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.

Holistic 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, 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 Dr. Suzanne 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)
• Pranayama and Philosophie Intensive with Philip E. Lempke / Inspya Yoga and Conscious Living (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.

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