Festival 2026

Teachers

34 teachers from Norway and around the world - asana, meditation, breathwork, philosophy and music.

R. Alexander Medin

R. Alexander Medin

Alexander Medin has been teaching Ashtanga yoga for 22 years. He was Certified by the legendary Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2002, a di…

Dr. Vigneshwara Bhat

Dr. Vigneshwara Bhat

Vighneshwara Bhat er skolert i den klassiske Sanskrit disiplinen og har en Vidan grad i Mimamsa, Dharmashastra, Agama og Yajurveda…

Karina Eline Kibsgård

Karina Eline Kibsgård

Karina Eline Kibsgård has been teaching yoga since 2008 and currently teaches at various yoga studios in Oslo.

Albin Bendu

Albin Bendu

Albin Bendu had a promising sports career in boxing, football and diving. He was one of Norway's best breakdancers in the 80's, bu…

Stian Rysjedal

Stian Rysjedal

Stian is from Bergen and has over 20 years of intoxication and crime behind him. He had actually given up on life, but by chance h…

Gitte Lill Paulsen

Gitte Lill Paulsen

Gitte Lill is a yoga instructor, energy healer, Shamanic practicioner and mindfulness guide with over 15 years of experience holdi…

Camilla Fuglesang

Camilla Fuglesang

Camilla Fuglesang Eide has practiced yoga for more than 20 years and has been teaching for the past ten. She is passionate about y…

Hege Svenningsen

Hege Svenningsen

Hege Svenningsen is a physician with more than 20 years of experience, around 15 of them as a general practitioner. She has pursue…

Ellen Marie Medin

Ellen Marie Medin

Ellen Marie Medin is a mother of three, yoga and folk high school teacher. She has immersed herself in yoga for ten years and has …

Olga Oskorbina

Olga Oskorbina

Olga Oskorbina is the founder and director of Jivamukti Yoga Barcelona studio. Advanced Certified Jivamukti yoga teacher, facilita…

Jenny Gjerlow

Jenny Gjerlow

Jenny Gjerløw is half Brazilian and half Norwegian. She is Aya’s mother, a biopath, yoga teacher, and founder of Samba Explosion. …

Vinayaka Bhat

Vinayaka Bhat

Vinayaka Bhat is a traditionally trained Sanskrit scholar, priest, and musician from Heggarabail, Karnataka, India. He holds a Mas…

Lars Ims

Lars Ims

Vishuddha Nath (Lars Ims) moved to India after high school to study with his Guru Swami Shyam, and spent many years in the Himalay…

Trine Tschudi

Trine Tschudi

Trine has been in the fitness industry since 1980 and is a trained personal trainer, Pilates and Yoga instructor from the USA, Eng…

Espen Jansen

Espen Jansen

Espen Jansen is a former Norwegian gymnast, regarded as one of Norway’s most accomplished athletes in artistic gymnastics. He has …

Richard Grønlie

Richard Grønlie

Richard is a 47 years old guy, married to Line and together they have 3 kids. Today Richard is an important contributor to Back in…

Line Grønlie

Line Grønlie

Line Grønlie is married to Richard Grønlie and together they have 3 kids.

Annabel Guaita

Annabel Guaita

Annabel Guaita is a classical pianist with an artistic doctorate and over 20 years of experience performing both nationally and in…

Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson

Scott has been practicing Ashtanga yoga since 2001 and teaching since 2003. He is the co-founder and main teacher at Stillpoint Yo…

Mitchell Burnett

Mitchell Burnett

Mitchell Burnett is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher originally from Australia and currently based in Barcelona, Spain…

Jai Hari Singh

Jai Hari Singh

Jai Hari Singh is a Master of Kundalini Yoga. He is also healer and executive coach. Born in Paris in 1952, he has lived in Mexico…

Bobbi Paidel

Bobbi Paidel

Bobbi is a yoga practitioner, teacher, and seeker with 20 years of study and contemplation of the human experience. She has devote…

Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir

Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir

Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir is a versatile and innovative composer and guitarist from Oslo and Reykjavik. As a composer, she was featu…

Jørgen Erlandsen

Jørgen Erlandsen

Jørgen is certified in outdoor schooling and is also a mindfulness and yoga instructor. He is especially concerned with giving you…

Cassandra Loo

Cassandra Loo

Cassandra Loo is a yoga teacher and dancer with a background from, among others, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Nor…

Piotr Marcinów

Piotr Marcinów

Piotr Marcinów is a Polish philosopher, yoga instructor, and expert in Eastern traditions, with more than 30 years of experience i…

Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha is a yoga teacher from Meghalaya, India. Her journey into yoga began after leaving a career in journalism and later a…

Ty Landrum

Ty Landrum

Ty Landrum has an unwavering love for this unique somatic discipline, which he began practicing back in 2005. Drawing on his forma…

Shayan Landrum

Shayan Landrum

Shayan Landrum is a poet, world-schooling mother, and the quiet co-creator of Black Lotus Yoga.

Pernille Bønkan

Pernille Bønkan

Pernille has had a devoted yoga practice for over 20 years. Her gateway into yoga was dance—something she has done ever since she …

Ellen Johannesen

Ellen Johannesen

Ellen Johannesen was one of the very first Ashtanga Teachers in Norway, and founded Ashtanga Yoga Oslo in 2002. In 2005, she obtai…

Heidi Gjermundsen Broch

Heidi Gjermundsen Broch

Heidi Gjermundsen Broch is regarded as one of Norway’s finest and most exciting musical performers, singers and actresses. She has…

Ilias Kousis

Ilias Kousis

Ilias Kousis is a Level 5 - Forrest Yoga Guardian handpicked by Ana Forrest and Jose Calarco. He is also a certified Energy Medici…

Heidi Bragerhaug

Heidi Bragerhaug

Heidi has a natural presence and joy in her teaching, and is passionate about bringing out the unique power that is inherent in ev…