The teachers
KLARA KALKUSOVA
Klara is co-owner of Reykjavík Yoga, a passionate Yoga teacher, reflexologist and student of a tantric approach in coaching.
Klara has been teaching Yoga since 2014, after graduating from Teacher training with Himalaya Yoga valley centre in Goa, India. Seeing Yoga as a vast ancient science, Klara further studied traditional Hatha Yoga in an ashram in north of India where she also ran teacher training courses. She has dedicated the past couple of years to exploring the concept of Yoga as medicine, learning psychosomatic connections, studying emotional anatomy, effects of trauma in the body and currently teaming up with psychologists in projects where Yoga is the bridge between the body and mind.
Klara’s respect for the body’s wisdom has been growing immensely over the years and she strives to create a space where safety, acceptance and connection happens and students get to learn from the laboratory of their own bodies.
Klara is part of the Teacher training team at Yoga Shala, where she also teaches regularly.
JITE BRUME
Jite is a Yoga teacher, a Reiki healer, an architect and landscape consultant who has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2008. She spends her time deepening her understanding of the environment, different cultures and the science of Yoga through learning, teaching and project work in Africa, Europe and Asia with various organisations. Her whole life is devoted to “improvement”, be it personal, social, inner or environmental.
Jite teaches Suryashtanga Yoga, a practice strongly anchored in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya that enables work on the physical, energetic, emotional and mental aspects of the Self and favours the internal pose over the physical, energy alignments over biomechanics. She has been practicing yoga since 2000 and after an exploration of various approaches including Ashtanga, Hatha and Yin, began teaching in 2008. She became a fully certified Suryashtanga teacher in 2013 and organises yoga and meditation retreats, study groups and teacher trainings around the world.
Jite has been part of Surya World’s Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher’s Training team since 2015.
ELMA DÖGG
@elma.dogg
Elma is a seasoned yoga teacher with over a decade of dedicated practice. She did her first yoga teacher training in north of India where she built onto her foundation of the Hatha Yoga principles. Over the years, she has further enriched her expertise through various yoga, breathing, and meditation courses, deepening her understanding of this ancient practice.
What captivates Elma about yoga is not only its physical benefits but also its profound therapeutic effects, particularly on the nervous system. This holistic approach aligns with her passion for the profound and healing aspects of yoga.
Elma is also a certified Pre and Postnatal Yoga teacher having studied under the guidance of Jennifer Moore, the renowned owner of Dolphin Yoga, where she also trained to become a Doula.
Currently, Elma is immersed in the study of Yoga Therapy, expanding her knowledge and skills to offer a more personalized and therapeutic approach to her students.
CAMILLA STRANDMARK
Camilla is a yoga and mindfulness teacher from Sweden that recently moved to Iceland. She has been practicing different styles of yoga since 2010. Her background is in medicine, as a nurse, she now brings the healing parts from medicine into yoga and mindfulness. She is RYT certified 500 from YFL, with speciality in restorative, yin, vinyasa, nidra, prenatal, medical yoga and yoga for cancer. Certified Mindfulness teacher (MBSR Mindfulness based Stress Reduction), medical acupuncturist, coach and owner of yogamindonline.se
She integrates yoga in daily life, and uses yoga as a powerful tool for health. She has, herself, experienced the medical healing parts of yoga and mindfulness when she went through breast cancer.
Camilla’s experience is that ones yoga practice evolves as one goes through life and she strifes to meet her clients where they are. The awareness and mindful connection with your inner self is the focus of every class.
Katrín Rögnvaldsdóttir
Katrín finished a 200 hrs Vinyasa Flow teacher training from Yoga Shala Reykjavík in 2021, and started teaching yoga classes shortly thereafter. She has practiced yoga for many years and has been involved with some form of dance for the most of her life. She wants to awaken body awareness in others and teaches traditional vinyasa flow with a sprinkle of dance inspired moves in her flow. Katrín would like to help others move their bodies with both feeling and intuition, and she enjoys bringing both mindfulness exercises and self compassion to the practice and using them as tools to embody the vinyasa flow.
