Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #11 – The Magic of Theta Healing – Yoga in Germany with Sabrina Neitzel

Welcome to Episode #11 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast! This week, I welcome Sabrina Neitzel onto the show. She is a yoga teacher from Germany who teaches yoga at Seva Experience in Dubai. She is also a plant-based nutritionist and a vegan raw-food chef and share her expertise with us on the show.

While Sabrina hasn’t taught yoga in Germany before, her path of health and wellness began there. Her life as an accountant in Germany was what pushed her first towards meditation, then towards plant-based living, and then, lastly, to yoga. 

For Sabrina yoga wasn’t the gateway, it truly was meditation— and then it was a profound call inside of her heart to heal. Get ready for a beautiful conversation!

Tell me more about Sabrina…

Sabrina Neitzel is a yoga instructor from Germany who has taught yoga in Europe, Asia, and is now teaching in Dubai at Seva Experience Her love for yoga began over 5 years ago, and it was her passion for healthy living that drew her towards yoga. After experiencing all the amazing benefits yoga and meditation has to offer, Sabrina wanted to pass on this experience to others to feel the same way. 

She teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, power yoga, pranayama, meditation, and has recently started teaching Face Yoga. She also offers theta healing sessions. Moreover, she has been plant based for 10 years and has completed a Vegan Raw Food Cooking Course in the school of Matthew Kenney, now PlantLab, in Venice Beach, Los Angeles and has become a Vegan Raw-Food Chef and a Plant Based Nutritionist.

What to expect in Episode #11 of the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast 

It seems like Sabrina has always been passionate about health and wellness. As an avid gym-goer and sports enthusiast, Sabrina played dozens of sports and was thoroughly immersed in the sphere of fitness. Yet, her anxiety and depression wouldn’t let up. A daily weight would press down on her chest, and she would start her days off in tears. It was then that she first turned to meditation and plant-based living to heal. The results were miraculous. She felt vibrant, whole, and healed. However, after a few years, some of the darkness began to return. A friend recommended she try yoga. Sabrina thought yoga was only for hippies and couldn’t possibly be of any help to her— she trusted her friend and decided she had nothing to lose.

She found a yoga course on a small island in Thailand and booked her ticket. Anticipating practicing yoga for an hour a day, and spending the rest of her time on the beach, she was expecting a yoga vacation. She was wrong.

Sabrina hadn’t’ booked a yoga retreat, she had booked an Ashtanga yoga teacher training course. Her mistake was a blessing. After her first hour of trying ashtanga yoga she felt “reborn” and immediately could feel her internal world shifting and brightening. Sabrina knew this would change her life.

And it did! 

Want to hear more? Tune into the episode and learn about Sabrina’s life in Dubai, her skepticism about theta healing turning into becoming a theta healing practitioner herself, and the importance of clean, healthy living as an act of purifying and cleansing the body.

It’s a beautiful conversation. You don’t want to miss it!

For the skimmers – What’s in the Yoga in Germany episode?

• The benefits of face yoga
• What Is Theta Healing? 
• What is yoga? Yoga is magic!
• Raw Food and Vegan Nutrition
• The Yoga in Dubai Scene

Favorite Quote From Sabrina Neitzel

“Yoga is magic. I just think that yoga is good for your soul. When people come to me, they always ask, do I get a skinny body or whatever? And I say, “Yes, yes, you get all these things—but the most important part is how you feel when you practice yoga and how you feel from the inside. You feel more strong, more confident, and more at peace with yourself.” The peace I feel when I do yoga—it’s just everything is okay. And you can manage everything. You’re more compassionate with yourself, with your body, and with other people.”

