IFEELYOGA

Faruk Kurtuluş has been working in the fields of yoga, family constellation, and trauma sensitivity for 23 years and has been a yoga-based trainer for 14 years.

After graduating from Private Saint-Michel French High School, he graduated from Beykent University Fine Arts Faculty Cinema Department with first place and then completed her Master’s Degree in Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty Photography Department.

His first encounter with yoga was when he was only 9 years old, by watching Sitare Kurtuluş, one of the students of Müheyya İzer, one of the pioneers of yoga in Turkey. He was always interested in oriental philosophy in his childhood and youth. She started yoga with Esra Karaosmanoğlu in 2002. After completing her teacher training with Zeynep Aksoy in 2009, she started to teach at Cihangir Yoga. He taught in this studio between 2010-2015. During this period, on the one hand, he studied and received training with many famous teachers in their fields such as Godfrey Devereux, Tias Little, Desire Rumbaugh, Paul Grilley, Chris Chavez, Sienna Sherman, Sean Corn and Edward Clark. After completing another teacher training with Chris Chavez, she took Dynamic Yoga trainings from Godfrey Devereux in France and Italy. He generally received his education in Türkiye, India, Bulgaria, Italy and France. He participated in many different studies and gained experience in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Thailand and Spain. She took “Family Constellation” and “Zen Way of Counseling” trainings with Svagito Liebermeister in Istanbul and Bulgaria and assisted her in her training between 2010-2015. The experiences he gained in these trainings opened the door for the body sensitivity that yoga brought to him to be carried into the relationships he lived and thus to spread to every moment of his life. All these experiences have broadened the way he views and teaches yoga.

He started her own yoga camps in 2010 when she started giving studio classes. Until 2019, she organized yoga camps all over Turkey many times. He made the first boot camp of many yoga studios in places like Datça, Fethiye and Artvin. The total number of camps he has done so far is perhaps more than a hundred.

He started giving Yoga Teacher Trainings in 2013. He founded his own brand, IFEELYOGA, in 2014. He opened his own studio in Karaköy. He trained many teachers. In 2019, it started online training with the pandemic period. In the same period, he started private camps where he worked with the participants one-on-one. After the pandemic period, she started doing yoga camps again in 2023.

In his camps and trainings, he combines yoga asana practice with active dance meditations, family synopsis, group work and film screenings about relationships, with an artistic approach to support making yoga felt in every moment of life.

After a long break, his short film “Wisteria My Love”, which he shot in the garden of his house and completed in November 2021, was screened at the 75th Salerno Film Festival, the 2nd oldest Film Festival in Italy, and the 22nd Izmir Short Film Festival in the same month. Then it was screened at Mexico Taxco Film Festival, Italy Signs Of Night Film Festival, Portugal “Sunday Shorts” and Uruguay Salto Film Festival, Bodrum Dibeklihan and Kütahya Aizonai Film Festivals. It won the best film award in Uruguay.

Faruk likes to explain the psychology of yoga by explaining the movie scenes about relationships.