Fitness Fundraiser: Move for a Change

Founder, actress, director and screenwriter of the MAMONAHI Theatre Company, Martina is an artist who has been teaching students of all ages in Beijing for 7+ years.

Certified by the International Academy of Drama in Rome, Martina has long worked as a teacher at the Italian Embassy in China School, Cervantes College in Beijing, arranging, teaching summer children's drama courses for several international schools and art spaces such as 798-ART，GENESIS Beijing and so on.

Martina Morrocchi has been also the host of the China-Italy Documentary in 2020 produced by CGTN

Moraito de Pekin Liu Qiao is a flamenco guitarist/dancer and the founder of Casa Flamenco Music and Dance Academy
He started to study flamenco guitar in 2007 and founded Casa Flamenco Studio in Beijing in 2010. He has been to Madrid, Seville, Granada, Jerez, Cordoba and other Andalucia places to study the flamenco art. during the past 10 years, he has followed the following masters to study flamenco guitar, dance and singing.

Victoria Bortkevich started her yoga journey 15 years ago, when she was a student of the faculty of journalism in Minsk, Belarus. With a background in ballet, practicing asanas immediately become her favorite way to stay in shape.
 
In 2014, Victoria took an offer from CCTV Russian to move to Beijing as a news editor and presenter. The new cultural environment pushed her to shift the focus of her yoga practice from external to enhanced internal, and explore pranayama (breathing techniques). In 2017, she took on a new challenge by studying a Vipassana meditation course in Cambodia. After 10 days of silence and isolation from the outside world in the ashram, she realized a strong interest in investigating the impact of breath, physical postures and meditation on the positive state of mind, stress relief and mental health. This experience formed part of her scientific research and final thesis for her second master's degree – in Sociology of Emotions. In 2019, she quit her job on TV and went to India to train as a yoga teacher. After a month living in Yoga Vidya Gurukul (the Leading Yoga Institution in India) and learning traditional principles of the Bihar school of Yoga, anatomy, philosophy and Ayurveda, she had significantly changed her approach to yoga practice. Moving away from the Western fitness idea of "no pain, no gain," she focused on Eastern concepts such as "practicing at 70% of capacity" and "the sustainable balance of body and mind." After graduating from the ashram, she then taught traditional hatha yoga as a volunteer in Goa, South India, and Pokhara, Nepal.
 
Victoria currently combines a job in the Chinese media with teaching hatha yoga. She recently set up a project called "Gentle Power" with the mission of promoting traditional yoga science principles in Beijing via a focus on yoga basics. Her classes are designed mostly for beginners and those looking to receive the maximum benefits from a healthy lifestyle.