ABOUT
I am Masha, founder of mashrooom.
My work is located at the intersection of psychotherapy, bodywork and movement. With mashrooom, I have created a space in Vienna where precise, body‑oriented work, mindful accompaniment and individual processes can find their place.
My path has been shaped by many years in professional dance. I danced with companies such as the Vienna State Ballet, Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier and Ballett am Rhein. This time has profoundly influenced my understanding of the body, discipline, expression and presence – as well as my experience of vulnerability, overwhelm and physical limits.
The GYROTONIC® Method has accompanied me for many years and first became important to me through very personal experience. During my dance career, which was also marked by physical injuries, it was not only a form of physical support, but a way of reconnecting with mobility, uprightness and inner stability. Out of this experience grew the wish to pass on the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Method.
Since 2021, I have been working as a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® instructor, and since 2024 in my own studio, mashrooom, in the 7th district of Vienna. I am interested not only in the functional side of movement, but also in how people experience their bodies: how tension, breath and inner states are expressed physically, and how, through precise guidance, new spaces of movement and perception can emerge.
Alongside this, I work as a psychotherapist in training under supervision in Integrative Gestalt Therapy I use the professional title “psychotherapist in training under supervision” because I am in the final phase of my psychotherapy training. This means that I work independently with clients, while my work is regularly discussed and reflected in supervision with experienced psychotherapists.
My psychotherapeutic training deepens my understanding that body and psyche cannot be separated. It shapes my work just as much as my interest in relationship, perception, biographical experience and the question of how people can come back into a more alive contact with themselves.
mashrooom grew out of the wish to create a space that is neither performance‑driven nor standardized. I am interested in a form of accompaniment in which precision and mindfulness, structure and openness, body and inner experience can come together. I understand mashrooom as a place where movement and psychotherapeutic work are held in a shared attitude – clearly framed, individual, and with respect for each person’s process.
