LIINA TAEL 

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Birth and Residence 
  • Born 15th June 1977 in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Left Estonia in 2007, since then has lived and worked in Australia, India, Vietnam, Italy, Sri Lanka, Hawaii 
  • Lives in Berlin, Germany since 2014



​Education
  • Bachelor in Economics (Concordia International University in Estonia, 1999)
  • 200hr and 300hr Yoga Teacher Qualification from Byron Yoga Center  in Byron Bay, Australia (2007/2008)
  • Certificate IV in Massage Therapy: Swedish Massage and Deep Tissue (2008), Myofascial Massage training (2011)
  • Yin Yoga Teacher Training 250hr (several trainings since 2014, Anatomy, Meridian, Yoga Philosophy modules)
  • Conversation in Yoga with Emil Wendel - course on yoga philosophy and history (2017)
  • Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith H. Lasater, 30hr (2016)
  • Experiential Anatomy Online training with Judith H. Lasater (2018)
  • Bo Forbes - Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience & the Body online course (2019)
  • Mollie McClelland - Embodied Anatomy Lab online series (2020)
  • Cross-Fade mentorship with Caitlin Casella (2020) - mentorship for yoga teachers and movement specialists
  • Jules Mitchell - The Science of Stretching (2021)
  • Tias Little (Prajna Yoga) SATYA (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement) online training (2021 ongoing)
  • In total over 3000 hrs of different yoga, movement, somatics, anatomy, fascia, meditation, yoga philosophy related trainings since started to teach in 2007 
  • Several meditation retreats/trainings (3 silent Goenka style Vipassana retreats, following the teachings of Adyashanti, Michael Stone, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, John J. Prendergast, Mooji).
  • Since 2021 part of an online meditation community led by Brooke Teisui McNamara and Lisa Genki Gibson from Soto Zen lineage.  
 
Yoga and teaching
Teacher of alignment based Vinyasa Yoga since 2007: 
  • After finishing her 200hr training with Byron Yoga Center, Liina stayed working at the center for the next 2 years. In addition to teaching weekly classes, she was assisting at the 200hr and 300hr Teacher Trainings and co-teaching at Byron Yoga retreats. 
  • Taught at resorts in Sri Lanka and Vietnam 
  • Since 2015 Liina teaches at Yellow Yoga in Berlin  plus  runs her own weekly classes 
Facilitating Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2019
  • Together with Valerie Hartwich offering unique content in their Yin yoga teacher Training integrating Western and Eastern approaches and guiding people to find their own voice and confidence when teaching yin.  
Yin yoga teacher since 2014
  • Liina has built up a Yin Yoga following from scratch first when she lived in Tallinn, Estonia and then again after she moved to Berlin (in 2014). 
Restorative yoga teacher since 2016
  • After her Restorative Yoga training with Judith Lasater, she  launched a weekly Restorative class which quickly became one of her most popular sessions.
Somatic Yoga and Clinical Somatics teacher since 2020 
  • online training and self-study of Hanna Somatics and Clinical Somatic (Level 1 & 2 in 2020)
  • Liina's somatic yoga teaching style is inspired by the Feldenkrais method, Thomas Hanna (Clinical Somatics) and Tias Little's S.A.T.Y.A (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement) training, Lisa Petersen's teachings.  
Organising and teaching retreats Organising Teacher Trainings
  • Organising Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings in Tallinn, Estonia for her teachers Sebastian Pucelle and Mureielle Burellier every year since 2014 (promotion, correspondence, managing finances, assisting during the training)
Building up a yoga business ​Massage
  • Worked as a massage therapist in a SPA setting (Holmes Place) 
  • Worked as massage therapist during retreats
 Recruitment and administration background
  • Worked as a recruitment consultant in a boutique HR firm in Tallinn, Estonia (2001 - 2007). Liina's speciality was the search and selection of specialists, middle and top level managers in the field of IT, accounting, finance, sales and marketing. The responsibilities included choosing the appropriate search method and channels, putting together advertisement, CV screening, conducting job interviews, assessment of candidates, preparing written reports. 
  • 2007 (July-October) worked as a recruitment consultant/assistant at Temp Team and Active Selection in Sydney, Australia. 
Interest/Hobbies
  • conscious dance - modalities like 5 rhythms, Soul Motion, Open Floor 
  • reading
  • everything to do with the sea: swimming, diving, snorkeling 
  • nature: hiking, camping
Languages
  • Estonian (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Swedish (average)
  • Finnish (can understand, don't speak) 
  • Russian (rudimentary)
  • Italian (rudimentary)