Yoga with... Carla Schneeberger
Carla has been teaching Vinyasa, Hatha Flow, and Yin Yoga for more than five years and has been leading her own retreats and gatherings since 2023. With her gentle presence and attention to detail, she creates a space for body awareness, connection, and inner calm. Her classes are creative, inspiring, and nourishing. She weaves conscious breathing with flowing movement and strengthening elements to support balance between body, mind, and soul. For Carla, yoga means connecting with herself and trusting her own intuition – a journey shaped not by the destination but by open exploration.
Carla has been teaching Vinyasa, Hatha Flow, and Yin Yoga for more than five years and has been leading her own retreats and gatherings since 2023. With her gentle presence and attention to detail, she creates a space for body awareness, connection, and inner calm. Her classes are creative, inspiring, and nourishing. She weaves conscious breathing with flowing movement and strengthening elements to support balance between body, mind, and soul. For Carla, yoga means connecting with herself and trusting her own intuition – a journey shaped not by the destination but by open exploration.
About Carla
What role does yoga play in your life?
Since my first yoga class at the age of 17, yoga has become an integral part of my life — not only on the mat, but in the way I live. Yoga accompanies me in everyday moments, in encounters with others, in stillness, and through challenging phases. It helps me move out of my head and back into my body, into feeling. In this fast-paced and overstimulating world, yoga is a path inward for me — a way to listen to what I truly need and to meet myself and the world around me with more compassion, presence, and love.
What do you hope to share with your students through your classes?
In my classes, I aim to create a space where everything is welcome and nothing is required. A space that invites students to step out of the mind and into the body, the heart, and the felt experience. I hope my students can reconnect with themselves and allow questions such as: What do I truly need? Where does my heart want to lead me? What is my truth beneath all these thoughts and emotions? For me, yoga is a reminder to hold ourselves with care and to reconnect with our inner wisdom.
What would you describe as the core of your philosophy?
The core of my philosophy is Smarana - a Sanskrit word meaning “self-remembrance.” For a long time, I searched outside myself for answers, support, and meaning. Yoga gently guided me back inward, reminding me that everything we seek already lives within us. My work — including the retreats I regularly host in beautiful and meaningful places across Europe and around the world — is an invitation to remember who we truly are and to listen to where our hearts wish to lead us. My mantra is: Quiet the mind, open the heart.
What role does yoga play in your life?
Since my first yoga class at the age of 17, yoga has become an integral part of my life — not only on the mat, but in the way I live. Yoga accompanies me in everyday moments, in encounters with others, in stillness, and through challenging phases. It helps me move out of my head and back into my body, into feeling. In this fast-paced and overstimulating world, yoga is a path inward for me — a way to listen to what I truly need and to meet myself and the world around me with more compassion, presence, and love.
What do you hope to share with your students through your classes?
In my classes, I aim to create a space where everything is welcome and nothing is required. A space that invites students to step out of the mind and into the body, the heart, and the felt experience. I hope my students can reconnect with themselves and allow questions such as: What do I truly need? Where does my heart want to lead me? What is my truth beneath all these thoughts and emotions? For me, yoga is a reminder to hold ourselves with care and to reconnect with our inner wisdom.
What would you describe as the core of your philosophy?
The core of my philosophy is Smarana - a Sanskrit word meaning “self-remembrance.” For a long time, I searched outside myself for answers, support, and meaning. Yoga gently guided me back inward, reminding me that everything we seek already lives within us. My work — including the retreats I regularly host in beautiful and meaningful places across Europe and around the world — is an invitation to remember who we truly are and to listen to where our hearts wish to lead us. My mantra is: Quiet the mind, open the heart.
Yoga Teacher in Residence
We are always expecting a variety of talented yoga teachers to create our open classes at Schwarzschmied and stay here as resident yoga teachers. Each of them brings their unique style and expertise to offer our guests an enriching yoga experience. You can look forward to varied offerings for your wellbeing and relaxation.
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We are always expecting a variety of talented yoga teachers to create our open classes at Schwarzschmied and stay here as resident yoga teachers. Each of them brings their unique style and expertise to offer our guests an enriching yoga experience. You can look forward to varied offerings for your wellbeing and relaxation.
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Our next Retreats
Take a conscious break from everyday life and discover what it feels like when movement, rest, and clarity return to balance. This retreat invites you to step back and reconnect with yourself.
Intentional Living means not only organizing life, but consciously shaping it - feeling what your body needs, using your energy mindfully, and creating space for rest, clarity, and new perspectives.
Look forward to a balanced combination of powerful and regenerative movement sessions, mindful bodywork, breathing practices, meditation, and impulses from neuro-mental training and coaching. The practice combines yoga, functional movement, and fascia work with conscious breathing and mental reflection.
At the heart of the retreat is intention-based movement. Instead of focusing on performance or perfection, the aim is to consciously perceive the body, build strength, improve mobility, and release tension. At the same time, calming evening practices help regulate the nervous system and allow deep relaxation. Step by step, this creates a sense of stability, lightness, and clarity - both physically and mentally.
