Yoga is an integral part of our own retreats at Steinweiden. I teach Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, shaped by my 300-hour Yoga Alliance-certified teacher training at Matsya Yoga in Austria and many years of personal practice.
The focus is not on performance, flexibility or achieving the perfect posture. At the heart of the practice is direct experience: becoming aware of the body, experiencing the breath and coming into closer contact with what is present here and now.
Depending on the retreat and the group, I may include asanas (physical postures), pranayama (breathing practices), kriyas, meditation and sometimes mantra. The sessions are designed to be accessible to both beginners and people with previous yoga experience.
Body, breath and awareness
For me, yoga is more than a physical practice. Body, breath and attention work together, opening a direct way of experiencing ourselves.
What is happening in the body? How does the breath change? Where is there tension, where is there space? What happens when we first become aware of an impulse rather than immediately acting on it?
In this way, yoga becomes a practice of awareness and direct experience. At the same time, it remains very much a physical practice: movement, strength, flexibility, balance and relaxation are naturally part of it.
Hatha and Kundalini
The tradition in which I trained does not regard Hatha and Kundalini Yoga as two entirely separate systems. They share roots in the tantric tradition and are historically closely connected.
The practice combines physical postures with breath and attention. In Kundalini Yoga, kriyas – sequences that bring together different yogic techniques – play an important role, alongside pranayama, meditation and sometimes mantra.
I adapt each session to the retreat, the group and what is unfolding at that point in the week.
Yoga as part of the retreat
In our retreats, yoga does not stand on its own. It is part of a broader process, connecting physical practice with inner work.
The practice helps us arrive, become more aware of the body and move from constant thinking towards more immediate experience. It also creates space to experience and integrate what emerges in the other sessions on a physical level.
I currently teach yoga exclusively as part of our own retreats at Steinweiden.
My training and practice
I completed my 300-hour Yoga Alliance-certified teacher training in Hatha and Kundalini Yoga at Matsya Yoga in Austria.
My training included asana, pranayama, kriyas, mudras, bandhas, meditation and mantra, alongside the study of yoga history, philosophy and classical texts.
My training in Integral Coaching and systemic work, as well as my many years of awareness practice, also shape the way I teach.
For me, what matters is not how far you can move into a posture, but how consciously you meet what you experience within the practice.
