Training with Intention

Let us inspire you!

At IMA we want to share our passion for stretching, contortion, acrobatics and aerial arts with you. After years of experience as artists and trainers, we have developed a unique concept to provide an intention and ideal success to your training.

Grow Beyond Yourself

We believe that focused and challenging work with your own body is not only a great way to increase your flexibility and strength, but also to experience yourself and your body. The aesthetic aspect of body art offers a wonderful and creative form of expression for your personality. Going to your own limits and maybe beyond them, lets you master seemingly unattainable things and grow beyond yourself.

Wellbeing and Encouragement

It is our intention to create a beautiful and creative place where everyone from beginner to professional feels comfortable. Here we want to share our common passion for artistry and give our family community space for sporting, artistic and social exchange. Whether artistry is a challenging hobby, a professional goal or a form of personal development for you: You decide how far you want to go and we will support you!

Our Team

Quality is our top priority: In small groups with experienced instructors you will receive optimum support through individual feedback and targeted corrections from the basics to advanced tricks.

Our professionally trained team has acquired its knowledge in first-class education and through years of training. A permanent training guarantees you a high quality and safe training with measurable success.

We help you to achieve your training goals with our profound knowledge!

Sherry

CEO | Stretching | Contortion

Sherry has felt a strong connection to dance since her childhood and discovered fusion bellydance for herself. Soon afterwards, she also began taking acrobatics lessons. She is particularly fond of contortion and flexibility training, which she has been training with Nicole with great enthusiasm. She has been teaching since 2018 and is delighted to be able to share her passions. In her lessons, she particularly likes to respond individually to participants. It is important to her to ensure a healthy posture and correct execution of the exercises.

Nicole

Stretching | Kontorsion | Handstand | Akrobatik | Trapez

Nicole began her athletic career in rhythmic gymnastics at the Kinder- und Jugendsportschule in Leipzig. At the age of 14, she began her training as an artist at the state school for artists in Berlin. She then performed her contortion show in variety theaters and television shows around the world for more than 20 years. Nicole began teaching at an early age alongside her artistry. Today she trains both children and adults, beginners and professionals, and enthusiastically passes on her experience to them.

Olena

Aerial Hoop | Aerial Hammock | Aerial Silks

Olena Yakymenko ist Absolventin der renommierten Zirkusschule in Kiew und begeisterte bei Zirkusfestivals in Großbritannien, Holland und China (Bronze Medaille), beim „Traumtänzer- Best of Variete“ TV- Festival und Zirkusfestival in Wiesbaden (Beste Performance). Mit ihrer Solodarbietung am Ring glänzte sie in zahlreichen Variete-, Gala- und TV-Shows in Europa. Im Juni 2003 bezauberte sie in Monte Carlo den Fürsten Rainier III von Monaco zu seinem 80-jährigen Jubiläum. Seit vielen Jahren unterrichtet Olena Luft-Akrobatik. Zu ihren berühmtesten Schülerinnen gehört z.B. auch Helene Fischer.

Rosa

Stretching | Contortion | Handstand | Acrobatics

Rosa, born and raised in Stuttgart, discovered her love for circus arts at a young age through the youth circus "Calibastra". Her passion for the circus brought her to America after graduating from high school, where she worked for a year as an artist and trainer at "Circus Mojo". She then trained for several years as a stage dancer at "Balance1" in Berlin. She also trained as an artist at the IVA International Variety Academy with Nicole.

Eleftheria

Aerial Silks | Aerial Hoop | Rope

Nach ihrem Bachelor-Abschluss in Physiotherapie absolvierte Eleftheria die Zirkusschule FLIC mit ihrem Soloprojekt „KAPOTE“. Sie hat sich auf Aerial Rope spezialisiert und erforscht weiter Bewegung und Physikalität bei der Performance in Luftakrobatik. Ihre Fähigkeiten vertiefte sie anschließend mit namenhaften Lahrern weiter. In den letzten Jahren hat Eleftheria mit der italienischen Kompanie Circo Madera zusammengearbeitet. Außerdem hat sie mit drei anderen die Showgruppe „Less Kuerdas“ gegründet und ist Mitglied eines Synchronseil-Kollektivs. Sie tritt auf der Bühne sowohl mit Kollektiven als auch als Solistin auf.

