Hi, nice to meet you!

I am Tatjana. Yoga-Teacher, Educator and Psychologist with a disruptive passion for students well-being, teachers passion for their work and an insane curiosity for biochemistry, neurocognition and yoga.

I am deeply intrigued by the wealth of knowledge our body has if we just decide to listen to it. Our body is our greatest teacher – and listening to it can be the greatest challenge of all.

During my years of training I learned to listen; to really listen. This leads me to hear the question behind the question and to sense problem underneath the problem. I do not strive to have all the answers. But I do strive to ask you the right questions you need to arrive at the answer yourself.

My training as a therapist serves me as a toolkit, as well as my background in educational psychology, educational consultant, study advisor and coach.

Coming from HIIT exercises, I am drawn to Yoga with its emphasis on connecting to the Body, taking rest when needed and using the breath as fuel to keep the postures steady.
For years I forced my body to perform; on the mat and in my professional life. I exercised like a maniac, cut down on sleep to allow extra time for studying and working out and allowed myself no breaks. When I was tired, I simply got another coffee. Or two.
I was so cut off from my body that I wasn’t noticing the simplest things. A question such as ‘How are you feeling?” would leave me blank and staring. It took me years only to realise, that my honest answer in that situation would have been ‘I don’t know’. How should I know how I was feeling, when at the same time I worked so hard to suppress my feelings in order to perform?
Realising this was the first step for me. Deep work, therapy and buckets of shedded tears later I am on my way back to myself. Yoga was a huge part of that. Yoga and Therapy have helped me to find my way back to my body. Yoga helps me to listen to my body, to know when it is time to turn down and unwind. But also when it is time to rise and let me be supported by my breath.

My yoga-mat was, and still is, an incredible teacher and my process of learning and evolving is far from finished. I completed my 200h Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Amsterdam under the guidance of the Teachers Beatrice Savaris and Moena de Jong.

Yoga is not a miracle remedy – but it has the chance to open doors if you let it.
The journey starts here.

In my free time I stroll through nature and bookstores, play the piano, practice my knitting skills and hide from the world with a good book and a large mug of coffee.
I live with my partner in the north of the Netherlands.