Yoga at the Juffing Hotel & Spa in Tyrol

Markus Gandler has been employed as an excellent masseur in our house for years. What is particularly important to Markus: "Feel the silence, hear the silence, touch and taste the silence. Silence is the music of your soul." For him, power lies in silence: regular relaxation has a similar effect as the cooling system of a car, which protects the engine from overheating. Unnecessary tension not only causes discomfort, it also robs our energy reserves. Migraines, a tense neck or aching joints can be the result. Without regular relaxation, body and mind become overloaded and can no longer function properly. Deep relaxation happens on three levels - physical, mental and spiritual - and is the most natural way to recharge with energy. As a masseur and yoga teacher, he sees the guest in his entirety and practices yoga himself every day in order to be able to apply the basic principles of yoga through physical exercises, breathing, relaxation, nutrition and positive thinking.

"What you think today will create your future self!” Buddha

Born in Graz, Sonja was drawn to the health sector immediately after she had finished her degree in sociology. After over ten years of group practice and many further trainings in the areas of sports and massage, yoga became the centre of her own practice.
It is the wonderful experience of yoga – a mixture of physical & mental strength, relaxation and a positive life philosophy – that Sonja also wants to impart to her participants in the yoga hours at the Juffing.

She obtained her Power Yoga certificate in 1999 and her yoga instructor certificate (500 hours) in 2016. Anna’s experience as a yoga instructor led her from the East coast of the USA to Singapore (where she taught under a coconut tree) to the US west coast and to Europe. In addition to her passion for yoga she completed a master’s degree in environmental economics and environmental education.

Anna teaches yoga for every level and every age group. In her dynamic Vinyasa hours she can easily compete with Olympic athletes, in her gentler lessons she even gets 95-year old ladies to change from a sitting to a standing position and to do different gentle poses with her loving way of teaching. She also shows her calming and soft nature as a yoga instructor for pregnant women where she can benefit from much experience thanks to four children of her own. Recently she broadened her horizon with yoga for people suffering from trauma or PTSD such as veterans and female victims of abuse. Anna is a wonderful mixture of hard and soft. Thanks to her many travels to India and her immediate understanding of its culture, Anna teaches her lessons with unique sensitivity. Participants love her strong, challenging Vinyasa lessons while others only know her as a gentle teacher. But all of her participants share a common feeling of comfort as Anna makes alignment an integral part of every lesson. Her students often tell that Anna encourages them to do positions which they had not dreamt of doing before.