Welcome

For me, yoga is a journey from the outside in, toward oneself, away from automatic patterns—a way to rewrite the well-worn tracks of the mind. It all started with āsanas (yoga poses), and they still play a key role for me. I view the body and mind like an explorer-traveler whose mission is to discover the unknown and continuously learn new things through traditions, as well as through modern discoveries.

I have been teaching yoga since 2016. Before I started teaching, and even before I discovered yoga as a whole, I began working in a medical academic environment. I graduated with a degree in Biomedical Physics, and until 2021, I worked at the Medical University of Vienna as a research assistant in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

While still working and teaching yoga in Vienna, I began traveling and teaching yoga in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. I focused on classes that go deeper into āsanas—not only physically, but also through our minds. Thanks to my education and work, I understood human anatomy, biomechanics, the nervous system, and breath, and I pass this knowledge on through workshops, yoga festivals, and teacher training courses.

This path eventually led me to leave academia and dedicate myself fully to teaching yoga in studios across Vienna, as well as leading courses and workshops throughout Central Europe. I have never stopped educating myself, especially when it comes to expanding my knowledge of anatomy, yoga philosophy, and Sanskrit—the language of yoga. My personal practice has grown from āsanas to meditation, prāṇāyāma, chanting mantras, singing devotional bhajans, and reciting longer Sanskrit texts.

In my yoga classes, I bring the freshness of modern medical and neuroscience insights, combined with humility and respect for traditional techniques and practice. I integrate my deep knowledge of anatomy, physics, and philosophy into my teaching.

My classes focus not only on bodywork, bending into flexible poses, or balancing on hands, but above all on understanding the impact of a regular yoga practice on the mind, the nervous system, and behavior off the yoga mat. My sessions are full of playfulness, yet thoughtfully designed to guide students through a story of overcoming their own limits, fears, and discovering their deepest “Self.”

They are inspired by world-renowned Vinyasa yoga teachers under whom I have studied: Talia Baderman, Joan Hyman, Annie Carpenter, Briohny Smyth, Dice Iida Klein, Mathieu Boldron, and Patrick Beach. The classes incorporate elements of Jois’s Aṣṭānga Vinyāsa yoga, Iyengar yoga, and elements of Ghoṣ yoga from Kolkata. My anatomical knowledge applied to yoga āsanas was shaped by the well-known Celest Pereira, who operates in London and throughout Europe.

Through my Instagram account @lenkaminarik, I have inspired hundreds of thousands of people, and you can also find me on a yoga podcast called Jógováreň. I hold the E-RYT 500 designation from the international organization Yoga Alliance and offer Yoga Alliance-accredited courses (YACEP – Continuing Education). I am also part of the Yoga Passion Slovakia team—a yoga school accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, where I collaborate with experts in physiotherapy, psychology, and yoga therapy.

Selected Education & International Certifications

• Embodied Practice: 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training with Talia Sutra, Rishikesh, India

• 300-hour course with School of Yoga – Joan Hyman, Annie Carpenter, and Jeanne Heilemann, Vienna

• 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga course in Thailand (Briohny Smyth, Dice Iida Klein & Matthieu Boldron), Koh Samui, Thailand

• 80-hour Power Yoga course in Slovakia (Power Yoga Academy), Piešťany, Slovakia

• 4-day intensive Finding Center course with Patrick Beach and Carling Nicole, Dublin, Ireland

• Yoga Anatomy and Biomechanics Training with Celest Pereira, London

• Yin Yoga (30 hours), online, Hot Yoga Dundrum, Dublin

• Awakening Inversions intensive course with Patrick Beach, Amsterdam

• Tantra and the Yoga Sutras; Magical Energetics with Jeanne Heilemann, Vienna

• Awakening Yoga Vinyasa Immersion Course with Patrick Beach, Amsterdam

• 50-hour Pranify with Annie Carpenter, Vienna

  
  

My Philosophy

Beauty lies in the details, in what isn’t immediately obvious, in the realization that comes unexpectedly in the snap of a finger, or a discovery that requires patient waiting.

I believe that yoga is already inside each of us—whether we practice yoga poses, meditate, or simply perform our work without expecting a reward. It is the goodness within us when what we create is given away rather than done for ourselves. Yoga is when we realize both our insignificance and our infinitely vast potential.

I really look forward to meeting you all!