Faruk has been working in the fields of yoga, family constellations, and trauma sensitivity for 23 years and has been a yoga-based instructor for 15 years.

After graduating from the Private Saint-Michel French High School, he graduated first in his class from Beykent University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema, and then completed his Master’s degree at Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography.

His first encounter with yoga was at the age of 9, watching his mother Sitare Kurtuluş, a student of Müheyya İzer, one of the pioneers of yoga in Turkey. Throughout his childhood and youth, he was always interested in Eastern philosophy. He started practicing yoga with Esra Karaosmanoğlu in 2002. In 2007, he visited the Osho Center in Poona, India. After completing his Teacher Training with Zeynep Aksoy in 2009, he began teaching at Cihangir Yoga. He taught there from 2010 to 2015. During this period, he worked with and received training from many renowned teachers in their fields, such as Godfrey Devereux, Tias Little, Desire Rumbaugh, Paul Grilley, Chris Chavez, Sienna Sherman, Sean Corn, and Edward Clark. After completing another teacher training with Chris Chavez, he received Dynamic Yoga training from Godfrey Devereux in France and Italy. He received his training primarily in Turkey, India, Bulgaria, Italy, and France. He also participated in various workshops and gained experience in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Thailand, and Spain. He received “Family Constellation” and “The Zen Way of Counseling” training with Svagito Liebermeister in Istanbul and Bulgaria and assisted him in his training from 2010 to 2015. These experiences allowed him to integrate the body awareness brought by yoga into his relationships, thus spreading to every moment of his life. All these experiences expanded his perspective on yoga and his teaching style.

In 2010, when he started teaching studio classes, he began organizing his own yoga camps. Until 2019, he organized numerous yoga camps all over Turkey. He was involved in the inaugural camps of many yoga studios in places like Datça, Fethiye, and Artvin. To date, the total number of camps he has organized might have exceeded one hundred.

In 2013, he started giving Yoga Teacher Trainings. In 2014, he founded his own brand, IFEELYOGA, and opened his studio in Karaköy. He trained many instructors. In 2019, with the pandemic, he began offering online training. During the same period, he started personalized camps working one-on-one with participants. After the pandemic, he resumed yoga camps in 2023.

In his camps and trainings, he supports making yoga felt in every moment of life by combining yoga asana practice with active dance meditations, family constellations, group work, and film screenings related to relationships, with an artistic approach.