Zinnia

Stretching | Kontorsion | Handstand | Trapez

Zinnia Nomura machte 2014 ihren Abschluss an der Ballettschule Hamburg und war anschließend am Theater Krefeld und an der Oper Leipzig engagiert. Ihre Zirkusausbildung absolvierte sie an der Carampa School in Madrid und in unabhängigen Kursen an der Universität Stockholm. Seit 2020 widmet sie sich hauptsächlich ihren eigenen Kreationen und arbeitet u.a. an einem Zirkus-Solostück, das sich mit den Themen Identität, Othering und Druck durch soziale Medien auseinandersetzt. In den Jahren 2023 und 2025 leitet sie das Berlin Aerial Arts Festival mit dem Ziel, das Profil des zeitgenössischen Zirkus zu schärfen und die Vielfalt in diesem Bereich zu erhöhen.

Tasnim

Aerial Hammock | Aerial Hoop

Since childhood, Tasnim has been fascinated by all forms of movement in which the human body is artistically represented. Her passion for circus developed from this and, after a detour into the children's circus, finally led her into the world of aerial acrobatics in 2019. Tasnim studies sports science at the HU Berlin and has been a teacher for aerial acrobatics and performance since 2022. Individuality is her top priority and she aspires to push creative boundaries and create new perspectives through movement and art.

Katja

Stretching | Contortion

Katja started ballet as a child and trained in apparatus gymnastics for 11 years. During her medical studies, her path led her from contemporary dance to mobility and handstand training. She discovered her great passion in flexibility and contortion and successfully completed the IMA Teacher Training in spring 2024. She passes on her enthusiasm for using the body to its full potential in her classes. She combines her medical expertise with years of training experience to provide her clients with the best possible support.

Anton

Handstand | Akrobatik

Anton Belyakov is a renowned handstand artist whose career started at the Moscow State Circus, where he became famous with the “Little Devil” act, which he performed with his father Leonid. His artistry, as in the “bathtub act” - his versatility and skill have made him a sought-after artist for stage, film, events and coaching. Anton gives handstand and acrobatic classes focusing on injury prevention and strength building and is passionate about sharing his expertise with people of all experience levels.

Anna

Pilates | Akrobatik

Anna started dancing at the age of 3. Over time, she also took up acrobatics. At 16, she began training as a dance teacher at the Erika Klütz School. Among other things, she studied Pilates and anatomy there. At 19, she began her second training as a contemporary dancer at DIE ETAGE. Among other things, she took Pilates again there and was able to take a lot with her and learn a lot over the 6 years. She has been teaching since 2018. In her classes, she takes an individual approach to each person and adapts the exercises to your level. It is important to her that everyone feels comfortable and has fun training.

Sonja

Aerial Yoga

Sonja kommt ursprünglich aus dem zeitgenössischen Tanz und hat 2023 eine Ausbildung zur Yoga-Trainerin abgeschlossen. Im April 2024 absolviert sie eine Aerial Yoga-Ausbildung bei Jost Blomeyer. Sie unterrichtet sowohl kraftvolle, dynamische Aerial Yoga-Kurse für Anfängerinnen und Fortgeschrittene, als auch sanfte Stunden, die den Fokus auf Dehnung und Flexibilität legen. Zudem bietet sie Aerial Yin-Kurse im tiefen Tuch an, die von ihren Teilnehmerinnen sehr geschätzt werden. Aktuell befindet sie sich zudem in der einer Fortbildung für Vinyasa Yoga Lehrer*innen und erweitert ihre Aerial Yoga-Kompetenzen durch eine Online-Ausbildung bei Camille Semiotaite-Whitaker.

ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE IMA INTENTIONAL MOVEMENT ACADEMY

The IMA was established at the end of 2022 from former trainers, students and employees of the IVA Berlin, which created a place for many hundreds of people to train, teach and exchange ideas from 2011 to 2021. Unfortunately, the IVA had to close its doors for good in 2021. Many students and trainers missed a place for creative exchange and professional training and so the idea of a new foundation was born.

Starting again from scratch gives us the opportunity to learn from the past. We can build on what has proven successful and improve on others. So we started with an intention: we defined what inspires and motivates us about artistry and how we can use it to pass on something valuable to others. Based on this approach, we formulated clear goals for our future training projects: We want to make a difference with our offer and support people in their personal development..

Our focused and challenging training approach provides a wide range of opportunities to work intensively with your own body. From improving health, flexibility and self-confidence, physical self-awareness and personality development, as an aesthetic and creative form of expression, to professional training for artistry - we have developed specialized offers for all these needs.

The name was quickly found: IMAIntentional Movement Academy in reference to the IVA International Variety Academy and read differently AIMAcademy (of) Intentional Movement.

IMA - train with an intention and a goal - AIM higher!