märta sternäng yoga
Certified Vinyasa & Hatha yoga teacher living in south west Cornwall
I am a Swedish, ocean loving, flow sequencing and playlist making yogini. Before
moving to Cornwall in 2021, I lived on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, teaching
daily yoga classes whilst running a surf school and caring for stray animals. I
am passionate about our planet and hold a Master's degree in trans-disciplinary
sustainability.
I started traveling the world and practicing yoga around the same time in my
life, roughly 13 years ago. My yoga practice became a way for me to turn into
myself in the midst of change. Whenever I came to a new country I would find a
yoga class to join or roll out my mat in nature to practice. In a beautiful way,
yoga became an essential part of both my travels and me as a person, and helped
me to stay connected to myself and my own truth while being on the move and
meeting new faces and places.
I trained to become a yoga teacher in 2018 both to learn more and deepen my own
practice, and because I was truly craving to share this practice that I so
deeply believe in. I believe in the benefits of yoga for all, regardless of how
our personal practices look. I believe it has the power to help us become better
versions of ourselves and better humans, and to make us healthier and happier
inside and out. I believe that yoga is a practice of integration.
Since I took my first yoga class in 2010 I have always been drawn to dynamic,
fiery and fast paced Vinyasa classes. I love arriving completely into my body
and leaving the head to move, to breathe, to sweat – to just BE. The power of a
fiery Vinyasa practice is the irresistible pull towards surrender, to the moving
meditation where nothing else exists.
I still love fast and dynamic Vinyasa classes but since I completed my teacher
training and began exploring traditional Hatha with my teachers in India I have
been drawn to slower, more conscious movement. In my teaching I love to invite
my students to stop and feel, to explore and to engage more deeply with
sensations as a way to learn to listen to the intelligent language of our
bodies.
