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Alexey Bazhenov
Alexey Bazhenov
Psychosomatic Yoga Therapy
Healing through presence
with Yulia Forde
Helping people with persistent pain, recurring symptoms, stress and exhaustion restore function, vitality and more freedom to live.
An integrative approach to body, mind and everyday life, bringing together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, breathwork and voice yoga.
Psychosomatic Yoga Therapy
Healing through presence
with Yulia Forde
Helping people with persistent pain, recurring symptoms, stress and exhaustion restore function, vitality and more freedom to live.
An integrative approach to body, mind and everyday life, bringing together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, breathwork and voice yoga.
PERHAPS YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE…
Your body keeps asking for attention — through pain, tension, poor sleep, fatigue, digestive issues or symptoms that keep returning.
Perhaps this is new and you are only beginning to look for answers. Or perhaps you have already seen doctors, tried medication, exercise, yoga, psychotherapy, changed your habits or looked for other ways to feel better. Some things may have helped — perhaps even a lot. And still, something keeps returning, or simply does not feel resolved.
You may understand a great deal about yourself. You know what you "should" do. You may have already done years of inner work. And yet understanding does not always change how your body reacts, what you keep repeating, or how you actually feel.
Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong. From the outside, your life may look full, successful, even enviable. You may have built a great deal and have much of what you once wanted. And still, something does not quite feel like yours. As if there could be more aliveness, more joy and pleasure, more intimacy, more freedom — more of you in your own life.
I work with the person, not with a symptom.
Your body keeps asking for attention — through pain, tension, poor sleep, fatigue, digestive issues or symptoms that keep returning.
Perhaps this is new and you are only beginning to look for answers. Or perhaps you have already seen doctors, tried medication, exercise, yoga, psychotherapy, changed your habits or looked for other ways to feel better. Some things may have helped — perhaps even a lot. And still, something keeps returning, or simply does not feel resolved.
You may understand a great deal about yourself. You know what you "should" do. You may have already done years of inner work. And yet understanding does not always change how your body reacts, what you keep repeating, or how you actually feel.
Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong. From the outside, your life may look full, successful, even enviable. You may have built a great deal and have much of what you once wanted. And still, something does not quite feel like yours. As if there could be more aliveness, more joy and pleasure, more intimacy, more freedom — more of you in your own life.
I work with the person, not with a symptom.
MY INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
For me, health is more than the absence of symptoms. It is also our capacity to move, recover, adapt, participate in life and have enough vitality for what matters to us.
The starting point may be very physical: persistent pain, a musculoskeletal problem, restricted movement, fatigue, poor sleep, digestive difficulties or another recurring symptom. But physical symptoms do not exist in isolation. They belong to a person who sleeps, breathes, moves, eats, works, relates, feels, adapts and lives within a particular environment and rhythm.
This is why I look not only at the symptom itself, but at the connections between what is happening in the body, the person’s current resources and stress responses, emotional patterns, daily rhythms, relationships and the circumstances they are living in right now.
Sometimes our work is very concrete: reducing unnecessary limitation, restoring movement and function, supporting recovery or helping someone return to activities they have lost.
Sometimes the starting point is stress, exhaustion, a difficult relationship, a recurring life pattern or a sense of being stuck.
Often these things overlap.
My work brings together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, breathwork and voice yoga. I use them not as a collection of separate techniques, but as different lenses through which to understand the whole picture: the person, their present circumstances and the connections between different aspects of their experience.
Ayurveda is particularly valuable to me as a practical framework for understanding individual constitution, rhythm and the relationship between everyday life and health.
For me, psychosomatics is not about assigning a fixed emotional meaning to a particular symptom or organ. It is about exploring how different aspects of a person’s experience may be connected, without reducing that person to a diagnosis, a theory or a ready-made explanation.
The aim is not simply to manage the problem better. It is to restore more function, vitality and freedom — so that more of your energy becomes available for living.
For me, health is more than the absence of symptoms. It is also our capacity to move, recover, adapt, participate in life and have enough vitality for what matters to us.
The starting point may be very physical: persistent pain, a musculoskeletal problem, restricted movement, fatigue, poor sleep, digestive difficulties or another recurring symptom. But physical symptoms do not exist in isolation. They belong to a person who sleeps, breathes, moves, eats, works, relates, feels, adapts and lives within a particular environment and rhythm.
This is why I look not only at the symptom itself, but at the connections between what is happening in the body, the person’s current resources and stress responses, emotional patterns, daily rhythms, relationships and the circumstances they are living in right now.
Sometimes our work is very concrete: reducing unnecessary limitation, restoring movement and function, supporting recovery or helping someone return to activities they have lost.
Sometimes the starting point is stress, exhaustion, a difficult relationship, a recurring life pattern or a sense of being stuck.
Often these things overlap.
My work brings together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, breathwork and voice yoga. I use them not as a collection of separate techniques, but as different lenses through which to understand the whole picture: the person, their present circumstances and the connections between different aspects of their experience.
Ayurveda is particularly valuable to me as a practical framework for understanding individual constitution, rhythm and the relationship between everyday life and health.
For me, psychosomatics is not about assigning a fixed emotional meaning to a particular symptom or organ. It is about exploring how different aspects of a person’s experience may be connected, without reducing that person to a diagnosis, a theory or a ready-made explanation.
The aim is not simply to manage the problem better. It is to restore more function, vitality and freedom — so that more of your energy becomes available for living.
MY VIEW ON HEALING
Healing is growth. It starts where vitality meets presence.
Life naturally moves towards growth. But when much of our energy remains tied up in survival, protection or adaptation, these responses can become habitual patterns. We may find ourselves repeating the same reactions rather than responding to what life is asking of us now.
For me, healing is not about creating a life in which nothing hurts, nothing disturbs us and we always feel good. Wholeness isn’t feeling good all the time. It’s making room for every feeling.
And healing is not only about eliminating pain. Of course, when something hurts, we want relief — and reducing pain, restoring movement and recovering function may be very real goals of our work.
But pain can also be information. Physical or emotional, it may invite us to pay attention to something that needs care, support, change, expression or understanding.
Listening does not mean remaining passive or romanticising suffering. Acceptance is not resignation. It means meeting what is already here without immediately fighting or overriding it, so that we can see more clearly what is happening and respond appropriately rather than react from our habitual patterns.
And acceptance does not mean liking everything either. It means tasting life as it is. If something tastes bitter, it is not necessarily bad. Bitterness can be part of the taste, just as it is in coffee or dark chocolate.
Wholeness isn’t a perfect life. It’s making room for all of life. For me, it is not something we achieve once and keep forever. It is an ongoing process of integration, in which more of our experience can be met, included and lived.
And this is where curiosity becomes essential. Judgement tends to narrow our attention around what is wrong and what must be fixed. Curiosity opens it again.
It allows us to ask:
Curiosity cures. What’s alive thrives.
Healing is growth. It starts where vitality meets presence.
Life naturally moves towards growth. But when much of our energy remains tied up in survival, protection or adaptation, these responses can become habitual patterns. We may find ourselves repeating the same reactions rather than responding to what life is asking of us now.
