Joyful in the Workplace, in the Home and Community - with Sanja & Susie 25th November

Join Susie and Sanja in a process of playful exploration through breath, movement, use of voice, and music to uncover and ease through obstacles that lie in the way of spontaneous self-expression. This workshop is relevant to all!

About Sanja 

Life Coach, startup co-founder, ex McKinsey consultant, Fulbright Scholar, Freestyle Rapper and PhD in Economics who loves to use play and nature for transformation! Whether it be individual coaching, facilitating team-buildings, creating holistic company strategies, leading retreats or inspiring crowds through meaningful messages and improvised rap songs - Sanja uses her years of corporate experience together with 18 years of training in the personal development field to help individuals and organizations realize their potential.

Sanja employs an integrative style of coaching that is based in Transpersonal Psychology. Her methodology works across the thinking, feeling and behavioural spectrum. Sanja believes strongly that each person is born with pure potential, wisdom, and the ability to be authors of their life’s story. She is dedicated to assisting people and organizations break through self-imposed constraints, step into their authentic power and fully share their talents with the world. Sanja is passionate about working with individuals and organizations that have a sense of adventure, are courageous and are willing to look in the hard places. Her engagement with clients is characterised as authentic, thought provoking and inspirational.

Sanja holds a PhD in Economics (Honours Cum Laude) with a major in Environmental Economics from the University of North Carolina, as well as a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Honours Cum Laude) from Stellenbosch University. Moreover, Sanja has participated in a noteworthy range of professional development programs in areas of personal development, communication and leadership. Sanja has worked with people and organizations internationally and speaks English, German, Afrikaans, Spanish, and has an intermediate level of French. She currently resides in her home country, South Africa.

Sanja loves cold water swims, being in nature, spontaneous adventures, deep meaningful conversations and exploring what it means to be a human being and fully alive. Sanja is very curious by nature and loves exploring boundaries - their origins, their functions and what we can learn by getting out of our comfort zone (in a playful way where possible). Sanja loves healthy eating and being fit and ready for any adventure.

About Susie

Susie was initiated to Yoga through the International Sivananda Yoga School in Kerala, India, and completed the basic and advanced yoga teacher training programs. Since her initial training in 1998, she has been inspired and taught by many international yoga teachers and spiritual masters in India, USA and South Africa. Her teaching experience covers individual and group classes, workshops, residential retreats and teacher training programs. Susie is currently in her fourteenth year as visiting faculty member at the School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon, India where she formulated and conducts a course in Wellness through Yoga and basic Ayurveda. Over these years she has taught with several corporate training programs and is faculty with the Global Leadership Program – a senior executive training.

Born in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1945, her family fled the communist rule in 1949 finding their way to South Africa where she spent her childhood and completed her studies. In 1974, she and her young family immigrated to the USA. For the next 18 years Susie lived the life of an American homemaker; raising the children, taking leadership roles in several charitable and art related organizations, assisting in the administration at her husbands sports medicine clinic, and actively involved in tennis, long distance running, aerobics, and mountain climbing.

Her life changed drastically in 1992 when her husband chose to enter voluntary service in India. What began as her husband’s journey, turned out to be the journey of her life - a life of learning about, and adventuring through, the wisdom of India. It opened in her the love of Indian scripture and culture, and the joy and honor of sharing what she has been

taught and experienced in the practices of Yoga and Wellness.

Susie holds a BSc. (Hons.) Dietetics degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and a Diploma in Hospital Dietetics from the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa USA.

“I practice and share in gratitude to the amazing diverse world community I live in and the many teachers who continue to guide and inspire me; a joy that can’t be measured.”