Nina Kalnay

Nina Kalnay is a somatic stress regulation facilitator, breathwork practitioner and yoga teacher, and the founder of YINA in Belgium.

Her work is rooted in a simple but profound idea: the body is not something we need to fix. It is a source of information, intelligence and wisdom that we can learn to listen to again.

Through breathwork, movement, body awareness and nervous system education, Nina helps people explore the relationship between body, brain and environment. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all techniques or quick solutions, she creates a safe and curious space in which people can slow down, notice what is happening within them and discover what their own system is communicating.

Her approach brings together contemporary knowledge about the nervous system, functional breathing, CO₂ tolerance, interoception, predictive processing and mind-body approaches with the experiential wisdom of yoga, breathwork and embodied practice.

Nina is particularly interested in the space where science and intuition meet. She believes that scientific knowledge can give us language and understanding, while direct experience teaches us something that cannot always be learned from the head alone.

Her own path into this work began through yoga and breathwork and developed into a deeper exploration of the nervous system, embodiment and the relationship between physical sensations, emotions, thoughts and behaviour. This has shaped an approach that is both grounded and experiential: understand, experience, integrate.

Alongside her individual practice, Nina trains health and body professionals in body-oriented stress regulation through YINA's professional training programme. She also teaches yoga and develops workshops and group experiences around breath, body awareness and self-regulation.

Her intention is not to tell people what they should feel or how they should change. It is to create enough safety and curiosity for them to become students of their own body again.

“Become a student of your own body. Understand what it tells you. Experience what it needs. Integrate what you discover.”