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Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Episode #11 – The Magic of Theta Healing – Yoga in Germany with Sabrina Neitzel

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:00:05

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. I’m your host, Lily Allen Duenas. Together we’ll talk about the world of yoga and we’ll talk to people from around the world. Join us for authentic conversations about the global yoga ecosystem, and we’ll cover yoga philosophies and methodologies, along the way. Inhale, exhale, we’re about to dive in.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:00:37

Welcome everyone to this episode of The Wild Yoga Tribe. Today, I’m welcoming Sabrina Neitzel, she’s from Stuttgart Germany but now is teaching yoga in Dubai. I’m so excited to welcome her onto the podcast today because she is a fellow International Yoga teacher, someone who has taught yoga in Europe and Asia. And as I said, now in Dubai. She teaches Ashtanga, Vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, power Yoga, Pranayama and meditation. Sabrina is now teaching space yoga which I’m really excited to learn more about. She’s also a plant-based yogi and she’s been plant-based for 10 years, and have completed a Vegan Raw Food Cooking course in the School of Matthew Kenney and now called PlantLabs in Venice Beach, Los Angeles and has become a Vegan Raw Food chef and is a plant-based nutritionist. So as you can tell, Sabrina is fascinating, just such an interesting person that I can’t wait to dive more into her history and what she’s teaching, and her journey. So I hope you join me in welcoming Sabrina on to the show. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:01:43

Thank you so much for having me. 

 

How did you get started on the path of yoga?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:01:47

Wonderful. So I would love to hear a bit more about how you got started on your path of yoga. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:01:51

Yeah, so actually first I started with meditation. No, actually, first I started to become plant-based, because I was always like, I don’t know, I was always like fascinated with a dead body, and being healthy, and why sometimes we create sicknesses, and you know; like they just appear so random in us humans, and then people just say “Oh it is like this, you know”. But like I always wanted to know why. So then I started to research, I became plant-based because it made the most sense for me. I’m not saying that everyone has to go plant-based. I think a balanced diet is the key. But for me it made the most sense and I feel the best when I eat plant-based, yeah. Then I became plant-based, I started meditating first and I did all of these things like I said because I was so fascinated with health and in this time I also went into depression, anxiety. 

 

I was working as an Accountant at this time in Germany. I was not happy at all. Like I didn’t know what to do with my life, with myself. I really feel like, I literally woke up in the morning, I started crying and like you know, and you don’t know why. So you search for help from somewhere and then, yeah. So I switched my diet, I meditated, and I felt so much better like my life, I don’t know, only doing those two things. I didn’t even know anything about manifestation or affirmations or these kinds of things. I only switched my diet to putting food into my body, and to meditate, I already felt so much better. Yeah, like a few years later, like everything was okay after I started like I felt a little bit better. But then fewer years later, again, something happened in my life. That’s where I really felt bad about, you know. And then I felt “Oh okay, I can’t deal anymore”. And then one of my friends said “Yeah, you are doing meditation and you’re a Vegan, so you should also do yoga”, and I was always so into sport. I did open sport tennis, cross the gym, swimming, whatever like you know, I was the biggest sports person. But yoga, I tried it many more times, I didn’t really connect to the teachers, I thought it’s only for hippies, bla bla bla. And then my friend said, “No, you have to do yoga, I’m sure it will help you”. I’m like “Okay, let’s try this yoga”. So I googled it on the Internet and I found one teacher training in it. But at this time I didn’t know it was teacher training. And I didn’t know what the teacher training looked like. So I only book the ticket. The next day at 5pm, I had a flight to Thailand. And I thought, Okay, I will have maybe I don’t know; one hour a day of yoga, and the rest of the day, I will just chill on the beach [unintelligible 00:04:49]

 

And then, it was like proper training, you know, and also Ashtanga. So Ashtanga was so hardcore, and like, because I have all this history of depression and anxiety and everything. I met the biggest drama queen you can imagine. So only after one hour, like the first session in the morning when I arrived. Only after one hour of Ashtanga, I felt like we were. So I really felt this peace in my life, which I never felt before. And even now, [inaudible 00:05:20] because I really still remember, like, how bad I felt in the evening. I’m still on the plane to Thailand, and then when I was there I only had one hour of yoga. It was amazing. And then I thought okay like it’s it helps me, then it can help so many other people, and yeah. This is how I decided to become a yoga teacher and it was like really the best month in my life.

