TEACHERS
Our teacher-team for Acro-Sense Spring 2025
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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.
Pacôme Coulibaly
Pacôme is a professional circus teacher with a love for acro and dance. He started his journey through movement with modern jazz. He got addicted to dance and tried to take classes of every dance style he could. He traveled a lot in America and Europe to take dance classes with the best teachers he could find. He also got interested in pilates, posturology and AFCMD (functional and corporal analysis of dance movement) to master his body and understand how it works. During Xtreme Convention in Antwerpen, he did his first h2h, he decided to dedicate himself to acro. Since then he took around 1000+ hours of acro classes with many renowned teachers. In 2019 Pac stopped working in regular jobs to join the circus life. He took a 2000h formation on pedagogy specialized in circus arts and acro. Now he is a professional artist and works in circus schools in Lille (CRAC and CBM) as a performer and an acro teacher.
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!
Mira Luehmann
Mira comes from Lüneburg, and besides cacao, Acro Yoga is her medicine. She teaches Aerial Yoga, offers Thai massages, and conducts hypnosis sessions. For the past 10 years, she has been traveling to South and Central America, where cacao has been cultivated and revered as medicine in many cultures for thousands of years. In Panama, she was able to rediscover and share her love for cacao. Holding weekly cacao ceremonies has deepened her connection with herself and opened her heart. At the same time, she has been able to share her fascination for cacao and its heart-opening effects. You are warmly invited to dive into the magic of cacao with her! Allow yourself to embark on a journey to your true self and connect with your environment from a place of abundance. With mindfulness, breath, and a heart-opening meditation, we will celebrate the healing cacao together.
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.
Bianca Löbbert
Hi, I am Bianca, organizing the Acro-Sense-Festival together with my orca-partner Sabine. Since 2017 Acro has been quite a journey for me. Playing with gymnastics and severals sports since I grew up, I was always amazed by circus and circus artists. Remembering that as a kid even tried to run away with the circus that came in town:) So it was surely a fortune, that almost 30 years later acro came into my life. As a certified Ashtanga Yoga teacher by the AYI Ulm, this opened a whole new world for me. For several years I traveled a lot worldwide, learnt from and got to know many great teachers and acroyogis. During the travel restriction-times the idea came up, to organize an own acro festival and to bring those teachers to Germany. I am so grateful that Acro-Sense is running now successfully since 2022 and that we can create this space for you. What I love about acro, is that it always brings something new into your life: new experiences, new people, new challenges, new visions of what you are capable of, new understanding of what feels good for you and what not. New ways of going into connection – and stand for your own. So for me acro is much more than just learning the next trick. Like Yoga can be a way to your inner self, I sense Acroyoga as a tool for the same journey. During the last years I am discovering more and more movement and contemporary dance for me, which feels like a natural development for a holistic way to keep mind and body healthy. That’s why we also love to offer movement and dance workshops at Acro-Sense-Festival. Cause at the end it’s not so important what you do, it’s more about how you do it, right?