Inga Zimbalista

Inga Zimbalista is a certified Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher (Level 3) who has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 2000. Her journey into yoga began in her early 20s, in the late 1980s, in the former Soviet Union. It started by chance when she came across a thin booklet about yoga. In communist Russia, such books were rare and shared only among friends.Although movement and dance had been central to her life since childhood, the booklet transformed her understanding of the relationship between body, mind, and spirit, as well as the connection between inner and outer worlds, movement, awareness, and philosophy. She began practicing yoga using the booklet as a guide, alongside a friend who studied yoga at the Indian Embassy. This marked the start of her lifelong journey in yoga.Inga completed her Iyengar Yoga teacher training under Faeq and Corinne Biria and Patxi Lizardi in Israel. She later undertook Junior 2 and Junior 3 teacher training courses with Faeq and Corinne Biria in Paris and has participated annually in their summer courses in France since 2001.After completing the Teachers’ training courses, Inga moved to Paris to continue her studies with her teachers, Faek and Corinne. She also taught at the Iyengar Yoga Centre de Paris at Victor Hugo for four years.Inga continues to study with the Iyengar family at the RIMYI—the mother institute for Iyengar Yoga in Pune, India. She has also studied Ayurveda with Dr. Swaroop Verma and macrobiotics with Dr. Mira Niazov.In 2008, she established Iyengar Yoga Center Tel Aviv – South, inspired by her teachers in France. Inga has trained all the teachers at the studio through courses and a mentorship program. The center is uniquely designed to cater to the diverse needs of its students, with classes tailored to each practitioner’s physical, mental, and emotional structure.Inga received a personal blessing from Geetaji to open the center.In addition to running the studio, Inga mentors aspiring teachers through a dedicated training program and teaches abroad in France, Brazil, Slovenia, Sweden, and Norway.One of her key inspirations comes from the philosopher Rumi’s profound words:“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”