My relationship with meditation and asana began in childhood, when my mother took me to the meditation classes she attended and we practised together at home. Those early experiences continue to shape how I live, practise and teach.

I discovered modern postural yoga through Ashtanga in 1998, while at university, and practised on my own for years, long before yoga studios were common in Türkiye. In 2007, I began my first teacher training and co-founded one of Izmir’s early yoga studios, where I started teaching Ashtanga and Yin Yoga.

After completing Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in San Diego in 2010, I went on to teach in the US and across Europe. In 2011, I returned to Türkiye to open 40 Derece Yoga in Istanbul, the country’s first hot yoga studio.

After moving to the UK in 2016, I taught at studios across London for several years and now teach Hot 26+2 and Yin Yoga in Winchester.

Grounded in a functional approach that recognises anatomical variation, my classes offer clear guidance while encouraging students of all levels to practise with attention and respect for their own bodies.

Along the way, I have had the privilege of studying with teachers including David Swenson, Richard Freeman, Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers, whose teachings have shaped the way I practise and teach.

Alongside asana, meditation has remained central to my practice. I have completed a ten-day Vipassana meditation course and trained in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.

I am currently undertaking an MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at SOAS University of London, where my studies and writing explore how yoga practices are interpreted and transformed as they move between traditions and cultures.

For me, yoga is a way of living. It offers a framework for exploring why we are here, how we might live and how we can respond to what happens to us with greater awareness rather than simply reacting. When we are ready, the practice creates space to turn inward and meet what we find there with honesty and compassion. In doing so, we may discover greater freedom.

Yoga has illuminated my own path and continues to do so. I teach not to offer my answers but to support others as they discover their own.