About Ioana

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YOGA PRACTICE AND TRAINING AS A YOGA TEACHER

 

Ioana started to practice yoga 23 years ago and discovered very quickly that deepening her practice and understanding of yoga was her chosen path in life. Having trained for many years Iyengar Yoga and Meditation with different teachers in a Buddhist Center in Germany, Ioana met her Indian Iyengar yoga teacher Sharat, who had developed his own teaching method. During his retreats in Germany and India Ioana deepened her knowledge of Iyengar yoga learning restorative yoga with props and guided relaxation.

Taking the necessary steps and following her passion Ioana became certified as a yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. During the teachers training she got a deeper insight into:

  • Anatomy
    Dynamic and Ashtanga Yoga
    Restorative Yoga
    Yoga Nidra
    Pranayama
    Meditation
    Silence
    Philosophy
    Self-Understanding

After this extensive training Ioana gained knowledge in Yin-Yang-Yoga and Anusara Yoga and went on to study the philosophy line of Advaita. Ioana continued to deepen her own self-understanding through the practice of meditation, silence and therapy sessions in the following methods

  • Analytical Psychology
    Psychodrama
    Rebirthing
    Family Constellations
    Enneagram
    Hakomi
    Gestalt

 

Ioana’s teaching method is based on detailed instructions, focusing on awareness and alignment combined with flow and restorative yoga, pranayama and meditation while specialzing in therapeutic yoga and yoga for pregnancy. Ioana also writes a column on yoga in the German newspaper „Costa del Sol Nachrichten“.

adjustmentEXPERIENCE AS A YOGA TEACHER IN MARBELLA

 

Ioana holds yoga group classes in Marbella and San Pedro and therapeutic one-to-ones in the area of Marbella and passed on her knowledge in intensive yoga sessions in several meditation and yoga retreats in Southern Spain.

She teaches asanas and pedagogy in the yoga teachers training of the organization “Instituto de Estudios del Yoga” in Tarifa (www.institutodeestudiosdelyoga.com) and is a collaborator of the yoga convention in Marbella.

Ioana worked for 4 years as a yoga therapist in the Residential Treatment Centre for Trauma and Addictions Camino Recovery (www.caminorecovery.com).

yoga-nidra3MASSAGE TECHNIQUES AND REIKI IN MARBELLA

 

Being a certified masseuse, Ioana is qualified in Swedish massage, Ayurvedic massages (Abhyanga and Indian head massage), Thai massage and Lymphatic Drainage (original Dr. Vodder method). She learned Ayurvedic massages in India.

She studied 300 hours of professional Thai Massage at the Thai Massage School TMC, Chiang Mai, Thailand. This school has received the King’s Award for Best School 2005 and is an approved provider of continuing education in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. 

Ioana graduated as a Thai massage teacher in the Thai Massage School TMC, Chiang Mai, Thailand (www.tmcschool.com). She is affiliated with TMC and accredited to teach Thai massage level I, Thai table massage and Thai foot massage, for which the school issues a Thai massage diploma recognized by the Thai Ministries of Education, Public Health and Labor.

Ioana teaches Thai Massage in “Escuela Sur de Terapias Manuales” (www.centroqb.com) in Marbella and in “Herboristería Menta” in San Pedro de Alcántara (more information in Prices & Courses).

Ioana has been initiated into three degree of Reiki in “Reiki Fuengirola”, member of the “Federación Española de Reiki”, and is able to heal on the physical, mental and emotional as much as on the spiritual level. She combines the Reiki healing with the different massage techniques within the yoga therapy.

p1010463ENNEAGRAM AND GESTALT THERAPY IN MARBELLA

 

Ioana discovered through her own experience with Enneagram therapy sessions that the Enneagram is an amazing tool which aids in transformation through awareness. She has been studying this self-understanding method enthusiastically for the last 5 years.

Ioana trained as an Enneagram expert with the Enneagram Institute Enneagram Germany (www.enneagramgermany.de), following the narrative tradition of Helen Palmer (www.enneagramm.com) and completed a training for enneagram therapists with Thomas Condon (www.changeworks.com). Both Helen Palmer and Thomas Condon are very experienced and well-known Enneagram therapists.

Ioana uses the Enneagram as a self-understanding technique in context of yoga therapy.

Ioana started a Gestalt thearpy training at the Gestalt Institute “Lamar” in Málaga and completed the basic year in October 2011. She continues her training with the advanced year, starting November 2011.

Ioana speaks fluently English, German and Spanish.