 

Transformational Yoga Teacher Trainings

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:05:45

I agree that yoga teacher trainings are practically the best month of your life. It’s transformative, it’s like they strip you down to the root of who you are, and then they let you kind of build back up in this organic fresh new energetic way. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:06:04

Exactly, exactly. Like it was so magical like when people ask me, “Oh, should I do yoga teacher training?”. I’m like “Yes, yes. Do it, like it’s the best experience”, because like the only thing you do there is just yoga, you have yoga from 5am in the morning until six or 7pm, with maybe one-hour rest in between. Then all these teachers call from all over the world and it’s like just, wow, the best.

 

Could you explain a little bit about what Ashtanga Yoga is to our listeners?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:06:30

Yeah and then the Yoga philosophy and the history and all of the methodologies kind of rolling around in your head, I think also helps you kind of do a lot of introspective work. But I would love for Sabrina if you wouldn’t mind, just explaining a little bit about what Ashtanga Yoga is to our listeners, in case somebody is not familiar with it?

 

What is Ashtanga Yoga?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:06:45

Yeah, of course. Ashtanga Yoga is always the same sequence, of the same poses, the same exercises. You have like 10 Sun Salutations from the beginning, and then afterwards you have like a full sequence for like one hour, this is for the beginners. And then you have; for the more advanced people, the primary serious. It’s, I think, one and a half hours or even a little bit more. Always the same poses and Asanas. Once you know which Asanas to do and you remember, and then you connect the posture, the Asanas; with your breath and with your gaze. It’s like a moving meditation, like literally. And that’s why I feel it’s so powerful. I mean, I teach other sides of yoga so I teach mostly here, Power yoga, Vinyasa, Yin yoga, which is also completely amazing, I love it. But Ashtanga Yoga is just like different ends, you have a special breath, which you use, it’s called Mujiver. You inhale from your nose, exhale from your nose, and you press the air and the tongue against your throat, so it makes sound like the ocean. Also a little bit like Darth Vader, I’m sure you know. 

 

This breath is also very powerful. You use it through the whole Ashtanga practice. So you hear yourself breathing. It’s very calming, very soothing, relaxing, obviously the breath brings you back into the present moment that we face where life exists and it hits your blood from the inside and you flush out all the toxins. So afterwards, you’re like newborns. It’s the test. Also, like you should not listen to music while we do Ashtanga, the only music you have is your breath. So it’s so amazing how your breath sounds, how you’re into the practice, once you know the positions, the poses, the Asanas. It’s just amazing. It’s like a dance, you know. And, yeah, because I do Vinyasa especially when I teach my classes, like I said I really love it and sometimes at home I also do Vinyasa like, but then we play music, and also students love to listen to music while we are teaching. And, yeah, but then you’re more distracted. It’s not like really you’re more focused on the music, because you’re not really in the present and that’s why I feel Ashtanga is so powerful for me because I really follow all the rules, and then you’re religious with yourself in the present moment. And that’s actually the whole practice of meditation right, to be in the present moment. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:09:24

Yes, I did a lot of Ashtanga in Rishikesh in India and I agree, it’s just this cleansing process of the body and all the rules, all the structure. For some people it can feel like constructive, that I think that those constraints are there to help us, as you said just completely connect to the breath and to purify and cleanse our energy, because with every precision, movement, precision, you’re able to anticipate once you know the sequence as well, you’re able to just melt, and release all kinds of thoughts.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:09:59

Yeah, that’s very nice, so you really melt into that, because it’s so nice. Yeah. No, I also want to go to Rishikesh, by the way.

