Michael Hamilton
Michael originates from Canada and South Africa. He has studied yoga with many prominent teachers in the Krishnamacharya lineages, focusing on Iyengar and Ashtanga. Michael is authorized to teach Ashtanga by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore India.
Michael spent time in monasteries in Asia and America studying meditation, which form the foundation of his teachings on yoga and its integration into our daily lives. With an eye for detail and alignment, Michael leads traditional Ashtanga based Mysore and led classes, and conducts workshops throughout the world. Michael teaches in English.
For more information please see www.michael.ashtangis.com

Vera Achana
Vera was born in Ghana and grew up in Aargau. When she was 5 years old she began a long-year career as a figure skater, while receiving her diploma in business and trade. After 3 years touring the world with the Ice Revue "Holiday on Ice", Vera left the ice skating rink to begin training in dance. She worked as a dancer for 5 years in Switzerland and in Paris.
Spurred by her inclination towards spirituality and philosophy, Vera started yoga in 2000. The positive effects of her daily practice on her body, mind and entire life encouraged her to enroll in the International Yoga Teacher Training at AIRYOGA. She finished the training in Autumn 2007 with great success.
Vera's teaching is flowing, strong and dynamic, and she creates an atmosphere which encourages the discovery of one's own potential for creative energy, strength and wisdom. Vera teaches in German and English.

Frank Schmid
Frank started growing in the Swiss Alps, then Zurich, New York and San Francisco. He lived in Vancouver, Canada, for 10 years. Ditching university for a learning by doing approach to life, Frank worked as a photographer in the film industry, made furniture, painted theater sets, translated for the web and practiced and taught Yoga along the way. He received his Yoga teacher training at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, India and from Ifat Erez in Canada. Residing back in Zurich, he is looking forward to show you the amazing journey of Yoga. His daily practice reflects in his classes which he leads with a strong sense for detail, individual safety and fun. For those who take his classes, it is a quiet lesson in self-exploration, opening up body and soul to the accept and work through the practice, which mirrors the challenges of life. Frank is teaching in German and English.

Susanna Lorenzini
Susanna was in the health and travel business, before she discovered Astanga Vinyasa Yoga in Fuerteventura in 1997. She proceeded with a two months intensive teacher training with Nancy Gilgoff in Maui. From 1999 to 2005 Susanna has been teaching yoga with Bruno Dietziker in Zurich. She continued her studies with Lino Miele, Luisa Sears, Sharon Gannon and David Life attending different workshops and teacher training courses.
In 2007 Susanna completed a 3-year long training in Yoga Therapy with Remo Rittiner in Zurich. The Yoga Therapy training places emphasis on personal and individual assistance for persons with chronic pain or ailments (for example in the back, shoulders or neck, or asthma). Yoga Therapy is a holistic approach, integrating the body, breath and mind to achieve a state of equilibrium. Susanna teaches her classes and private lessons in German.

Adrian Wirth
After completing his studies in Environmental Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Adrian lived for one year in Vancouver, Canada. It was there that he was first introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Vipassana Meditation in 2002. In the following years Adrian's Yoga practice consisted solely in the regular practice of the asana of the Primary Series. Due to deep reaching experiences with Vipassana meditation and the work with medicine plants, spirituality and self-transformation began to take a more important role in Adrian’s life. This led him to travel to India, where he spent one year teaching Tibetan monks chemistry and biology, practicing asana on the roof of the Buddhist monastery, and diving deeper into eastern spiritual teachings. Adrian completed his Yoga teacher training with Remo Rittiner in Zurich.
Adrian’s classes follow the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya, and are tailored to the student's needs. Dynamic Vinyasa Flow yoga, as well as gentle Ayur Yoga, fit perfectly well into his teaching repertoire. With his scientific background he understands well to build bridges between the old yogic wisdom and our modern worldview. Adrian teaches in German and English.
He lives with his wife and son in Zurich and in the hills of Emmental.

Nina Calame
Nina is a mother of tree children, she has been trained as a kindergarten teacher and a grafic designer. She was an gymnast and later pursued jazz and african dance and eventually yoga. Nina completed several workshops and teacher trainings. From John Scott, Leela Miller, Danny Paradise, Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Petri Räisänen, Rolf Naujokat, Michael Hamilton, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Rangaswamyshe and in Zurich with Matt Crigliano and Brett Porzio she learned Ashtanga Yoga. Her stay in Mysore confirmed here love for ashtanga. Nina aquired her yoga teacher diploma with Ana Forrest in the US. She has been trained in Baby&Me classes with Jyothi Larson and also received a certification in Prenatal. Nina teaches her classes in German, English and French.

