My name is Veselka, I am a yoga practitioner and teacher, as well as Thai massage therapist, based in Streatham Wells, London.
Yoga
I started practicing yoga 20 years ago. My first teacher training was in Paris in 2013. Since then I have continued my studies with some of the best teachers in the world. I am a 500h CYT and I am also certified to teach pregnancy yoga.
I am very grateful to my teachers:
Linda Munro and Gerald Disse, Chuck Miller and Scott Johnson in the Ashtanga tradition.
Uma Dinsmore-Tulli in pregnancy yoga.
Tom Myers, Leslie Kaminoff, Julie Gudmestad and Linn Crimando in anatomy.
Francoise Freedman in yoga for fertility, yoga for breast health and yoga for pelvic floor health.
During my explorations my appreciation and awe of the way we are made and how we move and function has grown immensely. My yoga practice has supported me through two changes of countries, two pregnancies and difficult recoveries, through pain and injuries, bad times and crazy times. I believe yoga is a mirror that sincerely reflects back to us who we are and where our powers and struggles lie. It gives us space to gain awareness of so many things that will otherwise stay unnoticed and unacknowledged.
In my teaching I pay great attention to breathing, safe alignment and staying present to our experiences. Yoga as I understand it is not about looks, perfection or performance. It is a very personal journey of reconnecting with ourselves that will start where we are at the moment and support us to stay present with whatever shows up every day.
Thai yoga massage
My passion for therapeutic massage emerged from my deep love of yoga. For me Thai Yoga Massage with its rhythmic meditative fluidity is like a dance. The treatments I offer are responsive, precise and intuitive. My aim is to make space for the innate immense healing power that each individual body possesses.
Somatic Psychotherapy
I am currently studying Somatic Psychotherapy with Bodynamic International.
My belief is that through working with our physical bodies we inevitably work with the finer energies as well and can access and release tension, emotions, trauma, stale and unhelpful habits and patterns.
I am also a mum of two who is passionate about education and loves singing and walking in nature. I used to work in media and computational linguistics for many years before finding my true passion.
My home massage studio is in Streatham Wells, SW16 2BT.
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Read more about me and my work as a yoga teacher and massage therapist in my blog.