ABOUT MÄRTA

I am a Swedish, ocean loving, flow sequencing and playlist making yogini, yoga teacher and animal rights advocate. Before moving to Cornwall in 2021, I lived on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, teaching daily yoga classes whilst running a surf school and caring for stray animals. I am passionate about our planet and hold a Master's degree in trans-disciplinary sustainability.

 

​I started traveling the world and practicing yoga around the same time in my life, about 14 years ago. My yoga practice became a steady seat in the midst of change, but also a way for me to get to know new places and faces. Whenever I came to a new country I would find a teacher to practice with or a beautiful place in nature where I could roll out my mat to flow, or sometimes just sit in peace. In a beautiful way, yoga became an essential part of both my travels and me as a person, and helped me to stay connected to myself whilst being on the move. 

I trained to become a yoga teacher in India in 2018 to learn about all aspects of yoga to enable me to deepen my own relationship with the practice. After that training, life would never be the same. I knew I wanted to devote much more time to yoga, and that I needed to share this practice that I so deeply believed in.

 

I believe in the benefits of yoga for all, regardless of how our personal practices look. I think that yoga has the power to help us become better versions of ourselves and better humans, so that we can extend the benefits of our practice to our communities and beyond. The physical asana can strengthen and open the body, and challenge the ego. The meditation can cultivate silence and calm of mind, the pranayama can redirect our energy and life force, and the ancient philosophy can build our

moral compasses.

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Ultimately, yoga is a practice towards liberation which teaches us principles of non-violence, truthfulness and union (so much more than how to move our own bodies).  It reminds us of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. We are deeply interdependent with every single person, every single animal, every aspect of the universe. We will never be free until all are free, we will never not suffer when there is suffering around us. 

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​Since I took my first yoga class in 2010 I have always been drawn to dynamic and fiery Vinyasa flow. I love arriving completely into my body and leaving the head to move, to breathe, to sweat – to just BE. The power of a fiery Vinyasa practice is the irresistible pull towards surrender, to the moving meditation where nothing else exists. ​ I still love dynamic Vinyasa but in practice and in teaching I am drawn to slower, more conscious movement. In my teaching I love to invite my students to stop and feel, to explore and to engage more deeply with sensations as a way to learn to listen to the intelligent language of our bodies.