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), and Women Empowerment Coach. With over 15 years of experience, Anke is known for her holistic, warm, and inviting teaching style. She integrates a blend of Vinyasa Flow, Anusara, and Hatha Tantra Yoga, honouring tradition and science, while keeping the practice rooted yet refreshingly relatable.

She offers a unique approach that blends mindful movement, energy management, and coaching elements. Her thoughtfully curated classes go beyond physical postures, fostering deeper emotional connection, increased Prana (life force energy), and a profound understanding of yoga as a complete system for better living, self-exploration, self-love, and personal growth.

Rooted in heart-centered practices, Anke weaves together ancient wisdom and modern techniques to help us remember, rewild, reconnect, and feel more aligned and loved. Her methods are designed to nourish emotional, physical, and mental well-being -supporting transformation both on and off the mat -and empowering you to live a more wholesome and liberated life, and gently reminding you of your own innate beauty and power. 

She will ignite the shine within you. Details about Anke and her Yoga Vita.

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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.

Amilde Zanassi

Born in Argentina, Amilde now lives and breathes the spirit of her beloved island home, Ibiza. She is a gifted sound healer, guiding powerful sound journeys and magical gong baths. Amilde also facilitates shamanic ceremonies, temazcal, and energy rituals — always held with warmth, devotion, and a deeply grounded presence. Her work is deeply rooted in ancestral wisdom, shaped by many years of immersion in sacred traditions, healing arts, and spiritual study.

Her practices are based on the understanding that when we shift the quality and vibration of the luminous energy field, the body will follow. By creating the right energetic conditions for health, illness can dissolve. We can grow new bodies that heal, age, and even die differently.

One thing is for sure – after meeting Amilde, you’ll leave feeling more whole, more at peace, and more connected to your true essence. More info

Sound Healing Ibiza Retreat Energy Release

Mariel Witmond Yoga Ibiza

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

Sarah Burrows

She is a qualified career and personal development coach based in London. She works with ambitious women who want to unlock their potential and own their future More Achivingambition.com

Munja Becker

As a certified Yoga teacher, health and wellness coach, and sports massage therapist, Munja specialize in a range of practices including Neurogenic Yoga, TRE, Yin, and Prenatal Yoga, with her foundational training rooted in Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga.

Carl Faure

From founding the inimitable, pioneering yoga studio Stretch in East London in 2012 and growing favourite boutique wellness event Exhale Festival; Carl has been at the cutting-edge of developing yoga, movement and well-being practices for the last 15 years.

A yoga teacher-trainer at the highest possible level and an experienced breath-work facilitator. As a teacher Carl enjoys combining his knowledge of ancient yoga with modern movement practises including calisthenics, kettlebells and rope-flow. His holistic approach synthesises breath-work, somatic self-directed inquiry, and intuitive coaching. More