A yoga practice for real life.
Traditional Ashtanga yoga, with individual guidance and room to be human.
Online Mysore classes with Heidi Ruokoniemi
You don't have to become someone else to practise yoga.
The practice meets you where you are — on the energetic days, the tired ones, and all the ordinary days in between.
It can be a place to pause, notice, breathe and see a little more clearly.
Three ways to practice
Mysore Classes
Practice of Returning
An ongoing home for your Ashtanga practice, organised in seasonal cycles.
Workshops & Retreats
Hi, I'm Heidi
I didn't set out to become a yoga teacher.
At sixteen, I left school to study fine art. I spent seven years painting and studying visual art, and for a while I thought that was what I would do with my life.
Then I found Ashtanga, and things took a rather different direction.
The practice took me to India, into teaching, and eventually back to Finland. These days I still draw and paint, love animals, and share my life with Laddu, my dog who was born in Mysore.
A lot has changed along the way, but the practice has stayed.
Practice, not perfection.
I believe a yoga practice can be strong without being harsh, disciplined without becoming rigid, and traditional without being disconnected from modern life.
The practice gives us a way back to the body, the breath and ourselves.