Our team of teachers:

At Yogazone we are dedicated to providing teachers of exceptional quality for our patrons. Teachers that are inspiring, experienced, compassionate and professional – giving you classes in line with the specialized styles and qualities we are unique in and well-known for. Each teacher brings their own experience and character and, as a team, we work on giving our yogis the best – consistently.

Meet Fulvio Grandin – Owner and teacher

Yoga is a continuous journey for me and embodies what inspires me most in life. Both practicing and teaching it.
Over the last 10 years I have joyously spent much of my time at my yoga studios and feel that I gain as much inspiration from my students as I try share with them through teaching.
Teaching a class is, for me, a yoga practice – one that challenges me to channel and share my best and to be completely present, focused and honestly open.
It is a constant inspiration for me to work with other teachers and have a studio where so many people practice and enrich their lives.
Yoga is challenging, and integrating its practice into our lifestyles is rewarding beyond measure.
See you on the mat…

Meet Angie Bennett

I have always been interested in and driven by the link between the body and mind, exploring it through many different forms of sport and training as well as my university degrees in psychology and counseling, but nothing to date has given me the clarity of mind and consciousness of body that yoga has allowed.

My journey towards becoming a yoga teacher involved martial arts and group fitness instruction, counseling and psychology, and corporate work, but I knew that wasn’t where I wanted to be. I love people, and to bear witness to their personal development, mind and body, through their unfolding yoga practice is truly an honor and a gift.
I am a yoga alliance certified teacher and did my teacher training in Ashtanga Vinyasa and Rocket yoga. I have also traveled to India, spending time practicing Iyengar and Sivananda yoga. I believe strongly in consistency of practice and to me it is important to be a student before I am a teacher, to be continually learning and growing, and to live and practice what I teach.

Meet Marinus Müller

It all started when a friend invited me to my first Bikram class in early 2003 with Sally Flanagan. I went back the next week and the next. I became the studio manager at Bikram Yoga Jozi in Illovo and then got myself to Teacher Training in Los Angeles in June 2004; 200 people, 11 classes a week, 9 weeks. Total trip!!! I’ve been teaching yoga ever since.
Bikram Yoga is a beautifully elegant series and it continues to challenge and excite me. I’ve had seasons in my Bikram practice, at times I’ve loved it, at times not so much, but no matter what, I always seem to come back to the 26 – it’s like home.
After practicing and teaching Bikram for a few years it was great to get into another style of yoga and so in September 2008 I did the Ashtanga Teacher Training in St. Francis Bay.  I think Vinyasa & Bikram yoga compliment eachother perfectly.
I’m having so much fun Teaching Vinyasa at the Zone, it’s a very different style, rhythm and vibe. It informs my Bikram teaching in a big way.
Yoga is a way for me to feel more comfortable in my skin to feel happier being me. It’s a way to experience myself as whole and “burn off” negative feelings and thoughts. On the mat I have come to know that I am much stronger than I thought I was. That I have more drive, more endurance and the ability to hang in and push through!
Yoga is a Mirror, a very clear one. Sometimes it’s not cool to see myself so clearly, sometimes it’s really painful and every now and then I get to see beyond this physical, feeling, thinking being I call me. See you on the Mat!

Meet Tammy Wilde

Yoga first came into my life when I was 7 and would accompany my grandmother to yoga class at her old age home. I would invariably be asked to twist my young self into pretzel positions, much to the delight of the oldies! Those early experiences foreshadowed what was to come. Fifteen years later, I walked into Yoga Zone and my life changed then and there. I will never forget walking out of that class and promising myself, “I’m going to teach yoga one day and I’m going to teach it here!” Over the next months, I experienced a powerful shift that inspired a love and passion for yoga that will be with me always.

My yoga journey took a big step a couple years of later when I enrolled in Jim Harrington’s teacher training course. From there, I taught at different studios in Cape Town. Once I’d gleaned some good experience, I approached Yoga Zone for a teaching position. After some intense power-vinyasa training, I stepped into the same yoga room where I’d started, this time as teacher, and felt gratitude that life had come full circle.
I believe that yoga is for everyone and you do not have to be anything more than who you already are to be a yogi. It has been the single most transformative practice I have experienced and one of the great blessings of my life. My relationship with yoga is continually evolving and my commitment to the practice only deepens as I witness my students go through their own transformations. Yoga holds something unique and pure for each person. It will change your life for the better. I guarantee it!

Meet Paige Dorkin

I too commenced my yoga journey at the Yoga Zone – and over the last 5 years have spent a lot of time practicing and, since 2011, teaching at the studio.
I am intrigued by yoga’s potential to blur the line between mind and body and to teach, in very practical ways, how to live with greater equanimity in our daily lives.
My classes aim to nurture and challenge – both body & mind and what we believe we are capable of – therefore always extending our boundaries. Influenced, and inspired, by my teachers i draw on the principles of yoga asana alignment and form as a means to access grace – that “floaty”, effortless quality of practice that comes from a deep understanding and appreciation for the body politic.
Teaching both Bikram and Vinyasa yoga styles inspire me constantly and I find they compliment eachother so well.
My personal practice is constanly renewed and enlivened by my passion for teaching and what I learn from my students in class.

Meet Maritz Steyn

Teaching again at Yoga Zone after 4 years, mostly in JHB.

Details about Maritz to follow.