Welcome to Ljus Studio
Located in the heart of Wipkingen, the bright, and spacious studio is a peaceful oasis in the middle of Zürich. The name Ljus, meaning Light in Swedish, encompasses both the beautiful naturally lit space as well the concept of finding light and energy both on and off the mat. Ljus Studio is a creative space that gives room for yoga, meditation, and photography. We consist of a diverse collective of independent, highly trained, and experienced yoga teachers who offer varying styles of yoga to suit all kinds of practice.
See you on the mat soon
/ Carla & Rowan
- Nordstrasse 195, 8037 Zürich (Kreis 6)
- The entrance to the studio is behind the main entrance, down the stairs
- Bus 33 or 46 (2 min walk)
- S-Bahn to Bhf. Wipkingen (2 min walk)
- Mats, blocks, bolsters, blankets and belts are available. There are two small changing rooms and a shower.
OUR CLASSES
ashtanga inspired flow
Ashtanga Inspired Flow
This class takes form using the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Starting from this solid foundation, using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will explore different asanas safely and progressively following the principles of vinyasa. This practice will help to purify the body, nervous system, and mind. It will make space to build and create balance, strength, flexibility, endurance, breathing capacity, and mental focus, while relieving stress. Most importantly, we will use the practice as a method to go deeper within ourselves, seeking love, kindness and acceptance. This class is suitable for beginner yoga practitioners. It may include some simple inversions, arm balances, and backbends.
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hatha flow
Hatha Flow
Sarah emphasises practicing mindfully and listening to the body’s intuitive feedback. In her classes, she always refers back to an awareness of the breath. Yoga shall not merely ground and strengthen, but support us to find a peaceful path to our inner essence. She 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.
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yoga flow
Yoga Flow
During the Yoga Flow practice, you will learn how to move fast and slow through different asana positions using your breath as a guide. You will create an order and a connection between the mind, body, and breath. We will explore our body as a mirror that shows our mental tendency in daily life. Every position will be meticulously explained so that you can be guided in your journey of growth.
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vinyasa inspired flow
Vinyasa Inspired Flow
Jede Klasse beginnt mit der Verankerung im gegenwärtigen Moment: Wir konzentrieren uns auf den Atem, nehmen die Bewegungen des Geistes wahr und verbinden uns mit unserer inneren Landschaft. Von einfachen bis hin zu komplexeren Sequenzen beginnen wir mit isolierten Bewegungen in verschiedenen Körperteilen und gehen dann allmählich in ausgedehnte, fließende Sequenzen mit Vinyasa-Qualität über, die Beweglichkeit schaffen, Kraft aufbauen, an der Stabilität arbeiten und die Flexibilität aufblühen lassen. Wir schaffen neuen Raum in Körper, Geist und Seele und geben uns in der abschließenden Entspannung der Schwerkraft hin.
Natalia unterrichtet auf Schweizerdeutsch oder Englisch (falls verlangt).
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saturday morning flow
Saturday Morning Flow
Taking elements form the Ashtanga Vinyasa method, using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will move energetically through this practice where the breath, and transitions between poses are the primary focus. This practice will improve your mental focus and encourages you to stay in the moment and will allow you to gain total body awareness and correct imbalances by yourself while developing the muscles and core strength to support a healthy posture. You will leave the studio ready for a brand-new day and a beautiful weekend ahead.
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morning practice
Morning Practice
Continue the week focused and energised!
The Morning Practice is made up of elements from Meditation, pranayama and the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will move energetically through this practice. The class will improve your mental focus, encourages you to stay in the moment, will allow you to gain total body awareness, and help to correct imbalances on your own, while developing the muscles and core strength to support a healthy posture. This is a well-rounded practice that will help you to set and focus on your intentions for the rest of the week ahead.
The Morning Practice is a semi-private class.
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prenatal yoga
Prenatal Yoga
The practice is carefully tailored for your time as a mother-to-be. The intention is to support your pregnancy, preparing you for giving birth, to accept the natural changes, to trust, be confident and have resilience. In this class, we will be focusing on conscious breathing, stretching, strengthening the back and legs, releasing tension and relaxing. Prenatal yoga gives expecting mothers different tools which they can access when they need them the most.
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postnatal yoga
Postnatal Yoga
(BABIES ARE MOST WELCOME!)
Postnatal Yoga offers support on a physical level, helping your body to recover and regain strength after birth in the pelvic floor region, abdominal wall and back. It helps to release the neck, shoulders and upper back. On a mental level, postnatal yoga helps you to relax and feel more grounded. Group classes also provide an opportunity to meet other mums and create a community.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUDIO ACCESS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR LARGE PUSHCHAIRS. THERE IS A NARROW STAIRCASE AND NO LIFT. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE A SMALLER STROLLER OR COLLAPSABLE ONE, THIS CAN EASILY BE BROUGHT INSIDE.
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hatha flow
ashtanga inspired flow
yoga flow
Hatha Flow
Sarah emphasises practicing mindfully and listening to the body’s intuitive feedback. In her classes, she always refers back to an awareness of the breath. Yoga shall not merely ground and strengthen, but support us to find a peaceful path to our inner essence. She 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.
Ashtanga Inspired Flow
This class takes form using the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Starting from this solid foundation, using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will explore different asanas safely and progressively following the principles of vinyasa. This practice will help to purify the body, nervous system, and mind. It will make space to build and create balance, strength, flexibility, endurance, breathing capacity, and mental focus, while relieving stress. Most importantly, we will use the practice as a method to go deeper within ourselves, seeking love, kindness and acceptance. This class is suitable for beginner yoga practitioners. It may include some simple inversions, arm balances, and backbends.
