Anna is authorized KPJAYI level 2 Ashtanga Yoga teacher and received as well the blessing to teach from the son of Pattabhi Jois (Manju Jois) www.ashtanga.com. She has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. In 2008 she was introduced to Ashtanga yoga and instantly was captured by the beauty of this unique style.
She has been blessed with the opportunity to practice and study with senior teachers such as Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor (participating to their magnificent 200 hours course in USA / Colorado), Manju Jois (various teacher trainings primary and intermediate), David Swenson (teacher training, primary series) and Kristina Karitinou (various teacher trainings from primary and intermediate series). Anna feels that the most important quality for an Ashtanga teacher is to continue to be a student. She keeps practicing on a daily basis under senior teachers' guidance, and every year she returns to Mysore to study with Sharat Jois.
Petra
During the years when I was going through studying and formation and afterwards when I started to teach, I had the wonderful experience of this amazing practice "The Art of Living" and this is the message I try to transmit during the Hatha Yoga lessons I teach.
Monica
In 2007 I started my three years training at the Ananda Ashram where I attained my degree of yoga
teacher.
After that I followed several formative and detailed studies addressed to Yoga during pregnancy, Yoga
for childhood and elderly people where I present the courses beside the ones for adults.
Recently I started the KRI – International Teacher Training in Kundalini Yoga – in order to go in-depth
and expand my knowledge in this wonderful discipline that is Yoga. I always feel a huge joy when sharing
with others practices and teaching I learned and the consequent psychophysical well-being given by
Yoga.
Elena
My journey towards spirituality began with an illness. While everything in my fast-paced life seemed to be going smoothly, the illness allowed me to stop and think about what I really wanted. During that time, I began practicing yoga, pushing through intense pain, but I felt that this was the right path to healing. As I practiced, I also completed a yoga teacher training. I became more and more passionate about the practice, which gave me perfect health. I completed the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga with Anna Babenko and the Intermediate and Advanced A Series with Kristina Karitinou and Manju Jois. Always a student, I continue my practice with Anna Babenko and Kristina Karitinou. On the path of yoga, I realized that as my body became flexible, strong, healthy, and my mind calm and stable, I was more able to perceive energies, and so I approached meditation under the guidance of my spiritual master. I practice and teach the Kriya Yoga method, the most direct and scientific way to approach the infinite. I am always in constant search of methods and tools that can help to better understand this existence and am passionate about everything related to the inner development of the human being.
Yoga Instructor 300 hours Dynamic Yoga Lugano
Primary Series Ashtanga Yoga TTC 120 hours with Kristina Karitinou
Intermediate Series Ashtanga Yoga TTC 35 hours with Manju Pattabhi Jois
Lift University of Human Potential TTC 5 weeks with qualification "Hypnocoach"
Centre of Integrative Psychology TTC 9 weeks with qualification "Regression Hypnosis Therapist"