Yoga Teachers for every Style

Our teachers bring inspiring inputs to class from diverse sources like Yoga Philosophy, Native American Traditions, Art Theory & Practice, Buddhism, Tao, Science, Engineering, Design and more.

 

Daniela Fuentes

B.YOGA FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR | TEACHER TRAINING MAIN TEACHER.
ASHTANGA VINYASA YOGA & ADVANCED CERTIFIED JIVAMUKTI YOGA TEACHER

Daniela Fuentes

Daniela is a Mexican-born designer and a bodywork/Yoga facilitator based in Basel. Her work intersects artistic and design practice, Yoga and Somatics. Her work is framed and inspired in Eastern Philosophies, Transpersonal Psychology, Nature and Biomimicry as well as in Mexican, Shamanic and First Nation wisdom, science-fiction and Decolonial theory.

As a creative independent professional, Daniela has worked in diverse fields like graphic and editorial design, photography, documentary film, music and created works for museums like the Museum der Kulturen Basel. She has taught Yoga for over 20 years in studios and festivals in Europe and Mexico, being the current creative director and main teacher of B.Yoga Basel, the yoga studio she founded in 2006.

Daniela believes our collective becoming has a strong relationship with the micropolitics of our own intimate personal space, and through transforming the connection with our own internal landscapes and affects, we influence how we connect with our communities and planet.



Quetzal Santiago

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA & PRENATAL/ POSTNATAL YOGA TEACHER

Quetzal Santiago

Quetzal (pronounced: ketsal) studied Contemporary Dance in Mexico, specialized in presentation and danced for the Mexico National Contemporary Ballet for five years and realized many individual projects together with other artists. 



From 2004 to 2008 she got the Young Artists Grant from her state government and developed diverse coreographic projects which were presented in Switzerland as well as in Mexico. Her coreographies are strongly influenced by the day-to-day life and urban poetry. 



In her path of explorations with the body movement, she started to practise yoga long time ago. But it was when she moved to Switzerland that it became an important part of her life. 



Quetzal’s classes are a beautiful mix of her different backgrounds and her special energy.

Amrta Borok

ASHTANGA VINYASA YOGA TEACHER | B.YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PHILOSOPHY TEACHER

Amrta Borok

As a child I was lucky enough to have a first hand experience to yoga, through my father who was an advanced practitioner on a daily basis. I was very eager to sit in Lotus pose and look at the pictures in his yoga books already in my early childhood years. I was 19 and lived in Vienna when I composed my first personal asana sequences for my daily practice. It gave me a deep taste for hatha yoga but it somehow I felt that yoga has more to offer. This striving and attachment to Yoga and India remained and even magnified so far that 1989 I joined a Bhakti Yoga Ashram at the Centre for Vedic Studies in Vienna where I could learn more about the ancient Vedic yoga heritage as we studied Yoga philosophy, Meditation, Sanskrit, Indian classical music and traditional Ayurvedic culinary art.

Guillaume Musset

Jivamukti YOGA CERTIFiED TEACHER, The Art + Architecture of Flow, Roam Studio LA | B.YOGA TEACHER TRAINING TEACHER

Guillaume Musset

Former gymnast, Guillaume found in Sunmudo (traditional Korean zen martial art) a new way to solicitate the body to appease the mind. Consisting of meditation, yoga ,qi qong and martial art, the practice of Sunmudo further led Guillaume to the practices of yoga.

The Jivamukti method and the influence of Roam Studio in LA establish the foundation of his yoga education. He grows as a teacher by remaining a curious student and create invigorating and playful classes.

 

Rachel Meyer

Bhakti Flow Yoga Teacher & Writer | B.YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PHILOSOPHY TEACHER

Rachel Meyer

Rachel Meyer is an American writer and yoga teacher who believes in keeping things real. She draws from her roots in musical theater, theology, and the arts to teach a wholehearted, vigorous vinyasa.

Rachel completed her Masters in Systematic Theology in Berkeley, CA under groundbreaking feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, On Being, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, HuffPost, Parents Magazine, and more. She's trained with and assisted Rusty Wells, MC Yogi, and Amanda Giacomini, and taught for a decade in premier studios throughout San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; and Boston, MA. Her current style is influenced by the work of Larry Schultz (creator of The Rocket), Buddhist psychotherapist Michael Stone, and meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg, Ethan Nichtern, Jack Kornfield, and Tara Brach.

Rachel's vinyasa classes are rich in yoga philosophy, sweaty with hard work, and down-to-earth in tone. You can expect an Ashtanga-inspired pace, creative sequencing, a musical sensibility, and a vertical split or two along the way.

