Evergreen Yoga Studios
Expanding Human Consciousness
Panos Katsandris
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Handstands
Founder and head of yoga of Evergreen Yoga Studios.
Through yoga, Panos finds the connection with the simplicity of life, which is missing from the modern lifestyle, the union with the One, that leads to the spiritual balance and acceptance of the human experience.
He believes that yoga gives the tools you need to explore and align with our true Self, the Self behind the mask we use to cope with everyday life and its weights. Through the acceptance that yoga teaches, human relations are bridged and become more real. First we connect with ourselves, to be able to connect with others.
Being a graduate civil engineer with postgraduate studies in architecture, his approach in yoga initiated based on a scientific way of thinking, which set him facing major challenges in the effort to understand it.That is why his teaching is deal for probing and restless spirits, introducing the student to the deep philosophy of yoga in a coherent and comprehensible way, carefully bending the restaints of the rigid western culture.
At the same time his future-proof vision co-existisance of people in harmony, close to nature and far way from the jungle of the cities. This vision takes shape at the Evergreen Project, the Ashram of the community of Evergreen Yoga Studios, where also parts of our teacher Trainings are being held.
Panos specializes in Vinyasa Yoga and Handstands. His classes are dynamic, with demanding sequencing of poses.He emphasizes in breathing and self-concentration leading to a meditative state of peace and tranquility while exercising the body of course.
Maria Arvanitaki
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Prenatal Yoga
She was born in Athens. She is a graduate of the department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is also a dance teacher graduated from the Higher Professional Dance School «Niki Kontaxaki».
Already in the years of her study at the School of Philosophy, she was interested in the expressive and therapeutic potential of movement. This interest was further expanded with the research and engagement in dance improvisation and eventually leaded her in Rotterdam, Netherlands where she studied Dance Therapy at Codarts University Rotterdam. In the Netherlands she first came across Ashtanga Yoga, in an attempt to cure back pain and find inner peace.
Returning to Greece, she attended the teacher training program of Evergreen Yoga Studios, specializing in Vinyasa Krama Yoga and has been certified with RYT-200 from Yoga Alliance.
Out of love and respect for motherhood, she trained in prenatal yoga (RPYT) and accompanies women in the journey of pregnancy and childbirth through the path of yoga.
She believes that yoga can promote the body and mind connection and as a result improve the physical, mental and spiritual health of the practitioner.
She teaches yoga at various levels and in private classes with emphasis on the flow as well as on breath and movement connection. The classes have the structure of Vinyasa Krama, ie flow of movement and breath between postures and gradually increasing difficulty in asanas. This way, even less experienced students manage to reach demanding asanas safely. The classes are suitable for people who have experience in yoga and beginners interested in the element of flow in their practice.
Katerina Zerva
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Yin Yoga
Katerina was born in Halkida and from an early age she worked on the body and the expression possibilities through it.
In 2005 she received the 2nd degree in Reiki and from 2006-2009 worked and attended various kinds of dance workshops as Modern, African and Belly Dance. The years 2011 and 2012 acquired degrees in Thai and Tibetan massage.
Her restless spirit led her to yoga and Evergreen Yoga Studios from which he graduated and received the degree of 200RYT of Yoga Alliance in 2014.
As in Vinyasa Krama we connect the breath with body movement, so Katerina was able to connect her restless spirit with the path towards the real Self, thus satisfying her need for knowledge and creation. This enables her students to start their own exploration to physical expression and treatment. He teaches courses of various levels at Evergreen Yoga Studios utmost consideration precisely this connection. She believes that Yoga is the way to get closer to our true Selves, in connection with the body, which is the best Master. For Katerina teaching is primarily apprenticeship.
Emiliana Tsoukala
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Handstands,Prenatal Yoga
Emiliana was born in Athens in 1991. She studied Italian Language and Philology in Aristotele University. The first touch with yoga came in 2009, at the same time with contemporary dance. The reason that yoga attracted her more is the mentality of the respect of the body, the combination of movement and breath, the simplicity and the calm that are inside it, in contrast with the west way of thinking of body exercise.
