 hours teacher training at Sanapurna and began teaching right away.
Being a student of literature, Bryanna loves the mythological side of yoga and tries to bring an aspect of storytelling to her classes. She teaches that yoga is more than postures, using not just asanas but pranayama, chakra awareness and sound healing as well. Her classes are suitable for all levels, with the yoga practice being a combination of traditional Hatha yoga and Vinyasa flow, with a focus on strengthening and spinal health awareness.
    

• Languages English, German

Sandra prefers to teach Hatha-based yoga flows that create a good balance between strength and flexibility as well as effort and relaxation. In her classes she puts a lot of emphasis on safe alignment and a good balance between body, mind and spirit.
Movement has always played a big role in her life. She discovered yoga over 10 years ago, but her great passion for it only ignited in 2016 during a yoga retreat. Besides her job as a marketing and project manager, Sandra decided in 2019 to start her Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at Sanapurna. Since completing her TTC, versatile workshops and trainings followed, including becoming a Kids Yoga teacher. Sandra loves working with other people and is always looking forward to meeting new faces. Her most important motto is; where one person teaches, two learn.

• Languages English

Jasmin loves to inspire others with her curiosity, kindness and energy. She unexpectedly discovered Yoga several years ago through a friend. She then decided to try Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga during her surf holidays and fell in love with it. Working towards a better balance of body and mind, creating positive energy as well as feeling the relaxation through energetic and conscious movements and increasing self-awareness with the Hatha Yoga practice, fascinate her. After practicing in various schools, she decided to complete the Teacher Training at Sanapurna in 2019 with the intention to impact her own and her students’ lives on and off the mat. She enjoys supporting others to find and deepen their practice with diverse asana variations, lots of hands-on adjustments and individual tipps. Jasmin draws inspiration for her classes from diverse areas of her life, including sports, business management,life coaching, friends, meditation and writing.

• Languages English, German

Katherine is an educator with a passion for science, movement and human potential. Her spiritual journey began as a teenager, with an intensive practice in martial arts. She earned a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering, and excelled in a variety of challenging technical roles for over a decade. After years of dedicated training in yoga and meditation, Katherine left the corporate world and co-founded a professional yoga school in Bali. As Director and Master Trainer (ERYT500), she guided thousands of students through immersive yoga and meditation teacher certification programs over a decade. Her teaching is influenced by an intensive study of Tantric Hatha, Yin and Restorative Yoga styles, Yoga Nidra, Integral Anatomy, Embodiment and Thai Yoga Massage.

• Languages English, German

Jeanette started doing yoga back in 1993, after her doctor told her that it could help with her asthma. Even though she loved the calming effect it had on her, she lost the connection to yoga a couple of years later and didn’t go back to it for two decades. The second time round she was drawn into the practice completely, though, as she could feel the immense positive impact yoga had on both her body and her mind.
In 2017 she did the «Rainbow Kids and Family Yoga Teacher Training» in order to learn more about doing yoga with her own kids. She enjoyed it so much that she started teaching Kids Yoga classes, even though she had never intended to become a yoga teacher. She soon felt the urge to learn more and did the 200h TTC at Sanapurna - immediately afterwards she started teaching Hatha Yoga, too. In 2019 she did the Yoga Nidra TTC, 2020/2021 the 300h Advanced TTC.
Jeanette is a big fan of pranayama and likes to integrate breathing exercises in every class. She combines longer holds of the asanas with flowing sequences and gives different options where needed. Even though she always has a plan in which direction her class should go, she likes to weave in the wishes of the students.
What inspires Jeanette: «My kids inspire me because they see things differently from us grown-ups.»
Jeanette teaches in English and German.

 

• Languages English, German

In system and science of yoga, Monika finds her way to expand knowledge, consciousness and the self to understand the relationship of life and the universe. She completed her first RYT®200 Vinyasa Teacher Training 2012 and RYT®300 Vinyasa Advanced Teacher Training 2013, while she started to teach regularly. Her certified Yoga Alliance designation is E-RYT®500-YACEP®. She studied Satyananda Yoga-Nidra® and "Pranayama and Meditation" according to the guidelines of Bihar School of Yoga from 2015-2017.  2019 Monika completed a training in Yin Yoga and 2020 the basic course in Neuroyoga®.
Currently she is studying Sanskrit and several scriptures and source texts in relation to yoga.
Her journey continues to flow and new aspects, immersions and further trainings are coming up. Mantra practice and Kundalini Yoga are upcoming topics.
She has been teaching at Sanapurna since 2015, is a member of the Sanapurna Academy and teaches modules for the teacher trainings. Monika's teaching in yoga classes is based on flowing exercises, a joyful way to enter a state of light and clarity. Monika loves to create her classes intuitively, based on the needs of body and mind in interaction with the group. 
In addition to asanas, core elements of her classes are pranayama and meditation to guide the mind and expand energy. 
Monika's style is a fusion of yoga methods, she calls it Joyflow.
What inspires Monika: her daughters, nature, structures, connections, poetry, philosophy, etymology, music, literature, travel, art, science, the functions of the brain and nervous system.

