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Gwendolyn Wenli has been practicing yoga for nearly half a decade and is the founder and owner of WabiSabi - Wasabi Yoga group. Her innate fascination with all disciplines that involve physical movement, full concentration on the present moment, and with aesthetics led her to study jazz dance, karate, tea ceremony and Japanese harp during her 8 years in Japan, where she graduated from the Bunka Joshi University. After returning to Singapore, she felt unfulfilled in the corporate worlds of finance and telecommunications, and focusing on her passions, discovered yoga. She studied with the Bihar school of yoga in Bangalore, India, and the Institute of Vivekananda Yoga and Research Development, India and received her teacher's certification. Gwen is also certified with a Diploma in Yoga Therapy. As Yoga emphasizes a healthy spine, she studied the Dorn Spinal Therapy method, and is now also a certified spinal therapist.  In addition to Hatha yoga, Gwen practices Vinyasa Yoga. Yoga appealed to her philosophy of life, which is called Wabi Sabi, a Japanese phrase associated with Japanese Tea Ceremony. Applying the principles of Wabi Sabi to your life is to find the value, wisdom and joy in imperfection. When we practice yoga, we enhance our body awareness and discover our strengths and weaknesses. When we apply the Wabi Sabi principles, it means accepting our strengths and weaknesses alike, yet keeping ourselves open to self-improvement.