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Lea Asja

Classical pranayama in the Kaivalyadhama lineage. From absolute beginners to advanced practitioners.
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Certified by Sudhir Tiwari · Kaivalyadhama lineage
Berlin & online

Pranayama is the yogic training of the breath. Unlike deep breathing or breathwork, it belongs to Yoga alone. What I teach comes from the traditional hatha scriptures, from modern science, and from my own practice.

Pranayama

Sundays, at The Lab

One hour of pure practice with complete guidance. A stand-alone practice in the Kaivalyadhama lineage, not a warm-up for something else. All levels, absolute beginners included.

Surya Namaskar · Hatha · Jivamukti

Online

Āsana in the traditions I was trained in, taught in an accessible, heartfelt and modern way. Sun salutations, hatha, and the Jivamukti method.

One to one

When the group room isn't the right room

Private classes, in person in Berlin or online. Useful if you are starting from nothing, working around something, or going deeper than an hour a week allows.

Where to find me at the moment.

Sundays · 17:00–18:00
Pranayama · The Lab Studio Berlin, Bethaniendamm 61A
By arrangement
Private classes · Berlin or online
Book Sundays through The Lab Studio or USC. Pop-up rounds and online sessions open a few times a year and are announced by message. Follow below and you will hear when the next one starts.

Beyond the weekly hour: short online rounds, one to one work, and the occasional visit from my teacher.

Runs a few times a year
Four weeks · Fridays 8:30–9:30 · Zoom
Pranayama pop-up

A short course rather than a drop-in: four Friday mornings on Zoom, building a practice you can keep. Good if Sundays in Kreuzberg do not work, or if you want to start from home.

€50 for the four weeks · €15 drop-in
Tell me when the next round opens
Ongoing
In person in Berlin, or online
Private classes

One to one, paced to you. Beginners who want to start properly, practitioners working around an injury or a condition, and teachers who want their own pranayama practice looked at.

When he visits
Bethaniendamm 61A, Berlin
Sudhir Tiwari in Berlin
With Lea Asja, Ashtanga House Berlin

I bring my teacher to Berlin when I can, for weekends of pranayama through to meditation. If you want to study with the lineage directly rather than through me, this is the way.

I am one of the few teachers in Europe certified in this lineage, and the only one teaching classical pranayama in it in Berlin. If that is useful to you, here is where I am.

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Pranayama for your studio

Available

A weekly slot, a workshop, or the pranayama module inside your teacher training. Most studios have nobody who teaches this as a practice in its own right, and it sits well next to a strong āsana schedule.

FormatOne hour weekly, half days, or a training module
Currently atThe Lab Studio Berlin, with Ashtanga House Berlin
LineageKaivalyadhama, certified by Sudhir Tiwari
Talk about a slot

Travelling to teach

Available

I have taught in the Netherlands, India and Germany over the last eight years. Retreats, trainings and workshops, as the breath half of something bigger or on its own.

Have taught inNetherlands, India, Germany
Works alongsideĀsana-led retreats, meditation, teacher trainings
LanguagesGerman and English
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Bringing the lineage to you

By arrangement

I host Sudhir Tiwari in Berlin. If you run a studio or a training elsewhere in Europe and want to bring the Kaivalyadhama lineage directly to your students, I can help make that happen.

Have hostedPranayama to Meditation, Berlin
NeedsLong lead time, and a room that can hold stillness
Let's talk about hosting

I met my teacher four years ago. When the student is ready the teacher will appear, and Sudhir Tiwari has shaped how I understand Yoga ever since.

Before that I had been teaching hatha for years, in the Netherlands, in India and in Germany, eight years now, in a way I would call accessible, heartfelt and modern. Pranayama is what I came to properly last, and it is what I teach most carefully.

In September 2025 I began the second and third years of teacher training in pranayama, classical yoga and Ayurveda at the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in Lonavala, still with Sudhir. Reach out, touch breath. This is Yoga.

Teaching 8 years
Netherlands, India, Germany
Jivamukti certified
Vegan

Where I trained

Certified in Pranayama, Kaivalyadhama lineage · with Sudhir Tiwari
Jivamukti Yoga, certified teacher · Jivamukti method
Pranayama, classical yoga and Ayurveda, years two and three · Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, Lonavala, India, from 2025
Hatha yoga teacher and practitioner · Netherlands, India and Germany, eight years
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