Become slower, more sensitive … more alive.

My vision

Learn to listen. Turn radically towards your body and treat it in a way that makes your soul feel lovingly held. Dare to open the "lid" that so often hides uncomfortable feelings. Healing begins with self-acceptance.

For many years, I have supported people across Europe and Asia with all my heart, sincerity and care in coming closer to themselves.

I experience a time of great global, collective change, which brings new challenges and requires a special form of attention. It’s time to look, to center and to be responsible.

In these times, the heart needs many extra breaths, and we need the space and trust to take them. People I meet seek reconnection. Reconnection to bodies, emotions, and the authentic essence. Through mindful practice and conscious presence, I invite you to slow down, embrace your vulnerabilities, and allow space to come in.

My approach is rooted in deep listening, compassion as well the ability staying lighthearted. Believe me, Humor is a lifesaver!

Whether you are navigating challenges in your personal life or simply seeking a deeper connection with yourself, I’m here to support you through this journey with deep interest, care and respect.

The main Inspirations on my path

India, 1998 – A country that taught me how to let go. Plans rarely work in India, and rigidity doesn’t help. I had to shed my German skin to truly connect. The perfect place for this transformation was the OSHO International Meditation Resort in Pune. Active meditations, OSHO’s discourses, and his people really touched my heart. I fell in love with something I had never known before: Magic. It was such a profound hit. I began meditating, and it changed everything. Suddenly, I knew: I was freeing myself from beliefs, conditioning, and fears, and I was ready to step fully into my life. I took the driver’s seat, as they say. It meant fully embracing responsibility for my choices and my happiness. I was given the name Prem Vira: Courageous Heart, and I knew this name was an invitation to meet life with a fierce heart.

“I am deeply grateful for every inspiration from authentic educators, holistic therapists, true spiritual teachers and all the small & big people who have the courage to walk their path with lightness and dedication for this life.

Through touching the world of OSHO my path started to evolve beautifully. I travelled the world, met many amazing people, true Teachers, Masters; Gurus. As I started recognizing a phenomena called LIGHT. I saw it in places, I watched it in people, I felt it as a rising force inside me. Yoga happened. Bodywork happened. Standing in front of people happened. Failing happened. Support happened. Trust happened. I learned deeply. I started to become a facilitator & trainer and felt an immense joy and lightness sharing myself.

In 2019, I met Jennifer Millar and her work, Cellular Transformation. Once again, it was a revelation. It brought back the same feeling I had years ago in Pune: a deep recognition of coming home. Jennifer’s fierce yet loving way of guiding energy from the ego into the hara, from the head to the belly, felt absolutely extraordinary and perfectly timed. I am beyond grateful to receive this guidance finding spirit in me, to always remember my center, and I will continue walking this path, no doubt.

Tara Brach, another wonderful and inspirational spiritual teacher of mine. Her way of introducing Mindfulness is truly unique: So soft, sincere, vulnerable, and full of humor. I joined her and Jack Kornfield's Mindful Meditation Teacher Training from 2022-2025, and will continue to sit with her online as afzen as possible.

“We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are. Some of us are still catching up to what we are.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The qualities I get reflected

What I share with you:

Enthusiasm & curiosity

Standing in my own light I feel: I just love touching life in all aspects. I feel so much joy in the beauty of the simple things. Stones, Branches. Hands. Eyes. Smells. Sunrises. Rains. Clouds. Children. Sounds. Bodies, Animals…..

Life is a miracle. Every moment can be felt as a miracle. Ordinary magic. I bring this reverence and enthusiasm for life everywhere I go and into every new relationship I enter into. I am curios what to find it in you - no matter what you bring.

Love for people & community

I just love people sitting in circle together. To watch & to listen to Humanness in all forms. To witness the old, the young, the ones who bring a broken heart or sweet wisdom. Everyone got a melody to sing! Can we listen to each other? How exciting to watch how people move and to understand what moves them. To truely touch and to be touched in return

It is an honor meeting you.

Communication

I am a big communicator, and I see communication as the key to relating to life and to others. It is the bridge that connects us, allowing us to understand each other, share our truths, and build deeper connections. Communication has always been a way to reach my heart, and I believe it holds the power to transform relationships and create meaningful bonds. There are so many wonderful ways to connect:

Whether through words, touch, actions, or music, I love to express what is true and alive within me with others. I share what truely #works’ for me and through this exchange we can truly see and understand one another. I also love to invite and inspire others to do the same with me, as it is in sharing openly that we create trust and open space for growth. Communication, in all its forms, is the foundation of human connection, and it is something I hold dear in all aspects of life.

