Meet our teachers
Salila Gyanjot
Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Shakti Dance teacher, Yoga Therapist, owner and CEO of Northern Light Yoga and Kundalini Yoga School.
Salila Gyanjot is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher (level 1 and 2), Teacher Trainer and student of Shiv Charan Singh for many years. She teaches with passion and enthusiasm and her classes are characterized by deep understanding, sensitivity and playfulness. She is the founder of the Kundalini Yoga School in Oslo and organizes the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training together with her husband Anand Raj. Gyanjot specializes in the psychological and medical healing properties of Kundalini Yoga, Shakti Dance, Karam Kriya, yoga for pregnant women and children. Being half Indian and having a background in modern and contemporary dance, Gyanjot was introduced to various forms of yoga, consciousness and movement early in her life. She has taught at several different yoga and fitness centers, companies and health-related businesses, both in Norway and internationally. Her experience is that Kundalini Yoga's wisdom and practice fills a need for many, and enriches the individual in the increasingly intense times we live in. She is passionate about communicating how Kundalini Yoga can contribute to increased quality of life, joy and balance. Physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually!
AnandRaj / Jakob Schaible
Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Lead Teacher Trainer, Art & Expression Therapist, Gong teacher and owner and CEO of Northern Light Yoga and Northern Light Academy
AnandRaj is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher (level 1 and 2), and Lead Teacher Trainer. Together with his partner Gyanjot, he is the founder of Northern Light Yoga and organizes the Teacher Training in Kundalini Yoga.
AnandRaj teaches with heart and soul. For him, Kundalini Yoga is a yoga of creativity, which you can notice in his concentrated and varied classes. He guides you through kriyas and meditations in a sensitive and precise way that gives them more depth, understanding and flow. As a recognized artist, Art Therapist, Naad Yogi, Gong Teacher and Karam Kriya consultant, he continuously integrates different methods in his Kundalini Yoga teaching.
AnandRaj started his studies in India already in 2000 and has experience from several different forms of yoga, awareness training and movement disciplines. He has developed a therapeutic approach to Yoga and has extensive experience of teaching in different contexts and for different target groups both in Norway and internationally.
AnandRaj is originally from Germany and has since 2005 worked as a well-established Yoga teacher in Berlin. He is an experienced and conscious teacher, which is evident in his communication and dissemination of Kundalini Yoga
Anne Karine
Reception and administration manager and Yoga teacher
Anne Karine has practiced yoga since she was 20 years old and the joy of exercise has followed her throughout her life. She has worked as a real estate agent for many years. But with a genuine desire to improve people's quality of life. So when the opportunity arose at Northern Light Yoga, the choice was easy. Her background includes: Medicine, Nutrition and as a Reiki Master.
Mats Onsum
Yin Yoga & Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
In 2011, Mats was introduced to yoga; a form of exercise/science that takes the whole person into account, and after just a couple of classes it became clear that this was something he wanted to explore further. In 2014, he completed his first 200-hour yoga teacher training course. Mats has also completed 50 hours of Yin Yoga, and 200 hours of Yogic Arts, so he has a wide range of knowledge to share.
As a teacher, he wants to help people explore their own being through yoga. To achieve increased body awareness, presence and contact with one's own breath, thus creating a solid foundation for exploring the body, mind and emotions - and the connection between them.
Cecilie Samrita Aune/Sadhana Gopal
Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Hatha Yoga Teacher, Yin Yoga Teacher, Pregnancy Yoga Teacher, Coach/Therapist within NLP and the Enneagram and Soul Mentor.
Cecilie/Sadhana Gopal is a trained Kundalini Yoga Teacher at the Kundalini Yoga School. She started exploring meditation in 1991, and attended her first Yoga course in 1994. Ten years later she started teaching Hatha Yoga. Since then, she has further educated herself in several yoga forms and also in therapy, coaching, communication and healing. Cecilie has held lectures and courses for several events and groups, including the Norwegian Gymnastics and Gymnastics Federation, Oslo Yoga Festival on several occasions, Yoga Movement & Arts Festival in Oslo, HiYoga, Elixia, Puls chain and other private actors. She also organizes annual courses in intuition and self-development in addition to theme-based yoga courses.
