The Schloss Elmau Yoga Experience

Johannes Mikenda

Johannes is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, a member of the Jivamukti Advanced Board, and Director of the Jivamukti Yoga School at Elmau. Based on background as a therapist and sports scientist, he teaches individually tailored exercise programs.

Patricia Thielemann

“Only if yoga is close to real life is it possible to walk the path to the essential and then return to the world strengthened, re-grounded, and transformed.” For over a decade now, this Berlin native has been decisively shaping the identity of modern yoga in the German-speaking world. Patricia's sense for the extraordinary, her discipline, and her sensitivity flow into the style that she has developed over the years.

Dr. Patrick Broome

Born in Germany and raised in California, Patrick lives in Munich with his two children. He has been teaching for over 20 years, training yoga instructors internationally, and managing four yoga schools as well as the PBY training and continuing education academy. He is the author of "Yoga for Men," "Yoga for Everyone," "Living with Yoga," "Spiritual Warriors," and "Yoga for You."

Barbra Noh

Barbra Noh is an internationally recognised yoga teacher who loves to share her passion for health, healing and personal growth. With close to 30 years’ experience teaching yoga, she is a leading educator for yoga teachers. Her precise and structured approach to teaching makes complex material accessible and enjoyable to learn. Barbra believes the transformational techniques and teachings of yoga empower and encourage us in our quest to sense our worthiness and live our full potential. She now calls Bali home while still teaching regularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Korea.

Timo Wahl

Dynamic Yoga, but anatomically precise and controlled. Classes are structured systematically to take you deep into the asanas you otherwise find particularly difficult. Exhausting but exhilarating and inspiring. Timo Wahl is one of Germany’s most renowned Vinyasa yoga teachers and runs his own yoga studio in Frankfurt.

Nicole Bongartz

Nicole has been following the path of yoga for 20 years now, with an ever-growing joy for life and exponentially increasing conviction. Her yoga is no longer tied to a specific style or a rigid doctrine. Detours and stumbling blocks are just as much a part of it as confidence and passion. She is the founder of the Me Yoga style, the author of the books 'Me Yoga' and 'Yoga Sequencing', and a co-founder of a studio in Cologne as well as the Yoga Conference."

Eddie Stern

Eddie Stern is a yoga teacher, author, and researcher based in New York City. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to yoga which includes studying traditional texts and combining the application of the practices contained within them to science, research, technology, and collaboration. He is involved in evidence-based research in the healing capacities of Yoga, recently completing a masters in science for yoga research at the Vivekananda Yoga University.

Annika Isterling

Annika Isterling is a yoga teacher and the author of five yoga books. She has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaches yoga retreats, workshops, teacher trainings, and mentorship programs for teachers throughout Europe.

Michael Forbes

Michael Forbes is one of the most renowned Iyengar yoga teachers in the world and leads the iYoga Studio in Munich. Iyengar Yoga was developed by B.K.S. Iyengar, who was one of the four students of T. Krishnamacharya, the founder of modern yoga.

Karl Straub

Karl lives in Zurich Switzerland where he gives weekly classes in his studio, Sanctuary Zurich (in a historic church), and leads events, and retreats around the world. He has been centified as an advanced Jivamukti Yoga teacher by Sharon Gannon and is inspired by senior teachers like Richard Freeman, Zen master Keido Fukushima, Swami Bua, David Life.

Pradeep Teotia

“Pradeeep brings great energy and enthusiasm to the Practice and the Group – yet enables anyone of reasonable energy to participate fully – yet be challenged – enabling them to experience Yoga! Throughout He maintains the spiritual traditions of Yoga peppering them with amusing insightful philosophical anecdotes and lively soundtracks! It is rare that those of us who have had the pleasure of practicing with him don’t return for more!” — Nick Sutherland, England

Jutta Däschlein

In her yoga classes, Jutta combines a basic understanding of asanas with flowing vinyasa, pranayama breathing, and movement with a mindful awareness of one’s own body. For Jutta, the implementation of “Yoga = unity” goes beyond the physical practice of asanas. Yoga is a philosophy and a practical way of life, where practice on the mat can bring us more peace and mindfulness in our daily lives.

