Teachers
Andrea Lutz, Johanna Chemnitz, Anina Westermann, Heiko Kalmbach,
Anna Rossow and Lilith Moscon
Andrea has been actively engaged in the different traditions of yoga since more then 25 years. Following many years of studying Shivananda and Iyengar Yoga, her first contact with Ashtanga Yoga was in 1997. Since then, her fascination and involvement with this unique form of yoga has steadily increased. She has been a yoga teacher since 1995 and in 2000 her focus in practice and teaching shifted completely to traditional Ashtanga Yoga. In May 2005 she opened the Ashtanga Studio Berlin.
Andrea is following the traditional lineage carried by Manju P. Jois and Nancy Gilgoff. In recent years she has been practicing with and learning from them both on several workshops, teacher trainings and on long study visits to Maui/ Hawaii where she goes every year to learn from Nancy Gilgoff and to deepen her own practice. In 2009 Manju P. Jois authorised Andrea to teach the Primary and the Intermediate Series of traditional Ashtanga Yoga.
Apart from learning from her main teachers, she studied in the last 25 years Yoga with many world-renowned teachers to broaden her horizon.
Andrea possesses extensive and sound background knowledge of alternative medicine, physiotherapy, contemporary dance as well as different methods of body work therapy.
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Johanna has studied Ashtanga Yoga intensively and with great enthusiasm for many years. She began to practise with Andrea in 2005 and at the same time Andrea started to educate her in teaching Ashtanga Yoga Mysore classes.
In autumn 2006 she started assisting Andrea with the weekly classes. She took part in several teacher trainings guided by Andrea Lutz, Manju P. Jois and Nancy Gilgoff. In autumn 2007 she started teaching classes in the Ashtanga Studio Berlin.
From 2000-2004, Johanna studied Modern and Contemporary Dance at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Dance Academy Arnhem (NL). Johanna lives in Berlin since 2004, working as a freelance dancer and teacher.
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Anina was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in 2006 in India. Since then she spent many months in India to study with teachers in Goa, Mysore and Auroville. Her most important teachers during this time were BNS Iyengar, Gabriella Pascoli, Rolf and Marci Naujokat, Monica Marinoni, Nicole Verheyden und Peter Greve.
Anina is a student of Andrea Lutz since 2010. She is participating in her Ashtanga Intensive Program and takes part in workshops with Manju Jois and Nancy Gilgoff.
In spring 2011 she began to assist in Andrea's classes and from September on she started to teach at Ashtangastudio.
Anina has a degree in social work and has been working in a rehab center for minors in the past 10 years. She takes a special interest in the therapeutic aspects of the Yoga path.
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Heiko was introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in New York City in 1996 where he practiced with Guy Donahaye until 2005. He also studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Nancy Gilgoff and Manju P. Jois, and took workshops with teachers like Tim Miller, and Mark & Joanne Darby. Since 2006 Heiko has been practicing with Andrea in Berlin. He participates in her teacher training 2011/12 and assists in her Mysore classes.
Heiko pursued drama and cultural studies in Germany before completing a filmmaking degree at Tisch School of the Arts in New York. He works as a filmmaker, theater director, video artist and projection designer, and besides Ashtanga Yoga also teaches in those fields. (photo: Takako Hasegawa)
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Anna comes from Finland and has learned Ashtanga Yoga from Cole Dano. She teaches Ashtanga Yoga since 2005.
Anna has participated in many workshops and teacher trainings, studied with Nancy Gilgoff, Chuck Miller & Maty Ezraty, Richard Freeman, Paul Dallaghan, Dominique Corigliano, Lino Miele as well as Patthabi Jois and Sharath Rangaswami.
Her special interests lie in the observation of the link between body, breath and mind and the dissolution of behavioural patterns through the practise of Yoga and Meditation.
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Lilith started her practice of Ashtanga Yoga with Michele Barocchi in 2004 and was certified as a yoga teacher in 2008. She taught at the "It's Yoga Studio" in Florenz and took part in trainings with David Swenson and Roberto Palagi (Lino Miele's student).
She moved to Berlin in 2008 and became a student of Andrea Lutz. She participated in Andrea's teacher training and in trainings guided by Manju P. Jois and Nancy Gilgoff. Lilith assists Andrea in her teaching and in 2010 she began to teach her own classes at the Ashtanga Studio.
Lilith studied philosophy and literature at the University of Florence with a particular focus on philosophy of the mind and fenomenology.