Katerina Ilikova

There aren’t many sports Katerina hasn’t tried as a child/teenager. While always swimming, playing basketball or volleyball, she also had a strong interest in teaching and helping others, from a young age. She studied adaptive physical education in university, while coaching swimming and volleyball for kids. During these university years, as she was reading research papers about the effects of yoga, she became interested in the different yoga practices. This interest led her to participate in projects such as teaching yoga to prisoners in Finland, catering yoga for the elderly and making yoga accessible for deaf people in Czechia.

Besides yoga, Katerina’s other passion is travelling. By the time she landed in Sydney in 2018, Australia had been on her bucket list for years. She was working as a social educator, being on the hunt for a yoga studio near her workplace when she stumbled upon North Sydney Yoga. Ashtanga yoga was love at first sight practice, which led her to complete the three-year-long teacher training with Angelika Knoerzer.

Katerina teaches with kindness, warmth and attentiveness, putting everybody at ease in her classes.

NSY Yoga Teachers

Angelika Knoerzer

Angelika Knoerzer

Director
Angelika’s passion in teaching lies in her desire to encourage students to gently explore and deepen their practice at their own pace.

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Charlotte Winston

Charlotte Winston

Charlotte’s Ashtanga classes are informative, inclusive and fun. Her teaching style encourages resourcefulness, independence, kindness and depth.

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Angelina Whitaker

Angelina Whitaker

Angelina started practicing Hatha Yoga in the 90’s and when she discovered Ashtanga Yoga, she knew it was the practice for her . She was living in Japan at the time and started actively seeking out...

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Robyn Short

Robyn Short

A love of movement and background in dance led Robyn to discover yoga at 17, and it has been a deep, abiding constant in her life ever since. She has studied a wide variety of styles including...

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Swathi Krishnan

Swathi Krishnan

Swathi is a dedicated Ashtanga yoga teacher based in Sydney, deeply passionate about guiding students through their yoga journey with lightness, enthusiasm, and support. Her own practice was...

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Iris Yuen Chan

Iris Yuen Chan

Iris grew up as an active child in China, playing various sports. She later studied architecture in Hong Kong and became a table tennis varsity team member. After having children, she became...

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