For me, healing is not about creating a life in which nothing hurts, nothing disturbs us and we always feel good. Wholeness isn’t feeling good all the time. It’s making room for every feeling.
And healing is not only about eliminating pain. Of course, when something hurts, we want relief — and reducing pain, restoring movement and recovering function may be very real goals of our work.
But pain can also be information. Physical or emotional, it may invite us to pay attention to something that needs care, support, change, expression or understanding.
Listening does not mean remaining passive or romanticising suffering. Acceptance is not resignation. It means meeting what is already here without immediately fighting or overriding it, so that we can see more clearly what is happening and respond appropriately rather than react from our habitual patterns.
And acceptance does not mean liking everything either. It means tasting life as it is. If something tastes bitter, it is not necessarily bad. Bitterness can be part of the taste, just as it is in coffee or dark chocolate.
Wholeness isn’t a perfect life. It’s making room for all of life. For me, it is not something we achieve once and keep forever. It is an ongoing process of integration, in which more of our experience can be met, included and lived.
And this is where curiosity becomes essential. Judgement tends to narrow our attention around what is wrong and what must be fixed. Curiosity opens it again.
It allows us to ask:
- What is happening?
- What is my body responding to?
- What needs my attention now?
- What would support a different response?
Curiosity cures. What’s alive thrives.
ABOUT ME
For me yoga has always been about connection.
I am a yoga therapist and a physiotherapist by education, with 20 years of teaching experience. My work brings together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, feminine practices, voice and sound.
My own experience with spinal problems, reproductive health challenges, anxiety and sleep disorders has deeply shaped the way I work. It taught me to look beyond individual symptoms and to see the person as a whole living system.
Over the years, I have worked with thousands of people through classes, workshops, individual sessions, teacher education, online courses and retreats.
For me yoga is both a science and an art of wholeness: a way of remaining connected to ourselves, to others and to life.
For me yoga has always been about connection.
I am a yoga therapist and a physiotherapist by education, with 20 years of teaching experience. My work brings together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, feminine practices, voice and sound.
My own experience with spinal problems, reproductive health challenges, anxiety and sleep disorders has deeply shaped the way I work. It taught me to look beyond individual symptoms and to see the person as a whole living system.
Over the years, I have worked with thousands of people through classes, workshops, individual sessions, teacher education, online courses and retreats.
For me yoga is both a science and an art of wholeness: a way of remaining connected to ourselves, to others and to life.
WORK WITH ME
Less pain and limitation. More function, vitality and freedom. More of your energy available for living.
YOGA
CLASSES
IN BRUSSELS
CLASSES
IN BRUSSELS
Morning Yoga: Awake and Grounded at La Vallée. A weekly morning practice to move, breathe and meet your day — awake, grounded and present, without rushing.
Wednesdays | 8:00—9:00 |
La Vallée, Brussels
Class details / Book at La Vallée Wednesdays | 8:00—9:00 |
La Vallée, Brussels
ONE-TO-ONE PSYCHOSOMATIC YOGA THERAPY
For persistent pain, recurring symptoms, stress, exhaustion or complex situations where one symptom does not tell the whole story. We build an individual strategy around your body, function, rhythm, resources and life context.
First session 2 hours € 170 /
follow up – € 110
Brussels & online
Explore 1:1 Therapy First session 2 hours € 170 /
follow up – € 110
Brussels & online
INDIVIDUAL THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMME
For long-standing or complex situations that need continuity. A six-month individual process designed to help change become sustainable and lived, not only understood.
6 months | € 1,500
Explore the Programme 6 months | € 1,500
SMALL
GROUPS
GROUPS
Small groups of 2−4 people around a shared area such as back problems, women’s health, stress, sleep or recovery, while preserving individual assessment and adaptation.
Brussels & online
Explore Small Groups Brussels & online
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
Practical workshops combining understanding with direct embodied experience. Topics include voice yoga, practical ayurveda, yoga therapy, stress and regulation, women’s health, sleep and recovery.
Brussels | online | available for studios and groups
Explore Workshops Brussels | online | available for studios and groups
WOMEN'S
CIRCLES
CIRCLES
A space for presence, embodiment, expression and connection through body, breath, voice, movement, reflection and shared presence.
Brussels & occasional online gatherings
Explore Women's Circles Brussels & occasional online gatherings
FOR YOGA TEACHERS & PROFESSIONALS
Professional Case Consultation for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and body-oriented practitioners who want a wider perspective on a client, a case or their own response to the work.
Online
Professional Consultation Online
RETREATS
I have been leading yoga retreats regularly since 2007 — usually every year, and sometimes more than once a year.
Each retreat has its own focus, bringing together different aspects of my work: yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, breath, voice, embodied practice and time away from everyday routines.
Future retreats are still under consideration. If you would like to hear about the next one, please get in touch.
You can also explore stories, photos and participant reflections from past retreats in the Russian-language archive.
Explore past Retreats (in Russian)
Ask About Future Retreats Each retreat has its own focus, bringing together different aspects of my work: yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, breath, voice, embodied practice and time away from everyday routines.
Future retreats are still under consideration. If you would like to hear about the next one, please get in touch.
You can also explore stories, photos and participant reflections from past retreats in the Russian-language archive.
Explore past Retreats (in Russian)
ONE-TO-ONE PSYCHOSOMATIC YOGA THERAPY
Individual work is for people who want to address a persistent physical or psychosomatic concern – such as pain, restricted movement, recurring symptoms, stress, exhaustion or another problem that continues to affect everyday life.
You may come with a very concrete goal: to move with less pain, restore function, sleep better, regain energy, return to physical activity or understand why a symptom keeps recurring.
Or the problem may be more complex: several symptoms overlap, stress and physical health affect one another, or previous treatment has helped only partly.
I work with the person, not with the symptom in isolation.
My approach brings together yoga therapy, functional and therapeutic movement, physiology, psychology, breathwork, meditation, ayurveda, voice work and psychosomatic exploration.
Ayurveda adds an important practical lens for understanding individual constitution, rhythm, nourishment, recovery and the relationship between everyday life and health.
I do not work from standard protocols. We look at what is happening in your body, but also at the conditions in which the problem has developed and continues to exist – movement and breathing patterns, stress responses, daily rhythms, habits, emotional patterns and the wider context of your life.
From there, we build an individual therapeutic strategy and translate it into practices that can become part of your actual life.
The aim is not simply to help you manage the problem better. It is to restore more function, vitality and freedom – so that more of your energy becomes available for living.
Individual sessions are available online or in person at my practice space in Brussels.
Initial Assessment
€ 170 | includes preparation and a 120-minute individual session
Our work begins before we meet.
Approximately 7−14 days before the session, I will ask you to complete a detailed intake questionnaire and, where relevant, share medical reports, test results or other information that may help me understand your situation.
I review these materials before our meeting. During this preparatory period, I may come back to you with additional questions or ask you to observe particular symptoms, reactions, habits, movement patterns or aspects of your daily rhythm.
