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I have been practicing yoga for 12 years now. When I was 17, my mother took me to yoga class, and I really liked feeling my body, stretching it. But only after a while I noticed that yoga affects me both inside and outside. So, I fell in love with yoga, and then, thanks to regular practice, I cured my gastritis.

Having moved to Prague, I immersed myself more in the philosophy of yoga, began to communicate with like-minded people, but yoga has so far remained only a small part of my life.

I have always dreamed of doing something useful in life, helping people. Therefore, I graduated from being a social worker in Prague, but after that, I realized that social work helps people only on a superficial level but does not help them mentally.

Once a friend asked me: "Why haven’t you been teaching yoga yet?" I thought about it and began to teach yoga to my friends while attending the courses of the Czech Academy of Yoga. They taught me how to teach very well, but it wasn’t so good in sense of asanas adjustment, so I started to travel to India, to deepen my knowledge.

In India, I realized that my dream world had become a reality. Everything is saturated with yoga philosophy there. Thus began my countless trips to the capital of yoga, when I also studied Ayurveda, meditation, and philosophy. And during my third trip, I met my second Indian teacher, who turned my yoga world upside down by teaching me the detailed adjustment of asanas. On that trip, I grew a lot as a teacher.

Almost immediately, I opened my first yoga studio. It was a difficult period in my life, the studio wasn’t successful, but I reached a new level of understanding my classes. Gradually I came to the concept of Yoga inside the City. I even participated in several projects with this ideology. And after based on this philosophy, I opened InnSaei yoga studio, already my third studio.

Now I specialize more in individual lessons, but sometimes I also conduct group classes. I am doing my own online Self-balance marathon, which helps people to find their real selves. In addition, I conduct Ayurvedic consultations and collect herbs for various illnesses.

I devoted a significant part of my life to sports:
7 years as a professional athlete and 4 years as a coach.

I am a four-time champion of Russia, winner of various domestic and international competitions in air power acrobatics, CCM in powerlifting,
champion of the Perm region in street workout.

At the moment, I have shifted my focus to stretching and Sadhu Nails practice,
I find a response in this and I want people not to be afraid to try something new, discover new possibilities for their bodies, and get new sensations and emotions.

For me, stretching is a 100% manifestation of love and self-care.
This is about relaxation, emancipation, disclosure of female energy and self-confidence.

Stretching is an opportunity to better understand your body and its capabilities.

Dozens of girls did the splits without injury in my classes, and my students took prizes in pole sports and artistic gymnastics competitions.

As for the Sadhu nails practice, I believe it appeared in my life at the most opportune moment.  And to this day they help to confidently move on, stay in the resource and discover new possibilities.

I sincerely wish every person to try the sadhu nails practice because only this way can one appreciate the power of this practice and its impact on all of us.

I will be glad to open the world of Sadhu Nails to you and make you fall in love with stretching

For several years I tried yoga, and it was rather an attempt to wet my feet on the shore without going deep.

The real immersion happened only after my volunteer trip to a dance project in a camp with a promising motto "A place where people bloom." People in this place were united by something important - the desire to live, to love, to manifest, to get to know themselves and to speak in body language. I remember sitting on the wooden floor of house number 108 - we were told that real yoga begins outside the yoga mat. I believed it and did not regret it.

Then there were different directions, teachers, retreats, and even a long-awaited trip to India, after which my tectonic plates moved inside me for a very long time.

A human and his structure from the point of view of physiology, anatomy and psychology have always evoked in me this sincere delight and a desire to understand it deeper. Although, I have always been weak in body, often ill. Since childhood, I have studied the body processes in theory, but dreamed of going beyond the textbook in practice. Yoga, on the other hand, opened the way for me to enjoy movement without violence against myself, became a fulcrum to begin to listen to myself and to unite all parts of my personality.

What a blessing that 10 years ago I discovered yoga for myself.  Probably, like most, at first I thought that yoga is twisting my legs into a lotus and lying on a mat ) How wrong I was. Despite 9 years of studying at a choreography school and regular classes in the gym, my body turned out to be weak and wooden.

My path in yoga began as a banal 'sports interest'.  I watched the transformation of my body and rejoiced at its new possibilities.  And only a few years later I understood that this practice is deeper than physical exercises 

I believe that the feeling of oneself begins through the feeling of one's body in space.  Through work on the physical body, in yoga it is called asana (position), we influence the state of mind and emotions.

