Indira Busse

I teach at the following locations:
Forum Wolfgarten
Physio Pro Bonn at the Heiderhof
VHS Bonn and Bad Godesberg

I grew up and was born on the island of Mauritius and have lived in Bonn for many years. My first contact with yoga was through my mother, who was a respected yoga teacher.

My yoga training is based on the tradition of Swami Sivananda, who lived and taught holistic yoga.

Qualifications:
- Magistra Artium: Master's degree from the Rheinische Friedrich - Wilhelms - Universität Bonn in Musicology, Indology and Comparative Religious Studies.
- Certified completion of the two-year Yoga Vidya teacher training programme (ZA) at the Berufsverband der Yoga Vidya Lehrer/-innen e.V. (BYY); European Federation of Yoga Teachers Associations (EFYTA).
- Certified completion of the Yoga Teacher Training Programme "Yoga for Mental Health Problems" of the Professional Association of Yoga Vidya Teachers e.V. (BYU). The training module comprised 81 units on the following topics: Possibilities and limits for depression, anxiety, anxiety disorders, trauma, eating disorders and addiction. Distinctions between spiritual experiences and mental illness. Didactics of yoga seminars and workshops for mental health problems.
- Yoga with children: Children's yoga teacher training at (BYU)

My courses are certified by the ZPP (Central Examination Centre for Prevention) and are covered by health insurance companies. Due to my language skills in German, English and French, I teach fluently in all three languages.


My style is based on the following pillars:
- Development of body awareness through yoga postures
- Control of the breath
- Deep relaxation
- Training the mind through meditation, visualisation, autosuggestion and positive thinking

My yoga classes, which I teach with passion, are accompanied by music on the sitar.

Forum Wolfgarten
Since May 2020 I have been offering various yoga classes in the "Praxisgemeinschaft Wolfgarten" in Bonn. The Forum Wolfgarten is a venue, training forum, meeting place and therapy centre that specialises in the treatment of breast cancer, among other things.
I have been able to specialise my style in recent years by attending various specialist training courses on the subject of "Yoga and Cancer".

My programme at Forum Wolfgarten includes
- Hatha Yoga gentle "Strengthening energy in everyday life"
- OnkoYoga
- Yoga for endometriosis/stress
- Hatha Yoga Open Class
You can find all course details here


Hobbies
- Bharata Natyam Dance (learnt at Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius)
- Sitar music. My teachers were: Dr Purohit Roy, Subroto Roy Chowdhurry, Rajeeb Chakraborty, Indranil Bhattacharya and currently Ashim Mallick. He was a student of the late Deepak Chowdhurry.