ABOUT

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I’m Niloofar.
My story with yoga began in a place many wouldn’t expect in Tehran, with my mother, Arezoo.

I was thirteen when we started attending yoga classes together, at a time when yoga wasn’t widely known in Tehran. Those afternoons were more than movement; they were moments of breathing, laughing, and simply being with my mother.  Yoga quickly became a memory, a home, a familiar feeling. In 2016, I moved to Germany. My life shifted, my city, my language, my routines.  Here in Germany, I continued my path together with Farhad; we studied, worked, and slowly built a new kind of home. My academic background is in economics, and I work in banking, but yoga has always been a world of its own for me a place of grounding and reconnection. Yoga changed my life, and if it touches even one more person, I’ll be grateful. I believe life is about sharing: feelings, experiences, awareness, even food, soil, and breath. Alongside yoga, I run. These two practices may look different, but for me they follow the same path: discipline, breath awareness, non-judgment, non-comparison, and simply observing. As yoga became a bigger part of my life, I felt a stronger sense of responsibility toward the world and all living beings.

Since 2020 I have taught yoga in Farsi, English, and German. Right now, my own classes are mainly Farsi-led, as reconnecting with my mother tongue is an important part of my teaching. In the future, English or German offerings may be added as my work continues to grow. After completing my RYT 200 and a specialized Backbend training, I began offering classes and workshops shaped by my personal journey and the way my own practice has evolved over the years.

My classes blend movement, breathwork (pranayama), meditation, music, and occasionally singing and most importantly, they are taught in my mother tongue. For someone who spends most of the day speaking, thinking, and living in German, practicing yoga in Farsi feels like returning to a missing part of myself.

When I began my teacher training with Samin after many years, I realized how meaningful it is to learn or practice something you love in your native language. That moment inspired me to create a space for Iranians who, like me, live between cultures and languages and long for something warm, familiar, and Persian. If you want to feel it too, pick up a Persian book after years of living in another language you’ll notice how the words settle differently in your body. I love Iran: its literature, its culture, its warmth. I don’t want that part of me to fade. Through yoga, I hope to keep this sense of belonging, the warmth of Iranian gatherings, and the shared laughter alive here in Munich.

And if one day I see you on the mat, it will be an honor and a joy to share this practice with you.