In my classes, I focus on the synchronous work of the body and breathing, high-quality warming up of the muscles before stretching.  Hand balances are my love! I think that to get the most out of practice you need to sweat a lot on the mat.

I started doing sports at an early age.
When I was 4 years old, my mother took me to classical choreography, which I did for 10 years.

Dancing taught me to feel my body and hear music.  By the way, I still love dancing.

After that, I was doing gymnastics, where I learned the correct technique, and also cheerleading, where I became the captain of the team, gained an inner core, willpower and team spirit.

Sport has been an integral part of my life since childhood, and now I continue to study yoga in depth.

I came to yoga a long time ago, at first, it was just my hobby, the ability to connect with the body.
Then, when I left the office and asked myself what I want to do, I decided to go to Thailand and immerse myself in my favorite hobby.  There I took my first teacher's course.  When I came back, everything somehow started moving, and I started to teach.

By nature, I am not flexible at all, plus a leg injury always imposed a restriction on mobility.  And my approach to yoga is based on a very careful attitude to the body, to a feeling of my capabilities at the current moment, without trying to do a headstand a month after practice.
I remember that when I went to different studios as a student, it always seemed to me that there was a huge gap between me and a “real” yogi (that is, a teacher).
And when I started teaching myself, I always emphasize that yoga begins when we show up at the mat, and not when we try some tricky asana. 

Therefore, my approach is very gentle and with deep attention to myself and my body.

I love working with energy, and I believe that the harmonious state of female energies in the body is the basis of our female health, resource, and beauty.

Sports has been staying with me since childhood and throughout my life.  I have devoted 10 years to dancing and have been practicing yoga for 7 years.
For me, yoga is about health.  It is impossible to enjoy life and create something without a strong and energy-filled body.

I chose the direction called Ashtanga Vinyasa.  The first time I stepped on the mat, I couldn't stop.

I didn’t choose Kundalini Yoga as my practice. It did choose me.

As a birthday present, I got the participation in a two-day seminar on Kundalini Yoga. I knew nothing about kundalini yoga at that time.  My level was zero.  But it seemed that mentally I was ready to do anything. 

It can sound trite but Kundalini yoga changed my life.  And it is still changing it. 

My first acquaintance with Kundalini Yoga was not easy.  The seminar was intense.  And I was a  newbie.  “What am I doing here?”, “That’s enough.  I can’t do it anymore”, “Why am I doing this at all?”, “When will it end?!”, “What are those stupid hand movements!”, “  3 more minutes?  Oh, nooo!"  - these are the most harmless thoughts that are visited during the performance of kriyas and meditations.  Not to mention that I wanted to throw a bottle of water or a pillow at the teacher.

My body shook, pumped, breathed, cried, vibrated, froze and warmed up several times.  But I didn't give up.  I was helped by the strength of despair, which took over me back then, and the strength of the desire to get out of this crap.

After the seminar, my whole body ached.  But for the first time, I experienced what some people achieve through long practice - a state of complete zero.  Or Shunyi, as I found out later.  The emptiness and silence inside are the same as if you didn’t know who you are and where you are.  You are simply aware of your existence, presence, and radiance. There is space around you, some sounds, and you are in it, totally, without thoughts.  Pleasant, blissful state.  Either the end or the beginning.

Again I have to say a banality, but it is difficult to give another definition to what happened next - miracles.

Since teenagehood, I have been very worried about the structure of our world, who we are, and why we live here.  I looked for answers everywhere, from personal growth training to religion.  And only yoga gave me answers to all my questions and even more.
I am very grateful to the higher powers that brought me to yoga school 16 years ago.
Throughout all these years, I met very strong and good teachers, each one revealed to me different facets of the magic of yoga, and I fell in love with it more and more.

At the beginning of the yoga path, my yoga practice was very intense, really hard yoga. And, since my youth I was worried about very severe pain in the lower back (especially after the birth of children), I felt something was wrong here: I do yoga intensively, but the lower back continues to hurt.  So I came to yoga therapy for the spine.  Now I can say with confidence: yoga really makes wonders, especially if a set of exercises is correctly selected.
Yoga is the most valuable storehouse of knowledge for spiritual development, and health of the body and mind, which I have been sharing with people with great joy for the past 10 years.

