about us.

Zerina Karup - KUNDALINI YOGA. Zerina is a certified massage therapist, Kundalini Yoga Teacher (including for fertility, pregnancy and post-partum) and a Somatic Stress Release practitioner. She is passionate about guiding people to drop out of their minds and into the intuitive wisdom of their bodies. Zerina believes that the more we are in relationship to what is present in our felt sense, the more we are able to adapt to, respond to and resolve it.

Kundalini Yoga, Myofascial Meridian Massage and Intuitive Movement are Zerina's favourite tools to step into a more authentic, embodied and empowered way of living. Learn more about Zerina on her website. 

Natalie Fox - DYNAMIC FLOW. Natalie loves yoga as a pathway to more acceptance, resilience and awareness - especially in relation to self, to nature and connecting with the Ocean. In her classes she utilises the physical and mental benefits of yoga to also support flow-based sports like surfing. She is a 450hr trained yoga teacher & holistic surf coach with more than a decade of teaching experience in yoga-surf retreat settings around the World. Find out more about Natalie and her work as a yoga & surf teacher and ocean advocate on her website.

Elena Orth - FLOW YOGA. Elena is a big believer in fusion. She is a 650h certified Yoga teacher, licensed architect and Shiatsu practitioner. Over her decade in teaching and living in various locations around the world, from European cities to the jungles of Sri Lanka, she has discovered that life is best lived combining your areas of expertise and embracing the spaces in-between.In her classes, she blends her experience from her Vinyasa-, Ashtanga-, Yin-, and Rocket trainings into a journey on the mat that allows her students to explore the range of motion in the body but also in the mind, always nudging towards trying out different perspectives - between structure and freedom, strength and release, action and surrender. She has recently released her first online Yoga program, which revolves around building stress-resilience and nervous system regulation. Find out more on her website.

Carolin Fruehauf - HATHA FLOW. Caro is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher and artist based in the Algarve. Accidently ending up in a Kundalini Yoga class by her University sports program at age 20, her passion for Yoga ignited. Having lived in many different countries and having tried out many forms of Yoga since that first class in 2013, she completed a Hatha and Ashtanga teacher training in Nepal in 2022. For her, the yogic path is a way of living and not solely practicing asanas. The yogic path has proven to be a source of inspiration, confidence and creativity for her and she feels honoured to share her knowledge and experience with others. Find out more about Caro on her website.

Lorraine Hegarty - ASHTANGA VINYASA YOGA. Lorraine is a strong believer in a regular / daily yoga practice. Coming to the mat every day to breathe & move can help to ground you and bring more focus & clarity into your life. This is having a profound effect on the way you present yourself to the world and the way you live through all experiences & challenges. She is a passionate yogi & certified Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher (300h) who has been practising Ashtanga for more than a decade and continues to deepen her studies and who is dedicated to her daily morning practice. Learn more about Lorraine on her Instagram-Account.

Klaudia Kwoka - EMBOBIED YIN. "The work that heals you is the work you end up doing in the World". This sentence sums up why Klaudia entered the path of mind-body approaches to well being. Over the years yoga, breath-work, and therapeutic massage have become central in her life, serving as tools that she now shares in her work. Currently she is deepening her knowledge about somatic practices and the nervous system that helps her to design a yoga class that offers comprehensive support and integration. She is sharing knowledge that is meaningful to her. Through her work she wants to serve people whose needs and desires focus on the well being of their body and mind and who are open to discover how strong this connection is.

Daniel Schudt - MOBILITY TRAINING. Daniel has a strong passion for contemporary mobility training & dynamic stretching techniques to develop and maintain a healthy and supple physical body. Coming from an Ashtanga Yoga background he is at the same time excited about applying the yogic tools to calm the mind and increase & regulate energy levels. "Being on the mat every morning for a few gentle yoga moves & stretches followed by breathwork and meditation is key for getting ready for the day and inviting some flow."

He is as a massage therapist, FRC® Mobility trainer and yoga instructor who started practicing yoga in 2005 and has been travelling to India and many other countries to deepen his studies ever since.  Along with his passion for mindful movement & energy-work grew his interest in the therapeutic application of yoga and in the western science of re- and prehabilitation. Daniel is co-founder of the Dawn Collective Shala and you can find out more about him at www.Surfers-Health.com.