My first yoga class was with the only teacher in Poland, at that time, trained by B.K.S. Iyengar. And as most of people I had no idea what yoga was about. I definitely didn't expect that it would become my life. Several years of practice in B.K.S. Iyengar tradition gave me strong sense of alignment, which I find useful these days when teaching my students in ashtanga and vinyasa classes.
Since I moved to California I have experimented with different styles of hatha yoga and studied with many wonderful teachers like Anirudh Shastri, Ben Thomas, Erich Schiffmann, Max Strom and many more amazing yogis, to whom I am very grateful for showing me yet another facet of yoga.

Thanks to my dear friends Anne Finstad and Philippe Alexis I was introduced to traditional ashtanga practice as taught by Sri Pattabhi Jois. And after inspiring practice with Tim Miller in Encinitas, ashtanga become my practice. I was drawn to it by incredible fluidity of the movement synchronized with breath and the idea of meditation in motion. For the last couple of years I have been studying repeatedly with such amazing Ashtanga teachers and practitioners like Tim Miller and Dominic Corigliano, as well as Rolf Naujokat, Kirsten Berg, Guy Donahaye and more when attending workshops or just visiting the town.

In 2005 I had finally chance to practice directly with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath during their World Tour. Recently I returned from my second trip to Mysore where I studied with them for 2 months.

And when I don't practice or teach yoga I design jewelry in my small studio - beatadesigns. If you like something let me know.