Career & Certifications
My teaching journey began in 2023 with a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bali with the House of Om. The program covered the foundations of Vinyasa, Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin Yoga, and Yoga Nidra — a comprehensive base that most teachers start with. I completed my certification in August 2023 and began teaching my own private groups and hosting my own wellness retreats like winter Yoga&Sauna women circles or SurfYoga Big Girls camps. In December 2023 I started teaching the kind of yoga I fell at the first place (hot yoga). And that's how my studio teacher career has begun.
Since completing my initial training, I have attended numerous workshops and continuing education programs on yoga and breathwork — including Jivamukti Yoga intensives with Sharon Gannon, Maria Macedo and Olga Oskorbina and traditional Ashtanga Yoga intensive with R. Saraswathi Jois, one of the oldest and most authentic Ashtanga teachers in the world.
I also continue to study with Yoga International, adding little by little hours toward my continuing education with Yoga Alliance.
In 2024 alongside teaching, I worked as a studio manager, coordinating yoga events, marketing, hiring, and internal community projects. I began growing my own YouTube channel, exploring different sides of my professional path.
For about a year, I balanced freelance teaching with studio management work. In 2024, I decided to fully focus on teaching and expanding my movement education. I began studying Pilates and strength training, aiming to integrate these disciplines into my yoga-based approach. I noticed that in many Western studios, yoga had evolved — blending with calisthenics, mobility, and functional training — and I wanted to understand this fusion deeply and consciously.
During this period, I was inspired by dance, barre, Animal Flow, and Pilates teachers I practiced with. These influences helped shape my unique, creative style of teaching — fluid but strong, grounded but explorative.
When I first started teaching yoga, I often offered head massages in Savasana, and that sparked my curiosity for bodywork. I realized I wanted to study it seriously, so I completed a 60-hour Thai Massage certification, choosing it as a natural continuation of yoga. Thai massage is often called “passive yoga”, and philosophically it felt deeply aligned with what I already taught. This practice was also part of the yoga community I came from in Russia, where touch and energy work were integral to movement practice.
By 2025, I completed all my ongoing training programs and expanded my professional focus. In addition to yoga and strength-based movement, I began teaching mat Pilates and high-intensity functional workouts in studios around Lisbon.
In August 2025, I earned my Reformer Pilates certification at The Kynd Space in Lisbon and started leading both private and small-group reformer classes. Today, I continue to teach yoga, mat Pilates, reformer, and strength training in various studios across Lisbon and online — working with private clients, groups, and anyone who shares a love for mindful, intelligent movement.