Theresa Harmanen | Co-founder and Yoga facilitator
She has practiced yoga for almost 20 years but her interest in energetics, movement and the spiritual realm has been with her since a young age, influenced by her father who was active in bodywork and massage. She has a strong creative side and a deep love and respect for Mother Nature and often draws inspiration from that in her yoga. Besides studio classes and corporate classes, Theresa is also available for private sessions.
Her yoga approach
She considers her yoga mat her sacred island and every time she steps on the mat she arrives back home. Her teaching is soft and layered but powerful. Topics she often returns to are moon cycles and life transitions, the innate female strength and intuition, gratitude practices, and how to easily take yoga off the mat and into your life.
Education
- certified yoga teacher (RYT 200 hours) in Samayoga – a holistic yoga form inspired by traditional hatha yoga with influences of Qigong, the chinese five elements, flow style postures, pranayama (breathing practice), mantra, ayurveda, Vedanta, and meditation
- trained in Embodied style Yin/Yang Yoga (100 hrs continuing education CE)
- Pre- and Postnatal yoga (50 hrs continuing education CE)
When not on the yoga mat, Theresa loves spending time in nature with her husband and 4-year-old daughter. She also loves traveling, resetting by and in the water, learning (the forever student!) and reading about yoga, health and creativity, as well as diving deep into her design projects.
Claudia Menger | Co-founder and Yoga facilitator
Claudia found yoga in her early twenties, in Amsterdam, and although that first time on the mat felt so different from everything she had done before, she fell in love and kept coming back to that small studio facing the canals. A one-year world trip gave her the opportunity to practice with teachers around the world, and when she moved to Oslo she knew it was time to start sharing her love for yoga and the lessons she had learned along the way, by teaching classes.
Her yoga approach
Her teaching journey started with studio classes in hatha, yin and vinyasa yoga, as well as corporate yoga classes. Then came a long fertility journey, a difficult pregnancy and a traumatic birth experience, and a pregnancy loss, which all helped her find her path to helping women navigate the big and small transitions in life, all through yoga. Currently, Claudia teaches studio classes and privates.
Yoga gives her energy and stillness, and her mat is where she always comes home. Her personal practice follows the moon and her cycles, making every session on her mat different from the previous one.
Education
- Traditional Hatha Yoga (200 hr)
- Yin Yoga (50 hr)
- Vinyasa Flow (50 hr)
- Prenatal Yoga (90 hr)
- Postnatal Yoga (70 hr)
- Restorative Yoga + Yoga Nidra (25 hr)
- Fertility Yoga (55 hr)
Claudia has also completed hundreds of hours of studies on the pelvic floor, trauma, perinatal mental health, and grief, as well as yoga nidra. She’s also a holistic health coach and Reiki practitioner.
Claudia loves exploring Norway with her husband + 3-year old son, eating raw cake, travelling, and reading, reading, reading.
Kristin Holdø
Kristin teaches Postnatal Yoga and Kids Yoga at Sanga Yoga.
Kristin found yoga while living in Southeast Asia for an extended period, and feels grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from teachers of diverse backgrounds in different countries.
Her yoga approach
Yoga is her happy-place and safe-space. A place to reconnect and find space. It’s also been an incredibly valuable tool to support her through the different stages and big changes in life – especially during her pregnancies, births and after becoming a mother (of two).
Kristin’s classes are playful and empowering. She believes that as long as you can breathe, you can do yoga.
Education
- certified teacher in Power Vinyasa Yoga (200 hours)
- trained in Kids Yoga, Mother and Baby Yoga (30 hours)
- currently doing a continuous education in Yoga for Seniors (50 hrs).
Read more about Kristin in this article about postnatal yoga and her personal yoga journey.
Ida Sigrid Engerud
Ida teaches Kids Yoga at Sanga Yoga
Ida found yoga in her late teenage years and in her mid-twenties she chose to study it in depth through her first teacher training. She started to facilitate yoga classes in 2011 and has been dedicated to her practice and teaching ever since.