This preparation allows us to arrive at the session with a much fuller picture than we could build from scratch during the meeting itself.
During our 120-minute session, we bring these pieces together. We explore your history, current concerns, movement and breathing patterns, stress responses, daily rhythms, lifestyle and other relevant factors.
Where appropriate, the assessment may include functional observation, therapeutic movement, yoga therapy practices, breathwork, meditation, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations informed by ayurveda, and body-based psychosomatic exploration.
From there, I begin to map the relationships between different aspects of your situation and formulate an individual therapeutic strategy.
What you leave with
Follow-up Session
75 minutes | € 110
Follow-up sessions continue the therapeutic direction established during the Initial Assessment.
We observe what is changing: pain, movement, physical capacity, sleep, energy, stress responses, emotional patterns or the way you are functioning in everyday life.
We then adapt the work accordingly.
Depending on your needs, a session may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, meditation, voice work, nervous-system regulation, psychosomatic exploration, and individual recommendations around rhythm, recovery, nourishment or daily habits.
The aim is not to repeat the same practice week after week. It is to respond to what your body and your life are showing us now – and gradually build more function, resource and freedom.
Contact between individual sessions
When you book individual sessions separately, our therapeutic work takes place primarily during the sessions themselves.
Between sessions, you are welcome to contact me briefly if you need clarification about a practice or assignment I have given you, or if a new physical symptom appears specifically in connection with that practice and you need guidance on whether or how to continue.
Ongoing therapeutic processing between sessions – for example, discussing emotional reactions, insights, changes in symptoms, new life situations or material that emerges through the work – is not included in the price of a Follow-up Session. We bring this material to our next meeting.
If you need closer support and regular contact while the process is unfolding, the Individual Therapeutic Programme is the more appropriate format.
You may come with a very concrete goal: to move with less pain, restore function, sleep better, regain energy, return to physical activity or understand why a symptom keeps recurring.
Or the problem may be more complex: several symptoms overlap, stress and physical health affect one another, or previous treatment has helped only partly.
I work with the person, not with the symptom in isolation.
My approach brings together yoga therapy, functional and therapeutic movement, physiology, psychology, breathwork, meditation, ayurveda, voice work and psychosomatic exploration.
Ayurveda adds an important practical lens for understanding individual constitution, rhythm, nourishment, recovery and the relationship between everyday life and health.
I do not work from standard protocols. We look at what is happening in your body, but also at the conditions in which the problem has developed and continues to exist – movement and breathing patterns, stress responses, daily rhythms, habits, emotional patterns and the wider context of your life.
From there, we build an individual therapeutic strategy and translate it into practices that can become part of your actual life.
The aim is not simply to help you manage the problem better. It is to restore more function, vitality and freedom – so that more of your energy becomes available for living.
Individual sessions are available online or in person at my practice space in Brussels.
Initial Assessment
€ 170 | includes preparation and a 120-minute individual session
Our work begins before we meet.
Approximately 7−14 days before the session, I will ask you to complete a detailed intake questionnaire and, where relevant, share medical reports, test results or other information that may help me understand your situation.
I review these materials before our meeting. During this preparatory period, I may come back to you with additional questions or ask you to observe particular symptoms, reactions, habits, movement patterns or aspects of your daily rhythm.
This preparation allows us to arrive at the session with a much fuller picture than we could build from scratch during the meeting itself.
During our 120-minute session, we bring these pieces together. We explore your history, current concerns, movement and breathing patterns, stress responses, daily rhythms, lifestyle and other relevant factors.
Where appropriate, the assessment may include functional observation, therapeutic movement, yoga therapy practices, breathwork, meditation, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations informed by ayurveda, and body-based psychosomatic exploration.
From there, I begin to map the relationships between different aspects of your situation and formulate an individual therapeutic strategy.
What you leave with
- a clearer understanding of what we are working with;
- a sense of the factors that may be contributing to or maintaining the problem;
- an individual starting point rather than a generic protocol;
- practical next steps for supporting function, regulation, recovery and everyday life.
Follow-up Session
75 minutes | € 110
Follow-up sessions continue the therapeutic direction established during the Initial Assessment.
We observe what is changing: pain, movement, physical capacity, sleep, energy, stress responses, emotional patterns or the way you are functioning in everyday life.
We then adapt the work accordingly.
Depending on your needs, a session may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, meditation, voice work, nervous-system regulation, psychosomatic exploration, and individual recommendations around rhythm, recovery, nourishment or daily habits.
The aim is not to repeat the same practice week after week. It is to respond to what your body and your life are showing us now – and gradually build more function, resource and freedom.
Contact between individual sessions
When you book individual sessions separately, our therapeutic work takes place primarily during the sessions themselves.
Between sessions, you are welcome to contact me briefly if you need clarification about a practice or assignment I have given you, or if a new physical symptom appears specifically in connection with that practice and you need guidance on whether or how to continue.
Ongoing therapeutic processing between sessions – for example, discussing emotional reactions, insights, changes in symptoms, new life situations or material that emerges through the work – is not included in the price of a Follow-up Session. We bring this material to our next meeting.
If you need closer support and regular contact while the process is unfolding, the Individual Therapeutic Programme is the more appropriate format.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMME
6 months | € 1,500
For change that needs time to become lived
Some processes need more than a sequence of appointments.
Long-standing pain, recurring symptoms, chronic stress and deeply established patterns rarely unfold in a straight line. The body changes. Life changes. A practice that was useful at one stage may need to be adapted at the next.
The Individual Therapeutic Programme is designed for work that benefits from being followed over time – not only during our sessions, but also through what happens between them.
This may be particularly useful when:
The programme includes
The essential difference is continuity
With individual sessions, we meet, work with what is present, and you continue independently until our next appointment.
Within the six-month programme, I remain in contact with the process between our meetings.
You can share significant changes, reactions, observations, difficulties or insights while they are happening rather than having to reconstruct them weeks later.
This allows me to notice connections over time, adapt the therapeutic direction when necessary and help you distinguish:
It means that the therapeutic process has continuity between appointments — while the goal remains increasing your own capacity to understand, regulate and respond.
For change that needs time to become lived
Some processes need more than a sequence of appointments.
Long-standing pain, recurring symptoms, chronic stress and deeply established patterns rarely unfold in a straight line. The body changes. Life changes. A practice that was useful at one stage may need to be adapted at the next.
The Individual Therapeutic Programme is designed for work that benefits from being followed over time – not only during our sessions, but also through what happens between them.
This may be particularly useful when:
- several physical and emotional factors overlap;
- symptoms have been present for a long time or keep returning;
- you are rebuilding movement, function or confidence after a prolonged problem;
- stress, exhaustion and physical symptoms continually affect one another;
- changes in rhythm, nourishment, practice and everyday life need to be integrated gradually;
- you need support translating insight into a different way of living rather than simply understanding the pattern.
