Elsa is the founder of YOGAZAZ teaching method and yoga retreats. Elsa discovered the practice of yoga as a student in 2011, during an internship in Ethiopia. She immediately loved this practice that allowed her to connect with her body, to move and breath consciously. However, she discovered what “Yoga” really means during her first 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in 2019. This training not only deepened her knowledge about Yoga’s philosophy and benefits on the body and the mind, but it changed her perspective on the world and the Self. Meditating and practicing yoga has helped Elsa to overcome several traumas and transitions in her life. This is why teaching Yoga is a passion, because it allows her to connect with other humans and share with them what she has learnt, in the hope of helping others to overcome personal issues, difficult transitions, and develop a more harmonious relationship with their body and mind. Yoga is also a means for Elsa to connect with other women and honour the power of womanhood and Yin energy that is all around and within us. Through the completion of a Teacher Training in pre/postnatal Yoga in 2021 and in Menopause Yoga in 2023 with its founder Petra Coveney, Elsa sees and uses Yoga as a medium to accompany other women through the different transitional moments of their lives – amongst which pregnancy, post-partum, and menopause – so that they can continue to flow through life with serenity, self-love and awareness. Thanks to the various trainings she did, including one in Restorative Yoga completed in 2023, and her expertise in teaching various levels of yoga practitioners as well as age groups, Elsa guides each student to work with their body, rather than against it. She acknowledges that every body is different and unique, and so she will encourage each student to explore, celebrate and focus on his/her own yoga practice, in order to feel more at peace with him/herself.