About Shine Yoga Retreats

Shine Yoga Retreats was born in 2016 from a desire to live inspired, more connected, with more energy and experience deeper connections. What began as a passion project has evolved into a space for yoga, embodiment, and feminine empowerment -designed to nourish body, mind, and soul.

Our retreats are a sanctuary for holistic wellbeing and personal growth. Through holistic yoga, meditation, breathwork, ceremonies, women´s wellbeing workshops, and shared experiences, we create space for self-inquiry, reflection, and transformation. A place to slow down, reconnect, and return to yourself.

At the heart of Shine is a simple intention: more connection, depth, vitality, and aliveness in real life. We bring together experienced teachers, authentic practices, and empowering tools for growth, delivered through high-calibre retreats in awe-inspiring locations. Each experience is designed to support vitality, balance, emotional clarity, and lasting transformation.

Our approach is grounded, real, and down to earth -inviting you to be more open, more present, and more fully yourself.

More free. More vibrant. More untamed.

Vision

Our vision at Shine Yoga Retreats is to create transformative retreat experiences where women reconnect with themselves, find inspiration, and receive grounded guidance supported by embodied, proven practices.

We offer high-calibre yoga and wellbeing retreats in awe-inspiring natural destinations -places that naturally support presence, nervous system regulation, clarity, and inner alignment.

Through embodied yoga, holistic practices, and meaningful shared experiences, we guide you back into your body, your inner wisdom, and your natural vitality.

Why Shine Yoga

We find ourselves glowing and shining from within – that’s why I named it Shine Yoga. Where you are profoundly influences who you are. This is why Shine Yoga Retreats are intentionally located in high-energy places, harnessing the supportive power of nature and surroundings. It’s about immersing ourselves in environments that uplift and amplify the positive vibes.

Throughout my journey of life, I’ve gained wisdom not found in books. This wisdom has become the foundation of my authentic teachings. People come to me not only to experience more belonging and joy, but also for reflection, intuition, and honest feedback – not only around yoga.

Supporting women and like-minded people in cultivating their best self is what I love, and I share this knowledge with great passion.

At the heart of Shine is a strong sense of community and belonging, where women feel seen, supported, and inspired through authentic connection with themselves and like-minded others.

Our intention is simple: to help you return home feeling more open, alive, and aligned -with greater clarity, self-trust, and ease in your life. More present. More connected. More you. And also with friendships and memories from a really special time that stay with you long after.

About Anke

I am the founder and heart behind Shine Yoga Retreats.

Creating transformational experiences for women is not just what I do – it’s what I love, and what the world needs more of. Shine was born as a passion project inspired by my love for yoga, personal growth, meaningful connection, adventure, and the belief that every woman deserves to feel empowered, fulfilled, and fully alive.

For more than 20 years, I have immersed myself in the study and practice of yoga, meditation, breathwork, wellbeing, spirituality, and human potential. Alongside more than 850+ hours of advanced yoga teacher training, I hold a Master’s Degree in Intercultural Communication and have spent some of the most transformative years of my life living, working, and exploring different cultures around the world.

I’ve lived an international, free-spirited life -from Australia to Costa Rica, Bali to Ibiza- and have always been drawn to places that carry a certain magic. Places that invite us to slow down, reconnect, and remember what truly matters. Along the way, I have worked with leading global organisations such as Google and YouTube, facilitated women’s empowerment programmes, and guided hundreds of women through retreats focused on growth, connection, and self-discovery.

Sine-Yoga Retreats

A path of dedication, purpose, and untamed living.

My journey has taken me from corporate boardrooms to yoga shalas, from leadership programmes to silent retreats in Bali, from mountain temples in India to some of the world’s most inspiring destinations. What began as a search for adventure gradually became a journey inward -towards greater freedom, awareness, and inner peace.

Throughout this path, I have gained wisdom that wasn’t found in books or certifications, but through lived experience, challenge, courage, and transformation. This is the foundation of my teaching today.

My approach weaves together the full spectrum of yoga -including movement, breathwork, meditation, philosophy, and spirituality- with modern approaches to nervous system regulation, women’s wellbeing, and personal transformation. I believe yoga is far more than a physical practice. It is a pathway to greater vitality, connection, and joy.

The retreat experience

Each retreat is a co-creation with other extraordinary teachers/coaches/faciliators. They´re carefully designed experiences that nourish the whole person mind, body, and spirit. Alongside yoga and meditation, our retreats include workshops, nature immersion, meaningful conversations, rituals, reflection, laughter, and celebration. Transformation happens not only on the mat, but in connection, in nature, and in shared human experience.

One of the most beautiful aspects of these retreats is the sisterhood that naturally emerges. Women arrive as strangers and often leave with lifelong friendships and a deeper connection to themselves.

Shine-Yoga is a holistic approach to enhance the overall wellbeing and inspire tools for bringing the power of yoga into the flow of everyday life. Combining the best elements of Vinyasa Flow Yoga weaving in inspiration from Anusara and Hatha Tantra Yoga working with the energetic benefits. Tying all the elements of yoga, asana, pranayama, meditation, and how it expands upon the learning experience.