The programme includes
- the complete Initial Assessment, including the preparatory process and a 120-minute individual session;
- 6 individual 75-minute follow-up sessions over six months;
- an individual therapeutic strategy that may bring together yoga therapy, movement and functional work, breathwork, psychology, ayurveda, voice and psychosomatic exploration as relevant;
- practices and recommendations adapted as the process develops;
- review and adjustment of your practices between sessions when needed;
- ongoing contact with me on working days;
- the possibility to share relevant observations, symptoms, reactions and insights as they arise;
- my ongoing consideration of your case throughout the six months rather than only during scheduled appointments.
The essential difference is continuity
With individual sessions, we meet, work with what is present, and you continue independently until our next appointment.
Within the six-month programme, I remain in contact with the process between our meetings.
You can share significant changes, reactions, observations, difficulties or insights while they are happening rather than having to reconstruct them weeks later.
This allows me to notice connections over time, adapt the therapeutic direction when necessary and help you distinguish:
- What requires action?
- What needs support?
- What needs further exploration?
- What may simply need time?
It means that the therapeutic process has continuity between appointments — while the goal remains increasing your own capacity to understand, regulate and respond.
SMALL THERAPEUTIC GROUPS
2−4 participants
Therapeutic depth without becoming one programme for everyone
Small therapeutic groups offer a more accessible way to work with me while preserving the individual attention that therapeutic work requires.
A group may be formed around a shared area of concern or therapeutic direction – for example:
back pain and musculoskeletal problems | women’s health | stress and exhaustion | recovery | sleep and regulation | another shared health concern
Groups may also be formed by partners, friends or family members, provided that their individual situations are compatible with working within the same therapeutic process.
I intentionally limit each group to a maximum of four participants.
The group may share a direction, but each person brings a different body, constitution, history, rhythm and response.
This is why I do not simply give everyone the same sequence of exercises.
I consider each participant individually and draw on yoga therapy, therapeutic movement, physiology, psychology, breathwork, ayurveda, meditation, voice and psychosomatic exploration according to the needs of the group and the people within it.
Ayurveda can be especially useful here because people with apparently similar complaints may have very different constitutions, rhythms, resources and patterns of recovery.
The aim is to create a shared therapeutic process without losing the individual person inside the group.
Small therapeutic groups are available online or in person at my practice space in Brussels.
Small Group Initial Assessment
€ 100 per person | includes individual preparation and a 120-minute group session
Therapeutic group work begins before our first meeting.
Approximately 7−14 days beforehand, each participant completes an individual intake questionnaire and, where relevant, shares medical reports, test results or other information important to their case.
I review each participant’s history individually before the group meets. During this preparatory period, I may contact you with additional questions or ask you to observe particular symptoms, reactions, habits, movement patterns or aspects of your daily rhythm.
This allows me to begin understanding each person before we work together and to assess whether the group format is appropriate – both for the individual and for the group as a whole.
During our 120-minute Initial Assessment session, we bring the individual and shared aspects of the work together.
I may observe movement, breathing and functional patterns, explore relevant aspects of each person’s situation and begin to establish both a shared therapeutic direction for the group and individual adaptations for each participant.
Depending on the focus, the session may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, functional observation, body awareness, meditation, psychosomatic exploration and relevant recommendations around rhythm, recovery or everyday habits.
The aim is not to make several people fit one programme. It is to create a shared therapeutic process that still respects each individual body, history, constitution and response.
Small Group Follow-up Sessions
90 minutes | € 60 per person
Follow-up sessions continue the therapeutic direction established during the Initial Assessment.
We observe how each participant responds, what is changing and where the work needs to be adapted.
Depending on the focus of the group, sessions may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, meditation, body awareness, psychosomatic exploration, voice work and individual recommendations around rhythm, recovery and daily life.
Because the group remains intentionally small, I can continue to follow each participant rather than treating the group as a single unit.
The shared process gives you the support and energy of a group; the small size allows the work to remain personal.
Small therapeutic groups are not drop-in yoga classes. They are designed as an ongoing therapeutic process, and participants work together over an agreed series of sessions.
Therapeutic depth without becoming one programme for everyone
Small therapeutic groups offer a more accessible way to work with me while preserving the individual attention that therapeutic work requires.
A group may be formed around a shared area of concern or therapeutic direction – for example:
back pain and musculoskeletal problems | women’s health | stress and exhaustion | recovery | sleep and regulation | another shared health concern
Groups may also be formed by partners, friends or family members, provided that their individual situations are compatible with working within the same therapeutic process.
I intentionally limit each group to a maximum of four participants.
The group may share a direction, but each person brings a different body, constitution, history, rhythm and response.
This is why I do not simply give everyone the same sequence of exercises.
I consider each participant individually and draw on yoga therapy, therapeutic movement, physiology, psychology, breathwork, ayurveda, meditation, voice and psychosomatic exploration according to the needs of the group and the people within it.
Ayurveda can be especially useful here because people with apparently similar complaints may have very different constitutions, rhythms, resources and patterns of recovery.
The aim is to create a shared therapeutic process without losing the individual person inside the group.
Small therapeutic groups are available online or in person at my practice space in Brussels.
Small Group Initial Assessment
€ 100 per person | includes individual preparation and a 120-minute group session
Therapeutic group work begins before our first meeting.
Approximately 7−14 days beforehand, each participant completes an individual intake questionnaire and, where relevant, shares medical reports, test results or other information important to their case.
I review each participant’s history individually before the group meets. During this preparatory period, I may contact you with additional questions or ask you to observe particular symptoms, reactions, habits, movement patterns or aspects of your daily rhythm.
This allows me to begin understanding each person before we work together and to assess whether the group format is appropriate – both for the individual and for the group as a whole.
During our 120-minute Initial Assessment session, we bring the individual and shared aspects of the work together.
I may observe movement, breathing and functional patterns, explore relevant aspects of each person’s situation and begin to establish both a shared therapeutic direction for the group and individual adaptations for each participant.
Depending on the focus, the session may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, functional observation, body awareness, meditation, psychosomatic exploration and relevant recommendations around rhythm, recovery or everyday habits.
The aim is not to make several people fit one programme. It is to create a shared therapeutic process that still respects each individual body, history, constitution and response.
Small Group Follow-up Sessions
90 minutes | € 60 per person
Follow-up sessions continue the therapeutic direction established during the Initial Assessment.
We observe how each participant responds, what is changing and where the work needs to be adapted.
Depending on the focus of the group, sessions may include therapeutic movement and yoga therapy, breathwork, meditation, body awareness, psychosomatic exploration, voice work and individual recommendations around rhythm, recovery and daily life.
Because the group remains intentionally small, I can continue to follow each participant rather than treating the group as a single unit.
The shared process gives you the support and energy of a group; the small size allows the work to remain personal.
Small therapeutic groups are not drop-in yoga classes. They are designed as an ongoing therapeutic process, and participants work together over an agreed series of sessions.
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
I offer practical workshops that bring together yoga therapy, physiology, psychology, ayurveda, breath, voice and embodied practice.
Each workshop focuses on one clear area of life or health and combines understanding with direct experience – so that participants do not simply leave with more information, but with practices they can actually use.
Voice Yoga
From holding back to being heard.