Being in service

May the offerings of the Yin Akademie positively impact the community around me, and ultimately the collective. May we all experience the true meaning of the word WE and discover how to care for a supportive system for one another. A system where we are not just individuals walking separate paths, but where we feel part of something much larger. A system that thrives on collaboration, mutual respect, where each person’s journey contributes to the greater whole.

Even though this website is so much about me; the person Vira, I truly love to let go of the sense of I and surrender to the larger field. Service is not just about giving or offering something. It is an expression of humanity, an understanding that we are all interconnected and that by serving one another, we enrich our own lives.

Love affair with the divine

My personal

“Every day

I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It is what I was born for to look, to listen, to lose myself nside this soft world— to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation.

Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant— but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations.

Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these— the untrimmable light, of the world, the ocean's shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?”

By Mary Oliver

Education and experience

My professional career

My Experience

  • Studium der vergleichenden Sportwissenschaft und Pädagogik, Universität Bonn

  • Ganzheitliche Körpertherapieausbildung, Thalamus Heilpraktikerschule Köln

  • Heilpraktikerweiterbildung, Medius Rheinland Köln

  • Ganzheitliche Massage ( S. Schweizer, Thalamus Heilpraktikerschule Köln)

  • Arun – Conscious Touch ( Anubuddha & Anasha, Spanien & Köln)

  • Thai Yoga Massage ( Wat Suan Dok, Chiang Mai, Thailand  Anubuddha, Köln)

  • Ayurveda – Anamnese, Lifestyle, Yoga, Treatments ( u.a. Komala Lyra, Indien, Mallorca)

  • MBSR – Mindfulnesstraining with Petra Tatini Schmidt

  • Reconnective Healing ® Practitioner( Nach E. Pearl)

  • 2004 Yoga Teachertraining Shivananda, Hatha Yoga, Kerala, Indien

  • 2007 Yoga Teachertraining Vinyasa, The Yogaloft, Köln

  • 2010 Yoga Teachertraining Yin Yoga, Sarah Powers, Istanbul

  • 2011 Meditation Facilitation Training in OSHO Meditations, OSHO International Pune/Indien

  • 2013 -2016 Massageteacher at Thalamus / Vipendo Heilpraktikerschool

  • 2018/19 Yogateacher & Bodyworker in Mandali; Italy

  • 2020 Yoga Kundalini Immersion, Kia Miller, Rishikesh/ Indien

  • 2020 ongoing Cellular Transformation Training /Jennifer Millar

  • 2021 Meditation Teacher Training: Inner Yoga online: Harshada D.Wagner / USA

  • 2021-2024 DIMA Mallorca, Mystical School /Conscious Community Living

  • 2022-2025 Mindful Meditation Teacher Training: Tara Brach/ Jack Kornfield

My Trainings

Since 2015 I create Yin Yoga Teachertrainings & Massage Trainings in

  • Achtsamkeitspraxis, Köln, The Yogaloft, Köln, UTA Institut Köln, Yes! Yoga Studio Köln, Casa El Morisco, Spanien, Köln, Hebammenpraxis Kulzack Düsseldorf, Anapurna Yoga Köln, Individual Yoga Aachen, Jenny Redman Yoga Ahrweiler, Komjun Köln, RundumYoga Düsseldorf, Osmose Yoga Wien

  • Yin Yoga und Trauma Training with Doris Richa Görg, UTA AKademie Köln

  • Various Modules in 200/300 Vinyasa Teacher Trainings in The Yogaloft Köln, Vishnus Couch, YES! Yoga Köln, Redwood Yoga Bonn

  • Living Touch Massage Training in UTA Akademie Köln, Osho Afroz, Lesbos/Greece, Osmose Yoga Wien

  • Meditation Courses

Others

  • Training and further education in active and passive meditation techniques, UTA Institute, Cologne; OIMR, Pune, India.

  • Leadership of OSHO Meditations, Inner Skills Day Events, Women's Groups, Hara Workshops at the OSHO Meditation Resort (OIMR), Pune, India.

  • Teaching assistant and own leadership in the Awareness Intensive: Satori/ Who is in Process at OIMR, UTA Cologne, DIMA Mallorca.

  • Facilitation of Meditation weekends at the UTA Institute Cologne.

  • Facilitation of Seminars for Women in India, Spain, and Germany.

  • Facilitation of Yoga/Meditation Retreats in Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, India.

  • Yoga Teacher & Masseuse at the Mandali Yoga Retreat Center, Italy.

