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karolina zakrzewska

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Karolina spent 20 years living in India, where she studied yoga and ran the well-known Purple Valley Yoga Centre in Goa. Her main teacher was Rolf Naujokat , and over the years she has learned from many experienced Ashtanga teachers who has visited Purple Valley. Today Karolina continues to study the sciences of yoga with a never-ending curious approach and loves sharing a practice which she has adopted as a lifestyle.

Her own journey through long-term eating difficulties and recovery has shaped her interest in the connection between the body and mind. This path led her to study nutrition and now, with over 25 years of yoga experience and a background in nutritional therapy, she offers a grounded, non-judgemental and compassionate space for others to reconnect with their own health.

Karolina holds a First-Class Honours degree in Nutritional Therapy from the University of West London. She is a registered nutritionist in the UK and offers one-to-one support for in two main areas; dysfunctional eating, specifically binge eating and bulimia as well as cancer focused nutrition. Her work combines evidence based, personalised nutrition, health coaching, and yoga.

She is a Master Practitioner with the National Centre of Eating Disorders and has additional training in cancer-focused nutrition, nutrition for eating disorders and integrative approaches to health and behaviour change therapies.