Voice yoga is not only about sound or singing. It is a practice of contact, expression and authenticity.
Through breath, embodied movement and voice, we explore how it feels to take up space, express what is alive, and allow ourselves to be heard and seen without forcing or performing.
Possible themes include:
Practical Ayurveda for Everyday Life
Ancient principles translated into real daily life.
Ayurveda becomes most useful when it stops being a list of doshas and starts helping us understand how our own body functions in everyday life.
In these workshops, I translate ayurvedic principles into a practical language that can be applied to sleep, energy, digestion, food, rhythm, stress, seasons and daily routines.
Possible themes include:
Yoga Therapy Workshops
Understanding the body more deeply – and working with it more intelligently.
These workshops focus on specific physical or functional concerns and combine therapeutic movement, yoga therapy, breathwork and physiological understanding.
Possible topics include:
Stress, Regulation & Resilience
From automatic reaction to greater capacity to respond.
These workshops explore how stress lives in the body, how protective responses can become habitual, and how regulation can support more resource and flexibility.
Participants learn practical ways to work with mobilisation, tension, freeze, breath, movement, rhythm and recovery – not by forcing the body to calm down, but by meeting it where it actually is.
Possible themes include:
Women’s Health Workshops
Support for the changing rhythms of a woman’s body.
These workshops combine yoga therapy, physiology, breath, movement, ayurvedic principles and body awareness to explore women’s health in a practical and embodied way.
Possible topics include:
Workshops can be offered as one-off events, short series or tailored programmes for yoga studios, communities and small groups.
If there is a topic you would like to explore with a group, you are welcome to contact me or speak to your studio about organising a workshop.
Each workshop focuses on one clear area of life or health and combines understanding with direct experience – so that participants do not simply leave with more information, but with practices they can actually use.
Voice Yoga
From holding back to being heard.
Voice yoga is not only about sound or singing. It is a practice of contact, expression and authenticity.
Through breath, embodied movement and voice, we explore how it feels to take up space, express what is alive, and allow ourselves to be heard and seen without forcing or performing.
Possible themes include:
- voice and self-expression;
- breath and resonance;
- releasing habitual tension around the jaw, throat and diaphragm;
- sound as a tool for regulation;
- authenticity, boundaries and the right to be heard;
- mantra and meditative voice practice.
Practical Ayurveda for Everyday Life
Ancient principles translated into real daily life.
Ayurveda becomes most useful when it stops being a list of doshas and starts helping us understand how our own body functions in everyday life.
In these workshops, I translate ayurvedic principles into a practical language that can be applied to sleep, energy, digestion, food, rhythm, stress, seasons and daily routines.
Possible themes include:
- understanding your individual constitution;
- rhythm, sleep and energy;
- digestion and nourishment;
- daily routines that support rather than drain you;
- adapting to seasonal and environmental changes;
- how ayurvedic principles can be understood alongside modern physiology.
Yoga Therapy Workshops
Understanding the body more deeply – and working with it more intelligently.
These workshops focus on specific physical or functional concerns and combine therapeutic movement, yoga therapy, breathwork and physiological understanding.
Possible topics include:
- back pain and disc-related problems;
- neck and shoulder tension;
- joint health and mobility;
- digestive support;
- sleep and recovery;
- nervous-system regulation;
- stress and burnout;
- women’s health;
- breathing and functional patterns.
Stress, Regulation & Resilience
From automatic reaction to greater capacity to respond.
These workshops explore how stress lives in the body, how protective responses can become habitual, and how regulation can support more resource and flexibility.
Participants learn practical ways to work with mobilisation, tension, freeze, breath, movement, rhythm and recovery – not by forcing the body to calm down, but by meeting it where it actually is.
Possible themes include:
- fight, flight and freeze in everyday life;
- why just relax often does not work;
- congruent physical expression;
- rhythm as part of regulation;
- restoring access to resource;
- curiosity, presence and response;
- practical tools for stress and burnout.
Women’s Health Workshops
Support for the changing rhythms of a woman’s body.
These workshops combine yoga therapy, physiology, breath, movement, ayurvedic principles and body awareness to explore women’s health in a practical and embodied way.
Possible topics include:
- menstrual health;
- pelvic floor and pelvic awareness;
- cycle-sensitive practice;
- endometriosis and painful periods;
- perimenopause and menopause;
- fatigue and recovery;
- stress and hormonal health;
- female rhythm and sustainable practice.
Workshops can be offered as one-off events, short series or tailored programmes for yoga studios, communities and small groups.
If there is a topic you would like to explore with a group, you are welcome to contact me or speak to your studio about organising a workshop.
WOMEN'S CIRCLES
A space for presence, embodiment, expression and connection.
Women’s Circles are small-group gatherings where we step out of performance and everyday roles and return to direct contact with ourselves – through the body, breath, voice, movement, reflection and shared presence.
These are not workshops on particular health issues. They are a space to reconnect with yourself, your values and your unique rhythm.
These circles may include elements of:
It is on creating enough space to notice what is true, reconnect with our own rhythm, and allow more of ourselves to be present.
Possible themes may include:
Available in Brussels and as occasional online gatherings.
Women’s Circles are small-group gatherings where we step out of performance and everyday roles and return to direct contact with ourselves – through the body, breath, voice, movement, reflection and shared presence.
These are not workshops on particular health issues. They are a space to reconnect with yourself, your values and your unique rhythm.
These circles may include elements of:
- feminine embodied practice;
- breath and movement;
- voice and sound;
- meditation;
- reflection and guided inquiry;
- ayurvedic and yogic perspectives on rhythm, cycles and vitality;
- shared conversation and witnessing.
It is on creating enough space to notice what is true, reconnect with our own rhythm, and allow more of ourselves to be present.
Possible themes may include:
- voice and authenticity;
- boundaries and self-expression;
- perimenopause and menopause;
- women’s cycles and rhythm;
- rest, exhaustion and receptivity;
- desire and vitality;
- ageing and changing identity;
- body image and embodiment;
- connection with other women;
- returning to one’s own nature.
Available in Brussels and as occasional online gatherings.
FOR YOGA TEACHERS & PROFESSIONALS
Professional Case Consultation
Sometimes the difficulty in our work is not that we need another technique.
We may know many practices and still feel unsure about a particular student or client: what we are actually seeing, what matters most, where to begin, why the work is not progressing, or why this particular case affects us so strongly.
Professional Case Consultation is a space to step back and look at the whole picture.
We may explore:
Sometimes the most important question is not only:
What should I do with this client?
but also:
What is happening in me while I am working with this person?
Our own reactions can sometimes narrow perception, pull us towards rescuing, controlling, avoiding or trying too hard to produce a result. Looking at this with curiosity can restore perspective and make more room for an appropriate professional response.
My background
I have been teaching yoga since 2006 and teaching yoga teachers since 2009.
Over the years, I have taught on yoga teacher-training programmes including courses at Prana Yoga Center and Yoga University in Russia, where I taught for many years.
