About Us

Life is a miracle, that is what Krisma Yoga Wellness  is all about, we are here to help you remember where we come from, why are we here, how to connect with yourself.

Help you understand your true nature.

 

Our Mission

Krisma Yoga Wellness is a community of combined passions of close friends, facilitators, change makers, healers and this is when the collective intention arose, when we decide to connect the science behind yoga.

We invite our community to stay connected with nature, to open up themselves into manifestations, to believe in themselves.

Our underlying vision and mission ensures that the growth of our school will mirror the authenticity of our roots as human beings, to allow us to connect with 

 

Our Team

We open up our doors to share our knowledge with you. Behind this project there is so much love for what we teach, what we learned throughout our experiences, our lifestyle and how life changes when we connect with our body, but most importantly when we connect with our heart.

Our Teachers are highly trained and experienced in their fields and hold themselves to the highest standards of quality, ethics and care.

MARCELA SOLORZANO
YOGA TEACHER

NIKOLE CEDENO
YOGA TEACHER &
FOUNDER

STEPHAN SCHAEFER
PHOTOGRAPHER &
CO-Founder

FERNANDO DIAZ
YOGA TEACHER

RICHARD DUNNE
YOGA TEACHER

JOSH ALLEN
YOGA TEACHER

AGNI KACZMAREK
YOGA TEACHER

AIGUL MIFTAKHOVA
YOGA TEACHER

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Krisma Yoga is a yoga studio and school based in Montezuma, Costa Rica. We want to be able to live and make decisions coming from our hearts, release the “them and us” because this is all US.

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Marcela Solorzano

Marcela is from Nicaragua and she started practicing yoga in 2013.

After taking a yoga class in a studio in Managua she was hooked and felt in love with the practice. She went to this yoga studio for about a year until she decided to become a yoga teacher. At that time not many people practiced Yoga in Nicaragua and Yoga Teacher Trainings were not common; however, in 2014 she met Victor Flores owner of a yoga studio in Spain who was giving his first YTT in Nicaragua and in 2015 she completed her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with him.

That training changed her life and she wanted to share the benefits of the practice with everyone so she started teaching at yoga studios and giving private classes. Marcela loves to study and she has a certification in Meditation and Studied Trauma Sensitive Yoga.  

She considers herself a very happy and optimistic person who believes that yoga can change people’s lives

Stephan Schaefer

Stephan Schaefer was born in 1984 in Braunschweig, Germany.

Following his apprenticeship as a mechatronics engineer at Volkswagen he went on to study electrical and electronic engineering in Wales.

In 2015 he started to work in the pilot hall, where he had the chance to travel to many plants of Volkswagen around the globe. It was then when his dream of living abroad started to nourish.

Since he always felt connected to nature and photography being a hobby, he decides to move to Costa Rica to combine these two passions, becoming a wildlife photographer and open up a yoga school in which he imparts workshops connecting nature with the human body. 

NIKOLE CEDENO

Born in Costa Rica, raised in California. After several years of teaching yoga she realizes that yoga is much more than just asanas, she decides to travel the world and explore within, starting off in Nepal connecting with spiritualism, hiking the Himalayas after a year in Nepal teaching yoga she realizes that her body is much more capable than what she thought all of this time and this is when her connection with her body starts embracing. With that in mind she embarks to India, after a year in India she is able to connect with her soul and her mind, understanding that her environment affects her reality and that her reality is created because of her environment because of the way she thinks. Then off to Southeast Asia for 4 more years, then off to Peru living on a backpack she understands the simplicity of life and the true meaning of it with gratitude, abundance and connection.

“Live life to the fullest and appreciate the surprising moments that they universe has for you”

FERNANDO DIAZ

Born in Spain, I have been living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark  for almost two years

At the moment Fernando works at Wel-come and NOR. Teaching Pilates, Reformer, TRX, Yoga, Watsu and treating people. He is always looking forward to meeting new people and participating in beautiful and inspiring projects. Fernando considers himself a very  happy, optimistic & passionate person. He has been working in the health sector for up to 20 years, from psychiatric and neurological hospitals to Gyms, Spas and private Clinics.

Would be great to meet you and  find a way to collaborate together.

“ Happy, optimistic and passionate, working in the health sector for up to 20 years, always looking forward to meet new people and participate in beautiful and inspiring projects”

RICHARD DUNNE

Richie was introduced to yoga on a rooftop at 5am in Kolkata, India, where he immediately fell in love with it and maintained a strong self-practice on his return to Ireland.

After many years of practicing different varieties of Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Hot Yoga he took his 200hr training in Khajuraho, India, in 2015, focusing on the Sivananda Sequence and the Traditional Hatha approach, holding active poses for much longer times with resting poses in between. While here he was introduced to many aspects of Yoga Philosophy, Pranayama, Bhakti Yoga, and deeper levels of meditation.