 

Would you like to talk a little bit more about your raw cooking experiences?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:10:10

I would love to talk to you, Sabrina. I’m also a vegan. I’m also a plant-based nutritionist, but I haven’t done any of these raw food cooking courses or the awesome school, yeah PlantLab you went to, would you like to talk a little bit more about your experiences?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:10:26

So many people, they come to me, they want to detoxify their body, they want to change their diet, whatever, and then they say okay, but I cannot be vegan, like I only eat plant-based food, but for the people I feel like okay if they have, I don’t know, five times a week for example they eat plant-based, and the other two days they can eat fish or whatever they want to eat you know, and it’s still fine. In my experience, because when I was younger, I didn’t know anything about what to eat and how to eat the right way. I was just eating literally everything, and so for me it was like okay whatever I can eat pizza, I can eat a burger, you know, like it doesn’t matter. But then I had like, I always had the flu. I always had migraine attacks at least two times a week, and I was always tired and like I said, depression, anxiety can also stem from you knowing bad food, because obviously if you put that food in your body, you feel that from inside. If you put a life food in your body, this is how you will feel— fresh, awake, alive, you will look, you know, vibrant. And then, when I went to PlantLab in Los Angeles, I didn’t want to be a chef, I was working as a chef as well, because Matthew Kenney, he created PlantLab. He has restaurants all over the world in New York City. I’m sure you know. He’s like the most famous raw food chef in the world. So he’s restaurants everywhere. And over the restaurants in Los Angeles, he has a cooking school. So I was working, after the class I was working in the restaurant for one month, and it was so hard. I respect all the chefs and all the helpers.

 

Can you tell us a little more about face yoga?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:12:16

Oh, that’s amazing. I’ve never eaten raw food before. So it’s always been a little bit intimidating for me to just be 100% raw. I would love to hear about face yoga, I’ve never interviewed someone before who does face yoga. So can you tell our listeners a little bit about what face yoga is, and define it and then just tell us how you got started with it.

 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:12:40

Face yoga, how did I get started… oh yeah I saw it, obviously like in YouTube, I saw people doing, you know all these weird funny exercises for the face and I’m like okay, let me try. I mean, I like to try all these weird things, so why not also face yoga. Now I think I did one session, it was maybe 14 minutes long, just from YouTube, and wow, like the changes I saw on my face. Like it was really, really so incredible. Like first, you do one side to check and then you see the other side, you will really see like it’s more lifted, there is not so much you know watching side, you’re not so puff anymore, you look more awake, face is amazing because actually it makes sense. Same way we have to exercise our body; you have to exercise our face to write our face muscles.  Yeah it’s really amazing and I have also so many clients like the wrinkles disappeared. I mean not completely obviously but like you know, more like clean and smooth and the features of the face changed. And yeah, I love it. I really enjoyed it, it’s very nice.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:13:50

So is it massaging your own face, as well as doing certain kind of exercises like tensing the jaw relaxing tensing relaxing is that what [cross-talk 00:13:58]

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:13:59

Yeah, yeah. Just exercises, you can massage with your fingers and you also have certain tools you know, like Gua Sha or the roller. Yeah, I love Gua Sha so much.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:14:09

[cross-talk 00:14:09] I feel like, I mean, why did we not discover this like, or why wasn’t I [unintelligible 00:14:16] for the last 10 years or something it’s just like…

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:14:19

Me too. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:14:20

… it’s so nice. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:14:22

I know. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:14:23

And I love using it on my neck and on the upper part of the shoulders, so if there’s any tension it really helps also kind of self massage if you have cervical spine tension.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:14:33

It’s really like a nice way to tune in with your body to know just like, see how you feel around your neck, like you said, if you have tension, to see if you’re holding on to something it’s really nice, like I said just to connect to yourself, because we never take the time to just be with ourselves, and while you do it, you always look into the mirror. You can just state yourself; “Nice work, nice affirmations, I love you, you’re beautiful”. It’s so nice, I just.  

 

Do you have a favorite time of day Sabrina to do your face yoga?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:15:05

Wow, and do you have a favorite time of day Sabrina to do your face yoga?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:15:09

I love to do everything I can in the morning. I love to wake up super early. Usually, I try to wake up by 6:30, 6:37. And then I just do my morning ritual. I do it super long if I have time. If I have to rush, then it gets a little bit shorter. But, yeah, I really like to do it in the morning.

