Steffi
Born in northern Germany – with flavours of fish, big sailboats and endless horizons – Steffi wanted to explore, first the surroundings, then other continents, then the inner world.
After some years of delving into the world of design she travelled to Mexico and discovered surfing in Puerto Escondido and yoga on the beach and she was stoked! What an excitement to throw herself into the big ocean, feeling the power, the rhythm of the waves, receiving the impulse to inhale and exhale.
Back in Germany she wanted to keep this feeling of flow and started with Ashtanga Yoga which helped her to keep balance in a busy big city life. But the nature and ocean were constantly calling her so she moved to the sea, teaching yoga in surf camps and eventually she landed here at Portugal’s beautiful wild Algarve coast.
She started teaching yoga in 2013, trained in India, Bali, Germany, Holland, registered as RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, and she is since then teaching & learning all over the globe. Since 2016 she frequently teaches on yoga teacher trainings and inspires new teachers to discover and trust their own individual way. Her styles are: Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative, Yin and most important Yoga for Surfers.
Besides of all the amazing universal and profound teachings of yoga Steffi gets really passionate when it comes to breathing. How to breathe in an asana flow? How to regenerate after a long paddle out? How to use the breath as tool? This is what she loves to further explore and to teach.
“Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” (H. Jackson Brown)
… and breath is the captain, ahoy!