Nina SubEk

Like many things on this website, these lists are alive! I'll update and review regularly :) TO READ recommended non-fiction ❀ Douglas Abrams with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu -- the book of joy ❀  S. Barkataki -- ignite your yoga ❀ Albert Camus -- the myth of Sisyphus ❀  Ram Dass -- paths to god ❀ Dirk De Wachter -- liefde (NL) ❀ Jason Hickel -- the divide ❀ B.K.S. Iyengar -- light on yoga ❀ Carl Jung -- man and his symbols ❀ J. Krishnamurti -- freedom from the known ❀ Gabor Maté -- t he myth of normal: trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture ❀ Pankaj Mishra -- from the ruins of empire ❀ Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj -- I am that ❀ R.C. Schwartz -- no bad parts ❀ Patti Smith -- just kids ❀ Bessel van der Kolk -- the body keeps the score fiction favourites ❀ Alessandro Baricco -- silk ❀ Francesca Ekwuyasi -- butter honey pig bread ❀ Kahlil Gibran -- the prophet ❀ Kazuo Ishiguro -- Klara and the sun ❀ Paul Murray -- Skippy dies ❀ Amélie Nothomb -- mercure ❀ Miriam Toews ...

Hi, my name is Nina and I think introductions are really hard! I feel like I’ve lived 29 lives already, and I hope to live 50 more :) But I know there has to be some kind of introduction—something you can use to draw up a picture of me in your head. A literal picture would be just as hard, since I change hairstyles, jewelry, and clothing styles a lottt. Because I don’t believe looks, jobs, or studies define a person, I have to find another way to make myself known. People have called me an “old soul” before, but I don't like this phrase. In fact, I believe that no one who describes themselves as a certified Old Soul™ actually is one, haha :) I would call myself a child. I was not a jolly, loud child - I was sensitive, observant, critical, and often alone. This doesn’t mean I was fundamentally unhappy; I just lived inside my own head and in very tumultuous circumstances that made me hypervigilant of my environment and anxious for approval. You can guess what kind of a teenager/adole...

studio classes : currently Hatha yoga @ Yogaloft, Ghent @ Nest³, Ghent + I teach freelance Hatha and Vinyasa for Het Sportburo + I'm part of Queer yoga collective Ghent Get in touch if you're curious about our organisation & classes other experiences May 2025 Vinyasa flow      @ Studio Groene Vallei, Ghent July - October 2025 Vinyasa flow           @ JIMS fitness, Ghent events : September 5, 2025 morning yoga flow Artevelde Hogeschool: staff sports day September 20, 2025 opening yoga session with ambient DJ set @ Butternut open-air, Keizerpark Ghent December 17, 2025 yoga @ Warm Winters Buurtfeest (Brugse Poort) workshops : July 21, 2025 Ayurvedic brunch + education & conversation: the 8 limbs of yoga @ invite-only FLINTA* circle November 11, 2025 ASHTANGA CIRCLE - the 8 limbs of yoga @ Saam, Hagelandkaai Gent February 2, 2026 ASHTANGA CIRCLE - the 8 limbs of yoga @ Trafiek vzw, Haspelstraat Gent private : Contact me for more info, me...

I'd like to start with a big disclaimer: as a neurodivergent and critical soul, I don't make a big distinction between diplomas or certificates and other forms of education. Maybe you've read something in a blog somewhere and it changed your life more than your master's degree ever did. That being said, I also don't want to live in a world where we fake our professionalism for the sake of marketing, so a valid, thorough and ongoing life-long education is extremely valuable to me. Only want to check my more formal yoga-therapist credentials?      Scroll down :) Looking for recommendations (listening, reading & watching)?      Click here for my list :) I have a university degree in international politics, and while that has nothing to do with yoga, it did feed into my critical thinking skills, pattern recognition, strategic puzzling and general world view. I don't like capitalism/imperialism, I see structural factors playing into individual lives everywh...

  Yoga is an ancient tradition, the deepest philosophy I have ever encountered, and an ever-expanding practice.  The word "yoga" comes from the Sanskrit root "yuj," which means: to join, to yoke, to unite.  Yoga, therefore, means union - not only of body, mind, and soul, but of all universal consciousness. To me, yoga is the fundamental belief that everything and everyone shares the same core, and that there is no true separation between what is “I” and what is “other.”  If your soul is a little flame inside, this universal One is the great fire where everything originates — and to which everything returns after its time on earth. Yoga has many forms, traditions, and lineages. There isn’t one true or “right” way to do it. It’s deeply personal and depends on the circumstances you find yourself in, or the phase of life you’re moving through. It has changed many times for me already, and I hope it keeps evolving.  The most well-known path is perhaps sage Patanjali’...

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