I offer a non-clinical space for embodied self-exploration through yoga-based practices, such as breath, meditation, attention and inner experience, with or without asana.
If you disconnected from yourself, emotionally overwhelmed, creatively blocked or longing for a more grounded and truthful relationship with life, these sessions are design to support you to return to yourself more fully.
Yoga is an ancient and diverse tradition of practice concerned with the relationship between body, breath, senses, mind and consciousness.
Yoga is not a system originally centered on physical postures. Asana is one expression of this much larger tradition.
In different traditions, Yoga has been described as the gathering and directing of the senses, the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind, the cultivation of equanimity and the disciplined pursuit of self-knowledge and liberation.
There is a recurrent movement:
from dispersion → toward integration
from being pulled outward by the senses → toward inward awareness
from identification with every movement of the mind → toward witnessing and discernment
from unconscious reaction → toward conscious action
from fragmentation → toward a more integrated way of being
from not knowing oneself → toward direct knowledge of the Self
And the methods vary: ethics, meditation, breath, concentration, sensory restraint, inquiry, devotion, action, knowledge, mantra, physical practice and many others.
For me, yoga is a discipline of consciousness, a way of working with the mind, senses, attention and ultimately one’s relationship to consciousness itself.
It is waking up to our true nature, our own essence, beyond the social identity that we have created.
When the senses become still, the mind is no longer being scattered outward and the movement ultimately goes inward toward the Self.
We spend so much of our lives oriented towards what is outside of us, responding, giving, caring, working, adapting.
These sessions create a space to turn your attention back towards yourself.
When it becomes difficult to stay with ourselves, the practices of yoga can give us another way in: through the body, the breath, meditation and attention.
Over time, we can become more familiar with our own experience and with what is asking to be seen, felt or understood.
This is not a fixed sequence of exercises or a class you need to follow from beginning to end. Each session begins with where you are and what you need from the practice that day.
Depending on what feels relevant, we may work with breath, meditation, movement, asana, body awareness, conversation or self-inquiry.
Sometimes the practice is physical. Sometimes it is mostly stillness and attention. The intention is not to fit you into a method, but to help you develop a practice that is meaningful and sustainable for you.
Pranayama
Working with the breath to support presence, vitality and inner balance.
Meditation
Cultivating attention and creating space to simply be with what is here.
Self-inquiry
Exploring thoughts, patterns, feelings and questions that are asking for your attention.
Embodiment
Coming into closer contact with sensation, breath and the lived experience of the body.
Philosophy & Storytelling
Exploring the stories and wisdom of India to help us understand ourselves and the world.
Asana & movement
Exploring the body through conscious movement and yoga postures.
All sessions are private, one-to-one, online and personalised to you.
30 minutes
A focused session with pranayama and meditation.
When you want to develop a relationship with your breath and meditation practice without needing movement or asana.
€40 · single session
€280 · 8-session series
60 minutes
A space for conversation, self-inquiry, pranayama, meditation and reflection.
We begin from what is present for you and explore it through attention, breath and contemplative practice.
€60 · single session
€450 · 8-session series
60 minutes
A fully personalised practice that may include asana, pranayama, meditation, movement, body awareness and self-inquiry.
Each session is designed around what is relevant for you in that moment.
€60 · single session
€450 · 8-session series
Your first session is an opportunity to meet, understand what brings you here and experience how we might work together.
From there, we can decide whether an ongoing process feels right for you.
Ongoing sessions are booked in advance as a series, allowing us to build continuity and let the work develop over time.
An 8-session series can usually be completed over four to eight weeks, with sessions taking place once or twice a week depending on what feels appropriate.
The format can remain the same throughout the series or evolve as your needs change.
Online · English or Romanian · Google Meet
If an ongoing series would be supportive for you but paying for the full series in advance isn’t currently possible, you’re welcome to get in touch. We can talk about what might be workable.
Occasionally, a single session may be all you need. You can also reach out when something specific is present and you feel that a session would be supportive.
You may find these sessions supportive if you:
Some people find that the work they explore in therapy benefits from another kind of space, one that brings attention to the body, breath, meditation and personal reflection.
The work here is different from therapy. It offers a complementary space to develop awareness of the body and breath, explore meditation and personal practice, and reflect on what is present for you.