The desire for yoga exploration and specifically, her love for the full of flow vinyasa, drove her to the 200 RYT of EVS. She continues to be interested in yoga training, so she participates in seminars and workshops.
At the same time she receives a training on dramatherapy, which is totally connected to yoga, because she believes that are both usefull tools for self-consciousness and love of the Self.
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Marina Gergov
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Restorative Vinyasa & Prenatal Yoga
Marina was born and raised in Athens. She lived and studied Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria, her second homeland. From an early age she showed her interest in the charm of various arts and means of expression, accompanied by an anxious rush to understand and reach the destination that would set her free. In 2014 she started practice and educational seminars in Greece in various studios with first teachers Ioanna Koliakoudakis and Panagiotis Kontogiorgos, collecting experiences, teachings and practice methods.
The next period was decisive. Observation will bring her closer to her own center and to the practice that will discipline her physically and mentally. She studied and continues her apprenticeship with her teacher, Panos at Evergeen Yoga Studio, where she completed the 200H training in the Vinyasa Krama system.
In 2018 she trained in Yoga for children with Christina Matsis, Flower Kids Yoga Teacher Training 95H as well as in Holistic Massage with Eleftheria Mantzorou and Thai massage with Christina Zanni.
Through practice and teaching, she wants to share her experience, bridging the distances between the pairs of opposites, approaching a more holistic way of thinking that will bring us closer to truth, love and acceptance of ourselves and subsequently of our fellow human beings. us, motivated by the creation of relationships of a sacred nature.
Marina teaches at EYS, continuing her apprenticeship, with the intention of making everyone feel welcome to begin their journey and listen to their inner voice, motivated by deeper connection with the world around them.
Vicky Papasideri
Teaches: Aerial Yoga
Vicky was born in Thessaloniki (1985) and grew up in Athens. She graduated from the Philosophical School, University of Athens, Department of French Language and Literature.
As a child she was involved in athletics as well as classical and modern dance. Yoga entered her life in 2007, after an accident which kept her away from her previous activities. Through constant practical and theoritical study of Yoga philosophy, she discovered the path she was searching all along. In June 2014 she completed the educational program Hatha Yoga (500 hours) of Ghytha Yoga School, mentored by Michael Filinis.
In 2016 she started aerial acrobatics. Wanting to combine her two favourite activities, she turned to aerial yoga, successfully completing the relevant educational seminar by Elena Mouratidou.
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Through teaching, practicing and attending relevant seminars, she continues to enrich her knowledge and love for the gifts of yoga, recognizing her as "the art of life".
Anastasia Tsoutsi
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Handstands
Anastasia was born and raised in Patras. Since she was a child, she felt the urge to search the essence behind the world she could grasp.
She practiced dance for several years, but the need to express beyond the body language lead her to study acting. She kept on discovering that world, combining multiple disciplines. After she founded Andromeda Theatre Co, aiming for her art to be a means of protest and a cause for social action, her curiosity led her to study History of European Civilization.
Her path kept changing and in a critical point in her life she felt stuck, nothing close to her made sense.
In that moment, she started practicing in Evergreen Yoga Studios.
She was met with respect, care, humility and generosity. Those qualities had a curing and transforming effect over her. Through yoga practice she came closer to a self she did not know existed, creating more space.
She then decided to attend the RYT-200 teacher training program of Evergreen Yoga Studios under the teaching of Panos. She keeps searching, studying and practicing in hopes of finding a gentle flow in dynamic asanas and balances.
Through her teaching she aspires to discover worlds, spaces and presence. Her intention is to offer love, faith, magic and acceptance.
Anastasia Drogiti
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Restorative Vinyasa
Anastasia was born and raised in Athens. She came across yoga in 2009, as intense physical discomfort in the area of hips; prompted her to seek yoga practices for healing and relief. Since then, the practice has become a way of living.