  • Facilitator, Yoga Teacher, Mindful Movement Trainer at DIMA Mallorca.

"It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness”

Osho

Collaborations

Over the past 20 years I have met many inspiring human beings on the path whom I love to work with. These individuals share their gift and work in a way that is in service of continuous growth and learning on both an individual and the collective level, just like the yin akademie aspires to do.

Healing through Shadow Work

  • Hello, my name is Eliza Charu and I am a Shadow Worker for individuals, pairs and teams.

    I support people by bringing light and clarity to conflicts on the inside and the outside.  

    Working with abandoned and unwanted parts of ourselves is not a popular topic, yet it offers a tremendous opportunity for personal growth and maturity and is inevitable on the way towards sincere self appreciation. 

    It is the ultimate tool for self discovery and a short cut to self empowerment. It is a path of acceptance and of liberation and has led and continues to lead me to expressing and enjoying mySelf.

    I offer this work so that you too may feel inspired and confident to fully participate in the creation of your experience.

Living intimately Inner Guidance

  • Kanika is the co-founder of DIMA, holistic counselor, and protégé of Jennifer Millar - Cellular Transformation. She integrates a multitude of teachings and modalities into her work, such as Enneagram to Essence, Osho’s cutting-edge therapy and meditation practices; trauma healing through Somatic Experiencing; mystical Sufi traditions; spiritual coaching, and temporary psychological tools. Cellular Transformation has become an essential part of this integration. She has committed her life and work to CT with deep love and dedication. She travels the world to share her intuitive gift in the most intimate and loving way.

Personal branding from the inside out

  • Bibi Backx is a branding strategist and personal business coach that helps people to find their guide within to clarify, express and share their unique gift with the world.

    The inner branding guide is based on the belief that the manifestation of success and abundance in the outer world is a natural consequence of living the truth of your inner world. It is a process from the inside out, not from the outside in. Branding is the art of aligning inner and outer and Bibi supports people to live out our passion and share our unique gifts and talents with the world in order to experience a life in alignment, in flow with nature and our environment, a life full of energy, synchronicity and fulfilment.

Vulnerability as doorway to freedom

  • Sidhamo's love affair with CT has spanned over 12 years, and to him, it's more than just a workshop or a session; it's a way of life. What excites him most is that it's accessible to everyone, offering a path to learn how to recognize when we're pushing past our own boundaries or the energy around us. Initially, it felt like his programs and protections were being bulldozed away, leaving behind a profound sense of freedom. Now, he's passionate about assisting others in clearing similar obstacles from their lives. Sidhamo guides others to find the doorway to vulnerability, which, though terrifying, leads to deeper connections with oneself and others.
    Sidhamo is a world traveler and seeker with a deep connection to plant medicine and the jungle. He is a mentor of the Online CT Theory Courses, and one of the facilitators, with Kanika Frings, during all 9 modules of the CT Teaching Program, a holistic counselor, and regular assistant in the Path of Love.

Founder Cellular Transformation

  • Jennifer Millar is a spiritual teacher, healer, and interfaith minister who founded the Cellular Transformation Healing Process. She travels the globe offering in-person CT workshops and retreats, alongside developing, facilitating, and mentoring online and residential CT Training Programs. A native of Northern Ireland, living south of Austin, TX, Jennifer has been immersed in the field of trauma healing for over two decades, working with thousands of people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

    Recognized widely as an exceptional mentor to healers and teachers of all ages, her work is a blend of psychological and emotional inquiry combined with spiritual transformation that results in fundamental life shifts. Approached through the lens of epigenetics, cellular memory, and the healing power of vulnerability and love, Jennifer models how an intimate relationship with the universal language of energy (the Tao), and how to read it, trust it and follow it in each moment of life, is the key to deep healing and self-realisation.

Nutrition Health Coaching

  • I design and guide personalised Nutrition Health Coaching plans lasting 3, 6 or 12 weeks, which initiate powerful practical and holistic steps on your journey to changing habits, healing and wellness. I also offer food-based cleanse programs for groups of 4 whereby you can cleanse at home guided by me and with the remote support of others on the same path. Each group cleanse is designed according to specific phases in the moon cycle, and I home-make all you need providing 100% organic whole foods, juices and herbal elixirs.

    With Be Loved Cleanse, my essential tenet is that the body can heal itself if we remove obstacles and learn to listen to it. So my approach promotes an empowering, gentle and flexible process by which you cleanse your body for optimum health and body-mind well-being. The influence of the lunar cycles on our biological parameters and biorhythms is at the heart of my program design.