But up there, on the third floor, is a world away from the traffic and tourists outside. Inside the studio - where students can use the mats provided if they don't bring their own. In a class, and with an attentive teacher, you can relax, be told what to do, and corrected when making a mistake. So I bought a yearly membership for Nataraja Studio, with unlimited classes, and have been going there about three times a week for the last nine months or so as a way of avoiding drinking at the end of the workday, and to unlock some of the stiffness and kinks in my body after hours spent huddled over a keyboard.
I started when I was about 19, 20 in my dance workshop. I fell asleep in every class, but something attracted me, and so I bought a book, a very simple one, classical yoga, and I started doing it at home.
I found it similar to dance, but calmer. For about a year I almost did nothing, no kind of physical activity, and this was after a whole life of training like a madman. So I took some classes and soon realised how much it had changed since I was But when I met modern yoga I saw how similar it was to dance, and I thought, yes, I want to teach this. Modern yoga means you mix styles and sequences. The teacher who I did my training with was moving out of Slovenia, and she asked if anyone wanted to take over her space, which was a studio and apartment together.
At the time there were some other changes in my life, so this was ideal, a new place and a new career. I got the apartment and the studio, and my teacher gave me a list of 20 people who might be my students. I started alone, and after six months I got another teacher. We started offering workshops, massages and I did lot of training, like yoga for kids, yoga for pregnant women, sport yoga, Pilates, and so on.
Things kept growing, and then six years ago I moved here. On regular basis we offer dynamic yoga 1 and 2, Ashtanga, Vinjasa yoga, yin yang yoga, morning yoga, hot yoga, rocket yoga, yogalates, power yoga, lunch yoga, Hatha Vinjasa with meditation, and Yin yoga with chanting. Once a month we offer Kundalini workshop and Gong bath.