Her passion to go deeper into the anatomy of asanas; brought her to attend the teacher training program of Evergreen Yoga Studios, through which she met the Vinyasa Krama Yoga system.
Anastasia found the tools she needed to heal her mind and body by harmoniously combining breath with movement.
This condition brought her towards to the things she wants to pursue, self-observation and balance.
Her goal is to be a teacher as well as a student throughout her practice in yoga, so as to be able to share her experience and passion for what she loves.
Maria Dimarogkona
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga & Aerial Yoga
Maria was born in Athens. At a very early age she became familiar with the body and its expressive potential through the Orff Approach and classical ballet. Later on she spent many years without doing any physical practice, and following a mostly sedentary lifestyle. She studied applied mathematics in NTUA and her insterest in mathematical logic, computer science and philosophy led her to the Netherlands where she did relevant master studies in the Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC) in the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Returning to Greece to do her PhD research in NTUA she felt that her body needed to exercice and express itself.
Ιn this context she begun practicing aerial yoga. After trying other forms of yoga (power, hatha and jivamuktι), as well as the chinese arts of tai chi and kung fu, she found what she was looking for in vinyasa krama yoga.
At the Evergreen Yoga Studios she encountered a physical practice that was structured, dynamic and balanced, aiming at the practitioner's multilevel growth. Dedicated practice helped her -among others- to connect deeper with her body and feelings, and come closer to her true nature. Her desire to further and deepen this self-exploration led her to attend the yoga teacher training program of 200 hours in EYS and then the aerial yoga teacher training program of 60 hours at EYS with Vicky Papasideri. Lately she explores the expressive potential of the body through the art of aerial dance (aerial silks).
Yoga is for Maria first and foremost a powreful tool for understanding human nature, leading to freedom, love, and awareness. Seeing life as a journey and philosophy as a practice and way of life, she continues her study of yoga in EYS through practice and workshops attendance. Her teaching aims at sharing her experience, giving the practitioners tools to explore and realize their nature.
Maria teaches Vinyasa Krama yoga and aerial yoga. On the physical level her classes aim at the balanced strengthening of the body and the cultivation of its flexibility, gradually approaching basic or more advanced poses depending on the level of the practitioners (krama).Conscious breathing and the coordination of movement with the breath (vinyasa) create the conditions for the practitioner to enter into a state of moving meditation with direct benefits the improvement of concentration, stress reduction and consciousness expansion.
Amalia Tzannetaki
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Restorative Vinyasa
Amalia was born in Athens, where she currently lives and works. She holds an MA in Psychology from the Univercity of Edinburgh and is a Gestalt psychotherapist trainee in at the Gestalt Foundation.
She started dancing at a very young age and working with her body became something vital for her. After experimenting with different types of dance/movement, and wanting to explore the idea of expression through the body further, she decided to pursue dance professionally. This led her to Berlin where she studied contemporary dance at the Berlin Dance Institute.
It was in Berlin where she first came into contact with Vinyasa Yoga as a way of healing the body. Upon her return to Greece in 2020, she continued to practice yoga as a way of providing care fot her body. She attended the Teacher Training at Evergreen Yoga Studios, specialising in Vinyasa Krama Yoga.
Through her experience and after having worked for several years with mentally and physically vulnerable people, it became apparent to her that the soul and the body are interconnected. The pace of contemporary life makes it even more crucial for one to be in touch with both, body and mental world.
Her goal in her classes is to create the condiotions for one to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of the city and get in touch with their body in the present.
Elli-Anna Gouma
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Handstands
Elli-Anna was born in 1998 and grew up in Athens. Her first encounter with yoga happened very early on when she was still 16 years old, completely by chance, looking for an alternative form of exercise and connection with the body.
