Andre Hartwich

Andre Hartwich

Andre had a background as an IT specialist before co-founding and leading his own company in the field of Knowledge Management in the mid nineties. His interest in human wellbeing and psychology combined with his experience witnessing corporate stress and burn-out triggered him to devote his life to enhance the quality of people's awareness in regards to the success and efficiency of their lifestyles.

Using yoga as the main platform for transformation he passionately applies his exceptional communication skills and understanding of the human condition to inspire his students to awaken to a more successful approach to life.

André seamlessly blends the various aspects of a complete yoga practice together into a flowing experience emphasizing our connection with the fulfillment of our own inherent stillness. His teaching has been influenced by elements from Dru Yoga, Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga and Rod Stryker’s Parayoga having studied these traditions intensely for the last 10 years.

Andre is a registered yoga teacher at Yoga Alliance (RYT). He has been certified in, studying and loving Dru Yoga since ten years and he is a certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga teacher after having trained extensively in Power Vinyasa Yoga with Baron Baptiste. Andre has taught in Baron's Cambridge and Boston studios and assisted Baron on several bootcamps and teacher trainings.

His work has been and is varied and rewarding having taught at yoga studios, leading yoga teacher trainings, lecturing at institutions like the IMD Lausanne on recovery strategies and training and coaching corporate executives at companies including Unilever, IOC, and Accenture.

Based in Zurich, Switzerland, and operating world wide, Andre is now Director of Recovery Specialists at ::Tignum AG, the leading sustainable performance institute for corporate leaders, and one of the founding partners of Leela Yoga. He continues to lead yoga classes, workshops, and retreats around the world.