Gönenç Silay

After she graduated from Boğaziçi University; she lived in Spain for some time. Then she came back to İstanbul and worked as a corporate communications' professional in various companies for 11 years.

She had started to practice yoga during her pregnancy in 2010 and yoga helped her a lot with her pregnancy and her labor. After giving birth to her daughter Ekin; she attended to Mey Elbi's 200 hours Yoga Fundamentals Majoring Program; Mey Elbi - Naz Şarman - Sinem Er's 150 hours Advanced Yoga Majoring Program; Yogakids '32 hours Kids' Yoga and Şaylan Yılmaz's 70 hours Pregnancy Yoga Majoring Programsç As part of the Yogaşala Mentorship programme, she trained with Sandrine Kamhi. She also completed Cyndi Lee's 300 hour OM Yoga Majoring Program in 2015.  Currently; she has been attending to Hart Lazer's 150 hours Advanced Yoga Majoring Program With  A Therapeutical Approach at YogaŞala. At the same time, until now; she has attended to many important yoga experts' workshops including Elena Brower, Seane Corn and Carlos Pomeda.

Practicing yoga has been an exciting, embracing, surprising and transformative journey into herself  both on and off the mat. Thanks to her yoga practice that  she is feeling more and more unified with the universe and at peace. She acknowledges  that she has  a long way to go but even having this glimpse of serenity is making her a better person. And having experienced this state, she wants to share this guiding light she has found with the people around her.