Oona Giesen
started with Iyengar Yoga about 35 years ago, around 1973, when she was eight years old. She was trained by Agnes Hillen, Margriet Post, Victor van Kooten and, most of all, her mother Jeanne Buntinx, who were all trained personally by mr B.K.S. Iyengar.
Oona started teaching Iyengar based Hatha Yoga about 12 years ago, in 1996, both in Amsterdam/The Netherlands, and on the island Paros in Greece. Although she has a slightly softer approach, you can feel the influences of B.K.S. Iyengar in her classes.
She used to live on Paros from 1997, but had to return for personal reasons to Amsterdam in 2003. Despite that her yoga classes in Amsterdam were very succesfull, she and her partner decided to move and stay (for Oona again) permanently on Paros, one year after their son was born (in 2006) .
Oona Giesen is an associated member of the Society of Yogateachers of The Netherlands, member of the European Yoga Federation
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2 recent interviews (in Dutch):
Soon you can click here for the interview by Maureen Welscher for the Dutch magazine 'YOGA', edition februari 2008. (coming on internet in May)
"The big change in my life, and a huge influence on my yoga, was a very bad car accident I had in 1998. Basically I am lucky to be alive; I broke a.o. my spine and no doctor/ back-specialist who looks at the pictures of my spine can understand how it's possible I can still walk after this injury.....
Yoga saved my life!
And it is still helping me to understand my limitations and my possibilities."