TEACHERS
Our teacher-team for Acro-Sense Spring 2025 is still growing! Check here who's already in
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Elena & Mattia (Acroyogurt)
We are Elena and Mattia from Italy, the duo behind Acroyogurt. Elena comes from gymnastics and actually she teaches artistic gymnastics, and physical education in primary school. Mattia was a footballer, but then he found the way of calisthenics and handstands. Our practice is all about connection, creativity, and a good dose of humor, because why take life too seriously when you're often upside down? We have a special love for icarians and linked sequences, blending dynamic flows with playful energy.
Paulo & Ammanda (Sunshine Acro)
We are Paulo and Ammanda, together: Sunshine Acro. Ammanda was born in Denmark and Paulo is originally from Portugal. Between us, we have 15 years of Acroyoga experience and are both qualified Acroyoga International teachers. We love sharing our passion for Acroyoga through playfulness, trust and fun, and in a way that everyone feels safe and included. We love to teach a mix between technique and fun flows and transitions. We have a big passion for everything Icarian as well as no hands flows, balances and no hands Icarian. We cannot wait to meet you and fly with you!
Tanja & Ales (Safeacrobatics)
Tanja Urankar & Aleš Hren are „The Slovenian Acro Couple“. They are teaching classes and retreats worldwide and are the founders of the Slovenian Acrofestival SAFE. For both the essential part about Acro is building up trust, doing the most challenging tricks in the most effortless way and having lots of fun. They are highly experienced in lying and standing H2H and F2H, but they also love crazy washing machines, whips, pops and Icarian. Teaching together, they focus on adapting to their students levels and help them to increase their acro skills. Giving small but important details on the complex movements and encouraging people to take new challenges by respecting their own body and individual level, is their speciality.
Karel & Inez
Karel Salet from Barcelona started his acro journey as a standing acrobat. He loves standing for its dynamics and physical challenges. Later he discovered the smoothes of acroyoga. Loving both equally he started to combine the standing with the smooth which resulted in a big repertoire of dance lifts and standing flows. With his background in material arts he knows how to use the energy of his partners to make them fly high and land soft. After teaching over 10 years in weekly classes and international events you can expect solid workshops with a sharp eye and warm heart. At Acro-Sense-Festival he will teach together with INEZ ALMEIDA, who is an acroyoga teacher, actress, dancer and Thai massage therapist. She has been drawn to movement since she can remember and has explored many different forms and styles. Her movement journey started at the age of 9 in the Ballet Conservatory of Lisbon where she studied for several years. Inez has a Bachelor in physical acting from the Theatre University of Amsterdam, she is a certified teacher in Acroyoga International and Montreal style, and holds also a certificate in healing Thaiyoga Massage. She has been working as a freelance traveling extensively in several continents with her artistic work, and has been teaching Acroyoga intensively throughout the past few years in many communities in Europe. She believes in sharing with an open heart, creating space for connection, trust and intimacy.
Mar Gonzalez
You like fluidity and transformation? This is, what defines Mar – not only as an acroyogi, but also as a dancer and a fashion designer. Based in Barcelona, Mar has special interest in all the movement disciplines as acrobatic dance, tribal fusion bellydance, contemporary dance, contact dance and flamenco. She has been learning and teaching all over the world in research of the middle path between dance & acroyoga since six years ago. She has been training with mainly teachers from Acroyoga Montreal & Partner Acrobatics. Although, she has never stopped learning from whoever she has the chance to share and play with. At Acro-Sense-Festival she will not only share her unique style in Acroyoga and Dance with us – she will also bring some of her wonderful clothes for a litte market place. It's shopping time!
Matthias Nowak
Addicted – this is the right word to describe Matthias’ relationship to Acro. Since he fell in love with Acro, he doesn’t want to miss the practice anymore. It’s the connective and joyful moments, the creating and exploring together instead of moving on alone, what he enjoys the most. Matthias came a typical way with an untypical result: Like many of us he was – and still is – very active in the Yogascene before he discovered Acroyoga. Today, besides his favourite of lifting other people, he also loves to lift stones or even trees! How this happened? Practicing and teaching Yoga very seriously he stepped in one of Sabines Acroyoga classes in Nürnberg in 2016. Curious about different styles of Yoga, he was immediately fascinated by Acro. Over the years he became an expert in washingmachines and flows, which he loved to practice almost nonstop. Today he is more and more into Icarian and Whippops and also Standing Acro. And this is the reason why his training changed tremendously. To build up more strength and prevent injuries, he started cross fit and he also trains with strength athletes for the strong man camp. Since he stepped into his first Acroyoga class he gained ten kilos pure muscle weight. By the way this provides positive evidence again, that it is possible to build up muscles with a vegan diet. This understanding of movement with the combination of strength and technique is, what es he loves to pass on to his students today. In his workshops you can feel a special supportive atmosphere, which probably comes from his own attitude: „Everybody is individual and needs an individual support. But together we can do it!“.
Sabine Winkler
You could say, she was an Acroyogi before Acroyoga even was known. Long before the connection of Acrobatics and Yoga became famous as Acroyoga, Sabine was practicing both passionately in her daily life besides her former work as theatre and event-engineer. Since seven years now she is passing on her experiences in a fulltime job. Sabines acro-crush has held up for 23 years now, a long time to learn many moves and tricks. That's why she has so many little details up her sleeve for every trick. Handstands are her favourites, but of course there is a lot more she loves to pass on to her students. In spite of her size, she loves basing and samesize acro and of course – always and a lot – H2H, wether as a flyer or base. Based in Nürnberg she is teaching Yoga, Handstands and Acroyoga, organizing her own events and retreats, like now she is co-organizing the Acro-Sense-Festival. Her teaching skills include one secret: Sabine never stopped being a student herself. After her Yoga education and Acro Yoga International teacher training, she is building up her knowledge about movement and alignment in many further educations like sound-therapy, meditation, thaimassage or Acroyoga for social inclusion, just to name a few. And if she is not teaching or learning, you may see her playing around – Acro of course – or dragonstaff, which she also loves to put on fire.
Isi Vogler
Standing still is literally not part of Isi's life: exercise, training and sport are a large and integral part of her life. Gymnastics was part of her program from an early age, which she incorporates into her teachings. After a long phase in semi-professional soccer and a few years of volleyball, she found the love for capoeira. The music and the powerful and elegant nature of the sport kept her there until 2017. In the same year this was replaced by yoga, acro yoga and partner acrobatics with Sabine. Since then, she never stopped to train and play. Over the years, various workshops, conventions and festivals have been added, both as a participant, part-time base and as a teacher. Isi's specialty is everything that happens on her hands or figures that make her fly through the air: L-Base/Standing H2H + high level skills and various Icarians. When it comes to training, conferences or snacks, she's there straight away – preferably with nice people, a lot of laughter and a good dose of adrenaline.