Malte Marten

Malte Marten is a handpan pioneer, visionary, and musician. His ability to use the transformative power of music to create deep emotional connections and inner peace has accompanied many of his listeners on their personal spiritual journeys. With more than 100 million streams on various platforms, he is one of the most listened-to handpan artists worldwide. His music is a welcoming oasis of tranquility and a source of inspiration in an often hectic and noisy world. 

Steven Barrett

Steven Barrett is a former professional dancer with classical training, alternative practitioner for psychotherapy in his own practice in Munich. He is an experienced yoga teacher (since 2003), lecturer and mentor in training and further education in the fields of yoga, therapy and neuropsychological methods (EMDR/Brainspotting).

Sandra Gerhard

Sandra is a certified Jivamukti yoga teacher (800+ hours) and has been teaching internationally since 2010. She completed her training in Rhinebeck, NY. She started Ashtanga/Mysore in 2016 and opened her own yoga school, Practice, in 2019. In 2023 and 2024 she led a 300-hour training. Sandra creates an open space for all, with challenging and calm classes that combine passion and presence. Previously she was an actress, photographer and agency manager. She is a mother of three children.

David Lurey

David Lurey, E-RYT 500, has been practicing yoga since 1996 and has studied with experienced teachers worldwide. He passionately teaches Vinyasa Yoga, AcroYoga, Green Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga to foster different connections with oneself, others, the planet, and the Divine. His style combines elements from Rocket Yoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa Flow, and Yin Yoga, enriched by music and applied philosophy.

Mitali Chatterjee-Ehrenbrand

Mitali Chatterjee-Ehrenbrand, as the daughter of an Indian Tabla master, had profound interactions with yoga, mantras, and meditation even before her birth and grew up in a creative, spiritual, and musical environment. Mitali is a student of Guru Jagat and a trained Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher. She is also the voice of the mantra music project The Sat Nam Sessions. The aim of her work is to dissolve inner blockages, promote hidden potentials, and, in this way, achieve deeper inner strength and balance.

Robert Ehrenbrand

Father. Husband. Yogi. Author. Business Psychologist. Coach. Musician (Bassist of the American band BOYSETSFIRE and guitarist of the mantra project THE SAT NAM SESSIONS). Above all, he is driven by a deep passion for helping others rediscover their innate potential. His ultimate goal is to support people in becoming physically and, most importantly, mentally stronger. Robert has been practicing martial arts since the age of seven and has dedicated himself to yoga and meditation since his early youth. The focus is on building inner strength and vitality.

Anett Reibig

Anett is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher (800h). Originally coming from an acrobatics background, she combines her love for movement with the journey inward. The practice of working on inner processes through movement and breath captivated her, and she shares this passion in her teaching. Anett has been an experienced yoga teacher since 2007. She teaches regularly in Munich, hosts multiple yoga retreats throughout the year, and enjoys passing on her knowledge as a mentor.

Theresa Stoiber

Theresa is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti teacher and teaches well-rounded, inspiring Jivamukti Yoga classes with great dedication. Movement and music have always been a part of her life, and through their combination with philosophical and ethical aspects, she found her home in the Jivamukti method. She strongly believes in the transformative power of yoga toward greater compassion, humanity, and higher consciousness and aims to touch her students in the same way she has been touched by it.

Felix Krammer

Felix Krammer is a yoga teacher and photographer. After completing an extensive 800-hour Jivamukti yoga teacher training with the founders Sharon Gannon and David Life in Upstate New York, he pursued numerous advanced trainings with renowned teachers. Since 2019, he has been certified by health insurance providers.

Felix’s yoga classes offer a restorative break and a safe space for greater physical and mental relaxation, stability, and inner peace.