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In this Workshop, students will be guided through foundational asana, including sun salutations, standing, balance, and seated postures, while learning how breath supports movement and focus. The use of props such as blocks and straps will be introduced to encourage stability, accessibility, and ease in the practice.
The workshop also offers a brief introduction to yoga philosophy, providing context for the physical practice and insight into yoga as a holistic system for wellbeing.Originally from Athens, Maria Pountou has been a core teacher at AIRYOGA for ten years. In 2008, she moved to New York City to pursue her interests in fashion and architecture. There, she met yoga masters such as Dharma Mittra, who trained her to become a 500-hour yoga teacher. Inspired by her passion for anatomy and her meticulous attention to detail, Maria embarked on an additional 500-hour training program with Tiffany Cruikshank. Anatomical clarity and creative flow form the basis of Maria’s teaching. She combines yoga, flexibility and strength in a creative and therapeutic way, encouraging her students to develop mindfulness and endurance in their practice and to expand their physical potential with intelligence, discipline and a sense of fun. Maria is a registered E-RYT yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. In addition to her work as a yoga teacher and trainer, she is a certified personal trainer in accordance with the standards of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. She has also established herself as an expert in Kinstretch and FRC mobility, demonstrating her profound understanding of the mechanics of movement. For more information please also check out Maria’s website hybridyogini.com
Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and practitioner of Hatha and Tibetan Yogas and the founding director of the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist & Indic Yogic Studies where she co-teaches with Professor Robert A.F. Thurman at Menla and abroad.
She has taught, practiced, and studied avidly since 1998, and continues to run her longtime yoga school and beloved studio, The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon. She is also on the Board of Tibet House US and is devoted to supporting His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s mission, as well as preserving Tibetan Culture and Dharma.
You can find Michele often in New York sharing yoga at Tibet House or upstate at Menla Mountain Retreat. Her love and commitment to the unexcelled yoga tantras of Vajrayana as a path we can take towards perfect enlightenment and the integration of those teachings with the Hatha yogas more broadly practiced today, seeing both as powerful and not separate extensions of one another, infuses her work with great joy and commitment to a more compassionate and awakened world. She honors the lineage of teachers she comes from and bows to her longtime Hatha and Classical Yoga teacher, Richard Freeman for elucidating the middle path of love with the utmost clarity and kindness. To Robert Thurman, her beloved principle eacher in Buddhist science and her root guru His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the deepest bow for empowering her in the anuttara yogas.
Michele teaches regular classes and 200 & 500 YA trainings in Yoga and Yoga Nidra in Portland and New York, as well as retreats and workshops internationally.
For more information please also check out www.micheleloew.com and www.theyogaspace.com
Follow Michele on Facebook and Instagram @micheleloew

The approach of this intensive will include:
- Injury prevention: how to work safely with joints such as the knees, wrists and shoulders, hips and sacroiliac joints.
- Understanding the connections between muscles along myofascial lines, which makes clear the logic and purpose of sequencing, as well as the deep wisdom of the asanas themselves.
- Understanding fundamental functional movement patterns which are supported and improved through asana practice for greater health and freedom from pain.
- Principles by which teachers can assess students’ posture and movement patterns, for the purpose of understanding their pain patterns, and for being able to provide direction through recommendations and guidance for practice.
- Principles of breath in asana practice, and approaches to practice for improving breath patterns.
- Specific understanding of the different dimensions of the aging process, and how yoga addresses these and can be adjusted according to students’ abilities.
The Schedule:
Thursday, 19 March 2026
from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, and 1:30 pm 5:00 pm:
Joint Health, and the Key Role that Joint Movement Plays in Regulating Muscle Tone
Friday, 20 March 2026
from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon, and 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Principles of Fascial Fitness / Maps for Movement
Saturday, 21 March 2026
from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm:
The Upper Body: Health and Movement of the Shoulders (and Neck) / Wrist Health
Sunday, 22 March 2026
from 8:00 am to 10:00 am, and 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm:
The Spine, and the Role of Skeletal Muscles in Bone Health / Functional Movement
Find more information on the topics covered on each day here.
Doug Keller has been teaching workshops and trainings in the therapeutic applications of yoga for a decade, and is known not only for his effectiveness in communicating this ever-evolving approach in these trainings, but also for his extensive writing on the topic in magazines, journals and his two-volume work on ‘Yoga As Therapy.’
He is also, in addition to his traveling and teaching, a Distinguished Professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health in their Master’s Degree program in Yoga Therapy. This program is state-approved and accredited for granting a Master’s degree in this field, and is fully accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
For more information please also check out Doug’s website www.doyoga.com

Yoga Teacher Trainings
You want to dive deeper into yoga? You want to inspire more people for yoga and accompany them as a yoga teacher on their spiritual path of development? AIRYOGA is the right partner for this: Since 2005 AIRYOGA is a registered Yoga Alliance School (RYS 200- & 500-hour level) and one of the leading training center for yoga instructors in Switzerland.
Nationally and internationally, AIRYOGA trainings enjoy an excellent reputation. Our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and the continuing 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training (ATT+300) educate you comprehensively in the entire spectrum of yoga traditions and certify you according to the globally accepted standards of the American Yoga Alliance®.
AIRYOGA offers also a wide range of more specialized trainings to further develop your personal practice, deepen your knowledge and pass on your know-how in a competent and practical way. Our instructors are yoga teachers of international reputation with specific specialties and many years of experience.
Every year, many future yoga teachers place their trust in us. We thank you for allowing us to accompany you on this important part of your yoga journey.
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Yoga Zurich
Here, you are at the right place to start with yoga in Zurich or deepen your yoga practice or get trained in an accredited yoga teacher training. You can find inspiration in yoga workshops and retreats or learn how to experience more peace and serenity in your everyday life.
For 20 years AIRYOGA has been one of the leading yoga studios in Zurich and Switzerland.
With our experienced team of yoga teachers, we would like to introduce you to the diversity and power of yoga. We do this competently and with joy and passion.
Come by – we look forward to accompany you on your yoga journey.
Voices from the AIRYOGA community:
„AIRYOGA is a life changing place. Literally.“
„Thank your for paving a new way of life for me.“
„Durch gute und schlechte Zeiten haben mich die Yogastunden, aber vor allem die herzlichen Menschen getragen.“
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