Sugata Duygu Akartuna’s first discovery of yoga began in 2003 with a yoga set her mother gave her as a gift. This was followed by courses, trainings in various countries and studies with instructors from different yoga schools. In 2014, she had an accident that injured her neck and she stopped her yoga āsana studies and went to her Guru Amma’s ashram, Amritapuri. In 2017, she completed her master’s degree in Indian Philosophy and Positive Psychology at Amrita University, India’s best private university. Simultaneously, she visited Ludwig Maximilian University as a visiting researcher to improve herself in the fields of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and Sanskrit language and she continues her studies in Sanskrit with Dr. Ruppel A.M. Sugata gives trainings on haṭha yoga, yin yoga, meditation, yoga theory and Indian philosophy.