TEAM
Mela Mariposa, Founder, Main Facilitator
Mela is a trauma-informed mentor, breathwork guide, and facilitator of deeply transformative learning spaces. In her training programs, she brings together over a decade of experience in mental health, somatic therapy, nervous system education, and holistic healing.
Her breathwork training is grounded in the understanding that true transformation, both for facilitators and their clients, can only unfold when the nervous system feels safe, the body is honoured, and the process is never forced. Mela teaches a gentle yet powerful approach to Conscious Connected Breathing, where the body leads, emotional expression is welcomed, and integration is prioritised.
With clarity, warmth, and grounded presence, she guides trainees into a deeper relationship with their own bodies and inner wisdom, knowing that embodied facilitation begins with self-connection. Her spaces are rooted in integrity, consent, and a deeply somatic understanding of trauma-sensitive work.
Participants in her training explore breathwork through the lens of nervous system regulation, body-based resources, and feminine embodiment. Mela supports emerging facilitators in cultivating confidence, attunement, and the ability to hold others in safe, transformative spaces.
Her mission is to empower trainees not only with tools and techniques, but with the embodiment and inner strength required to guide others through meaningful, life-changing breathwork journeys.
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Katrin Heuser, Trauma Expert
Her whole life, Katrin has been interested in the body and movement. After many years of dance, her Scoliosis led her to Pilates and finally to Yoga and Thai Massage, which then became her path in life.
For Katrin, her work is about the never-ending exploration of the body and mind, and a way of discovering the beauty of life. As we bring awareness to what is happening inside and where we are in the present moment, the body is encouraged to release where it is holding. Then we can embark on a journey of restoration and growth.
She holds a 500h Level 4 NVQ Yoga Teaching qualification, trained in Manual Lymph Drainage and has studied extensively in Thai Yoga Massage and Osteothai, including a Master Osteothai qualification, over the past years. Through her work as a bodyworker comes also her understanding of trauma, chronic conditions and pain, as well as the influence of working with fascia, the craniosacral system, structural support and regulation of the nervous system.
Katrin used to run a Yoga Festival in London and launched an online anti-stress breathing programme. Since 2015 she has lived in Lisbon and runs Little Yoga Space, where she teaches and gives Osteothai treatments, and she is the director of Hadadi, offering foundation and advanced training courses in Thai Massage and trauma-informed Yoga worldwide.
Teaching at the EARTH & AIR MODULE
Eva Kormos, Kundalini Yoga Teacher
Since very early in my childhood I was searching for something. Something more meaningful and true than what life seemed to be. It felt that there is more to it and something important was missing. I tried to fill this gap with different forms of addictions which lately became my main field of interest in my work.
This deep longing in my heart brought me in various adventures in all sorts of spiritual paths, modalities of self-knowledge and healing works. The ones that had the strongest influence on my life was Self-Enquiry, Yoga, Dance Therapy and Non Violent Communication.
For me yoga is not limited to the time we spend on our yoga mat. Actually it starts after that. It makes sense only if we manage to translate our experiences into our daily life and supports us in our inner transformation, in the process of giving birth to our true self, cleaning all our false beliefs and limiting thoughts about ourselves.
I believe we are here to be happy and enjoy fully this human existence, serving each other with our gifts. I’m happy if I can support you in your journey of Self-discovery with the knowledge and tools of Kundalini Yoga.
Teaching at the EARTH MODULE.
Olga Viktoria Sadowski, Chef
Plant based chef, activist and author, focused on integrative nutrition & the politics of food. Her meals are crafted in reverence to the earth, reconnecting us with nature through the senses, inviting us to embrace a symbiotic relationship with the natural world.
She is a student of indigenous ways of life, dedicated to the well being of the earth and feminine health.
Olga expresses her enchantment for nature in her work as a chef, curator for handcrafted arts, interior designer and by organizing holistic retreats, workshops & markets.