I do not provide psychotherapy or mental-health treatment, and these sessions are not intended to replace professional care.
Your relationship with yourself
Noticing patterns, inner reactions and the ways you move through your own experience.
The body as a place of knowing
Learning to listen to sensation, breath, movement and the signals that can easily be overlooked.
Emotional and relational experiences
Making space to explore what is happening within you without immediately needing to resolve it.
Presence and attention
Using meditation, pranayama and embodied practices to become more available to your actual experience.
Transitions and inner change
Periods when something in your life is shifting and you need space to listen before deciding what comes next.
Femininity, embodiment and desire
When relevant to the person and the work, we may also explore the relationship between the feminine, the body, desire and lived experience.
2007 — Yoga first entered my life through a three-month Hatha Yoga course in Bucharest.
2013 — I began developing a consistent personal practice.
2017 — I moved to Rishikesh, India
2019 — I completed my first 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh
2019 – I completed a second 200-hour yoga teacher training in Bali and began teaching.
Since 2019 — I have been working with people one-to-one, alongside teaching and continuing my own practice.
10 years in India — Living and practising in India became an important part of my relationship with yoga, meditation and traditional practices.
200h Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
Sanatana Yog Sandesh · Rishikesh, India · 2019
200h Yoga Pranala Teacher Training
Nalanda School of Higher Knowledge and Yogic Arts · Ubud, Bali · 2019
Iyengar Yoga
Omkarananda Institute · Rishikesh, India · 2018–2024
Vedic Chanting Online Course
Nalanda School of Higher Knowledge and Yogic Arts · Ubud, Bali · 2020
My formal studies are only one part of my training. Years of personal practice, teaching and my own inner work and experiences had such a strong influence in how I work today.
Intimacy with oneself is the essence of true radiance
I have studied three types of Yoga that have influenced my own style of teaching.
Hatha Yoga gave me a foundation in working with the body, breath and attention as interconnected aspects of practice. It taught me to approach the practice as something we experience from within.
Iyengar Yoga deepened my relationship with precision, observation and the intelligence of the body. It taught me to pay attention to subtlety and to adapt the practice rather than forcing the body into a predetermined shape.
The Balinese Yoga Pranala opened another dimension of practice for me, a more fluid relationship between movement, breath, energy and awareness. It brought a sense of continuity between the physical and the inner practice.
Over time, these different approaches became less like separate methods and more like different languages within my own practice.
For me, this is where yoga becomes deeply personal: creating greater intimacy with yourself, learning to stay with your own experience and gradually discovering what becomes possible when you turn inward.
"I have been enjoying yoga classes with Yoli for over one year now and already i feel the benefits. I used to have severe back pain and being overweight i thought starting any sort of physical activity will only make it worse. My surprise was to see the transformation after only 3 classes i had more energy and i could stretch more and even had a better outlook of life after each session. I enjoy the fact that i can do the classes online from the privacy of my home and i also believe Yoli to be a patient and nurturing teacher. She has pushed me further then I initially believed possible and i am very grateful."
"The soul becomes light and calm, and a tranquil smile stays with me long time after our yoga class. I would never have believed that this could happen, and especially that I can understand so well the explanation of all the movements in an online session.
Thank you, Yoli"
"Every time we meet I feel so good and energised, you are like a balm for my body and soul! When we first met online, I was stiff and depressed, then slowly, slowly, through practice together, my breath got better, my mood improved and my body became so much more flexible. I impatiently wait for our meetings to see what is there new for me! I am sure that the meditation will empower my mind and kick off the depression for good, plus breathing exercises will help me give up smoking! I am so grateful to you!"
"I had this thought that, I can't do this or that, but Yoli, with patience and kindness, taught me that everybody has their own needs of spiritual practice and every class can be molded for my emotional and physical reality. Step by step, growth happened. I started feeling more emotionally grounded, mentally and physically stronger."
No. Sessions are adapted to your experience and needs.
No. A session may include asana, but it can also focus on pranayama, meditation, movement, conversation or self-inquiry.
That’s completely fine. The session can take another form.
No. You can come with a question, an experience, a feeling or simply a sense that something needs attention.
