Monika has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1983. She is one of the pioneers and the main contributors to the growth and development of yoga and the education of yoga teachers in Turkey. She has her own yoga studio ‘Yoga Center Bodrum’ and she also travels extensively offering workshops and teacher training programs in various yoga centers in Turkey as well as abroad.  

Her style of teaching incorporates different aspects of yoga with great emphasis on the Iyengar Style as taught by Michael Forbes (Yoga in der Tradition von BKS Iyengar®, Munich). In addition her teaching includes therapeutic aspects of yoga as taught by the European College for Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Monika attends regularly workshops and continues her training with leading teachers in the yoga field such as Aadil Phalkivala, Ramanand Patel, Judith Lasater and Jnani Chapman (Yoga for people with Cancer). 

As an ERYT-500 (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance) Monika is qualified to train teachers and to conduct Continuing Education Training. She is the founder of the school ‘Aspects of Yoga’ (Registered Yoga School RYS®).