Michael Thurnherr
In 1996 Michael was introduced to the tradition of Yoga in Pushkar, India, by Yogi Shyamlal. Over the years he was inspired by many different styles of yoga and various teachers. After intensive studies, John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, certified Michael in 2002 as an Affiliated Anusara Yoga Teacher. Ever since Michael teaches and leads workshops in Switzerland and abroad.
Michael incorporates the unique «Universal Principles of Alignment» with the empowering and uplifting yogic philosophy of Anusara Yoga. He also integrates his experiences as a zen-student of the White Plum Shanga. Each yoga pose becomes an artistic expression of the heart that integrates precise alignment, balanced action and deep feeling. Besides his inspiring yoga teaching, Michael is working as a product and exhibition designer. He teaches his classes in English and German.

Claudia Garati
Claudia grew up in Switzerland. She started practicing Hatha Yoga in 2000. After moving to New York, she enrolled in YogaWorks certified 500-hour Teacher Training program and completed it as a certified yoga instructor (Yoga Alliance RYT500). Claudia further studied in New York and San Francisco with ISHTA Yoga founder Alan Finger, Mark Whitwell, Bridget Shields, and with Restorative Senior Teacher Sara Tirner. After 3 years in the US Claudia moved back to Switzerland in 2008.
To Claudia yoga means both statics and dynamics, which are energetically in balance. In her classes she focuses on proper alignment to guarantee both safety and freedom. Her aim as a teacher is to allow the students to find their breath and consequently become present in each asana and in the moment. Claudia teaches in German and English.

Salome Noah
Salome Noah grew up in Basel. Her first encounter with Hatha Yoga was during a longer stay in hospital when she was twelve years old. In the following years and while working as an actress in Zurich, New York, and various cities and theaters in Germany her Yoga practice went through many changes of intensity.
In 2005 Salome met John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga in Berlin, her second home – and finally the Yoga she had been longing for ever since.
From 2006 through 2008 she completed the Anusara® Yoga teacher training with Lalleshvari and Vilas Turske at City Yoga Berlin. After 17 years „on the road“ Salome lives now in Basel again.
To express our hearts and our soul in an Asana through the elegance of the universal principles of alignment is an infinite source of inspiration and joy for her – and a wondrous way to connect with our Self and our higher source.
Salome teaches in German and English.

Renée Albers
Renée was born in North Carolina, USA and grew up in Switzerland. She completed her commercial education first and then a school for fashion design, both in Zurich. Renée’s passion for yoga began in 1997 as member of a fitness and dance studio in Zurich. Since that time yoga has accompanied her life.
Renée completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training in Zurich in 2005 and subsequently a continuing education in the B.K.S. Iyengar style of yoga in Bern. Since 2007 she has been attending the 4-year long Yoga Teacher Training at the Academy for Hatha Yoga with Doris Echlin in Lucerne. Additionally, she regularly attends workshops with internationally known yoga instructors both domestically and abroad.
For Renée yoga means art expressed through the body, cultivation of the body and mind, and joy of movement. She teaches her classes in German and English.

Sandra Ackermann
Sandra is a trained infant educator and mother of two children. From 1998 through 2001 she completed her education as a Birth Preparator FFG and subsequently completed training as an Adult Educator SVEB II. She has also attended additional education in birth preparation, post-natal care, and pelvic floor.
Sandra has been practicing yoga on a regular basis for the past 5 years and has attended workshops with Clive Sheridan, Lance Schuler, and Ana Forrest. In 2005 she completed pre-natal yoga training with Cheryl Bernardi. Sandra is also a Chiball Level 1 Instructor.
Sandra loves to work with pregnant women. She presents her classes in a personal and individual fashion. In her classes Sandra strives to connect the women with their unborn child, to strengthen their self-confidence, and to teach them how to find peace in their bodies. Sandra teaches in German, and if necessary also in English. She will teach the Prenatal yoga class every second Friday, in rotation with Nina Calame.

