Experienced Yoga Teachers for authentic retreats
in Ibiza, Mallorca, Formentera and Portugal
The Team
Our teaching team includes internationally experienced teachers who guide retreats and trainings at some of Europe’s leading wellness destinations. Everyone on our team is a respected and highly sought-after teacher, therapist, or coach with a minimum of ten 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 ten 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 & Heart of Shine Yoga Retreats | Experienced Yoga Teacher (1000+ RYT) | Women’s Empowerment Coach | M.A. Intercultural Communication
She is the founder and a highly experienced teacher, coach, and retreat leader with over two decades dedicated to the study of yoga, mindfulness, personal development, and human potential.
Holding a Master’s Degree in Intercultural Communication alongside more than 850+ hours of advanced yoga teacher training, Anke brings a unique blend of academic knowledge, professional expertise, and embodied wisdom to her work. Her approach weaves together yoga, meditation, breathwork, nervous system regulation, and transformational coaching to create retreats that nourish the whole woman -body, mind, heart, and soul.
Known for her warmth, depth, and inspiring presence, Anke creates safe and supportive spaces where women can step away from the demands of everyday life, reconnect with themselves, and experience meaningful inner transformation. 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.
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Manel Rodrigues (Manu)
He is an exceptional yoga teacher and a leading faculty member at the Manu School of Yoga where he teaches the signature method Precision & Flow. This modern approach to Hatha Yoga integrates deep technical precision with a fluid, embodied practice, offering a comprehensive understanding of all dimensions of yoga. His teaching is also enriched by philosophy, storytelling, and Tantric-inspired themes, evoking the archetypal qualities of the Indian goddesses and bringing depth, presence, and meaning into the practice.
He is a featured teacher at the Wanderlust Festival and is widely recognised for his outstanding teaching, placing him among the most respected yoga educators in Portugal.
Beyond the mat, he is a gifted musician and leads kirtan, sharing mantra and sound as an extension of his yogic path. He is also a dedicated surfer and martial artist. These disciplines deeply inform his teaching, shaping a practice that is grounded yet alive, technically precise yet intuitive, and fully embodied in everything he offers.
The renowed school is offering a Yoga Teacher Training in Portugal in 2027.
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
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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
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