But the path led her to Paris, thanks to her bicultural background, where she studied civil engineering and architecture. Yoga, throughout this challenging course of study, remained a large part of her daily life that eased the fast pace that this social context seemed to demand.
After many trips and stays abroad, Elli-Anna finally decided to return to Greece, out of a desire to reconnect with her roots and with a country whose contradictions had always intrigued her.
There she had the time she was looking for to invest in her exploration of yoga, finding Evergreen Yoga Studios, a place that immediately inspired security and care.
Looking there to deepen her practice even more, she felt it was now the right time to attend the 200-hour RYT training program with Panos. This experience cleared the landscape and erased the small doubts that remained from her scientific career. Dealing with the more abstract concepts with her logical view was a challenge that excited her and was the impetus for her to continue her apprenticeship.
Her aim in her lessons is to create the conditions that connect us to the present moment, the here and now, and all that emerges from them.
Alongside her EYS training, Elli-Anna also trains as a climbing coach, a sport that requires full presence, brings you very close to nature and presents multiple psychological challenges, characteristics that find great common ground with yoga.
Εleni Evgeniadou
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga, Handstands, Kids Yoga
I was born and raised up in Florina in 1997. I studied and graduated from Department of Primary Education in Ioannina.
During my early studies, I closely involved in martial arts which even though sparked my interest, also confirmed the necessity to cultivate the option of a purposeful presence on a different way. Due to my will for experimentation ,yoga came into my life in 2018.
A whole new world revealed and the every day practicing ended up being a source of inspiration, creativity, self expression and comprehension of my self as well as other people’s feelings.
Moreover, willing to enhance my knowledge on movement and anatomy I began dealing with Pilates where I studied at NYSY studios in 2020 and up skilled in BASI System ( Body Arts and Science International). For the next two years I started teaching my own personal Mat Pilates classes.
In September 2022 , I started searching for people who could help me unterstand the deepest feelings as well as the experiences that practice emerges and that will led up to Evergreen Studios.
I encountered love, respect and authenticity which deeply moved me in a way that every day was a special experience. Wanting that particular path of knowledge not to end, I attended the 200 hundred hours RYT training program with Panos.
Yannis Bakas
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga
Yannis was born and raised in Lamia. He later moved to Athens to study Computer Science and Telecommunications. During his studies, he began to discover his love for hiking, and thus realized how vital his connection with nature was—for him, the mountains, forests, rivers, and the sea were essential.
His first encounter with yoga came in 2019 when he was looking for ways to relieve both his body and mind from the demanding pace and sedentary lifestyle of a software engineer. Through yoga, he confirmed that life requires a more holistic approach, as the body and soul are deeply interconnected.
With his innate tendency for exploration and learning about the world around him, he decided to enroll in the 200-hour RYT training program at EYS.
Through teaching, he intends to share his knowledge and continuously learn from others.
Theonimfi Kalipoliti
Teaches: Restorative Vinyasa
Theonimphi was born and raised in Piraeus. From an early age she was interested in creative activities such as dance and music. In 2022 she graduated from the National Conservatory of Piraeus as a graduate in contemporary singing.
Yoga entered her life in 2021, during a difficult period of change and challenges where there was a need for balance and peace of mind. In the course of her exposure to the practice, she became aware of its therapeutic benefits on a psychological and physical level, as well as the positive influence that exists outside of the mat. Her desire for deepening led her to attend the 200-hour training program with Panos.
She perceives yoga as a daily physical and spiritual practice that enhances connection with the self, self-observation and self-improvement. She seeks to continually evolve and share this experience through her classes, creating an environment of calm and relief from the hectic pace of daily life.
Aspasia Fragkoulopoulou
Teaches: Restorative Vinyasa
Aspasia was born and raised in Athens, Greece. From a young age she was introduced to music and movement. She studied Theater, where she was introduced to yoga and its amazing benefits for the first time.
In the years following she moved to Brussels, Belgium where she studied Musical Theater in the Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels. This is when she worked thoroughly on the connection between the voice and the body.