Rachel hopes you'll laugh as much as you sweat, and walk out feeling a little stronger, a little softer, and a lot more you.

Sarah Maurer

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA YOGA TEACHER | TEACHER TRAINING | TEENS YOGA TEACHER

Sarah Maurer

Ever since Sarah can remember, the need for physical movement was a natural necessity for her. After spending time exploring different dance styles, she discovered yoga in 2011, thanks to friends. Through the years, it took her more and more into its spell. Not only did she become more aware of the importance of breathing, but she continued to gain deeper understanding of movements, inner and outer, for the proper development of mind and body. The desire to share and pass on these experiences, led to her 200h Teacher Training in Vinyasa Krama which she completed in 2016 at B.Yoga. With her training as a movement pedagogue (GDS / IfB) and further education as the heart therapist of the SAKR, she has also taught gymnastics, fitness and coronary classes aside from yoga.

Sarah’s classes are in a quiet Vinyasa style, which she likes to complete with restorative poses. It is a great privilege for her to share the joy of movement, to discover its lightness and firmness, without having to force the body to conform to an external image. According to her, it doesn’t matter if things aren’t perfect; in fact it is important to learn to accept, love and respect one’s own body and mind as they are. It is then, that yoga practice can be the time to feel alive, loved and free.

Noémi Biro

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA YOGA TEACHER

Noémi Biro

Right after my first yoga class I could feel that there was so much more to it than just the physical practice.  It’s when I started my regular practice at B.Yoga Basel almost ten years ago that I slowly observed all the changes and benefits it had on my daily life. Coming from competitive sports, it was a new approach and a true reconnection with myself. Over time I have learned to slow down, to listen, to accept, to surrender and to be «sufficient». 

Today, I feel that I am still at the very beginning of this learning path, where less is more and where your breath is the only thing that tells you, when to push yourself and when to take a step back - both physically and mentally. I’ll be honest and say that I still find myself completely «disconnected» at times (I guess we all do, right?), but knowing that - even far away from a yoga mat - the simple act of breathing consciously can bring it all back to you, is certainly one of those profound learnings. 

After completing the Vinyasa Krama 200h-Teacher Training at B.Yoga Basel, with the very same teachers that had taught me my first sun salutations, I’m honored and grateful for the opportunity to pass on that magic. While still seeing myself more as student than as teacher, it is a truly beautiful experience to be able to share this passion, to see our students evolving in their practice every week and to help them find tranquility and serenity on and hopefully off the mat.

Schalk Viljoen

JIVAMUKTI YOGA ADVANCED CERTIFIED TEACHER (800HR)

Schalk Viljoen

Hi, my name is Schalk. Yoga came into my life when I moved from South Africa to Darmstadt in 2000. My practice deepened immensely once I discovered Jivamukti in New York in 2007. For the past 3+ years the Jivamukti Centre London has been my spiritual home (thank you Emma, cat, Durga). I completed the Jivamukti Teachers Training in 2011, in New York under the watchful eyes of David Life, Sharon Gannon, Jeffrey Cohen and Lady Ruth. The world of business and IT is the day job, yoga is the passion. Om shanti.

Hong Forelli

Yin , Prenatal & Yin Yang Yoga Teacher

Hong Forelli

Hong started to practice Yoga at the start of the new Millennium and soon got hooked. In 2006 she decided to combine work with pleasure and enrolled in an extensive Yoga teacher training from which she graduated the same year and became a certified Yoga Teacher, recognized by the Global Yoga Alliance RTY500.

She started to work for a couple of famous Shanghai Yoga studios in China teaching different classes and styles of yoga such as yin yoga, Hatha yoga and vinyasa flow yoga. After doing some further teacher training courses, including specialized courses in teaching prenatal Yoga, she found that working with mums and mums to be suited and satisfied her most and started to further study and teach in this field, becoming very proficient. In 2009 she opened her own Yoga studio: Hong Prenatal Yoga. She never looked back and established herself as one of the leading teachers in Shanghai for pre- and postnatal Yoga. She teaches all her classes in English and thus has a very international mix of students from all corners of the world.

In the summer of 2019 Hong moved back to Switzerland with her family. Hong has a Master degree in mental health psychology from the university of Liverpool, England.

After completing the Vinyasa Krama 200h-Teacher Training at B.Yoga Basel, with the very same teachers that had taught me my first sun salutations, I’m honored and grateful for the opportunity to pass on that magic. While still seeing myself more as student than as teacher, it is a truly beautiful experience to be able to share this passion, to see our students evolving in their practice every week and to help them find tranquility and serenity on and hopefully off the mat.

