Cathrin Gressieker

Movement,traveling and creativity-these passions fuel Cathrin's life and work. Having lived, learned and traveled in 45+ countries Cathrin is currently based in Northern Germany with her family.

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She is a Hatha and Kundalini yoga teacher with 20 years of experience. Cathrin fell in love with Groove 3 years ago and can't imagine a day without it and is so happy to share Groove with her growing community in Oldenburg/Germany and at retreats all over the world. Constantly learning and developing Cathrin is currently also on the journey of becoming an Ecstatic Dance DJ and facilitator. Cathrin facilitates her classes with humour, lightheartedness and a lot of soul. Every Groove-playlist she puts together is the best she has ever played, she is convinced.

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When not on the dance floor, yoga mat or in the kitchen cooking some vegan comfort food, Cathrin is playing with colour and paint in her studio in her other job as artist and textile designer.

Ilze Altroka

Ilze is from Latvia. Her passion, besides dancing, is traveling. Constantly exploring the world and along the way learning and educating herself about wellbeing, as well as how to deepen relationships with others and herself.

She began her career studying dentistry in Riga, followed by a decade working a fast-paced career in her clinic as a dentist. After graduating from university, it soon became very clear that this path wasn't fulfilling her soul. So she followed her inner passion: dance. Stumbling across a Groove class, she became deeply inspired to become a facilitator herself. So in 2017 she took the training in Berlin. Currently, Ilze is teaching Groove to her local community and in her studio which she opened in 2023.

Wanting to heal her relationship with food and her body image further, she applied to a holistic nutrition school (IIN), which approaches nutrition from a whole perspective, considering the person's not only physical, mental, emotional but also spiritual health. She graduated from it in 2019.

Ilze also has finished self love and body confidence facilitator training (2020), as well as meditation training in Bali (2024).

Ina Schuppe Koistinen

Ina is a medical researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm studying the role of the microbiota, the trillions of microbes that live on and in our bodies, on our health. Yoga & Groove have been an integral part of her life for many years. In addition to her research, Ina is passionate about guiding people to a healthier life with her knowledge and creativity. Ina is also an artist with watercolors as her medium and has her studio on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. She is an inspiring and enthusiastic teacher who instructs in an understandable and educational manner. In her classes she combines her broad experiences with creativity, scientific perspectives and joy.

Ina is from Germany but has been living in Sweden for more than 30 years.

In addition to yoga & Groove classes Ina also shares some insights from her research and offers a lecture on how the microbiota affects our health and how we can restore an imbalanced gut flora.