Teachers & Artists
Stockholm Yoga & Dance festival is proud to present the first of this years teachers that will come to the mini festival with their knowledge and warmth.
Stewart Gilchrist
Stewart Gilchrist is known throughout London for his popular, innovative, authentic dynamic classes. He infuses his high energy and challenging teachings with yogic knowledge, as well as his unique charisma, politics and humour. His classes include an emphasis on breath, vinyasa and philosophy with strong physical adjustments. Stewart applies the original teachings of yoga to the modern world to create a thought-provoking class.
Jacopo Yogendra Ceccarelli
Jacopos journey with Yoga started at an early age as he was introduced to oriental arts by a relative. In '94 Jacopo become a Yoga Teacher under the guidance of a group of Indian Tantric Monks.
Following his passion for study, practice and research he founded the Anukalana approach to Yoga where Integration is the process for developing advanced principles for the practice of Asana, Pranayama and Meditation.
Magnus Fridh
Magnus started meditating in his teens and through studies in Tibetan Buddhism and university studies in indology, has deepened the subject. He teaches groups in ashtanga yoga, mindfulness and meditation and is also one of the founders of the Mindfulness App.
Sheila Arnell
Sheila Arnell teaches Hatha yoga and Yin and has been an Ashtanga practitioner for many years. She has also taught teenagers / young women yoga and meditation.
Among other things, Sheila is involved in "About Yoga", which she leads together with Magnus Fridh. Sheila and Magnus hold classes together and their ambition is to make everyone who is curious about yoga and meditation feel welcome in a supportive and permissive way.
Mateusz Krawiec
Today Mateusz is teaching Kundalini, Hatha and Vinyasa and Yin in different studios around Stockholm and arranging yoga festivals abroad. Mateuesz is also inspired by contact improvisation, dance and movement culture.
Angelica Nanda Schäfer
Angelica Nanda Schäfer is the creator of the Freemove Yoga concept. She has been teaching on full time basis for the last 15 years and she runs her own yoga studio in Sweden. With passion for movement and fascination over different ways to still the mind she likes to explore the language between body and mind and she invites you to be creative and playful on the floor. ”It s all about finding the freedom within”.
Mattias Sundman
It began with Mattias being shown images of Shervin Boloorian on how cells and cancer cells are affected by sounds (research from the 80's by Fabien Maman). It was alleged that some sounds caused cells to light up energy-efficiently and some sounds caused cancer cells to dissolve. This sowed the seed for Mattias who, a few years later took the decision to start playing Gong.
Johan Nilsson
Johan has explored Contact Improvisation for the last 10 years.
He is also exploring and connecting the work of dance with nature and phenomenas in the natural world. As a trained gardener in the Biodynamic method he finds these connections through working with Spirals, Evolution, Rhythms and the different Elements.
“I like to use imagination and the fascination for small details as tools to create my own dance and to be the guide in contact with others.
jOjo Norell
jOjo is a yoga and meditation instructor and has for many years had meditation, yoga and running as a big part of his life. He founded Running Yoga in 2009, which is an exercise form that combines meditation, running and yoga. It's not about how fast you move your body. It's about how slow you move your mind. jOjo´s love of music is given space through his role as a Dj as in the Freemove class.