Upon her arrival to Greece, a few years later, she began working as a creative play and music teacher for babies and toddlers.
After a mild shoulder injury, yoga got back into her life and this is where she was introduced to EYS. With every lesson she felt a great shift happening and with immense curiosity she decided to register for the Teacher training program with Panos Katsandris. With her teaching she would like to offer grounding and calmness through breathwork as well as to expand the limits of The Self through yoga practice.
Natalia Kougioufa
Teaches: Vinyasa Krama Yoga
Natalia was born in Athens, on a family farm in Pikermi. Thus her relationship with nature began at an early age. Like nature, music has been close to her since her childhood. As her mother was involved in dance therapy and alternative energy therapies.
In her teenage years she was involved in modern pentathlon and athletics. Through sports she learned about discipline, body awareness and breathing, tools that greatly helped her later in her Yoga practice.
A difficult life-changing event led her to begin her journey with Yoga. Her love for it was created and developed through her sense of liberation, connection with herself, free expression, relief , physical and mental well-being. Having this experience through her practice she decided she wanted to deepen her knowledge, thus attending the 200 hour RYT training program with Panos Katsandris as well as the 60 hour aerial yoga training program.
She enriches her daily life with the wisdom of Reiki, Chi gong, Tai chi and inner practice. Through her teaching she finds the opportunity to offer a way of healing, exploring the self and connecting with your inner power.
THE DOG TEAM
Rama – The Wise Guardian
Rama is not just a dog – he’s a presence. Our oldest and wisest studio companion, Rama carries himself with the calm grace of someone who has already figured out the meaning of life (and maybe yoga too). With his soulful eyes and serene demeanor, he is often found quietly observing classes, curled up in a sunny corner or slowly walking through the studio as if reminding everyone to move with intention.
He’s deeply intelligent and tuned in to the emotional currents of the space. If you’re having a rough day, don’t be surprised if Rama finds his way to you, offering his silent, steady support. But he’s not aloof – not at all. Rama loves attention, he just asks for it in the most gentlemanly way. A gentle nudge, a soft gaze, a quiet moment next to you on the mat. He’s the perfect reminder that presence is powerful, and love can be quiet and profound.
Sita – The Gentle Giant
With her heart as big as her paws, Sita is our playful powerhouse of love. She’s the biggest of our studio dogs (easily 50 kg!) and also the one most likely to greet you with a full-face lick and a tail wag strong enough to move furniture. Don’t let her size fool you – Sita’s energy is pure joy. She bounds through the space like a clumsy dancer, somehow managing to be both majestic and endearingly goofy.
She loves people deeply and openly. Her version of a welcome might involve plopping herself beside (or partially on top of) you during savasana or nosing her way into a cuddle pile during a meditation circle. Despite her size, she’s gentle and full of heart. Kids adore her, and adults quickly find themselves laughing and letting go just by being around her. Sita is a living, breathing embodiment of playful spirit – she reminds us that not everything in life (or yoga) needs to be so serious.
Mona – The Tiny Queen of Cuddles
At just 4 kg, Mona might be the smallest member of our studio team, but she has the biggest personality-per-pound ratio. She knows she’s adorable – and she’s not afraid to use it. Whether she’s charming her way into someone’s lap or snuggling herself into the coziest pillow fort, Mona is the definition of sweet mischief.
She’s playful, sassy, and incredibly clever. Her favorite hangout? The hanging chair in the corner of the studio, where she likes to curl up like a tiny pretzel, surveying her kingdom with curious eyes. Mona also loves to surprise people by popping out from under bolsters or hiding in a yoga blanket cocoon, instantly making everyone in the room laugh or say “awww.”
If you're lucky, Mona will choose you for one of her famous cuddle ambushes – the kind that melts your stress in seconds. She’s our tiny healer, our comic relief, and our constant reminder that joy comes in all sizes.