Cecilie has a loving and direct approach in her teaching, where she also uses her experience as a therapist and counselor in her meetings with the class and participants. Calm, space and presence characterize her classes.
Ann Christin Fossum
Kundalini Yoga Teacher
I discovered the power of Kundalini Yoga at a point in my life where I felt that there were not enough hours in the day to live the life I wanted. Yoga brought me back to myself and led me in 2014 to take teacher training at Kundalini Yoga School.
I see that yoga can help many and it is with joy and gratitude that I want to share it with you!
Ann Christin is a "natural yogi" and her classes are suitable for young and old, experienced and beginners, trained and untrained as well as men and women!
Clair Constant
Pilates Instructor
Pilates for mother and child
Ballet dancer at the Norwegian Opera
Magnus Støre
Breathwork teacher
Magnus has been a devoted seeker of the big picture for many years.
This journey has brought him into contact with a rich variety of traditions, schools and mindsets from the world's spiritual traditions.
In Magnus hours, he shares both ancient and modern practices to approach the timeless nature of everything.
Kjell Gaute / Dass Shiva
Kjell Gaute / Dass Shiva has been practicing zen, yoga and self-development for almost 20 years. He is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher, Sat Nam Rasayan practitioner and musician. His basic training in yoga was taken at the Kundalini Yoga School, with additional training with Gurmukh and Guru Dev, who is the main teacher in Sat Nam Rasayan, a branch of Kundalini Yoga that works with intuition/healing from shunya/silence. He is also in a multi-year certification course in Kundalini Yoga and leadership.
One of his basic ideas is to explore the combination of inner insight and the realization of this insight in everyday life. This gives him an approach that is deep and direct, with a sense of humor. Live music is often part of the classes.
Susanne Wilhelmsen
Pregnancy yoga and maternity yoga teacher
Susanne took her first yoga class in the fall of 2006 in Arizona, USA and LOVED it! Since then she has had a regular practice, and in 2008 she started her journey towards becoming a yoga teacher, first with Bikram yoga teacher training in Mexcio with Bikram Choudhury. Subsequently, Susanne has taken Ashtanga teacher training with R.Alexander Medin, 2014. Groovy kids yoga teacher training with Greville Henwood, 2014 and Pregnancy and Maternity yoga teacher training at Belly and Baby with Anniken Binz and Caiila Hoff, 2016. Susanne says that yoga has really helped her to cope with life's ups and downs, through grief and love. Susanne has lots of bubbly energy and enjoys motivating, engaging and inspiring her students. She wants them to get to know their body by listening to it, by being more aware of the body through the breath, and aware of the breath through the body. Awareness is the key word! She wants you as a student to learn to really be present on your yoga mat, both physically and mentally, as life is in the moment.
Mariana Vaz
Pregnancy yoga and maternity yoga teacher
I fell in love with yoga in 2010 when I moved to Oslo. My passion for the practice grew side by side with the huge benefits it brought to my body and my soul, to the point that I decided to completely change my career from IT and Business Management to become a full time yoga teacher.
I have certified as a Yoga Teacher in 2014 with Evolation Yoga (Yoga Alliance accredited) and have taught Bikram Yoga in different studios in Oslo.
I am a certified teacher in Perinatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Nurturing Baby Massage and Post-Natal Yoga by Birthlight (Yoga Alliance UK accredited).
I am also a certified Life Coach and Reiki Therapist.
I have two little daughters, Benedita and Rosa that are already two little yoginis. I kept my yoga practice throughout both pregnancies and I thank yoga for the happy, healthy and smooth pregnancies and post-natal periods I had.
I strongly believe that the practice of yoga is not only a physical practice; it is also a path to deepen self-knowledge and self-acceptance of who you are.
Aida Frusan
Kundalini Yoga teacher
Sarah Brekke
Kundalini Yoga teacher