Program
Sunday
5:00 – 7:00 pm Introduction, get together, settle in
Monday
08:30 – 09:30 am Energizing yoga and movement sequence
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Understanding stress & self-regulation in everyday life
6:00 – 7:00 pm Regenerative yoga, breathwork & meditation
Tuesday
08:30 – 09:30 am Functional mobility & core strength
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Recognizing stress patterns
5:30 – 7:00 pm Slow Flow, breathing exercises, meditation & reflection
Wednesday
08:30 – 09:30 am HipHip-Hurray
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Clarifying priorities
5:30 – 7:00 pm Hypnotic Flow Yoga
Thursday
08:00 – 09:30 am Closing session – integration, movement & shared closing
*Program subject to change.
- for all levels -
- yoga, functional movement, fascia work, breathing exercises, meditation, reflection, neuro-mental coaching impulses -
Tanja Satori is the founder of pulsatori and combines precise, body-intelligent movement with neuromental training, hypnosis and coaching. Drawing on her experience in yoga, Pilates, bodywork and leadership, she supports people in moving out of tension and chronic stress and reconnecting with a body that feels stable, mobile and alive again.
Take a break from everyday life and join us on a journey back to yourself. Step away, slow down, and find peace. Here you are given the time and space to connect with your inner voice. Discover how yoga and other tools can help you sustainably create a sense of inner freedom and lightness, to make you feel “at home” and at piece within yourself.
You can look forward to a mindful combination of active and calm, restorative yoga sessions, complemented by somatic work, meditation, and coaching tools.
Sophia uses yoga not only as a physical practice but as a holistic tool to harmonize the body-mind-soul system. In her retreats, she creates the space for your nervous system to settle. By working with body, breath, mind, and energy, you can dissolve physical, emotional, mental, and energetic blockages. This allows energy to flow freely, guiding you to inner clarity, strength, and balance.
Program
Thursday
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Arrival, getting to know each other & grounding Vinyasa Yoga
Friday
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Energizing Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Deep Dive with gentle yoga, Emotional Release, meditation, journaling
Saturday
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Energizing Vinyasa Yoga & Somatic exercises
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Deep Dive with gentle yoga, Emotional Release, meditation, journaling
Sunday
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Closing session & sharing
- all levels -
- Vinyasa Yoga, Yin Yoga, Meditation, Journaling -
Sophia is a psychological coach, yoga teacher, and trainer.
Her personal journey led her from a degree in psychology and further training in stress management and NLP, through various fitness and personal trainer certifications, to yoga. She completed her yoga training with Sivananda Yoga (Hatha Yoga), Simon Park (Liquid Flow Yoga / Vinyasa Yoga), and Susan Michel (Yoga Therapy, among others), as well as through additional workshops with teachers such as Mark Stephens and Chad Hamrin.
Since 2015, she has been working full-time as a psychologist, yoga teacher, and trainer in Munich. In 2018, she co-founded the Kale & Cake studio for BodyMind Therapy in Munich together with Sinah Diepold. Since early 2025 she is working as a self-employed yoga teacher and coach.
Do you sometimes feel like you’re just functioning and no longer truly connected to yourself? Perhaps you’re successful, organized, and present for others, yet still sense an underlying exhaustion and inner restlessness. Often, our nervous system remains in a constant state of stress without us even noticing.
This retreat is a gentle invitation to step out of constant doing. You will learn how to consciously regulate your nervous system, with a focus on the vagus nerve as a key to regeneration, emotional stability, and a healthy response to stress.
We intentionally take time to pause, replenish your energy, and prepare for the winter season before the year grows louder, the holiday rush begins, and the calendar fills up even more. Together, we create a space where you can truly feel your body again, allow your nervous system to settle, and reconnect with a sense of safety, clarity, and inner balance.
In this retreat, you will learn practical methods to build mental and physical strength, inner calm, and resilience. Through a holistic yoga and coaching approach, Gabriela Bozic guides you back to balance, grounding, and inner strength. Between the shared sessions, there is dedicated time for integration, silence, and enjoyment. Each class offers subtle impulses from yoga philosophy and coaching to help you integrate the retreat experience into daily life, personal practice, or teaching - clear, contemporary, and directly accessible.
Program
Thursday
5:00 – 6:30 pm Arrival, introduction & grounding yoga
Friday – Saturday
8:15 – 9:45 am Meditation, chanting, asana & somatic practice for stability, clarity, and regulation
4:30 – 6:00 pm Restorative yoga, breathwork, chanting, meditation, coaching, journaling
Sunday
8:00 – 9:30 am Closing session & integration
Program subject to change
- all levels -
- yin yoga, pranayama, asana, vinyasa, journaling, meditation -
Gabriela Bozic guides you through this retreat with over 25 years of international teaching and training experience, as well as a unique blend of presence, lightness, and spiritual depth. Her work weaves together nervous system regulation, yoga philosophy, and embodied practice into a space for genuine transformation.