is our Personal Trainer for body awareness and will get you fit for spring.
Susan Connor was born in 1967 and is a dual citizen of Switzerland and America. She lives in a beautiful loft above the Limmat in Zurich, which also serves as a studio for her numerous courses.
Susan Connor has been involved with working on the body since she left school twenty years ago. Aerobics were Susan‘s basic interest and her education was completed in 1996 with a degree in Sports at the ETH in Zurich. While still studying, Susan began giving private training lessons and thus learned to adapt to the specific bodily needs of each individual. She set up her studio “Carpe Diem Personal Training” as long ago as 1994 (incidentally, it is purely coincidental that the studio also has “Carpe Diem” in its name).
After all the high-impact, low-impact, power and endurance training, and finally the wiser for a slipped disc, Susan Connor made the acquaintance of yoga. On her many travels, Susan, who even completed the New York Marathon in 2002, came across the Ashtanga Studio “Yoga moves” run by a friend in Sydney. The fragrance of the incense sticks, the immersion in a new world, the teachings of gurus and the incomparable effect on the state of her own body caused Susan mostly to prescribe this Indian teaching for herself from that time onwards.
Today the emphasis is on breathing, discovering new dimensions in one‘s own body, and of combining both of these things, with the aid of yoga and a colourful knowledge of enjoyable, body-related pearls of wisdom from all over the world, to provide functional wellbeing adapted for every individual.
“There are no limits!” believes Susan Connor and she imparts new depth and peace, a sense of balance within oneself, particularly to anyone who feels they are losing their grip as a result of stress and pressure . And the central theme of her tips is precisely this: to make contact again with the outside world, with nature and with oneself after the “winter sleep”, to feel that linving and breathing and to be aware of how this takes place.
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