I have been practicing yoga since childhood.  The active and conscious practice came when I was 14. 

My main principle of life (and concurrently one of the principles of yoga) is non-violence.  Any result, be it yoga or anything else, we get by making an effort, and not through violence to ourselves. 

We take care of the body, we understand it, we hear it, we love it, and we do everything out of love and care.

Discipline + non-violence = result.

I love what I do and am constantly in the position of a student.  I hear, I see people, and I listen to them.

I was born in Uzbekistan, the city of Bukhara, and I am very proud of it because I think that this city has put a lot of wisdom to me.

At the age of 16, I moved to the Czech Republic to study. I lived a very ordinary life - I studied at the university, worked, and hung out.  This life took me away from myself, and I seemed to have lost touch with myself.  And the worst thing is that I didn't even realize it.

On January 8, 2014, I will never forget this date, I landed at the airport of India, Goa.  A friend invited me there, just to hang out because there are very cool parties, so I decided to go.  The return ticket was in two weeks, but of course, I did not use it and stayed there for 3 months.  It was unforgettable 3 months, I call it rebirth.  It was like I was born again and learned everything again.  I learned to eat, but consciously, feeling, and enjoying all the tastes.  I learned to breathe deeply, enjoying the moment and filling every cell of myself with air.  I learned to love, unconditionally, and got acquainted with my body through dance, and movement.

On a retreat in India, I experienced meditation for the first time, not in words, but a real transcendental experience of meditation.  Then I realized that my life would never be the same.

There were many tears and fears.  I remember that I was so afraid to lose this state again, afraid to return to Europe and forget everything.

And then I began to beg the universe, to pray that it would send me something that would allow me to always be in this flow.

The universe did not make me wait long. A couple of days later, a tantra yoga class was held on the beach early in the morning, this was the very unique instrument.  It was a sign and a gift from the Gods.  This is what helps to live in harmony with the cycles of nature, to hear your intuition, to honor your ancestors, and also to live in the present.

I can describe and praise this style of yoga endlessly, but it is better, as they say, to come and try it, to taste it.

I invite you to the classes and I really hope that I can convey this message of peace and quiet.

I was interested in yoga from the age of 16, but the town I was from did not give me any choice of directions and teachers. All attempts to integrate yoga into my everyday life were then unsuccessful.
Therefore, having received an invitation to work for the InnSaei project, I immediately agreed, although I was not then immersed in yoga and its philosophy. I just understood that this is something that makes a lot of sense, and therefore I wanted to work on it.

I started to work and immediately fell in love with the project. Thanks to the variety of classes, the atmosphere in the team, the teachers, and the mission of the project - to help people find their real selves.

Every day, the work on the promotion and content of the studio slowly turns into dependence on yoga.

Most of all I like to notice my feelings after different classes: after Vinyasa I run home with a bunch of ideas inside my head; after balancing yoga, I clearly feel my body and the connection with it; after the evening Hatha, I finally let go of the day and all the emotions, and in my body, I feel the silence and pleasant vibrations. 

For me yoga is not about some kind of race, not about how well my asanas turned out today, not about something mystical.

Yoga is about gratitude for taking the time for yourself, paying attention to the body and feelings.

Yoga found me when I was 17. My friend kept telling me how wonderfully she is doing splits thanks to asanas. And I wanted to do splits too. So, that day I found a video of yoga practice (of dubious quality) and started practicing. I couldn’t do the splits so I gave up on yoga.

Sometimes I came back to yoga if my mood asked me to, but there was no regularity and correct adjustment of asanas.

My mind turned upside down when in 2018 I bought a yoga course for beginners with Alina. It turns out that I did almost NOTHING right. After each lesson, I felt so full and alive that I could not wait for the next one. When the course came to an end, I immediately signed up for a new one – for intermediate. And that's all. It seemed to me that I no longer exist without yoga. So I practice. Going deeper. And fully enjoying it.

When Alina invited me to work with her on the InnSaei yoga studio project, I was in heaven.
I really like working in a team of conscious people. I love watching the studio grow, meeting new, so different and so wonderful people who are attending classes. I like to tell the story of that project on social media. I see how it collects a huge response among our people in Prague. I see how they change. And that is incredible.