Livia Wanntorp

Livia Wanntorp is a certified yoga teacher (E-RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance) and a yoga educator in Yin yoga and yoga philosophy. She has long experience of lecturing and of leading courses, retreats and workshops in yoga and related health-promoting techniques. Her website lists her as a professor with a PhD in biology, and she describes herself as a former researcher in biology. She has also worked as a botanist, teaching on floristics courses on Öland.

Her background is in Hatha yoga and meditation, from which she developed her own style, Body Mind Flow Yoga. She also works with yoga therapy, somatics, restorative yoga, embodied Yin yoga and Yoga Nidra. By combining biomechanics, somatics, movement and stillness, she guides people toward a deeper sense of embodiment in body and mind. Her scientific training shows in how she teaches: she writes about the biomechanics of the squat and about how Malasana can be made accessible with a rolled blanket under the heels. She also encourages people to be aware of where the modern chakra system actually comes from.

Livia offers yoga and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, along with other stress-management tools, for individuals and companies. Her aim is physical and mental recovery and a more balanced everyday life. Her offering includes courses in stress management, individual coaching conversations, forest bathing, personal training yoga, yoga teacher trainings, workshops and retreats. She runs her own yoga studio in Näsby Park and has led retreats at Smådalarö Gård in the Stockholm archipelago and at Kollberggården on Öland. She has also taught Body Mind Flow Yoga and Yoga Nidra at the Space of Love festival at Böda Sand. Beginners are welcome in her classes, and her invitation is to come just as you are.