About

Dr. Mareike Engel (Malaia)

Certified Yoga & Biomechanics Teacher

Dr. Mareike Engel (called Malaia) is a certified yoga teacher with additonal training in biomechanics and yoga therapy. She is living in Thailand since 2019 where she is teaching locally and online students from all around the world.

Malaia's aim is to transmit her knowledge about the biomechanics of the human body, asana alignment and a healthy yoga practice to improve posture in an easily understandable way. She creates therefore a space for students to explore body movement and awareness in an efficient and safe way (physicially & emotionally). She gives yoga teachers the opportunity to learn and grow beyond the "typical yoga knowledge" by diving into scientific & biomechanically based content.

In her classes and courses she combines her knowledge from these differente areas which allows students of all levels, from a complete beginner to the experienced yoga teacher, to benefit from her classes. Malaia is additionally offering private biomechanical assessments and subsequent training sessions which provide an individualized program for her clients to achieve better posture, greater mobility and less tension in the body.

By the end of 2022 she developed out of these private sessions an innovative way for pelvic floor work for women that combines the restoration of the pelvic mobility, awareness & connection to the pelvis and the underlying emotional aspects, which might be influenced from the individual sexuality, trauma, current psychosomatic symptoms, negative beliefs, etc.)