I currently teach on the Acharya teacher-training programme, led by Olga Bulanova, one of Russia’s most respected and experienced yoga teachers and one of my own early teachers. This has a special personal meaning for me: many years after learning from these teachers myself, I am now honoured to teach alongside them.
My professional perspective brings together yoga therapy, physiology, therapeutic movement, psychology, psychosomatics, breathwork, ayurveda and voice work.
This allows us to look at a case not only through the question Which practice should I give?, but through the wider relationship between the body, the person, their resources, their life circumstances – and the practitioner who is meeting them.
Acharya: https://acharya.su/
Who this is for
This work may be useful for:
yoga teachers | yoga therapists | movement professionals | body-oriented practitioners | other helping professionals whose work includes the body, self-regulation or embodied practice
You may bring one particular case, an ongoing professional difficulty, or a broader question about how you work.
The purpose is greater clarity, a wider perspective and more freedom to respond professionally rather than simply repeat what you already know.
Available online. Individual and small professional consultations by arrangement.
Sometimes the difficulty in our work is not that we need another technique.
We may know many practices and still feel unsure about a particular student or client: what we are actually seeing, what matters most, where to begin, why the work is not progressing, or why this particular case affects us so strongly.
Professional Case Consultation is a space to step back and look at the whole picture.
We may explore:
- the person’s physical symptoms, movement and functional patterns;
- stress responses, resources and daily rhythms;
- emotional and psychosomatic factors;
- individual constitution and lifestyle through the lens of ayurveda;
- the relationship between different aspects of the case;
- what you are already doing and where the therapeutic direction may need to change;
- your own reactions, assumptions, uncertainty or emotional involvement in the work.
Sometimes the most important question is not only:
What should I do with this client?
but also:
What is happening in me while I am working with this person?
Our own reactions can sometimes narrow perception, pull us towards rescuing, controlling, avoiding or trying too hard to produce a result. Looking at this with curiosity can restore perspective and make more room for an appropriate professional response.
My background
I have been teaching yoga since 2006 and teaching yoga teachers since 2009.
Over the years, I have taught on yoga teacher-training programmes including courses at Prana Yoga Center and Yoga University in Russia, where I taught for many years.
I currently teach on the Acharya teacher-training programme, led by Olga Bulanova, one of Russia’s most respected and experienced yoga teachers and one of my own early teachers. This has a special personal meaning for me: many years after learning from these teachers myself, I am now honoured to teach alongside them.
My professional perspective brings together yoga therapy, physiology, therapeutic movement, psychology, psychosomatics, breathwork, ayurveda and voice work.
This allows us to look at a case not only through the question Which practice should I give?, but through the wider relationship between the body, the person, their resources, their life circumstances – and the practitioner who is meeting them.
Acharya: https://acharya.su/
Who this is for
This work may be useful for:
yoga teachers | yoga therapists | movement professionals | body-oriented practitioners | other helping professionals whose work includes the body, self-regulation or embodied practice
You may bring one particular case, an ongoing professional difficulty, or a broader question about how you work.
The purpose is greater clarity, a wider perspective and more freedom to respond professionally rather than simply repeat what you already know.
Available online. Individual and small professional consultations by arrangement.
From My Practice
CHRONIC BACK PAIN & SEVERE MENSTRUAL PAIN
A young woman came to me with chronic lower-back and sacral pain related to lumbar disc herniation and retrolisthesis, neck tension, anxiety and extremely painful menstruation.
We began with simple physical yoga-therapy work for the spine, breathing and regulation. Once there was more trust and contact with the body, the work moved deeper through voice, movement and psychosomatic exploration.
We began with simple physical yoga-therapy work for the spine, breathing and regulation. Once there was more trust and contact with the body, the work moved deeper through voice, movement and psychosomatic exploration.
- Her back pain disappeared after the second session. Menstrual pain reduced gradually over the following six months until it was almost completely gone.
SEVERE UNDERWEIGHT & FOOD AVERSION
A 20-year-old woman came to me weighing 36−39 kg at 163 cm, with little appetite, digestive pain, low energy and very little contact with her body.
Over a little more than six months, we worked with nourishment, yoga therapy, ayurveda, bodily awareness and emotional contact.
Over a little more than six months, we worked with nourishment, yoga therapy, ayurveda, bodily awareness and emotional contact.
- Her weight began to increase, physical capacity returned, and she developed a very different relationship with food and her body. Today she describes that relationship as loving.
LUMBAR RETROLISTHESIS & SEVERE BACK PAIN
A young, highly active businessman came to me with severe lower-back pain and lumbar retrolisthesis. Walking, sitting and sleeping had become difficult, and at times his legs would even give way.
We worked with an individual yoga-therapy programme that he practised daily in the beginning.
We worked with an individual yoga-therapy programme that he practised daily in the beginning.
- Within several weeks, the pain resolved. Years later, he was still feeling well, practising only occasionally for maintenance, and had returned to a highly active life, including long-distance running and marathons.
Testimonials
What people say
LONG-TERM INTEGRATIVE CLIENT SINCE 2018
"Over the years, these have stopped being separate techniques or things I learned on courses. They have become part of the way I live and relate to myself."
"Over the years, these have stopped being separate techniques or things I learned on courses. They have become part of the way I live and relate to myself."
Client since 2018 | 1:1 work, psychosomatics, voice yoga, yoga therapy, ayurveda & retreats
I have known Yulia since 2018 and over the years have experienced almost every format she has offered: psychosomatic work, voice yoga, yoga therapy and shatkarmas, ayurveda and aromatherapy, women’s groups, retreats and individual consultations.
When we first met, I was only beginning to develop body awareness. There was very little connection between my mind and my body: I found it difficult to notice and understand my emotions, physical sensations and needs. I also struggled with interpersonal communication and recurring health problems.
Over the years, a great deal has changed. I have become much better at feeling my body, understanding my states and trusting myself. My relationship with my health — and with myself as a whole — has changed. My habits and way of life shifted gradually, and those changes stayed with me rather than disappearing when a course ended.
What I value especially in Yulia is her integrative approach. She does not separate the body from the psyche, or yoga on the mat from everyday life. I still use what I learned with her in yoga, meditation, ayurveda, aromatherapy and body-based practices. Many of these have become regular tools of self-regulation for me. Her work also led me to a much deeper interest in neurophysiology and in how we can work with emotional states through the body.
View original in Russian When we first met, I was only beginning to develop body awareness. There was very little connection between my mind and my body: I found it difficult to notice and understand my emotions, physical sensations and needs. I also struggled with interpersonal communication and recurring health problems.
Over the years, a great deal has changed. I have become much better at feeling my body, understanding my states and trusting myself. My relationship with my health — and with myself as a whole — has changed. My habits and way of life shifted gradually, and those changes stayed with me rather than disappearing when a course ended.
What I value especially in Yulia is her integrative approach. She does not separate the body from the psyche, or yoga on the mat from everyday life. I still use what I learned with her in yoga, meditation, ayurveda, aromatherapy and body-based practices. Many of these have become regular tools of self-regulation for me. Her work also led me to a much deeper interest in neurophysiology and in how we can work with emotional states through the body.
