When I attended my first Bikram Yoga class in New York in 1999, I had an enlightening experience. It was not only the best and most intensive training I have ever experienced - but after every single Bikram Yoga class I found myself in deep meditation - I knew immediately - this is it - and so it became my life's mission to bring Bikram Yoga to Switzerland as a pioneer in order to help as many people as possible. I gave up my dream job as a Swissair flight attendant and trained as a Bikram Yoga teacher in spring 2003. This enabled me to open the first official Bikram Yoga studio in Switzerland in January 2004, which was number 4 in all of Europe after Hamburg, Vienna and London.