The Team
Our mission is to bring more connection, energy and total wellbeing to you. How do we do this? We do this with holistic and proven yogic practices, personal development methods, higher frequencies and empowering ideas to guide you on a path to a thriving and healthy life, delivered through high-caliber retreats set in awe-inspiring destinations. We take you back to the space that you feel fully nourished and remember who you really are. We guide you on an inner and outer adventure of your soul. Listen to the whisper of your body, so you don´t need to hear it scream.
These forces of nuture are all inspiring humans, experienced retreat leader and wisdom keepers who have proven life experience and expertise in their respective fields. Everyone in the team truly lives and embodies the lifestyle that we share. Meet the team.
Anke Graewer
Founder of Shine Yoga Retreats, Retreat Leader, Yoga Teacher (850 RYT), Women Empowerment Coach. Through her teaching, she encourages students to connect with their inner selves by incorporating breath-guided movements and promoting awareness of both their physical and emotional well-being. With the inspiration of Yoga as a holistic system, she engages and challenges students to explore the profound connection between mind / body & heart, creating an environment that encourages self-discovery and personal growth. Her classes and workshops are inviting you to feel more, increase your Prana / your life force energy and experience some magic. She will ignite the shine within you. Details about Anke and her Yoga Vita.
Manel Rodrigues (Manu)
He is an incredible Yogi and Leader at Manu School of Yoga with a method called Precision & Flow. This school of Hatha Yoga, combines Precision as the understanding of all the aspects of Yoga and Flow. He teaches at Wanderlust Festival and is a great surfer and passionate about philosophy and martial arts.
Lauren Lee
is a certified E-RYT 500 Anusara Inspired teacher. She aims to create sacred opportunities for students to explore and connect to their heart through the practices and philosophies of yoga, and effortlessly guides practitioners through intelligently sequenced classes, layered with themes that explore the full spectrum of life, further attuning, awakening and alchemizing the physical and subtle bodies. Lauren offers wonderful Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Leanna Raspini
well known for her instinctive Flow Yoga and Breathwork sessions in Ibiza and London. She is a certified practitioner in; IQM™(Integrative Quantum Medicine), graduated with Alchemy as a Breathwork facilitator and completed my training on TRE - Trauma Release Exercises and Somatic Therapy. Her teachings are strongly influenced by the great work Peter Levine, Gabor Mate, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, David Berceli, Dan Brûlée, Emilie Conrad, Jules Michell (biomechanics) and Krishnamurti. In a session with her we are Moving & breathing stories through the body, using the art of somatics & true embodiment to guide you home.
Emily Goodyear Bodywork
Emily is passionate about empowering you to feel comfortable in your body in order for you to be your best self. She combined skillful, highly experienced technique with great sensitivity and reciprocity. Using a fluid fusion of fascial bodywork, myofascial, clinical and deep tissue massage techniques, she creates ease and release tension for your body, mind and soul. All details here
Nicole Lynn Boyer
Holistic Hormone Health Educator, Transformational Nutrition Coaching™, Plant Medicine Integration Expert and retreat facilitator. She brings a holistic whole-body approach to healing and women’s self-empowerment.
Bettina Knapp
Founder of Ahimsa Plant Kitchen - Nutritionist, Detox expert, whole food advocate and trained vegan chef creating her own unique, nourishing and tasty recipes. Discover her cuisine here or on her YouTube channel.
Mathilda Andersson
Yogateacher (RYT 850), Women´s health, fertility awareness educator, and student of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She brings a holistic whole-body approach to healing and women’s self-empowerment. More details under womenembodied.com
Nancy Goodfellow
Founder of House of Shakti embodied Yoga School, Yogateacher (RYT 850), ex Yoga director and co-owner of Pranamar Villas and Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica, initiated Tantrika, breathwork facilitator and embodiment coach whose passion is to remind others of their innate beauty, wisdom and power. Nancy is well know for her inspiring teachings and Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Holistic Yoga and Wellbeing Retreats 2025
Yoga Retreat in Finca Villa