Maja Thune

Maja is a certified teacher of Jivamukti yoga, yin yoga and hatha yoga. She has taught yoga and mindfulness around the world, including in Bali, Spain and the Sinai Desert. In 2016, Maja published the best-selling yoga book “yoga as therapy” in collaboration with Gunnar Egeberg, and has her own education in yoga therapy for health professionals and yoga teachers. She has developed yoga as a therapy form and used the powerful tools of yoga and mindfulness in hospitals, in the outpatient clinic and in her private practice as a psychotherapist. She is passionate about how yoga works as a medicine in the face of mental ailments such as stress, trauma and anxiety, and how a regular yoga practice can contribute to increased awareness, deeper presence and compassion in meeting with ourselves and others. She has experienced how a regular yoga practice can contribute to a desire to make a difference in the world, and has taken yoga from mat and into the world through her events “Love as Medicine” which is a movement where the intention is to create hope and transformation in psychiatry.