- After all these years, this is no longer a collection of techniques or knowledge from courses. It has become part of my way of life and of how I stay in a more harmonious relationship with myself.
VOICE, SAFETY & VULNERABILITY JOURNEY SINCE 2016
"With Yulia, I can look where I am still afraid to look alone."
"With Yulia, I can look where I am still afraid to look alone."
Client since 2016 | voice yoga, women’s programmes, retreats & 1:1 work
I first came to Yulia in December 2016, when I was eight or nine months pregnant. At that time I was extremely constricted and shy. Even saying my name in a group was difficult. At work I could do a great deal, but in meetings I would become lost and unable to speak; I could physically feel my jaw tighten. I sensed that there was something beautiful in me that wanted to unfold, but I was not ready to show people what I liked, what I wanted or what I thought.
My first experience with Yulia was voice yoga. For someone who could barely let herself be heard, simply making sound in a group felt extraordinary. It became one of my first steps towards feeling myself.
What has brought me back to Yulia over the years is the profound sense of safety I experience around her. I can be vulnerable. There is a quality of acceptance in the space she creates that makes me want to open rather than protect myself. I have worked with many practitioners since then, and for me this quality in Yulia’s work is unusually strong.
When I returned in 2023 after two maternity leaves, postpartum depression and several difficult years, that safety allowed me to begin seeing my own protective reactions more clearly. During one group process I noticed myself contracting, afraid that I would be judged if I said what I really felt. Then I realised where I actually was: with Yulia, in a space where my feelings had a place. That experience helped me start asking in other situations whether I was responding to what was really happening or to an old habit of fear and self-protection.
Through retreats, women’s groups, voice work and individual sessions, I have gradually had experiences of closeness, being heard and being important that once felt almost impossible to me. In individual work, I have been able to look at places I was afraid to approach alone and discover something different from what I expected — including the possibility of holding love for both my mother and my father in my heart despite old conflicts.
Edited from a 13.5-minute client voice testimonial. No screenshot/text original is available.
Published with the client's permission
My first experience with Yulia was voice yoga. For someone who could barely let herself be heard, simply making sound in a group felt extraordinary. It became one of my first steps towards feeling myself.
What has brought me back to Yulia over the years is the profound sense of safety I experience around her. I can be vulnerable. There is a quality of acceptance in the space she creates that makes me want to open rather than protect myself. I have worked with many practitioners since then, and for me this quality in Yulia’s work is unusually strong.
When I returned in 2023 after two maternity leaves, postpartum depression and several difficult years, that safety allowed me to begin seeing my own protective reactions more clearly. During one group process I noticed myself contracting, afraid that I would be judged if I said what I really felt. Then I realised where I actually was: with Yulia, in a space where my feelings had a place. That experience helped me start asking in other situations whether I was responding to what was really happening or to an old habit of fear and self-protection.
Through retreats, women’s groups, voice work and individual sessions, I have gradually had experiences of closeness, being heard and being important that once felt almost impossible to me. In individual work, I have been able to look at places I was afraid to approach alone and discover something different from what I expected — including the possibility of holding love for both my mother and my father in my heart despite old conflicts.
- Even recording this testimonial feels significant to me. In 2016 I could not have done it. Today I can speak, reveal more of myself and move towards greater closeness and vulnerability. With Yulia, I have repeatedly experienced that I can show something real and difficult — and still remain safe and connected.
Edited from a 13.5-minute client voice testimonial. No screenshot/text original is available.
Published with the client's permission
PREGNANCY-RELATED
BACK PAIN
“You got me back on my feet in one session.”
BACK PAIN
“You got me back on my feet in one session.”
1:1 yoga therapy consultation | pregnancy-related back pain
Yulia, I am writing with tears in my eyes and so much happiness. My nine months of pregnancy are over, and for the past week I have been holding my 4 kg baby in my arms.
When I came to see you at 18 weeks pregnant, I felt physically and emotionally crushed. I could barely walk, sit or even lie down because of the pain, and I was frightened about how my back would cope as the pregnancy progressed.
You got me back on my feet in one session. The final weeks of pregnancy did not bring me any additional back pain. I honestly forgot where my spine, sacrum and all of that even were.
Before meeting you, I had seen many doctors and massage therapists, even before pregnancy, but no one had been able to help me in this way.
I am deeply grateful to you from our whole family. I am not naturally a very sporty person, but yoga is staying with me now.
This is the client’s own account. On the website we do not turn it into a general medical promise about pregnancy or back pain.
View original in Russian When I came to see you at 18 weeks pregnant, I felt physically and emotionally crushed. I could barely walk, sit or even lie down because of the pain, and I was frightened about how my back would cope as the pregnancy progressed.
You got me back on my feet in one session. The final weeks of pregnancy did not bring me any additional back pain. I honestly forgot where my spine, sacrum and all of that even were.
Before meeting you, I had seen many doctors and massage therapists, even before pregnancy, but no one had been able to help me in this way.
I am deeply grateful to you from our whole family. I am not naturally a very sporty person, but yoga is staying with me now.
This is the client’s own account. On the website we do not turn it into a general medical promise about pregnancy or back pain.
LONG-TERM 1:1 CLIENT
“It felt as if I had come back to life. There is really no other way for me to describe it.”
“It felt as if I had come back to life. There is really no other way for me to describe it.”
Long-term 1:1 client | voice yoga, women’s programmes & retreats
I worked with Yulia over several years in one-to-one therapy. I also joined retreats, practised voice yoga, took part in women’s circles and several smaller online programmes.
A tremendous amount of work happened during our individual sessions, and over time it brought very tangible changes into my life.
Working with my fears and anxiety helped me finally start driving. I also went on to teach yoga online for a year — both were things I had forbidden myself from doing for years.
I came into this work in a state of complete burnout and with a feeling that I had lost myself. With Yulia’s support, I gradually moved towards a very different inner state — with more trust in myself and life, a greater sense of thriving and much stronger inner support.
During this time, I also went through a very early cervical diagnosis — cervical dysplasia, described to me at the time as stage zero cervical cancer. It was detected in time and medically treated. What changed through our work was the way I moved through that period: without the fear and freezing I might have experienced, but with much more trust and gratitude.
I restored my relationship with my biological father, whom I had not been in contact with for almost thirty years, and my relationship with my husband improved significantly.
There were also changes that were harder to measure but just as important.
At one point, while having new ID photos taken, I suddenly noticed how much inner change had transformed me outwardly too. I even made a small collage comparing a photograph from before our first consultation with a more recent one.
Over the years, practices such as voice yoga and the programme The Science and Art of Being a Woman gradually became part of that process. Sometimes I felt as though I understood almost nothing of what we were discussing. And yet the information seemed to settle somewhere inside me and then emerge unexpectedly later as a new understanding, a new way of seeing something, or a deeper acceptance.
I value the time, the opportunities, the whole chain of events that unfolded through this work — and, above all, the trust.
If I had to describe the deepest internal change, I would say that I moved from feeling frozen to feeling that I was in motion, in process, in flow.