 

Can you talk a little more about Theta Healing?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:15:29

So, I also would love to hear a little bit about Theta Healing. I know that you offer that, it’s private sessions, right? One-on-one?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 

Yeah, yeah. This is one-on-one. This also was very interesting because I was living before in a shed villa, for like one year here in Dubai. It was I think three years back, and then we always had like a small community. It was called House of Om. And we always have some free events. Different people from all over the world come and they teach different kinds of things—Yoga, Healing, Reiki, meditation, whatever, everything. And I attended a lot of those sessions, but like, okay, it was very hard for me to connect, like you know, to certain teachers or to the practice. I did some Reiki and this kind of thing, but it never worked for me, I don’t know. And then one time there was this Brazilian lady, she came and my friend said “Oh, this Brazilian lady is coming and she’s doing Theta Healing and you should try it”. And I really didn’t expect anything and I got another healing technique which doesn’t work, I don’t know, whatever. And she’s like, “No, I will do it for you and it’s even for free” and whatever, okay. 

 

So in this healing technique, at the beginning, I didn’t really understand what she’s doing, but she was working on my dad, because she did a test with me before, if we have to work on my mom or my dad, and somehow it came out. I have to work on my dad’s side, so she did this meditation with me and was saying some prayers and whatever. And I’m like, okay, good, and it was done after maybe 20 minutes. I didn’t feel anything. I mean, the relationship with my dad, it was, yeah not really like the best, you know. And I mean we tried like I love my parents too much like over everything, but it was not like, you know, the best relationship with my father. And then I think two years later, or even one and a half years later, I realized, “Oh my god, I’m talking to my dad”; and you know, your best friends and I’m like “what happened, and how did this happen”, you know. It was so strange, all of a sudden, with what’s happened and then I remembered, I did this Theta Healing with this girl. And then cool. Okay, let me work on whatever maybe my mom or something you know, psychology. I’m like “Hey where are you, I’m looking at the same session but maybe on my mother or something”. She’s like, “Yeah”. Actually she moved to California, and she’s like, “Actually, I’m doing a teacher training at Theta healing, and it’s in Dubai time over soon”, and it was I think before quarantine, of course. 

 

So then I’m like, okay. I booked the teacher training, and then I learned from her, and you know, it’s amazing. It’s like basically what it is. Theta Healing is, we have different brain waves in our brain; Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma. Theta brainwave is the state where you’re in hypnosis, or when you right after you wake up and it’s very easy to access the subconscious mind. For example, if people have they come with me with certain problems, I don’t know for example they have fears or, you know, all of us, you know, find out about manifestation and law of attraction, but sometimes things don’t manifest the way we want to manifest or they just simply don’t manifest, and why. Because people have limiting beliefs in their mind, usually. And these beliefs can come from childhood or from something which happens at some point in your life or even from past lives. I believe in past lives, and you know all these things. And then you just work with people like why, it’s like a psychology session, you asked them why and you try to find a reason, and then afterwards you put the people in the meditation, you access the Theta brainwaves, and then you go into the subconscious mind, and you change their limiting beliefs or replace them with a certain with beliefs. And it’s also nice, you know, because people have fears or anything limiting beliefs, but they don’t know why. And just to find out why they have it, it’s already like no big step ahead. No “oh yeah justify why and actually it’s not real, you know”, it’s all like in our heads, you know, it’s not who we are today.