Yoga Flow
During the Yoga Flow practice, you will learn how to move fast and slow through different asana positions using your breath as a guide. You will create an order and a connection between the mind, body, and breath. We will explore our body as a mirror that shows our mental tendency in daily life. Every position will be meticulously explained so that you can be guided in your journey of growth.
vinyasa inspired flow
saturday morning flow
morning practice
Vinyasa Inspired Flow
Jede Klasse beginnt mit der Verankerung im gegenwärtigen Moment: Wir konzentrieren uns auf den Atem, nehmen die Bewegungen des Geistes wahr und verbinden uns mit unserer inneren Landschaft. Von einfachen bis hin zu komplexeren Sequenzen beginnen wir mit isolierten Bewegungen in verschiedenen Körperteilen und gehen dann allmählich in ausgedehnte, fließende Sequenzen mit Vinyasa-Qualität über, die Beweglichkeit schaffen, Kraft aufbauen, an der Stabilität arbeiten und die Flexibilität aufblühen lassen. Wir schaffen neuen Raum in Körper, Geist und Seele und geben uns in der abschließenden Entspannung der Schwerkraft hin.
Natalia unterrichtet auf Schweizerdeutsch oder Englisch (falls verlangt).
Saturday Morning Flow
Taking elements form the Ashtanga Vinyasa method, using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will move energetically through this practice where the breath, and transitions between poses are the primary focus. This practice will improve your mental focus and encourages you to stay in the moment and will allow you to gain total body awareness and correct imbalances by yourself while developing the muscles and core strength to support a healthy posture. You will leave the studio ready for a brand-new day and a beautiful weekend ahead.
BOOK →
Morning Practice
Continue the week focused and energised!
The Morning Practice is made up of elements from Meditation, pranayama and the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Using the breath, the gaze, and both the outward and internal postures of the body, we will move energetically through this practice. The class will improve your mental focus, encourages you to stay in the moment, will allow you to gain total body awareness, and help to correct imbalances on your own, while developing the muscles and core strength to support a healthy posture. This is a well-rounded practice that will help you to set and focus on your intentions for the rest of the week ahead.
The Morning Practice is a semi-private class.
BOOK →
prenatal yoga
postnatal yoga
Prenatal Yoga
The practice is carefully tailored for your time as a mother-to-be. The intention is to support your pregnancy, preparing you for giving birth, to accept the natural changes, to trust, be confident and have resilience. In this class, we will be focusing on conscious breathing, stretching, strengthening the back and legs, releasing tension and relaxing. Prenatal yoga gives expecting mothers different tools which they can access when they need them the most.
BOOK →
Postnatal Yoga
(BABIES ARE MOST WELCOME!)
Postnatal Yoga offers support on a physical level, helping your body to recover and regain strength after birth in the pelvic floor region, abdominal wall and back. It helps to release the neck, shoulders and upper back. On a mental level, postnatal yoga helps you to relax and feel more grounded. Group classes also provide an opportunity to meet other mums and create a community.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUDIO ACCESS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR LARGE PUSHCHAIRS. THERE IS A NARROW STAIRCASE AND NO LIFT. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE A SMALLER STROLLER OR COLLAPSABLE ONE, THIS CAN EASILY BE BROUGHT INSIDE.
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THE SPACE
OUR TEACHERS
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
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.
Sabrina Cerea
Sabrina discovered yoga thanks to her mother in 2011, during a retreat in a Buddhist monastery in Tuscany. Since then, yoga has been a powerful way to heal herself, her mind, and her body. She is fascinated by the power of yoga on the physical body as well as on the mental space. It is beautiful how the mind reacts to the body’s impulses and vice versa. Traditional yoga philosophy had long ago discovered what modern medicine nowadays confirms and that is part of her constant research. Sabrina is fascinated by body and mind anatomy, so when she teaches, she loves to create playful sequences to help the body to leave its comfort zone and challenge itself. She loves to help people to explore yoga positions and to help them see these not just as challenging body poses, but as a way to feel release.
www.sabrinacerea.ch
Natalia Knuchel
As long as Natalia can remember, she has always felt most comfortable when she could move through time and space During her training as a contemporary dancer in Zurich and Amsterdam in the
1990s, she deeply realised that movement not only strengthens, nourishes, and
softens the body, but also has a tremendous impact on the mind and heart – and vice versa. On her journey of exploring the body and its great possibilities, she found access to Far Eastern movement techniques and their philosophy. This is how she became interested in Buddhist teachings and the practice of mindfulness. In the following years, Natalia continued to work in the performing arts and she also became a primary school teacher. In 2013 she completed her teacher training as a yoga teacher and started to teach classes, workshops and retreats. Natalia is deeply convinced that a regular yoga practice serves all human beings - regardless of skin color, gender, or age - not only on the mat, but also for navigating through daily life.
www.yoga-mit-natalia.com
Rebecca Wölfli
A little over 10 years ago, Rebecca started using yoga as a way to balance her studies and consulting job. She often found the performance pressure in the corporate world overwhelming and needed a place where she could find peace within herself and her body. It was also important for her to anchor gentleness and strength as complementary values, rather than competing opposites. While exploring different yoga styles, she felt a particular attraction to both strong hatha poses as well as restorative yin yoga, where the pose is held for longer to deepen the experience. Her class is an invitation to a natural flow, where participants can "unfold", connecting movement with breath while letting go of thoughts. Rebecca completed her 200h teacher training at The Yoga Flat in Copenhagen and is continuing her 300h advanced teacher training with Simon Park. In addition to yoga, she loves moving her body, whether it is running, hiking, cycling, snowboarding – pretty much anything that takes place outdoors. Her love for nature is a great complement to her yoga practice; a place where she can practise letting go herself while creating her own space. She is passionate about igniting enthusiasm in her students, encouraging them to try new things and to get to know themselves little by little.
www.raw-choices.com/
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