Certified TriYoga instructor®

Basics to Level 3

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Heike is a certified Tri Yoga Teacher with more than 15 years experience in leading people through their yoga practice (in Austria and the High Desert). She is a musician/ artist, Yogi since 2001, holds a master’s degree in art history and German literature and is one part of the husband-and wife Folk-Noir-duo ‘Son of the Velvet Rat’.

 

She is guided by her personal pillars of exploration, curiosity, creativity, music, and literature and rooted in eastern tradition and yoga philosophy. Heike also leads virtual group classes and private sessions.

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Cultivate: Precision & the Instinct of the Body

Uncover: your own Practice

Fall: in love with Breath

 

“Do not kill the instinct for the glory of the pose.  Do not look at your body like a stranger, but adopt a friendly approach toward it.  Watch it, listen to it, observe its needs, its requests, and even have fun.  To be sensitive is to be alive.

Yoga is an effortless dance with breath and gravity.”

Vanda Scaravelli

 

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self” -The Bhagavad Gita

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Education

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200 HRS TRIYOGA - Basics, Eva Maria Beck, Austria: 2008;

200 HRS TRIYOGA -L1, Kim Becher, Austria: 2014;

200 HRS TRIYOGA - L2, Tarini Richards, Austria: 20019;

200 HRS TRIYOGA - L3, Kim Becher & Tarini Richards, Austria, Santa Cruz: 2020

(The Tri Yoga Certification Programs meet Yoga Alliance Standards)

 

ANATOMY, Angelika Gärber

JIVAMUKTI: Patrick Broom

THE ENERGY FLOW: Anna Trökes

YOGA OF THE HEART – Mark Whitwell

IYENGAR – Paul Cabanis

PRANA VINYASA - Shiva Rea

THE HEART OF SMART FLOW - Annie Carpenter

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+ Master Degree - Art History & German Literature

+ Artist/Musician/Queen of the Underground [son of the velvet rat]