Elena Mironov

Elena Mironov is a Zurich-based, English-speaking therapist and meditation teacher. Her primary training is in psychology, and her therapy methods combine Somatic Experiencing trauma therapy and hypnotherapy. She sees clients in person in the Römerhof area of Zürich and online.

Alongside her therapy practice, Elena is an experienced international yoga and meditation teacher. She specialises in yoga nidra, which she describes as a technique of conscious relaxation and the deepest form of rest, one that helps release stress and recharge the nervous system. After more than a decade of teaching yoga nidra, she created a teacher training for yoga teachers. It draws on both yogic philosophy and scientific research. She also offers online programmes on daily meditation, yoga nidra and self-myofascial release.

Elena leads yoga retreats in places such as the Swiss Alps and the Norway fjords. She also composes meditative music. She says it has been used in documentaries, on airplanes, during childbirth, in meditation and to help people fall asleep.

Her own recovery shaped her work. After losing her father, she lived with burnout, anxiety and severe insomnia. She recovered gradually, without medication, through a combination of yoga nidra, Somatic Experiencing and hypnotherapy. Her approach is gentle and trauma-sensitive, and it rests on the understanding that healing happens at the pace of the nervous system. She is especially committed to supporting people with sleep difficulties, nervous system dysregulation, psychosomatic symptoms, burnout and anxiety.