The Team

Everyone on our team is a respected and highly sought-after teacher, therapist, or coach with a minimum of 10 years of experience in their respective fields. These forces of nurture are inspiring humans, experienced retreat leaders, and wisdom keepers with proven life experience and deep expertise. Each team member truly lives and embodies the lifestyle we share.

We have been hosting retreats for over 10 years and offer proven concepts for creating the most life-affirming, deeply nourishing, and inspiring experiences. Our mission is to bring more connection, depth, energy, and total wellbeing into your life. We do this by bringing together exceptional yoga teachers and facilitators from around the world in awe-inspiring destinations. We guide you back to a space where you feel fully nourished, remember who you truly are, and embark on a guided inner and outer adventure.

Anke Graewer

Founder of Shine Yoga Retreats, Retreat Leader, Yoga Teacher (850+ RYT), and Women Empowerment Coach, Anke holds a Master Degree in Intercultural Communications. With over 15 years of experience in the Yoga & Wellbeing field, she is known for her holistic, warm, and inviting teaching style. Her approach integrates a holistic blend of Vinyasa Flow, Anusara, and Hatha Tantra Yoga, honouring both tradition and science, while keeping the practice rooted yet refreshingly relatable for the modern practitioner.

She offers a unique approach that weaves together mindful empowering 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, personal growth, spiritual connection, empowerment, and a calm nervous system

Rooted in heart-centered practices, her work supports deep remembering, reconnection, and embodied alignment. Her methods are designed to nourish emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing, guide transformation both on and off the mat, and empower you to see the bigger picture and live a more wholesome and liberated life -while gently reconnecting you with your 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. Manel teaches at Wanderlust Festival  and he is recognised for his exceptional teaching and is among the leading educators in Portugal. As an accomplished surfer with a strong background in philosophy and martial arts and truly embodies his passions.

Lauren Lee

She is a certified Anusara Inspired teacher, a Primal Moves Ibiza instructor, and a teacher’s teacher with the Bindu Institute. Lauren creates sacred opportunities for students to explore and connect to their heart through the practices and philosophies of yoga. She effortlessly guides practitioners through intelligently sequenced classes, layered with themes that explore the full spectrum of life, attuning, awakening and alchemising 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