About Me

Hi, my name is Riina. I also sometimes use my spiritual name Saraswati - The Divine Goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and arts. That’s a tall order to live up to, but it definitely resonates.

The tools in my tool belt include Ayurveda, Yoga, Massage Therapy, Energy Release and everything in between there.

But what makes me ME, are all the experiences and the journey.

I could say it started when I was young - I always felt a deep connection to nature, and growing up in the wild, and beautiful country of Estonia, I had every opportunity to dwell within it deeply. (Estonia is a small Nordic country south of Finland)

In my early 20s I fell in love, moved to America, and was deeply integrated into the western corporate life. Overtime my dissatisfaction grew deeper, and deeper, until eventually I had no choice. I HAD to leave it all behind.

While I was already a yoga teacher, and a massage therapist, my heart was yearning for more. My search eventually led me to quit my corporate job, sell most of my material possessions, and take a one months sabbatical studying the philosophy of yoga, taking deep rest for myself, and learning a new way of perceiving my reality.

I ended up spending every winter for about 5 years in a spiritual community where I woke up at dawn to meditate, practice yoga, and absorb all knowledge from neuroscience, to quantum physics; from the Vedanta to Tibetan Buddhism; And most importantly I learned about ME.


After leaving the community, I dove myself deep into integrating the deep spiritual knowledge into practical everyday life. Nowadays I take all this knowledge, and experiences I have had along the way, and serve others in finding their WAY into their true being.

Training and Certifications

Hot Yoga Teacher Training 2011

Fuller Advanced Massage School 2012 - 2014

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, 200hr Yoga Teacher Training 2015

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Advanced Yoga Teacher Training 2016

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Ayurvedic Body Treatment Training and apprenticeship 2016

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Karma Yoga Program 2014 - 2019

Theta Healing®, training and apprenticeship 2017- 2018

HealWell, Oncology Massage Training 2019

New World Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner Training 2020