About

Teaching from
the inside out.

Markus Balser

Düsseldorf · Ericeira

My path into
movement

I started practicing yoga in 2013, in Lisbon, as a way to get better at surfing. I came to it looking for something physical. After my first classes I felt something shift in my body that I had not expected. I kept going.

For years, yoga was simply part of my life. But the more I practiced, the more I wanted to understand what was actually happening. Not just in the poses, but in the tissue, the joints, the nervous system. In 2018, I completed my first teacher training in India and started teaching shortly after. What began as sharing something I loved quickly became something more serious.

Since then I have continued training. Mobility, anatomy, ELDOA, and breathwork, because I believe that as a teacher, your understanding of the body has to keep deepening. Every course I have taken has changed how I teach. Not by adding more techniques, but by making me more precise about what actually works and why.

“When mastery is reached, everything looks effortless. The work that got you there is invisible. But it is everything.”

Markus Balser

Today I am based between Düsseldorf and Ericeira, teaching privately, working with corporate clients, and continuing to develop Adapt Movement Lab, an online platform for people who want to go deeper into how the body works.

How I Teach

Physical.
Anatomical.
Demanding.

My classes are built around one principle: understanding what the body actually needs, not what looks good from the outside. I am not interested in making movement look impressive. I am interested in making it work. For you, long term.

That means sessions are physically challenging. I want people to reach their limits, because that is where change happens. But the challenge is always informed by anatomy. We push in the right directions, with the right structures engaged, at the right time.

Yoga

Flow with Structure

Dynamic, alignment-led Vinyasa. Each class is sequenced with purpose, built toward something. Physically demanding, always with a clear anatomical reason behind every cue.

Mobility

Joint Health & Tissue Capacity

Active, progressive range of motion work. Not passive stretching. Building real capacity in the end ranges that matter, for how you move and how you age.

ELDOA & Segmental Strengthening

Precision from the Inside Out

ELDOA creates space in specific joints through precise postural positions. Segmental strengthening isolates individual structures with anatomical precision most training never reaches.

Training & Background

The work
behind the work.

Yoga

2018

200hr Vinyasa Teacher Training

Trimurti Yoga · Goa, India

2019

300hr Yin/Yang & Five Elements

Trimurti Yoga · Bali, Indonesia

2021

50hr Tantra Hatha

The Practice Bali · Online

Breath & Pranayama

2023

50hr Pranayama Level 1

Yoga Education Collective

Mobility & Anatomy

2020

Functional Range Conditioning

Functional Anatomy Seminars

2021

Kinstretch

Functional Anatomy Seminars

2023

Myofascial Stretching

Soma Training · Berlin

2024

ELDOA Level 1, 2 & 3

Soma Training · Berlin

2024

Segmental Strengthening: Abdominal & Thoracic Diaphragm

Soma Training · Berlin

2025

Segmental Strengthening: Lower & Upper Limbs

Soma Training

2025

ELDOA Level 4

Soma Training

Studios & Spaces

John & Jane's Soulbase · BerlinVea Studio · BerlinCasa Flow · BerlinElu Everyday · Ericeira

Ready to work together?

Studio bookings, privates, corporate, retreats, or Adapt online.