Michael Kopp has a Doctoral Degree in Physics (PhD) and has been doing research and teaching for 20 years. What’s more, he is also passionate about Yoga and its teaching, and has completed his AYP teacher training. Michael organized many retreats in the past 2 years where he taught Yoga and meditation. During the Sound Therapy Training 2023-2025 in Sweden, he guided sound therapy students to a better understanding of the physics of sound and introduced them to the scientific language and research methods. It is this combination of scientific and yogic training that is mostly appreciated by his students, as he naturally strives for intuitive and clear instructions and explanations.
Michael’s path to Yoga:
After experiencing bliss and inner silence “out of the blue” for a few hours about 5 years ago, he became fascinated with the possibility to enter such states through one’s own will. This let him on a quest of trying out self-directed yogic and meditative practices, including Wim Hof, Reggie Ray’s audio courses on Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, and finally Yogani’s AYP.
AYP aims to make the student self-directed right away (“The guru is in you”), and everything essential can be learned for free by just reading at one’s own pace on aypsite.org. This resonated deeply with Michael’s desires and inclinations, so that AYP became his sole spiritual practice. This produced fascinating results unexpectedly fast. Only a few months after switching to AYP, he realized that AYP indeed provides a reliable way into bliss states. But much more was waiting he didn’t expect: ecstasy in and outside of meditation, and the gradual and ongoing integration of bliss, inner silence, equanimity, joy, love into everyday life.
Michael lives in Stockholm, where he also gives sound baths in yoga studios and to private clients.