Clare Nicholls

JIVAMUKTI YOGA ADVANCED CERTIFIIED TEACHER

Clare Nicholls

Clare Nicholls has been a practitioner of yoga for 21 years. It is an integral part of how she exists in the world. Her hope is that through sharing her practice and experiences of applying this philosophical system to life she may bring to you so space and quiet in your mind.

Clare’s classes follow the Jivamukti method, of which she is an advanced certified teacher. Classes with Clare have a strong philosophical theme and a dynamic asana sequence which supports this theme. There is a curated playlist with music ranging from 90’s indie, to modern classical passing through ambient and dub. Hands on assists are offered as a way of encouraging the energic flow and suggesting alternative alignment in asana.

When practiced as an integrated approach Yoga has the power to transform and uplift. Clare is playful and sincere, blending the reality of living day to day with the ancient teachings of yoga skilfully with enthusiasm and joy.

Anna Andry

VINYASA YOGA & YIN YOGA TEACHER

Anna Andry

Anna first landed on a Yoga mat because she needed a post-run stretch. And the rest is a history of Yoga simply proving its own magic.

Driven by an ever-growing fascination for the the joy that movement brings and stillness affirms, Anna is committed to pushing the boundaries of her own mind and body. Being a student of Yoga keeps expanding her horizons. And so as an instructor, it is her aim to create experiences which serve as pedestals on to which students can step to see to new horizons, too. Anna is trained in Vinyasa/Flow as well as Yin Yoga.

 

Yota Tsotra

JIVAMUKTI YOGA CERTIFIED TEACHER

Yota Tsotra

Yota is a PhD Mechanical Engineer who has lived, studied and worked for a long period of time in Germany and Switzerland. More than that, Yota is an art freak, loves painting, drawing and uses creativity -in every way- as her means of expression. She discovered yoga in 2004 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and started practicing Iyengar yoga with her first teacher Victoria. Since then, yoga has become an important part of her life.

Yota has practiced different styles -Ashtanga, Vinyasa and others- till 2006 when she moved to Basel, Switzerland and was blessed to meet Daniela Fuentes, who introduced her to the Jivamukti yoga world. This became since then her main yoga practice, meeting beautiful teachers and friends who helped her to develop herself.

During these years she was honored to practice with great Jivamukti teachers from New York and London: Lady Ruth-Manenti, Yogeswari, Gabriela Bozic, Jeffrey Rama Cohen. In November 2012 she undertook the 300hr Jivamukti Teacher Training in UK. She is from heart thankful to her teachers Sharon Gannon, David Life, Yogeswari and Patrick Broome and to her beautiful mentor Rima Radi Rabbath.

Rebeca Revenga

VINYASA FLOW YOGA TEACHER

Rebeca Revenga

Rebeca is an eternal explorer and curious student. She specialised in the field of counselling, emotional intelligence and public health, and in 2011, she incorporated yoga and awareness through breath centred movement.She is a vinyasa flow yoga and mindful meditation teacher, with great passion for understanding anatomy and integrating a light-hearted approach in her classes. She offers creative, supportive, fun and transformative lessons and encourage her students to include practices of conscious flow into daily motion.

After her training in yoga for children, adolescent and families with Rainbow Yoga Alliance (YA) UK in Paris, 2015, she has been continuously studying ever since, taking inspiring workshops to evolve in her own practise. She completed her 200h. yoga teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Pranayama, Kriyas and Meditation in Kranti Yoga, India, YA UK and recently undertook a training with Jason Crandell, focus on how to understand, prevent and manage injuries in the yoga practise in Triyoga, London.

Nathalie Bont

JIVAMUKTI YOGA TEACHER

Nathalie Bont

A fresh graduate of the Jivamukti Yoga 75h TT in Bern with Céline Ryf and Yogeswari, she previously completed a 200h SivanA fresh graduate of the Jivamukti Yoga 75h TT in Bern with Céline Ryf and Yogeswari, she completed a 200h Sivananda/Vinyasa TT in India in 2018. She is a student of medicine with a big interest in the human body anatomy, its individuality, beauty and alignment in the Asana practice.

In her teaching, Nathalie makes emphasis on the practice of Yoga as a space for the release of trauma manifested in the body, rather than a playground for injuries and uses the power of her voice to hold space. A former singer at the Theatre Basel youth Opera, she learned in her classical singing training to inhabit the breath, move it in time and space and expand her body presence.

