Boban Krstic

Yoga is like a dance through my soul. A path of discovery. A way of life that feeds my natural spontaneity and intuition. My dance background has shaped who I am. It has brought me flexibility. Not only in my body but as a human being. It has taught me to adapt to situations and environments, to move with whatever comes my way.

In moving from Belgrade to Rotterdam in 1994 after finishing the dance academy in Serbia, it has meant an adjustment in culture and surroundings. When I left the dance world a few years later to work in retail as a store manager and later a regional manager I applied my flexibility in lifestyle and daily routine situations. The same happened when I switched from management to yoga. Besides that, I encounter and get the opportunity to trust my flexibility in daily life, when I travel (which I love to do as often as possible) and in every challenge I face in life.

Yoga is like coming home. Dance already made moving a very natural thing for me, but yoga gave it a new dimension. An internal journey. The movement I initiated with dance, got lifted to another level. Turning inward, connecting, feeling and listening.

The Teacher Trainings I attended were all fed by movement. The 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training in Goa, India laid the foundation for all of the classical postures. In the 200 and 500 hour Pralaya Yoga Teacher Training with Robert Boustany and Dorinda Farver I submerged myself into anatomy and energetics, both in relation to my own body as well as my student’s bodies. And during the Aerial Yoga Teacher Training I could dive deeper into my intention for creating a loving place where people can let go and experience freedom and strength in their own body.

Patrick van der Pol

Hello everybody I am Patrick!

I am a certified Hatha Yoga teacher and Breathwork Coach. Being a teacher, but mainly a lifelong student of Yoga, I am still amazed everyday how much yoga and breathwork can do for a person's life. The growth in mobility, strength (physically and mentally), flexibility and overall feeling of wellbeing. 

Learning how to use the breath in any day situations to calm you down or pick you up, but also to help you get simply better sleep. 

Being a Firefighter myself helped me in teaching Firefighters Yoga and Breathwork to facilitate and support them. Teaching them to calm their minds and their nervous system during intense situations. At the same time training the body for a long healthy career. 

For most of my life I have been training in martial arts, starting with Karate and Kung Fu and now I am training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ).

I hold over 600 Hours of yoga education; learning from teachers like Hiro Landazuri, Patrick Beach, Adell Bridges,  Dylan Werner and Talia Sutra. With Talia I did my 300 Hours Advanced yoga Training in India and was coming back home to the roots. I am also a certified Oxygen Advantage Advanced Teacher which I learned from Patrick Mckeown himself! Together with Eli I connect with my students all over the world thanks to our online platfom Move Breathe Academy, which provided also Yoga Teacher Trainings in person.

I am everyday inspired in doing everything I can for my and others wellbeing! Practice with Sthira & Sukha in everyday life.

Eli Ciuffarella

Since I was a kid in Italy I was always active so that was not a surprise that I am a movement enthusiast. Because of my scoliosis, I was directed to attend postural training at a very young age. I found my first love for movement in the swimming pool where I was in pre-agonistic training and competitions. After I started the same trajectory as a teenager for athletics, competing in middle distance races. I was part of a volleyball team and later I joined martial arts. Even though I injured my knees, ankle and feet as a consequence of two bad accidents, the love for the movement never left me. 

This is when I discovered Yoga. Yoga helped me to recover from my injuries and at the same time helped me to reconnect with my body. As soon as I stepped on the mat something happened inside of me. Yoga brought me so much happiness, grounding and beautiful connection that I decided to become a teacher to be able to share my passion and my experience with others. I embarked on a journey seeking the best teachings, so I could transmit this art of yoga to my students in the most comprehensive way possible. I hold more than 900 Hours of Yoga Education simply because I believe we are always, in the first place, a student. This quest led me to many countries where I was able to practise and learn with one of the best yoga schools out there, Vikasa Yoga, and teachers such as Daniel Rama, Hiro Landazuri, Brad Terrell, Patrick Beach, Dylan Werner, Adell Bridges, Shakti Bird, Janet Stone, Meghan Currie and many others. With Daniel Rama I did my 300 Hours Advanced Yoga Training at Vikasa Yoga which was llife changing. Together with Patrick I lead 200 Yoga Teacher Trainings with out Move Breathe Academy.

I specialise both in the energetic and milder forms of yoga in order to bring balance into our productivity driven, stressed and self disconnected lifestyles. I love to create the space and time needed for people to challenge their comfort zone, explore their boundaries and connect to their inner playful child. I do it in a warm, smiling and fun way which suits my grounded approach to life and enthusiastic personality. My passions and practice include Hatha, Vinyasa, Locomotion, Mobility, Functional Movement, Rocket, Yin and everything having to do with Breathwork. I love to bring in my classes always a piece of my life and heart, positive energy, while enabling self confidence and creating a safe place for expression.