Meet dora
Owner of Spira Power Yoga® Studios, Inventor of M3B Method®, Founder of Spira Mindful Wellness™
sharing a love of physical well-being
Dora is an E-RYT and the owner of Spira Power Yoga®. She is the creator of the M3B Method®, a mindfulness-based philosophy and training methodology that serves as the foundation of Spira Power Yoga®.
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Dora founded Spira Power Yoga in West Seattle’s Admiral neighborhood in 2011, later expanding to Issaquah in 2019. Inspired by the profound benefits of mindfulness within the Spira community, she extended her work beyond the yoga studio by founding Spira Mindful Wellness™. With over 18 years of teaching experience, Dora has developed and presented lectures on stress management, resilience, meditation, and interpersonal awareness, weaving together Eastern and Western philosophy, psychology, yoga, and neuroscience.
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Her European heritage and education in both the sciences and humanities have shaped a unique teaching style that blends theological, literary, and scientific traditions. This integration shines through in both her yoga instruction and her mindfulness lectures.
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Dora teaches from life experience and extensive study in philosophy and theology, always emphasizing the balance between effort and ease — and the importance of a lighthearted attitude. She’s known for using humor to carry students through the more challenging moments of yoga practice and mindfulness discussions.
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Her lifelong love of movement began at age three with ballet and gymnastics in Hungary. An avid runner and former research biologist, Dora discovered yoga in 2002 while recovering from a knee injury. Seeking stability and strength, she found yoga to be the perfect balance between physical health and mental clarity.
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Over time, she recognized the need to adapt traditional yoga to the modern lifestyle — maintaining its spiritual roots while ensuring anatomical safety and accessibility. This realization inspired the creation of the M3B Method®: Mindful Movement, Meditation, and Breathing — the culmination of nearly two decades of study in yoga, anatomy, philosophy, neuroscience, and mindfulness.
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Beyond Yoga - Lectures and Educational Seminars on Mindfulness for First Responders, Hospitals, and Corporations
In 2018, Dora spun off a sister company to Spira Power Yoga, Spira Mindful Wellness, which specializes in creating unique lecture series on stress management, mindfulness, and resilience training for the professional community. Spira Mindful Wellness, utilizing Dora's special M3B method® (M3B = Mindful Movement Meditation and Breathing)
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Spira Mindful Wellness is here to make your workplace healthier by tailoring our teaching to fit your unique challenges.
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The goal is to help reduce feelings of emotional distress and to provide a forum to engage the unique struggles inherent in a specific professional field. By presenting thoroughly researched topics in science, philosophy, and history, and connecting Eastern Wisdom with Western Science, we provide more than just research statistics; we provide an effective tool kit designed specifically for your workplace.
a life time of learning
Dora has a BA in Art History and a BS in Neurobiology from the University of California San Diego. She worked in immunology research prior to her business and yoga career.
She has completed Level I, Level II and Level III teacher training with Baron Baptiste. She also studied with and takes inspiration from Shiva Rea, David Swenson, Ana Forest, Brian Kest, Dharma Mittra, Ed Clark, and Simon Park. Most recently, Dora has completed Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training with Hala Khouri.
Dora believes a good teacher never stops being a student. She continues to take continuing education workshops and attends university lectures online regularly. She is also an avid reader, believing that the deepest education comes from our own hunger for curiosity; reading and studying literature, spiritual studies, philosophy, and science.
Writing on mindfulness
Dora writes a blog on mindfulness and nutrition.
She also frequently contributes to a column on mindfulness in the Issaquah Reporter
