Irina Novikova

Irina Novikova is a former Microsoft Program Manager with 12 years of experience in the tech industry. During her time working in the corporate world Irina discovered and embraced the transformative benefits of a committed yoga practice. Irina spent countless hours working at a desk and during that time found that yoga helped bring the benefits of movement and health into her life. She knows what does it mean to not being able to reach toes or come up to wheel, and suffer from low back pain and tide hamstrings. No wonder that posture, alignment, joint safety are her primary focus along with healing breath. Irina grew up overseas and lived in 4 countries. She always loved dancing but had to follow a different path to provide for the family. However, passion for movement never left her alone and over time she notices that she silently repeats instructions after her teachers and pictures herself being a teacher. At the age of 33 she left software industry to become a yoga teacher. Irina loves seeing her students grow! She offers a few stages of asana so everyone has something to work on. She challenges her students to look inwards to discover the best parts of their personality and shine them out to the world. Irina is a certified 200E-RYT, 500-RYT, RPYT with the Yoga Alliance with additional Yin,, Restorative and Prenatal Teacher Trainings taught by West Coast leading yoga teachers like Ali Valdez, Lisa Black, Jodi Boone, and Colette Crawford. Irina is 300hr Certified Baptiste Lead Additional depth to her classes comes from Ana Forrest Advanced Teacher training taken in 2018. In 2018 Irina completed teacher training with world famous teacher Andrey Lappa and her heart was fully dedicated to his system of Universal Yoga. That was the moment when Irina got a dream to offer this practice to Eastside community. In 2019 just two months prior to giving birth to her son, Irina rented a wonderful space that was built into a yoga studio called SolarYou Yoga. In her personal practice and in her current teaching, Irina studies, practices and teaches classes inspired by the Universal Yoga system to become conscious of and liberated from their behaviors and individual patterns. Irina believes that personal evolution is the only way to influence change within and then in the surrounding environment. Now Irina is aiming to share the art of yoga and healthy lifestyle with the Seattle and Eastside communities!

Alex Rosenblum

Alex has made a career combining his two passions - yoga and fitness - to help students challenge their notions of what they call impossible. His unique perspective combines years of practice, study, and teaching of both authentic Himalayan yoga and western fitness. That personal devotion to practice and study is clear in every class he teaches. Alex specializes in intermediate and advanced yoga classes, armbalance and inversion workshops, and Bootcamp and HIIT-style circuit training. He has amassed over 1000 hours of professional yoga training, 500 directly under Lama Andrey Lappa, the founder of Universal Yoga. Alex is certified 500 RYT, RCYT, YACEP and 200 E-RYT through Yoga Alliance, as well as a certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor through ACE. He also holds numerous specialty fitness certifications- including certification as Total Body Tabata™ Instructor, a certified TRX Trainer, a Functional Range Conditioning® Mobility Specialist, and a Corrective Exercise Specialist in the BioMechanics Method. Additionally, Alex is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist with a certificate in Plant-based Nutrition.

Dikla Kafka

Konstantin Novikov

Konstantin is a co-founder of SolarYou Yoga studio and a software engineer. Konstantin practiced yoga for several years and observed all the magic that yoga practice brings to people. Konstantin believes that joy and harmony stem from within and therefore he cherished an idea to deliver the beauty of yoga practice to local yoga community.