Lenka Minarik brings freshness from modern insights into her yoga classes while maintaining humility and deep respect for traditional techniques and practice. She has been teaching yoga since 2016 and has maintained a regular personal yoga practice for more than ten years.

In leading her classes and workshops, she draws on her profound knowledge of anatomy, gained through her studies in medical physics and her work in medical imaging at the Medical University of Vienna, where she worked for 11 years.

For Lenka, practicing yoga and living a yogic life is not only about working with the body, bending into complex postures, or performing challenging arm balances, but above all about understanding how a consistent yoga practice influences the mind (our nervous system) and behavior beyond the yoga mat.

Lenka’s classes are playful, yet thoughtfully and intelligently structured to guide students through a journey of transcending personal limits and fears while discovering their deepest “Self.”

Her teaching is inspired by internationally recognized vinyasa yoga teachers with whom she has studied, including Briohny Smyth, Dice Iida Klein, Mathieu Boldron, Talia Baderman, and Patrick Beach.

More recently, her yoga world has been enriched by experiences with more traditional and grounded teachers from the USA, such as Joan Hyman, whose yoga style is strongly rooted in the Iyengar and Aṣṭāṅga Vinyasa yoga lineages. Lenka’s methodology is also significantly influenced by Annie Carpenter, while her philosophical understanding draws inspiration from the brilliantly witty and perceptive approach of Jeanne Heileman. Her application of anatomical knowledge to yoga āsana is further influenced by the well-known teacher Celest Pereira, who teaches in London and across Europe.