He returned to India in 2017, assisting his teacher during a 200hr teacher training and then taking a 300hr course later that year, where he trained in advanced Sivananda Yoga, as well as Vinyasa, Yin Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, and Yoga Nidra.

Since then he has accumulated years of teaching experience in places like India, Thailand and Cambodia, where he has been the Yoga and Wellness Manager at a high-end resort, as well as the Senior Teacher at one of Cambodia’s best-known retreats, often leading large groups of students through various styles of yoga, pranayama, and meditation, as well as philosophy workshops, alignment workshops, anatomy lectures, partner yoga, mindfulness workshops, and ecstatic dance. He has helped to train and mentor many new teachers during his time in Cambodia.

JOSH ALLEN

Josh Allen. Born in Canada. Josh’s yoga journey started as he was preparing to move overseas several years ago. Learned how yoga could increase  his focus, charge up energy and support whatever was going through his  life. Shortly later, he took a yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India and taught in six countries afterwards. His primary areas of focus are restoring postural alignment, balancing yin and yang, both on and off the mat, as well as supporting yoga students on their journey of self-realization. He is looking forward to holding space for you and having you with us. If you have any questions, he would be more than happy to answer them

“Focusing on restoring postural alignment, balancing the yin and yang on and off the matt, as well as supporting self realization, he is able to hold a space for you”

AGNI KACZMAREK

Agni Kaczmarek Born in Poland,  a sociologist by education and an artist by nature. Agni has completed her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Trimurti Yoga in Goa India, 300hrs with Sattva Academy in Rishikesh, 50h Aerial Yoga and 50h Kundalini Yoga in Thailand. Additionally she has completed the Women’s Circle and Ecstatic Dance Facilitator training. Agni has also been doing Yoga Teacher Training in Thailand and Cambodia. Her classes offer an integrative and holistic approach to yoga, blending meditation, breathwork and kundalini kriyas with creative asana sequences and intuitive free body movement. She lovingly creates a safe environment for her students to dive beneath the surface of their daily lives in order to find deeper meaning and inspiration. 

(MORE ABOUT AGNI) Her Yoga journey began over 20 years ago at the gym, where she met her first teacher who introduced her to Iyengar Yoga. Thas time she thought that a little bit of yoga for stretching would enhance her fitness and pilates practices. 8 years later, after her first visit to India, in no time she had changed her practice environment from fitness studio to Yoga Shala, and started a regular practice of Iyengar yoga in her hometown. She also travelled back to India, backpacking around anda falling in love with the country, its vibe and culture.  During these years she also developed a strong self practice while working on passenger ships. In 2012 yoga brought her to India again to complete her first yoga teacher training and ultimately, to completely transform her life. 

After one month of training she decided to leave her previous life and embark on this new journey, trusting the path of yoga and what a journey it has been so far – she says

Agni continues, yoga has become her passion and her medicine, her journey of self realization and healing. Through her daily practice of yoga ,she finds the courage to fully express herself in the world. I’ve been able to heal emotional issues like anxiety and depression and release biocellular memory of past traumas. Through yoga she has developed a sense of awareness and compassion like no other practice. 

So far, she has studied and taught in many places around the world, India, Thailand, Bali, Cambodia and Mozambique just to name a few. Her intention is to pass this wisdom, magic and energy to other people, to help them find their balance, love and happiness and discover their inner light and infinite potential to support healing on every level and to enable people to truly realize the beauty and joy of living. 

“Yoga has become her passion and her medicine, her journey of self realization and healing, finding the courage to fully express herself in the world, healing emotionally, developing a sense of awareness and compassion like no other”

AIGUL MIFTAKHOVA

Born in Russia, Aigul has been practicing yoga for 6 years and with 11 years of self practice, that has allowed her to conduct over 3000 group classes and 900 private classes. She is a Certified Ashtanga yoga, Hatha yoga, Ayurveda, Yoga Therapy of musculoskeletal system as well as  yoga therapy of internal organs.

Ever since her childhood she has had Scoliosis, hunched back and flat feet. She decides to go to a yoga class and she got  the wrong approach in yoga giving her back pain, knee pain and hyperlordosis. She thought to herself that yoga should give her  health benefits instead, but at that time it was exactly the opposite. She took it very positively and decided to  learn to cure herself. As years passed by she found out that a lot of people felt the same way as I did. 

Today her mission is to make people understand that asana practice can be very harmful as well as healing. There are hidden dangers in poorly done practice, furthermore everyone one of us is unique and that requires a tailored and bespoke approach. Therefore, she educates students to feel and differentiate subtle healing movements in the body from traumatizing, introducing body literacy. She calls that approach – Smart Yoga.

“Educating students to feel and differentiate subtle healing movements in the body from traumatizing, introducing body literacy, calling it Smart Yoga”