AIRYOGA – The Yoga Studio in Zurich

This day retreat is for you if you

• want to feel connected to your multi-layered being and environment
• want to feel yourself (again), get to know yourself more intimately and build a healthy relationship with your body
• are looking for a healing way of dealing with your emotionality
• want to feel and express yourself more alive, more freely and more authentically
• want to experience yourself more freely in your sensuality and sexual vitality

After this afternoon you will know

• how you can release tension, calm and refresh your nervous system and develop an expanded emotional awareness
• how to nurture your feminine anatomy, especially your pelvic space, enjoy your sensuality and connect with your heart space
• to connect with your innate flow through simple rituals, nourish and awaken your life forces
• you can enter into a wonderful space where you can lovingly accept and enjoy yourself

This day retreat is suitable for all women who want to rediscover, experience and unfold themselves. For experienced yoginis, teachers and therapists, it offers approaches and rituals to expand yoga for women’s needs as well as to nourish your own body, psyche, creative power and self-love. Especially if you have a ‘giving’ job, are a mother, or are in stages of great transformation, it is essential to value yourself, take care of yourself first, and cultivate self-love.

Diana Schöpplein is an author, lecturer and mentor in yoga, meditation, body mind science and self-care. She discovered yoga over 33 years ago and studied it back in the early 90’s in monasteries in India and Nepal. Since then, she has explored the connection and transformative potential of body, mind and heart with her Himalayan masters, her long-time shamanic mentor from New Mexico, as well as in her earlier involvement as an artist.

Out of her longing to understand her own self and the mysteries of life, Diana completed an art degree and delved into various yoga teacher trainings, including Classical Hatha Yoga, Anusara Yoga, Nada Yoga as well as Woman Self-Care. Thus, Diana’s decades of self-exploration of her own body, psyche and creative power merge ancient knowledge from yoga, Ayurveda and TCM with Somatic Movement, Breathwork, artistic and creative methods.

A passionate E-RYT500, Diana has been sharing her love of yoga for more than 12 years. She trains yoga teachers and encourages her students to unfold their own life path through Hatha Yoga, Yin and Restorative Yoga, Ayurveda, Pranayama and Chanting.

Diana lives primarily in Zurich and partly in Berlin and Asia. She has published numerous articles in the renowned magazine ‘Yoga Aktuell’. Her first book “embrace life yoga rituals” was published in February 2022.

To find out more please visit www.dianaschoepplein.com

Claudia Garati started practicing Hatha Yoga in 2000. In New York she trained at YogaWorks and completed their 500-hour Teacher Training program as a certified yoga instructor (Yoga Alliance E-RYT500/YACEP).

She further studied in New York, Zurich, Singapore and India with Alan Finger, Katchie Ananda (Anusara), Copper Crowe, Uma Dinsmore (YogaNidra) and Restorative Senior Teacher Sara Tirner. 


In 2023, Claudia finished her complementary therapy studies as a yoga therapist and is currently enrolled in a holistic psychological coaching program.

To find out more please visit her website www.well-at-work.ch

Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and practitioner of Hatha and Tibetan Yogas and the founding director of the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist & Indic Yogic Studies where she co-teaches with Professor Robert A.F. Thurman at Menla and abroad. 

She has taught, practiced, and studied avidly since 1998, and continues to run her longtime yoga school and beloved studio, The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon. She is also on the Board of Tibet House US and is devoted to supporting His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s mission, as well as preserving Tibetan Culture and Dharma.

You can find Michele often in New York sharing yoga at Tibet House or upstate at Menla Mountain Retreat. Her love and commitment to the unexcelled yoga tantras of Vajrayana as a path we can take towards perfect enlightenment and the integration of those teachings with the Hatha yogas more broadly practiced today, seeing both as powerful and not separate extensions of one another, infuses her work with great joy and commitment to a more compassionate and awakened world. She honors the lineage of teachers she comes from and bows to her longtime Hatha and Classical Yoga teacher, Richard Freeman for elucidating the middle path of love with the utmost clarity and kindness. To Robert Thurman, her beloved principle eacher in Buddhist science and her root guru His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the deepest bow for empowering her in the anuttara yogas. 

Michele teaches regular classes and 200 & 500 YA trainings in Yoga and Yoga Nidra in Portland and New York, as well as retreats and workshops internationally. 

For more information please also check out www.micheleloew.com and www.theyogaspace.com

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