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Maya Yoga Stüdyo

B. Melike Sipahioglu: I was born in 1984 in Ankara, and passed through my childhood and adolescence with my health problems. I had open heart surgery at the age of 7, and scoliosis at the age of 15. I am glad to know that thanks to these health problems with Yoga again. While continuing my undergraduate studies at Middle East Technical University, increasing back pain was the result of yoga, the result I have met in my body and mind for years. The first step I took to deepen my yoga journey that started with Pinar Enginsu in 2004 was the training of Ashtanga yoga instructor in 2009. In 2010 I completed the first 200 hour Yoga Specialization program in Yogashala Ankara and got the Yoga Alliance RYT-200 certificate. I also had the opportunity to work with people who had similar discomforts thanks to the scoliosis yoga classes I assisted in the same period. I then completed the 100-hour Prenatal Yoga Specialist program (P-RYT 100). The information I have and the regular yoga exercises I have practiced have helped me to have a peaceful, healthy and energetic pregnancy. With the arrival of Maya in the world in March of 2013, the doors of a new world were opened for me, my family and my friends. My savings, my desire and responsibility to share my experiences with new mothers, led to the dismissal of the Mayan Studio in the last month of 2014. For this purpose, in Maya Studio, Gill Boorstein Grossman in 2015 under the roof of hatha, vinyasa, prenatal, scoliosis and YogaKids,