Team – LJUS STUDIO

Our Team

Let us guide you

And support your yoga passion.

We know yoga. With thousands of hours of training and real life teaching experience, you are in great hands with all our teachers at Ljus Studio.

We consist of independent, highly trained, experienced, and enthusiastic teachers who are passionate about sharing their yoga knowledge within the community. With a diverse collective of instructors, we are able to offer a number of different styles of yoga to suit all kinds of practice. Our studio concept encourages our teachers to instruct in their own way, and while our teaching methods might vary, each one of us as Ljus Studio shares a common ground; we love and are dedicated to what we do. Through our work, we are engaging with our world in the best way we can. We hope you can feel that light and energy when you visit us.

Carla Araos

Qualicert / Health Insurance Certified Teacher

Carla started practicing yoga in 2002 in her hometown of Santiago, Chile, as a way of finding balance in her life as a busy architecture student. She had always been passionate about movement, having years of experience in ballet and in 2008, after working as an industrial designer for several years, she left Chile to discover a new path. She saw how yoga had helped to overcome many of life's difficulties, including her own personal hardships; It had healed her, and had given an inner strength and focus. She now felt a strong desire to share her knowledge and to show others the benefits of regular practice. Carla did her first TT at Samahita Retreat in Thailand and constantly continues to enhance her practice and teaching by regularly attending TT and workshops with teachers such as Michael Hamilton, John Scott, Dough Keller, and Francoise Freedman. Her main practice and sources of inspiration for her classes are Ashtanga yoga, Vipassana and yoga Nidra. She is also a certified prenatal and postnatal teacher. Having been through a bicycle accident herself, she understands even more now the importance of adapting the practice for different moments and possibilities of movement. In her classes, she focuses on exploring while keeping the practice safe, finding healthy alignment in synchronicity with breathing. She encourages finding the strength from a place within rather than from using force, respecting each body as unique and perfect.

www.carlaaraos.com
Insta: @carla.araos.yoga

Sarah Mai

After attending her first yoga class in 2004, Sarah's initial curiosity for yoga developed into a real passion. She was fascinated by the deep union of precise bodywork and spirituality. Yoga has guided her through many challenging phases in life, helping her to find her grounding and boosting her self-confidence. Sarah completed her Yoga Teacher Trainings (Yoga Alliance) at AIRYOGA in Zurich: In 2012 a 200-hour Vinyasa Flow Training and in 2015 a 300-hour Advanced Hatha Yoga Training with Stephen Thomas. She continues to deepen her knowledge in workshops with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Rachel Zinman, Marc Holzmann, Yogeswari, Mark Stephens, and others. This year she attended the teacher module ‚Chakra’ at the Swiss Yoga Studium with Johannes Glarner, deepening her knowledge about the subtle and energetic work with the chakras. Furthermores, she assists her teacher Stephen Thomas at the 200-hour Teacher Trainings in AIRYOGA where they share their love and knowledge with all these wonderful new yoga teachers. She emphasises practising mindfully and listening to the body’s intuitive feedback. In her classes she always refers back to an awareness of the breath. Yoga should not merely ground and strengthen us, but support us to find a peaceful path to our inner essence. Sarah shares her philosophical understanding of yoga with her students, inviting them to lead their awareness from the mind into the space of the heart and to reside in that space.

Insta: @sarah_elisam

Corinne Dietziker

After many years as a competitive gymnast, movement has always been a central part of my life. It was through this journey that I discovered yoga. Initially as a way to slow down, but soon as a practice that offered so much more than physical strength. Over time, yoga became a space where I could reconnect with myself on a deeper level. This passion led me to complete my 500-hour teacher training, as well as further studies in breathwork. I am continuously seeking to learn, grow, and evolve. Both as a teacher and as a student. Alongside my work in yoga, I am a graphic designer, inspired by creativity and self-expression. I love bringing this creative energy into my teaching, creating classes that feel intuitive, balanced, and authentic. In my classes, I aim to create a space where students feel comfortable, safe, and free to be themselves. A space where they can explore their own rhythm, grow beyond their limits, and learn more about who they are on and off the mat.

Insta: @yoga.withcorinne