• Languages English, German

Nicoleta grew up in the cosmopolite city of Bucharest and lives in Zurich since 2002. Movement has been always an important aspect in her life and working in the corporate world, she found yoga as a way to balance the fast-paced rhythm of the city life.
Following a deep inner calling and wanting to learn more about the roots of yoga, she found Sanapurna in 2012. She immediately felt at home in the welcoming presence of Poonam and of the studio. For her, Sanapurna is a peaceful, warm space in the heart of Zurich where one can simply be, recharge and connect with beautiful souls. This is where she completed the 200h Yoga Teacher Training Course (TTC) in 2013. Currently she is part of the teachers team for the yearly Yoga TTCs at Sanapurna.
Nicoleta is also certified in Antastha Yoga – Yoga with Blindfolds (100h) by its founder Sanjeev Bhanot and is trained in Yin Yoga (50h) with Joe Barnett.
She has been long interested in the healing arts and the encounter with Thai Yoga Massage in 2014 opened a new door. So she became a certified Thai Yoga Massage practitioner with teachers from the Sunshine Network such as Krishnataki, Thierry Bienfaisant, Zoltan Gyorgyovics and others. Since 2016 she gives Thai Yoga Massage at the studio.
Nicoleta is passionate about sharing the practices of Yoga and Thai Yoga Massage to promote well-being, self-discovery and get in touch with the natural state of being. Breath awareness, alignment and therapeutic cues, hands-on adjustments and self-reflection are integral parts of her classes.
Nicoleta teaches Hatha Yoga based classes for all levels in English (also German if needed).
What inspires Nicoleta: ‘I am inspired by my teachers and students, my own practice, mystical poetry and life itself in its infinite expressions…‘
   

• Languages English, German

As a young boy, Rajesh started to learn Yoga from his uncle A.N. Krishna Kurup and later on studied with Yogacharyan Sisiran, Trivandrum. In 1988 got best Yoga demonstrator award from Pegwavar Mat in Mangalore. He has a bachelor Degree in Economics, Siddha Marma System Medicine Certificate and Diploma in Yoga Annamalai University.
For the past 21 years he has been teaching yoga in India and abroad. At Sanapurna, Rajesh also offers Ayurvedic massage treatments (Marma massages).

• Languages English, German

Robin was introduced to yoga as a teenager and used the practice regularly to complement her active lifestyle. However, it was only as a wife and working mother of two that her yoga practice took on new meaning and depth, helping her find balance, patience, and stillness amidst the hecticness of daily life. One of her favorite quotes that definitely pertains to her yogic journey is, "Yoga is a house and asana (the physical practice) seems to be the door that most people walk through first. Welcome.” While the asana practice has certainly benefited her physically, yoga as a whole has benefitted her in ways she had never imagined, teaching her patience, acceptance, playfulness, compassion, and resilience.
Robin completed her teacher training at Sanapurna in 2022 with the intention of deepening her personal practice. Along the way, she discovered her love of sharing yoga with others and has been teaching ever since. She enjoys challenging her students to push their boundaries and explore unknown depths within themselves. Her practice is inspired by hatha and vinyasa-based yoga styles.

• Languages English, German

Sabina is a yoga student for life and a certified yoga instructor RYT 500 living in Zurich. She walked into a yoga studio in 2010 - the first step of what would prove to be an expanding and exhilarating journey.
Inspired by her teachers and international workshops she very quickly became an avid and passionate student. Diving deeper into yoga by completing her teacher trainings and experiencing teaching for a while, she fell in love with the power of sharing her inspiring yoga practice with others.
Her profession as a marketing manager in an international environment and a fast forward moving lifestyle industry has been enriching her life in many ways. Traveling the world and meeting people from other cultures is an exciting adventure, which she enjoys on her yoga path too.
Sabina’s yoga practice will forever be one of her favorite contradictions: FINDING STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT.

• Languages English, German

VaniDevi completed a multi annual Yoga training at Yoga Vidya in the tradition of Swami Sivananda. Her classes are suitable for all levels and including not only classical Hatha Yoga but also restorative and kundalini-sequences and yoga philosophy from the Krishna-Bhakti Tradition.
Her spiritual name is „Madhur Vani Devi», which means „sweet voice “- derived from her love for music. Since 1993 Vanidevi is working in the music business. She discovered yoga after a severe back injury in the mid-90s as a healing therapy. This allowed her to again live painless and stable as well as increase and improve body tension and posture. After an addiction, yoga philosophy and breathwork in particular helped her back to a life without substances.
What to expect: Essential Oils, Little Massages Impulses, Sound & Energy-Healing, Yoga Philosophy,Hot Stones, Mantra Singing, Breathwork, Hatha, Kundalini and Restorative Yoga.
VaniDevi continues to deepen her practice learning and drawing inspiration from Stephen Thomas, Christine May, Julie Martin, Jodi Boone, Raghunath Cappo, Eva Kaczor, Dan Brulé, Guru Jagat and her spiritual teacher Sripad Sadhu Maharaj, among others.
Since 2015, VaniDevi has been teaching motivational and empowering workshops with her husband Simon "Bhajan" Krauer.

