ABOUT
I am Masha, the founder of mashrooom.
My work lies in 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 period of my life 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 also a way of reconnecting with mobility and inner stability. Out of this experience my wish grew to share the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Methods with others.
Since 2021, I have been working as a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® instructor, and since 2024 in my own studio, mashrooom, in Vienna’s 7th district. 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 new forms of movement and perception can emerge through precise guidance.
Alongside this, I work as a psychotherapist in training under supervision in Integrative Gestalt Therapy. I use this professional title 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 on in supervision with experienced psychotherapists.
My psychotherapeutic training deepens my understanding that the body and the 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 return to a more vivid relationship 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, the body and the inner experience can come together.
I understand mashrooom as a place where movement and psychotherapeutic work are held with a shared attitude—clearly framed, individual, and with respect for each person’s process.
