About Isabella
Dance to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
Agnes De Mille
Hi - I'm Isabella - I am an international yoga teacher (500h+ EYT) with many miles traveled and places called my home. A born lover of motion, yoga found me over 13 years ago, in my search to invite mental peace and embodiment into my life. My curiosity for movement patterns led me to many styles of yoga, from Hatha to Iyengar to Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga, and several years of Ashtanga practice. I found my resonance and deeper teachings in “Bhakti Prema Vinyasa Yoga”, which unites the yoga of devotion (bhakti) and universal love (prema) with transformational somatic vinyasa flows. It merges traditional practices including rituals, devotion to hindu deities and mantra chanting (kirtan) with modern postural yoga and cultivates a functional approach to body control and flexibility.
As we do in person, my practice and teachings continuously evolve and grow; where I am currently dedicating myself to kirtan, studying tantric saivism and embodied female awakening.
It is my objective to share with my community integrated organic movement, the alignment of breath and motion, and to create the space to access intuition and clarity through physical, mental and energetic bodies. The key pillars of my teachings are
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Embodied, functional flows, fostering transformation and somatic awareness
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Breath as the the anchor to movement, transitions and meditation
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The practice of integration; of physical with energetic experience of our being, of postural practice with devotion, philosophy and tradition
I strongly believe in the transformational power of yoga as it has proven essential to my own recovery from eating disorders and burn out. It has helped me to authentically surrender to the wholeness of the human experience embracing both shadow and light and growing to a healthier and happier version of myself. I’m dedicated to sharing these tools which have enabled me to cultivate my own intuition and the sensory and energetic relationships of body, mind and consciousness.
Jai Ma
Isabella
Why I practice & teach
Consciousness
Yoga is my method to explore my limits and my own and the merging with universal consciousness.
It enables me to cultivate the balance between perseverance and surrender in order to find, accept to or overcome obstacles.
Devoting total awareness to embodied sensations & stories and the linkage of breath, mind and movement I find yoga to be a key instrument to learn the long-lost language of emotional awareness, intuition and somatic intelligence. To teach this is one of my key drivers to do what I love.
Self-Study (Svādhyāya)
Discover and live up to my own inherent, internal nature and its beauty. Explore my own stories, creating my own space and cultivating the wisdom to know the difference between the things I can change and are worth my focus and energy and those I can only surrender to. Svādhyāya is the gateway and only path to get to know myself and identify the things that are truly important to me and need to be pursued.
Intuition & Integration
Yoga provides a toolset for consolidating the stories, experiences and encounters in my life, mind, body, spirit and heart.
At the center of this all rests the practice of embodiment: to overcome the duality of mind and body and to re-establish the inherent interaction between them through breath and movement. I find integration to be a key element in my life to
My Training
November 2022
Nervous System Understanding
Anja Bergh
A 20h course on how the nervous system and our stress responses work, what the felt sense is and tools to down and upregulate somatically.
Nov 2022 - July 2023
200h AuthenticFlow
Satu Tuomela, AuthenticFlow
200h+ Foundational Teacher Training in Authentic Flow, including breath, sound & soundscape, fluid-state activation and recognition, Yoga asana, mantra, intuitive movement, elemental embodiment and non-dual Tantrik philosophy and Permaculture.
Sep 2022
DEPTH AuthenticFlow
Satu Tuomela, AuthenticFlow
100h training on TCM, Embodied Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra, exploring the multidimensional capacities for healing by listening and sensing with the whole body-mind
March 2022
Shake the Dust
Satu Tuomela
50h TT for the unique movement practice designe by Satu Tuomela, where tantric teachings meet yoga, HIIT, dance and pilates to awaken to our true Self.
2020 - onging
Goddess Devotion & Meditation
Sally Kempton
Ongoing education on tantrik meditation & yoga philosophy
Goddesses of Joy, Beauty and Abundance - 2020
Cultivating Shakti - A Modern Sadhana, 2021
Your Dharma - 30h, 2022
March 2021
Yin Yoga TT
Ameriga Giannone - Prema Vinyasa Yoga
IYTA 40h Yin Yoga training on the art and methods of teaching traditional yin yoga, the history of TCM andtargeted yin sequencing.
March 2023
Rewild The Mother
Sarah-Jane Perman
A container to explore feminine awakening and meet and integrate the organic aspects of maiden to motherhood transition, embodied mama practices and sharing circles.
Oct 2022
ALCHEMIST AuthenticFlow
Satu Tuomela, AuthenticFlow
A women's only training on the alchemical powers of womanhood, tribe and somatics and Ritualistic Work. An amalgamation of movement therapy, dance, Goddess Mirroring and shamanic work.
Mar - May 2022
Embodied Mama: Pre/Post Natal
Satu Tuomela - AuthenticFlow
40h training pn Pre-& Postnatal embodiment practices, somatics and yoga sequences. A holistic way to support women in pursuit of conceiving and years post birth.
January 2022
Somatics & Somatic Cueing
Satu Tuomela - AuthenticFlow
40h training immersion into the principles of AuthenticFlow and Somatics and the journey to re-defining the way of transmitting practice cues
2019 - ongoing
Tantra Illuminated
Christopher "Hareesh" Wallis
Ongoing training on tantrik shaivism / non-dual tantrik philosophy:
Sanskrit Fundamentals, Deity Yoga, Mantra science, etc
Oct 2019
History & Philosophy of Yoga
Ameriga Giannone - Prema Vinyasa Yoga
IYTA 100h in-depth training on the history of the different branches and philosophies of yoga.