STEFÁN ATLI
@stefanatli
Stefán’s first experience with Yoga was through a friend. An active yogini that was living and breathing Yoga that made her shine in a way that Stefán hadn’t experienced with another person. That was the aha-moment; there was definitely something very special about Yoga and soon after Stefán flowed through his first vinyasa practice.
In 2021 Stefán completed Yoga Shala’s 200 hrs teachers training program with a focus on Vinyasa and soon after, a Pranayama and Yoga Nidra teachers training programs.
In his Vinyasa classes, Stefán strives to create space for his practitioners to flow with grace towards beauty, felt on a personal level. With this aim, Stefán leads his Vinyasa classes using a dynamic set of yogic practices, where Asana and Pranayama are used as tools to reach to Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) and beyond, by experiencing true meditation. Stefán is hopeful that by doing the work, using these tools, you get a chance to shine in your own special way.
MIRRA
@mirraelisabet
Mirra first fell in love with yoga and meditation in 2010 while living in Boston. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, her love for the practice intensified as she discovered deeper parts of herself through dedication. Ever since then, she has devoted her life to delve deeper into the philosophy and practice of the unity that is yoga.
In 2019 she listened to the calling to begin her yoga teacher training journey in Ubud, Bali. There she completed her 200 hrs training in Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Yin yogic method, along with meditation and breath-work with teachers from Rishikesh, India. The wisdom she gained inspired her to expand the light of this healing gift that is yoga. Teaching in London short after, before moving to Reykjavík in 2020 teaching in Sólir yoga studio. In 2022 she completed I Am Yoga Nidra training with Kamini Desai in Sólheimar, Iceland.
“It is with honor that I continue to gain knowledge and humbly spread the wisdom of this ancient healing practice, from my heart to yours.”
ALICE
@alice.corra
Originally from Italy, Alice moved to Reykjavík in 2014. Since then she has been traveling a lot to South East Asia where she approached the disciplines of yoga and meditation and experienced the importance of nourishing both body and mind. During her journeys Alice kept searching and experimenting with introspective techniques and disciplines to heal body and soul, to take care of herself and others. Through this process, yoga has become an essential part of her life and in 2022 she completed her 200 hrs YTT at the Himalaya Yoga Valley Center in Goa, India, followed by a 40 hrs Hatha Yoga training with Klara Kalkusova. She is also certified in Thai Yoga Massage in Thailand and studied Sound healing therapy in Nepal.
You can meet Alice at her yoga classes for beginners, attentive to each student’s individual needs and respectful of everyone's limits. During her classes, sitting on your mat, you will be able to experience an effective physical exercise that increases strength, flexibility and physical and internal balance.
AIRI
@airi_triin
Airi-Triin is first and foremost a student of yoga. Her journey with the practice started about 10 years ago after what she intensely dived into science of yoga.
Travelling the world, she has studied under many different masters, graduated 200 hrs YTT at House of Om school in Bali and over 300 hours of Ashtanga Yoga, Himalayan Kriya Yoga and Yin Yoga studies. But the biggest teacher has been her own practice which can't be measured into hours.
For the past 3 years she has been teaching in many different places in Europe, Latin America, Bali and Iceland.
Besides teaching yoga she holds women's circles, sings kirtans, likes to explore different forms of movement, spends lot of time in nature and makes coffee.
In her classes she combines creative flows, breath, mobility and balance finding a way to move that's both challenging and softening. She sees yoga practice as something much more than just training the body and mind- it's an art of embodiment. Art of being in the body. For her we come to our mats to learn from our bodies, cultivate presence and listening that we will carry with us to moments off the mat where real practice begins.
Her Vinyasa flows are a captivating journey that often leaves people asking: "How is it over already?"