Heidi has always been inspired by the power of achieving the seemingly impossible.

She grew up on a farm, and so has always been a very physical person, with movement and nature playing big roles in her life.

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Before Heidi discovered yoga, she spent 25 years exploring movement, art and creativity as a dancer, theatre and circus performer, and choreographer. She loved and became known for exploring dance in unusual spaces: from the tops of towers to the sides of buildings!

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Heidi was the founding director of dance company Oeff Oeff Productions which she led for 18 years.

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‘As a performer, I was always thinking about beaming my energy outwards, for an audience.In yoga, you do the opposite. The idea of turning my energy inwards, the idea of self reflection and self study, at first bored me. And it turned out to be more than a practice – it opened the doors of everything I now teach and live, to my mission here.’

 

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First being introduced to ashtanga yoga as a warm up practice by some of the dancers in her troupe, Heidi was initially only drawn to the physical benefits. It wasn’t until a very tough year, when she took on too much and reached burnout, that Heidi decided to go to India to practice yoga, and that a spiritual journey began to unfold.