            

• Languages English, German

Anna's yoga path started in 2010 when she attended her first Vinyasa class in Virginia, USA. Sweaty, sore and totally in love with the practice, she drove home to tell her family, friends, everyone she knew that she had found 'it'. That indescribable thing that made her heart sing and lit a fire in her soul.
So began her life-long journey of self-discovery through the practices of yoga. The practices which have carried her and provided anchoring through monumental life changes, brought and end to her anxiety/depression disorder and filled her life with meaning, unconditional love and the space to let things be and surrender to the Divine. Anna believes that we all have this hidden potential within us that is always nudging us to reveal it and let it shine. When we listen to that inner voice that is pointing us in the direction of our higher selves, things begin to flow. The discomfort we feel from within starts to subside. We feel ourselves stepping onto the path that was somehow made just for us. Anna is a passionate yoga teacher and facilitator. Her teaching style is Hatha Yoga by training with a spice of Vinyasa from her years of experience on the mat. She is inspired by nature, the seasons, her teachers and the way that every day life can teach us new and unexpected lessons each day.

• Languages English

Brittney began practicing yoga as a teenager. She grew up in a very cold, northern Canadian city and quickly fell in love with how hot yoga classes energized and warmed her during the long winters. It didn't take long however, before her love for yoga expanded beyond the intense flows and deep stretches. She was amazed by how a regular yoga practice not only promotes strength and flexibility, but increases one's sense of awareness, mindfulness and purpose. Inspired to share her passion and these benefits with others, Brittney became a yoga teacher in 2015. Since then she has been teaching a variety of Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin Yoga classes to people of all ages, including workshops for children and teens. Brittney is a 500hour certified yoga teacher and has also taken a variety of courses in anatomy, physiology, psychology and sport sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is now studying a Bachelor in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at ZHAW. She desires to combine western and eastern health sciences to share yoga in a way that effectively resonates with her students. She aims to help students deepen their mind and body awareness, so they can practice more intuitively and inline with their current needs. Brittney speaks English, German and some French.

• Languages English, German & French

I started practicing Yoga around 2008 when a friend asked if I'll come to a class with her. I love to try out new things, so I said 'yes'! It felt like coming home - I came out of that very first Savasana and I knew I'd come back for more :).
The journey of life and yoga has since taken me down different routes of exploring the practice of yoga, mindfulness and meditation. I've had the opportunity to practice and learn from different teachers around the globe. And it's through all these experiences that I've found my very own Sadhana and what resonates with me. Yoga is where I find back to myself. Where I find balance and a deep connection to a natural stillness within.
My intention for teaching is to guide the individual Yogi/Yogini to discover their very own way of practicing, even in a group setting. While I guide with cues and attention to ahimsa, I also provide enough room for the individual journey and expression - either by giving options or by creating space for contemplation and silence. Yoga is a practice of mindfulness - whether we move or be still - the breath and a loving awareness are the anchors for practicing and the way I teach. The classes I teach are well balanced, with elements of grounding and uplifting, of strength and softening. An invitation to connect to your natural stillness within and take that connection with you, off the mat.
I feel inspired by nature and simple acts of kindness. I also find inspiration by reading books from teachers I connect to as well as conversations around personal growth and healing. My heart connects deeply to the practice of chanting Mantras and Kirtan.
I teach in English as it feels most natural to me, but I speak and teach in Swiss German when appropriate.

• Languages English, Swiss & German

Tim was born and raised in Zürich City. He passed a 17-year long career as a professional ice hockey player which brought him to many different places and let him experience his most wonderful and frustrating moments.
He is most passionate about all kinds of movement and sports. In 2015 after a back-surgery Tim got introduced to yoga. He developed a profound passion for it and it changed his way of working towards holistic health. In December 2020 he finished the 200h TTC at Sanapurna with its head teacher Poonam Stecher Sharma and in 2022 he finished the 300h ATT at Airyoga Zürich with its head teacher Stephen Thomas. One Year later he also did a 100h Pranayama training.
Tim’s teaching style is always in progress. He teaches a Hatha-based style with special focus on individuality of his students, body alignment, awareness of breath and uniting opposites.
“In my lifetime as an athlete I developed a kind of sixth sense of how to listen and take care of my health. The practice of yoga is a continuation of that, and more. It goes beyond the rational mind. It’s an evergoing journey and adventure of exploration and expansion.”

• Languages English