It felt as if I had come back to life.
View original in Russian A tremendous amount of work happened during our individual sessions, and over time it brought very tangible changes into my life.
Working with my fears and anxiety helped me finally start driving. I also went on to teach yoga online for a year — both were things I had forbidden myself from doing for years.
I came into this work in a state of complete burnout and with a feeling that I had lost myself. With Yulia’s support, I gradually moved towards a very different inner state — with more trust in myself and life, a greater sense of thriving and much stronger inner support.
During this time, I also went through a very early cervical diagnosis — cervical dysplasia, described to me at the time as stage zero cervical cancer. It was detected in time and medically treated. What changed through our work was the way I moved through that period: without the fear and freezing I might have experienced, but with much more trust and gratitude.
I restored my relationship with my biological father, whom I had not been in contact with for almost thirty years, and my relationship with my husband improved significantly.
There were also changes that were harder to measure but just as important.
At one point, while having new ID photos taken, I suddenly noticed how much inner change had transformed me outwardly too. I even made a small collage comparing a photograph from before our first consultation with a more recent one.
Over the years, practices such as voice yoga and the programme The Science and Art of Being a Woman gradually became part of that process. Sometimes I felt as though I understood almost nothing of what we were discussing. And yet the information seemed to settle somewhere inside me and then emerge unexpectedly later as a new understanding, a new way of seeing something, or a deeper acceptance.
I value the time, the opportunities, the whole chain of events that unfolded through this work — and, above all, the trust.
If I had to describe the deepest internal change, I would say that I moved from feeling frozen to feeling that I was in motion, in process, in flow.
It felt as if I had come back to life.
LONG-TERM RETREAT PARTICIPANT
"With the years, the immersion becomes deeper and the changes in my state more powerful."
"With the years, the immersion becomes deeper and the changes in my state more powerful."
Professional psychologist & business coach | retreat participant since 2009 | yoga retreats, yoga therapy & ayurveda
I suddenly realised that we have known each other for almost fifteen years.
It began in 2009, with my first yoga retreat, where I first learned from you about yoga therapy and ayurveda. Since then, I have joined many more of your retreats.
A great deal has changed over all these years, both in my life and in the way your approach has evolved. But one thing has remained constant: the result I experience after your retreats. There is always a deep immersion into myself, into contact with the world and into connection with the wonderful people who gather around your programmes. Regardless of how long the retreat is, I leave in a different state.
With the years, the immersion has become deeper and the shift in my state more powerful. Your approach has also become increasingly integrative: the body, the state of mind, emotions and beliefs all become part of one process.
I particularly value your extraordinary "alchemical" ability to sense the space and the needs of participants, bring together exactly the right ingredients and create an experience that is deeply personal for each person while also creating a strong sense of connection and community.
I am enormously grateful for the work you do.
View original in Russian It began in 2009, with my first yoga retreat, where I first learned from you about yoga therapy and ayurveda. Since then, I have joined many more of your retreats.
A great deal has changed over all these years, both in my life and in the way your approach has evolved. But one thing has remained constant: the result I experience after your retreats. There is always a deep immersion into myself, into contact with the world and into connection with the wonderful people who gather around your programmes. Regardless of how long the retreat is, I leave in a different state.
With the years, the immersion has become deeper and the shift in my state more powerful. Your approach has also become increasingly integrative: the body, the state of mind, emotions and beliefs all become part of one process.
I particularly value your extraordinary "alchemical" ability to sense the space and the needs of participants, bring together exactly the right ingredients and create an experience that is deeply personal for each person while also creating a strong sense of connection and community.
I am enormously grateful for the work you do.
1:1 SUPPORT DURING A SERIOUS HEALTH DIAGNOSIS
"Through the body, through understanding and living my inner processes, I could feel my life changing."
"Through the body, through understanding and living my inner processes, I could feel my life changing."
1:1 client | psychosomatic support during a serious health diagnosis and preparation for surgery
Yulia, from the bottom of my heart I want to thank you for the light you bring into the world. The first time I set out to find help for my situation, I came across you online and felt an unexplainable sense of trust that’s where it all began.
I worked with you one-on-one and could truly feel how my life was changing through our interaction through my body, through understanding and living my inner processes.
And now, once again, in a very vulnerable moment, you are here for me.
With your help and support, I’ve transformed so much in just two months. When I look back, I realize what a blessing it was that my illness happened, because through it, and through your gentle support, I was able to come back to myself.
Of course, I’m still on the journey, but I’m deeply grateful that people like you exist — ready to understand, support, and help in the most difficult moments.
View original I worked with you one-on-one and could truly feel how my life was changing through our interaction through my body, through understanding and living my inner processes.
And now, once again, in a very vulnerable moment, you are here for me.
With your help and support, I’ve transformed so much in just two months. When I look back, I realize what a blessing it was that my illness happened, because through it, and through your gentle support, I was able to come back to myself.
Of course, I’m still on the journey, but I’m deeply grateful that people like you exist — ready to understand, support, and help in the most difficult moments.
Not sure where to start?
You don’t have to know which practice, method or format is right for you.
Prefer to practise? Practice with me
Try this Therapeutic sequence for the back and joints.
This sequence grew out of my own recovery from back problems.
I recorded it 13 years ago — and people still come back to it today.
A gentle, full-length practice for the back, joints and whole body.
This sequence grew out of my own recovery from back problems.
I recorded it 13 years ago — and people still come back to it today.
A gentle, full-length practice for the back, joints and whole body.
Or you can try my gentle version of Surya Namaskar.
I created this flowing version of Surya Namaskar for people who find the classical sequence too demanding — especially with lower-back problems or limited flexibility.
Instead of forcing the body into deep forward bends, we move through the sequence in soft, wave-like movements, allowing the spine and joints to move gradually and freely.
I created this flowing version of Surya Namaskar for people who find the classical sequence too demanding — especially with lower-back problems or limited flexibility.
Instead of forcing the body into deep forward bends, we move through the sequence in soft, wave-like movements, allowing the spine and joints to move gradually and freely.
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Stress Is Not the Enemy
Practical steps from survival mode back into contact, resource and life.
The aim is not to eliminate stress. It is to restore your capacity to meet life — with more of your energy available for living.
Practical steps from survival mode back into contact, resource and life.
The aim is not to eliminate stress. It is to restore your capacity to meet life — with more of your energy available for living.
Prefer to talk? Book a free 20-minute call
Tell me briefly what is happening – physically, emotionally and in your everyday life, what your current stress and energy are like, and what you would like to change.
Together, we'll look at where you are now and what might be a useful place to start. It may be individual yoga therapy, a regular class or another format of support. And sometimes the most useful recommendation is to start somewhere else entirely.
This is a short introductory conversation, not a therapy session. There is no obligation to book anything afterwards.
Together, we'll look at where you are now and what might be a useful place to start. It may be individual yoga therapy, a regular class or another format of support. And sometimes the most useful recommendation is to start somewhere else entirely.
This is a short introductory conversation, not a therapy session. There is no obligation to book anything afterwards.