Anja Kursawe was born in 1970 in Berlin and trained over eight years in acrobatics as a child. Moving to London she took up professional dance studies and Pilates education, and has since been working internationally as a dancer and teacher for many companies and theaters.

Over the years she added other movement techniques and certifications to her repertoire in order to keep the body and mind healthy and protected. Her expertise includes Pilates, Yoga, ZEN Shiatsu, body-psychotherapy and other holistic body techniques. Anja has been teaching since 1999.

With the foundation of pilateslab-berlin in 2000 she also created ´intelligent bodywork´ – her very own technique which she spreads since 2016 in teacher training programmes. Her method is based on the prinicples of Pilates, Yoga, Physio and Psychotherapy and ZEN Shiatsu. She also founded bodyinsight-anjak where she defines her work as a personal trainer.

In 2017 she was awarded the prestigious NEOS award as Germany’s best female personal trainer.

The deepening of our body awareness and the use of our inner strenghth and conciousness is a journey that never ends.