For her, intention is precious. She encourages each one of us to go beyond the physical aspect of Yoga, to explore its philosophical aspects transmitted in the ancient scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutra and discover many clues on the mysteries of life.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga Basel mit Evelyne Vuilleumier

Evelyne Vuilleumier

VINYASA FLOW YOGA TEACHER & SPIRITUAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Evelyne Vuilleumier

Evelyne came to Yoga in 1999, after some years as a Snowboard pro, and started with Ashtanga then Vinyasa Flow, followed by a first 200hr-YTT in 2013, after which she started teaching. In 2017 she did a Therapeutic Teacher Training with Rae Indigo from United Yoga (RYS 500), followed by a Yin Yoga Training with René Hug. She teaches the dancing flowing Vinyasa style with music. Evelyne studied Clinical Psychology, Gestalt Therapy and Sophrology. Besides Yoga she now leads a private practice and a further education in Spiritual Psychotherapy®.

Vinyasa Krama Yoga Basel with Yi Zheng

Xi Zheng

B. Yoga VINYASA KRAMA YOGA teacher

Xi Zheng

Valerie Imbach

HATHA YOGA CERTIFIED TEACHER 650HR

Valerie Imbach

Since I can remember, body movement and dance have always been a significant part in my life. A strong longing to go deeper into more subtle and holistic bodywork came up while I was studying movement education in Basel (GDS/IfB, Bewegungspädagogik, 2005-2008). That’s when I came across Yoga for the very first time. Soon after, I found myself in India, seeking for deeper understanding, truth, love and hOMe. Since then my Yoga-mat has always been with me and my urge to learn, practice and develop led me to many different places and wonderful teachers around the globe: Biff Mithoefer (Yin Yoga, 50h TT), O.P. Tiwari (Pranayama), Surrinder Singh (Hatha Yoga), Ajay Kumar (Asthanga Yoga), Doug Keller (Yoga Therapy, Philosophy), Gurmukh (Kundalini Yoga), Sienna Sherman (Anusara Yoga), Sharat Arora (Iyengar Yoga), Radhanath Swami-ji (Bhakti Yoga), Goenka-ji (Vipassana & Metta Meditation), Thich Nhat Hanh (Mindfulness, Buddhism).

In 2011 I completed the 200h TT in Vinyasa Yoga in Zürich, followed by a +300h ATT in Hatha Yoga 2012/13 (+100h 2015) with my dearest teacher Stephen Thomas. It has been through him that I discovered the more subtle work of Pranayama, Mudra and Bandha, which opened me new doors into deeper dimensions.

Jessica Barone

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA & YIN YOGA TEACHER

Jessica Barone

Learning has fascinated me since I was a little girl. I consider myself to be very curious and interested and am always happy when I can rediscover the unknown and the well-known. In my professional life I work as a primary school teacher and the interaction of learning and teaching enchants me every day. I am grateful for all the small and big teachers in my life. After completing my TT training at B.YOGA in 2021, I am looking forward to teaching lessons and learning from all of you at the same time.

Johanna Heusser

VINYASA YOGA TEACHER & CONTEMPORARY DANCER | B.YOGA TEACHER TRAINING TEACHER

Johanna Heusser

Johanna discovered Yoga during her studies to become a professional dancer when she was 17. She did her 300h TT at Vinyasa Yoga Academy in Rishikesh, India and since then she was teaching dance and yoga on regular basis. For her, Yoga is a multi layered construct that helps her to reconnect to the body and to the life force energy that is captured inside of her. Her classes are often dynamic and inspired by her other profession in dance and body therapies such as craniotomy sacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage. Through her artistic approach she researches on the topics of yoga and capitalism and how we can deal with yoga philosophy in a neoliberal western society in a careful and respectful way.

Danielle Vienneau

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA YOGA TEACHER

Danielle Vienneau

 

Eva Meier

B.YOGA VINYASA KRAMA YOGA TEACHER

Nicole Mettauer

B.Yoga Vinyasa Krama & KIDS Yoga FLOW Teacher

Nicole discovered her love for yoga in 2004 while working as a young professional in London. Yoga has been part of her life ever since, helping her stay grounded and balance her work as a paediatrician with her family life.

To take her practice to the next level, Nicole decided to acquire more knowledge by participating in local yoga studies and completed a Vinyasa Krama 200h Yoga Teacher Training at B Yoga with Daniela Fuentes. She thereafter decided to continue her yoga studies with Mark Stephens in Santa Cruz, USA to complete her 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification. She is grateful to her teachers who inspired her on her yoga journey.