Her yoga approach
Yoga has been, and is, a huge and important part of Ida’s life. Among other things helping her to carve space towards a more healthy and harmonized self-view. Ida realized that she missed the knowledge that yoga provides growing up, and this is one of the reasons she also has been working with kids creating fun ways to learn about the breath, body, movement, and meditation.
Education
- several teacher trainings in yoga since her first 200 hours in YogaWorks
- over 1000 RYT
- advanced training in Embodied Flow TM which is her main source of inspiration.
She has two yoga trainings specifically for teaching kids, Kidokids and Mediyoga for Kids.
Anette Haave Åsheim
Anette teaches Prenatal Yoga at Sanga Yoga.
Anette discovered yoga and pranayama early on through singing and using her voice, and through the spiritual presence she felt while working with her music. This path intuitively led her to an asana practice. Anette has used asana and pranayama in her song and vocal teachings for years, which led her to vinyasa yoga studies in 2014 and restorative yoga in 2016 at Yoga Vida in Manhattan.
Her yoga approach
Anette is passionate about women’s health and strives to create a safe atmosphere and community in her classes where mothers-to-be can feel comfortable exploring and finding their inner birth strength and mama power. In her classes, you will breathe through a nourishing practice that supports the woman both physically and mentally on her way towards motherhood.
Education
- Oslo Yoga’s postnatal yoga training in 2018
- the kids yoga training in 2019
- pregnancy yoga training in 2020
Anette also teaches postnatal yoga and pregnancy yoga at Asker Yoga Shala and at MamaYoga. Additionally, she works as a freelance vocalist and sound mixer.
Abigail Aller
Abigail teaches fertility yoga at Sanga Yoga.
Abigail found yoga in 2005 when a dance teacher suggested she take a yoga class to destress from working on her PhD. From her first class, she knew she had discovered something very special and vowed that one day she would train to be a yoga teacher.
Her yoga approach
For Abigail, yoga is her sanctuary: her place to go when life throws a curveball. Yoga helped her navigate fertility struggles, IVF, and cancer, and she now uses her experiences and training to support women walking similar paths.
She uses vinyasa, yin, and moving meditations to cultivate a balance between strength and flexibility, both physically and mentally. Her classes are interwoven with philosophy, anatomy, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine, and students can expect to find a calmer mind, a deeper breath, and a strengthened connection with their higher selves.
Education
- certified yoga teacher (RYT 200 hours) in Vinyasa and Ayurveda
- trained in Yin yoga, Fertility yoga, and Yoga to support IVF/ART
Abigail has a PhD in geophysics, and her love of science translates to a deep-rooted interest in the physics of yoga. She has a passion for anatomy and alignment, and her background in dance brings a playfulness to her yoga practice.
Aparna Rajesh
Aparna teaches prenatal yoga at Sanga Yoga.
Aparna moved to Oslo with her husband and two fur babies in November 2019 from Chennai, India. She loves everything that is yoga and wellness and hence, after working in the finance industry for 8 years, she decided to move away from corporate life and dedicate herself to teaching yoga and fill this world with a little extra warmth, love and light.
She’s been teaching yoga since 2015 after completing her first 200 hours TTC in Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga from her school – Yogadarshanam in Mysore, India. She went back to that school in 2018 to complete her advanced 350 hours TTC in Ashtanga Vinyasa, Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda & Pregnancy Yoga and has been teaching full time since then offering classes in all these styles including guided meditation. She’s also studying to be soon certified as a yoga therapist for common health issues.
She holds a 200 hr TTC in pregnancy yoga focusing on fertility, conscious conception, prenatal and postpartum yoga for women. She still continues to be a student as she always keeps herself updated and invests time in self study to make your journey on the mat more exciting and new every time.
Laura McMahon
Laura teaches prenatal yoga at Sanga Yoga
Laura is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator. She’s a former studio owner, a mom to two girls, and she specializes in yoga for pregnancy, postpartum and far beyond.
Laura is passionate about sharing yoga in it’s many applications and is always honored to help people discover how yoga can help them and be applied to suit their needs and lifestyle.