It all started when I was 5 years old, I was introduced
to yoga while running around backstage in Spain at a Sting concert.
My step dad was a sound engineer on tour with Sting who was
practicing yoga with a yogi teacher by the name of Danny Paradise.
I guess the spark was lit that day, and I've been drawn to yoga and
all its wonderful benefits and studies since. I studied yoga in
college at Penn State (2006-2008) and after years of working in
marketing, primarily on Wall Street in New York City, I decided to
become a yoga teacher. I taught my first class on December 1, 2015
to a group of adults at a co-working space. It was the first of 4
sessions on The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Since then, I
have taught hundreds of classes to students ages 4 to 90 and
everyone in between. I have taught creative vinyasa flows,
workshops and have had the opportunity to collaborate with DJ’s and
to teach at yoga festivals. I have taught large group classes to
one-on-one lessons, and have worked with children, corporate
professionals, CEO’s and other executives in my community.
Maëlis Mittig is the owner of Bounce Yoga, a new style
of yoga under construction, as well as the host of The Bounce Back Podcast,
a podcast about yoga as it relates to being a tool to cultivate
resiliency. She began her personal practice over 15 years ago,
studied yoga technique and history in college and over the last few
years, has decided to take her curiosity and passion to the next
level by becoming a certified yoga instructor. She completed her
first RYT® 200 training at Evolution Power Yoga in 2016 and
followed it with becoming a Level 1 and 2 Reiki Practitioner under
the teaching of Reiki Master Guillaume Gauthereau in
NYC. She recently completed a RYT® 200 Alignment Yoga training
through The Yoga Sanctuary School in Lancaster,
PA, and since has taught and taken hundreds of classes from NYC,
PA, and the DMV to her most recent stint in Negril, Jamaica. Maëlis
is passionate and on a life-long quest to learn about how
relational energy, philosophy, psychology, meditation, mindfulness
and spirituality can be used for healing and expansion.
The ultimate goal — create space for individual
self-empowerment and in turn, make the world a more joyful
place.
Her personal yoga practice is quite diverse and
includes trampoline yoga, hip-hop yoga, Bhakti yoga, alignment
yoga, traditional vinyasa and more. Maëlis’ classes are designed to
activate the body, mind and spirit and to create joy, peace and
universal love. She often bases her classes on chakra yoga
techniques, relating her lessons to colors and energetic movement.
She enjoys teaching around Baltimore area. You can find Maelis'
classes online on a platform called Burnalong.