The Yoga practice is more than just physical postures, we touch all our senses and work with our energy and breath. By leveraging the best elements of each yoga style, strength, mobility and stability are gained in a safe way. We make our mind calm and blissful. Each class includes a breathing session and flow practice, with an anatomical, spiritual or philosophical theme and Meditation or Mantra practices. The techniques unlock greater power, joy and freedom. Ultimately to bring yoga off the mat and to enhance our quality of life. 

Energetic Awareness:

The real magic lies in the yogic practices that touch our heart, shape our mind and optimize our state of being. What Yogic practices allow us to do is, to shape energy. Tantra recognizes the flow of energy (prana) in the body. By incorporating practices like Pranayama, you become more attuned to the subtle energy within, promoting a greater understanding of your body’s energetic aspects.

ENERGIZING Yoga

Connecting movement with breath, this awakens the sensations of your body, making yoga blissful. My goal is not just to guide you through poses but to touch your heart, ease your mind, and strengthen your body holistically. Through this integrated approach, I aspire to create an environment that fosters not only physical well-being but also deep and even spiritual experiences.

Empowering Workshops

Signature workshops are  1. #IamRemarkable an empowering workshop, developed by Google. 2. ‘Secret Wisdom of Emotions’ workshop based on phsychology, yin yoga, chinese meridians, self-reflection, breathwork and anatomy of yoga. This is a holistic experience to discover and break free from emotional limitations. Both workshops help to boost your confidence, increase self-awareness as well as self-love and encourage you to let go of negative patterns.

Yoga for Special Events

1:1 focus on you and your needs. A private yoga class or events/corporate wellness workshops. Book me as Yoga Teacher / Facilitator or Speaker, bridging the gap and bringing proven Yoga and Wellness approaches to you or your company.  Topics: Mind body balance for sustainable success, energy management and holistic lifestyle design e.g. for Corporate Digital Wellness, Female Empowerment, Well-being in Leadership etc.

Yoga Education

• Continued eduction 2026: Intensive Immersion, Tantra Yoga Illuminated w. Rod Stryker. Bhakti Yoga Immersion, Harmonium Training w. Ellen Arthur. Immersion with Jivamukti Yoga Barcelona. Vocal Training with Nessi Gomes
• Continued eduction 2025, Masters Event at Oxford University. Europe’s largest trauma, mental health, and wellbeing conference with Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk or Dan Siegel (2024).
• 300 hrs advanced Teacher Training, with the Association for Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh. This authentic Indian Yoga Academy course includes both traditional and modern style Yoga. Hatha, Asthanga, Power, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative and Iyengar Yoga including Pranayama, Philosophy, Meditation, Mantra, Music and Anatomy. Focus is on Yoga Therapy (2018)

• 50 hrs, Tantra Shakti. The Power and Radiant Soul of Yoga – A Para Yoga Master Training with Yogarupa Rod Stryker in Bali / The Practice. Focus: Tantra, Bandha, Pranayama (2018)
• 50 hrs, Seat of the Teacher advanced training with Susanne Faith in Ibiza. Focus – Sequencing and defining teaching techniques with a powerful Anusara approach (2018)

• 200 hrs, `Total Transformation Teacher Training´ with focus on the Anatomy of the Core (Core Strenght Vinyasa Yoga) with  Sadie Nardini (2017)
• Mantra workshops, therapeutic acro yoga training, more retreats, intensives, more teaching and practice, practice, practice (2016)

• Reiki 1 + 2. Attuned and certified by Magic of Reiki with Catherine Wheeler in Bali (2016)

• 200 hrs Vinyasa Flow and Anusara inspired Yoga Teacher Training with Reflections Yoga / New York in Costa Rica (2015)
• Meditation and Pranayama Intensive with Clive Sheridan (2015)

• 50 hrs Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Therapy Mallorca. A therapeutic intensive training. Focus: Anatomy, Facia, Meridian & Organ Theory (Chinese Medicine) using Yin Yoga as a healing approach for stress related illnesses (2014)
• 2003: My Yoga journey began when I was in university. I needed something that would help me to cope with stress and keep me sane. Something that would help me to find stability, clarity and connection. More important I needed something that would answer me a few questions that couldn´t be answered in uni. Questions about how to live a great connected life with integrity and thrive. I practiced regularly for 11 years and attended various workshops, Yoga conferences etc. before I started teaching and sharing the wisdom of yoga.

Overall Education

• Anke holds a Master’s degree in International Communication from Macquarie University in Sydney and the RFH Cologne. Over the past 10+ years, she has worked with world-leading organisations such as Google, YouTube, Volkswagen, and Grow with Google – a global social impact initiative focused on empowering people to thrive by equipping them with the skills needed for the future. She draws on both learned and lived experience from years of managing teams and working in middle management. In addition to this she is a #IAmremarkable facilitator.