What is special about a yoga trip?

As a couple, Reinhold and Claudia have been following the same yoga path of the yoga master P. Yogananda for 25 years. They have two adult daughters. Claudia gives yoga courses, together they train yoga teachers and organize yoga trips to the Red Sea. The next trip is coming up in April . We spoke to Reinhold about her yoga trips and how such an intensive yoga time can help you deepen your own yoga practice and yoga knowledge.

Find your yoga: How did you get into yoga and what sets your yoga classes apart ?

Reinhold: I came to yoga as a teenager through the practice of autogenic training, which helped me get rid of headaches. In addition, India and the yogis in the Himalayas soon exerted a strong attraction on me, so that I began looking for a real yoga master very early on. After the first yoga meditations according to Yogananda, I was overwhelmed by a deep and lasting feeling of happiness, which gave rise to a strong need to share these unique experiences with others. After 17 years of intensive practice and three yoga teacher training courses, I began training yoga teachers myself.

Since when have you been offering yoga trips? What are your experiences with it?

In 1989 I began carrying out the first yoga trips to the ashrams and temples in the Himalayas with my students. Now I prefer to enjoy the amenities and the completely different yet unique nature of Egypt. Especially the clean Red Sea, the colorful fish, bizarre corals and the desert right behind the hotel.

In a relaxing atmosphere, combined with yoga, it is ideal to “switch off” from your everyday domestic and professional life and not only to regenerate your body, but above all to come back to yourself completely in order to find liberating solutions and new life goals primarily let yourself be drawn from the depths of your soul in a relaxed atmosphere.

What advantages do you see in yoga trips compared to attending yoga classes?

"Our joy at yoga retreats is when we support you in this holistic process with our yoga experiences and perhaps encourage you to achieve a "breakthrough"."

By breakthrough I mean a liberation from burdens that have been carried with you for a long time in order to awaken a renewing life impulse in you. Above all through our tried and tested concept of Pratyahara (in short: relaxed introspection), the often overlooked but essential 5th step of Patanjali's classic yoga path if you want to develop spiritually. You cannot easily achieve this continuous deepening of yourself in weekly yoga classes. With our “simple essence of yoga” you will learn an exercise practice that you can easily integrate into your everyday life at home using our script material in order to achieve relief or even healing.

How can you imagine your yoga trip to Egypt?

In the morning and evening we lure you with the “cosmic wake-up call of OM” to our yoga sadhana, the step-by-step structure of our individually tailored series of exercises. Between our sessions you listen exclusively to the inner guidance of your soul, you stay completely with yourself - do and leave exactly what you perceive in this here and now. You consciously eat what you want and when you want. You only talk when and with whomever you want and remain silent because you want to stay completely with yourself. You learn to draw from yourself. Maybe your heart will soar when you look at the rare coral splendor in the peace of the underwater world where the endless variety of fish approach you confidently or want to play with you. The shining sun in the blue sky shines brightly above you, the calm sea lies in front of you and the vastness of the desert stretches behind you. You record your luminous insights from your inner silence in your life book that constantly accompanies you, because your subtle inspirations are too valuable...

How do your yoga students feel about such a journey? What are their experiences?

Our participants come to this special place not just once to recharge their batteries holistically and at certain intervals they treat themselves to our invigorating retreats, which we offer twice a year.

How can people get in touch with you? Where can I get more information about the trip?

Would you like to be there? Then we are there for you, even outside of yoga times. We would be happy to answer your questions personally on: 08551-910367 or by email to welcome_to[at]sommerland-yoga.de . You can find more information about the yoga trip and Claudia and Reinhold on FindeYourYoga or at: www.sommerland-yoga.com .

In connection - with yogic greetings: Hari OM and Namaste' Reinhold and Claudia.

Thank you for the interview and wish Maria and Sandro, former operators of Find Your Yoga, a nice yoga trip to Egypt.