Kimi Fiebig
Kimi completed a four-year dance training at the Zurich Dance Theater School with a subsequent specialization of Musical Studies at the Musical Academy in Hamburg. In the meantime she has been performing on stage as a career dancer for 10 years and was engaged in large-scale productions and national theaters in Germany and Switzerland.
Six years ago Kimi came across yoga while searching for a supplement to her daily dance training. She quickly realized that yoga takes place not only on the mat, but also challenges and aids the entire body and mind. Through regular practice she found a balance to her fast-paced career.
In 2007 Kimi successfully completed the Yoga Alliance yoga teacher training at AIRYOGA in Zurich. She became acquainted with different styles of yoga by attending workshops in Switzerland and Germany. Kimi teaches in a dynamic style, which embraces aspects of Vinyasa Yoga. She combines yogic wisdom and teachings for health and bodily well being with elements of dance in her classes, accompanied by ambient music. Kimi teaches in German.

Joana Heimgartner
After the first yoga class she attended it was clear for Joana: this is it! In 2006 Joana traveled to South India to experience the teachings at their source. Initiated at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala and continuing her training with AIRYOGA Zurich, Joana acquired the Yoga Alliance teacher certification in Autumn 2008.
Her roots in a Swiss academic family along with her occupation caring for children taught her the importance of passing on gained knowledge. To teach is for Joana a gift and a privilege. She teaches in the Vinyasa yoga tradition. Her classes are grounded and a source of inspiration, full of warmth and serenity, with the aim to get to know oneself and find inner calm. Joana teaches in German and English.

Tanja Forcellini
During one of her journeys to the Far East in 1999, Tanja discovered and learned to appreciate Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Yoga has led her to find answers to the many questions she has encountered in her personal life journey – answers that lay hidden deep within herself.
Tanja attended a yoga teacher training program in 2004 at Centered Yoga in Asia, where she received certification as a yoga instructor recognized by the Yoga Alliance. Additionally she attended the pregnancy yoga teacher course at Birthlight UK. At the end of 2008 Tanja was blessed with the experience of having a child. She is constantly reminded how much strength, self/-trust and the necessary physical and mental relaxation that Yoga gives.
To deepen her own practice on the mat, Tanja regularly attends retreats, and training with internationally recognized teachers, among them Sri K. Pattabhi Jois † 2009, Sharath Rangaswamy, Paul Dallaghan, Gabriella Pascoli and Lino Miele. She deepens her spiritual practice through the challenges of everyday life and especially thru stays in the ashram in northern India. Tanja teaches in German and English.

Gisela Collazo
Gisela originates from Puerto Rico and grew up in the United States. She started learning Hatha Yoga in 1995. In 1999 she began practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga intensively and discovered that this particular practice nourished her body, mind and soul.
Gisela completed the Teacher Training with Paul Dallaghan at Centered Yoga in Thailand in 2003. In 2005 she traveled to Mysore, India to spend two months training with the Guru of the lineage, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson, Sharath Rangaswamy. Gisela has also trained with many renowned teachers including Bruno Dietziker, David Swenson, Doug Keller, Richard Freeman, Paul Dallaghan, Louisa Sear and Michael Gannon.
Since becoming a mother in 2007 Gisela has been living yoga in a very different way than she did before. She has learned to appreciate the wisdom of yoga's philosophical teachings by applying them in dealing with the joys and challenges of parenting. Every day her two children remind her that life is in the here and now and teach her appreciation and acceptance of what is.
In October 2009 Gisela was awarded the Birthlight Perinatal Yoga Diploma and is a qualified teacher of pre and post-natal yoga. Gisela teaches her classes in English and German.

Valérie Lutz
Valérie is a trained language teacher and journalist. She attended her first yoga classes 20 years ago with Indian master Selvarajan Yesudian in Zurich. As co-founder of AIRYOGA, Valérie has been fortunate to experience many different yoga traditions and to learn from wonderful, world-renowned yoga teachers since 2003.
In 2008, Valérie successfully completed the 200-hour Yoga Alliance yoga teacher training. Since then she regularly attends workshops and intensives to deepen her knowledge.
Yoga balances and supplements Valérie's work and family life, and supplies her with inspiration and energy for everyday tasks. In her teaching she aims to share the deep enrichment her life has gained through yoga, and to invite her students to discover their own spirituality.
Valérie teaches flowing Hatha and Vinyasa yoga, bringing the body, mind and soul into harmony. She leads her classes in German and English.