Catherine Khazarian is a SmartFLOW® Yoga teacher with the experience of more than 1000 hours of teaching regular classes, workshops and holding international retreats. She is registered as RYT-500 with the International Yoga Alliance and is based in Bonn, Germany.

Catherine’s journey as a yoga teacher began with her first teacher training with Annie Carpenter in Los Angeles in 2014. Since then she has completed more than 500 hours of teacher training with Annie Carpenter and regularly trains with other international teachers like Donna Farhi and Annodea Judith.

Teaching Approach
Catherine integrates the inquiry of healthy alignment, breath work and focus training. The classes follow a well-rounded and intelligent sequence and are guided by specific instructions. Catherine invites her students to explore their individual physical structure, and encourages them to approach their practice with playfulness, awareness and ease.

Philosophy
Imagine a yoga pose is not so much a static form but rather a structure that gives space to constant inner movement…

Catherine is inspired by tracing the elements which sum up to build a stable structure for a ‘living’ pose.

From Practice to Application
By cultivating curiosity, compassion and gratitude in our yoga practice we can train our mind to learn something new, evolve and appreciate what we have achieved. We can apply the same approach in everyday life: What is it that supports me? What does not serve me? What can I do to make a change?

“In Catherine's classes I find exactly this desired balance between powerfully executed asanas, strenuous holding exercises, moderate stretches, twists in all areas of the body and calm breathing and meditation exercises.

Through Catherine's clear and very sensitive instruction of each movement and all the movement sequences that build on it, her yoga classes are at the same time a relaxing meditation as well as an experience that challenges the entire body, but brings a great deal of happiness and contentment.

Catherine has the gift of formulating her movement instructions in a wonderfully understandable way, so that mind, body and soul feel addressed, relaxed and act powerfully and thus many positive energies are released.” - Nina