Strong movement, breath awareness, and finding moments of peace is at the core of her own yoga practice. She incorporates her knowledge of anatomy and physiology to keep her students safe and teaches them how to understand, calm & balance their nervous system, using dynamic and powerful yoga sequences and simple breathing technique.

She is grateful to inspire young people to explore yoga, as a body and mind practice, in this fast-paced 21st century.

Nira León

Kids & Vinyasa Yoga Teacher |B.YOGA TEACHER TRAINING ANATOMY TEACHER

Nira León

After studying and practicing intensely Karate for more than 20 years, Nira discovered a new passion while travelling and living in Asia. Since 2017 she has been learning and teaching the Yoga in traditional ways as Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa Flow. For her, Yoga, Karate and all kinds of Movement are ONE. Because physical movement is life, and life is movement. Her background as a nurse helps her to integrate the anatomy of movement into her teachings.

Through Yoga, she could find a deeper understanding in how to heal the body, mind and spirit through awareness in movement and breath. Passion and calmness are the parts she wants to share in her class. Especially in Kids Yoga class she wants to show how important movement is and to understand your body and improve your awareness. With all this she believes that a child can grow and discover its inner strength which might help to cultivate love, respect and self-confidence.

 

Eva Meier

With a strong background in Gymnastics, Eva has always been seeking to explore her physical limits. Having started Yoga in 2012, she found a strong reconnection with her physical abilities as well a deeper understanding of her mind and spirit. A hidden revelation behind discovering Yoga was the sense of peace and joy to be found during its practice. Ever since the first contact with Yoga, she found it to be more than just a physical practice. Gradually she realized the importance of letting go of the idea that the goal was to achieve the most perfect and difficult poses. For her, life is about the journey, not the destination… and quite often trying can be more significant than achieving. Practicing Yoga has helped and enabled her to grow stronger, more flexible and fearless, both in and out of the mat. Yoga has inspired her to live each moment mindfully.
Having completed the Vinyasa Krama 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training at B.Yoga Basel, Switzerland, she clearly sees herself developing further in the Yoga community both as a student and as a teacher, seeking for opportunities to give back and share the loving wisdom gained during her training.

Teaching yoga is a challenge which brings her inner strength and peace. Often you will find Eva sharing her own passions in the class, aiming to help students develop in their life by guiding them to their own source of joy and energy. Her hope at the end of the class is for students to step out of the mat feeling refreshed, nourished and balanced.

 

Eliane Wehrli

When Eliane found herself needing a break from her full-time work, she quit her job and started traveling. Her travel journey began with a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bali as an opportunity to dive deeper into the world of yoga. 

Years ago, Eliane discovered yoga with the hope to find some release and relief of her migrain. She practiced different styles of yoga, but found her deeper connected in a Vinyasa Yoga practice, as she likes the dynamic of the flow and the connection btw breath and movement. Lately she got more and more involved in the practice of Yin Yoga, where the awareness is more on meditative part in the practice. Her fascination about yoga is in the whole range and depth of what yoga offers. Yoga became a mental and physical medicine to her in all belongings and brings a perfect balance to her daily work as a graphic designer. 

Eliane's Yoga classes are based on a flowing vinyasa sequence, combining breath with movement. Her style is inspired by many teachers she met around the world on her own yoga journey as a student. 

Dominique Cardito

Dominique completed her Jivamukti Yoga teacher training in 2013 with David Life, Sharon Gannon, Yogeswari and Patric Broom. In her teachings, she tries to transmit the physical as well as the spiritual treasures of yoga to her students. 

Apart from being a yoga teacher, Dominique is a freelance contemporary dancer. Through many years of dance training she gathered a lot of understanding of the human anatomy and on the flow and use of energy in the body.

 

B.Yoga Astronauts & visiting teachers

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Robin Mattakathu

Meditation Teacher

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Aysa Stettler

OM FACTORY (NYC) YOGA TEACHER

Aysa Stettler

Teaching experience: Community classes at Sanapurna, Zürich- Vinyasa Flow class open to all levels. Yoga at Campus, Dreispitz FHNW, Basel Weekly Vinyasa class, donation based, open to all levels. Community classes at Om Factory, NYC Teaching theme based Vinyasa Flow classes open to all levels

Yoga at Park Donation based Vinyasa class open to all levels, Maria Hernandez Park, Brooklyn NYC. Aerial Yoga classes Aerial Yoga flow classes for beginner/advanced level, using the Hammock as a support and reflection tool and toy for aerial acrobatic orientated moves

Education: YTT Om Factory New York, Summer 2014 Aerial YTT Om Factory New York, Spring 2014

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