Onur Aksoy was born in 1988 in İskenderun. After graduating from Sabancı University Mechatronics Engineering with honors, he started to work as an engineer in Ford Otosan R&D center. He left his engineering job in 2019 and started his full-time yoga teacher and corporate educator career. At the same time he also continues his undergraduate psychology education at Bilgi University that he started in 2021.
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He started his active yoga practice in Cihangir Yoga in 2011. After finishing his first teacher training in 2015, he started teaching at the same studio. He gave studio classes in many leading yoga studios in İstanbul. He had the opportunity to work directly with Turkey's biggest yoga teachers and many other international ones and gained insight into subjects such as yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, mindfulness, anatomy and ayurveda by experiencing the teachings of different schools. He is currently teaching studio classes, organizing trainings and mentoring new teachers at Cihangir Yoga and Nike Hope Alkazar.
 
He sees yoga as a practice of attention and awareness that encompasses and goes beyond physical practice. He is interested in many subjects such as psychology, philosophy, mythology, meditation and neuroscience with a deep curiosity about the human mind, anatomy and evolution and the workings of the cosmos. He reads a lot and writes some.  He is minimalist and environmentalist. He likes to experience life with full attention. He loves to make connection in between seemingly unrelated disciplines. In this context, he organizes trainings in public and corporate settings.