Wassilissa was born in Berlin, Germany, where she began studying ballet with her mother and grandmother as a young child. She continued to study and perform with various ballet schools and companies in Colorado, Italy and France. Upon moving to New York she was introduced to Sri Dharma Mittra, through whom she discovered yoga in an entirely different and beautiful way. Calm, light, awareness, a peaceful mind, a pure heart and a healthy body is what she unearthed for herself through her practice and that is what she wants her students to rediscover in themselves, its already within all of us. She continues to practice at the Dharma Yoga Center in Manhattan with her beloved teacher and is following in her grandmother’s footsteps, joyfully teaching yoga to children and adults.