I was born in South Africa in 1969 as the daughter of a young boy from Germany and a girl from Hamburg. 
To this day, Cape Town is my heart city, even though my father took me to Munich when I was almost 5 years old, where I grew up. But as soon as I had my A-levels in my pocket, 19 years old, I packed my things and moved north to Hamburg, where I have been living for 34 years now. 
But my yoga path did not start here. 
I was young and thirsty for life – I danced through Hamburg’s nightlife for years, more or less studied education, earned good money in gastronomy for a long time, later got bored as an editorial assistant in the office of a weekly newspaper, got married, had two children, divorced, married several Years later again... before yoga came into my life. 
An important key moment of my young adult life was a women's group that I met regularly: "The Evas". There I met Sarah Rodeck and later her mother Karin, who opened my eyes and my heart to mental health and psychological healing methods and became the most important and formative people in my life.
After the birth of my third child, I began training as a psychological non-medical practitioner. 
As a gift for me, part of the school offer was also the training to become a yoga teacher. I finally found what I was always looking for! 
After the subsequent 2-year yoga teacher training at Yoga Vidya, various courses and training in psychology (Gestalt therapy, hypnosis, terminal care and mediation), I opened my first own consulting practice with YogaStudio in 2011, the "Kraftquelle" in Hamburg-Sasel.
The yoga room quickly became too small and so Satyaloka Yoga in Ahrensburg followed just a year later (where I offered my first training in 2013), 2015 in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel and in 2018 Urban Yoga in the city of Hamburg, where I now mainly train and train yoga teachers train.
Since then, yoga has accompanied me through the ups and downs of life and always brings wonderful people into my life - like my mentor Mark Stephens, whom I was able to meet for the first time in 2015 (in Munich of all places) and can now count among my friends, or Dr. Richard Miller and Jack Kornfield, who I am currently studying with.
 
All my teachers and especially yoga taught me one thing: to trust the greatest teacher, the teacher in me. I am infinitely grateful for that - the yoga that is my life!