 

How do you help release limiting beliefs?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:20:24

Very cool. So when you’re helping them replace these limiting beliefs, is it through verbal, like in Yoga Nidra where you’re kind of repeating things over and over, or is it more through energy or through something that’s going on in the session itself?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:20:41

It’s more energy, to take the energy of the highest power there is, why the person is in medication, and the highest power of these things to the universe or God, whatever you want to whatever you believe in, and then you work with this highest power, like it’s not you actually whose doing things. Like, it’s the universe or God, okay. And then you just ask the universe or God to replace the limiting beliefs, with the right beliefs to this person, and you just visualize the whole process.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:21:17

Yeah. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:21:18

And then it’s done.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:21:20

That’s amazing. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:21:20

It’s more like energy work, yeah.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:21:23

Got it, and do most of your clients need to do multiple sessions or like you, is it this kind of spontaneous change that occurs in just one session?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:21:34

Well, sometimes it’s really only one session. Yeah, sometimes it depends on what kind of problem you have and what you want to work on. Sometimes people call for one thing, but then they’re like, “No, actually we want to work on this, this, this”; and also during the session you find out actually I have to work on, you know, certain areas of your life.

 

Yoga is what?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:21:50

That makes complete sense. So Sabrina, one of my favorites. It’s a small question, but one of my favorite questions to ask is for you, how do you define yoga? So if I just gave you the sentence yoga is? You have to fill in the blank. How would you do that? Yoga is what?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:22:10

Yoga is magic. No, I just think yoga is good for your soul. Yoga is, yeah. Yoga is magic, yoga is good for your soul. Yeah, when people come to me they always ask, okay, do I get a skinny body or whatever I’m like yes yes you get all of these things. But the most important part is how you feel when you practice yoga and just how you feel from inside. You feel stronger, more confident, more at peace with yourself . When I do yoga, it’s just everything so you can manage everything. You’re more compassionate with yourself, with your body, and with other people, and also with other people. For example, you’re not more stressed about things you would usually maybe stress about. So funny also my mom recently started yoga, and then my dad said, and then she stopped a little bit. And then my dad said, “you should do yoga again, because if you do yoga, you’re more, you know, more at peace and more calm”. So, yeah, it’s just yoga is so good for your soul.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:23:20

That’s funny you say that. My husband is very similar, whenever I’m feeling really anxious or angst or kind of stirred up he’s like, “Honey, do you want to go meditate ”, and well it’s a little bit annoying sometimes, it’s often like, yeah, yeah.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:23:39

Yeah, yeah. It helps. Really, it’s incredible.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:23:42

And I thought that your definition of yoga was so awesome, just saying it’s just magic. Because I think there are a lot of those elements to yoga that you can’t really explain and you don’t really expect and it’s just so surprising that it feels just like magic because it came out of nowhere, you don’t really understand it but there’s these effects of it. And that’s the magic.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:24:06

People like to know they want an explanation like, “How do I feel, what do I get?”. They care so much, like, “Oh, they’re pretty good but I don’t know, just feeling like it’s so hard to explain it”. Sometimes I want to explain it like I have to explain everyday to people, sometimes, like I sound like a crazy person. Because sometimes it’s so unbelievable but I’m like okay, whatever. Don’t listen to what I’m saying, just practice, practice for one week everyday and then you see the benefits yourself.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:24:33

I like that, because I also try to remind my students that Asana is the teacher. Like I might be standing there and telling you and explaining it, but really there’s no better teacher than the actual Asana itself. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:24:47

Yes, that’s so true. 

 

What is it like to teach yoga in Dubai?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:24:48

So Sabrina, what is it like to teach yoga in Dubai? I imagine that you have such a diverse clientele and the yoga studio you teach looks gorgeous, so I would just love to hear a little bit more about it.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:24:59

Yeah I mean first of all, Dubai is an amazing place. Like oh my god, I just love it. I really fell in love. And you know since six years and everywhere I travel I always come back to Dubai, like I’m always happy to be here. But then to teach, yeah, I mean you have people from all over the world, people from UK, India, Iran, Saudi, here the locals, Semaraties, Germans, everything. Like your clients, every time they are different because also people who come here for holidays, they go for yoga. So it’s so nice to see all these people from all over the world. Yeah, it’s nice, like, I really enjoyed it.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:25:40

Very cool. And the studio you teach with it seems like your yoga teachers are from all over the world too, which I think is probably a gorgeous community to be a part of.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:25:47

Yes, yes, yes. We are beautiful, everywhere we have people, like I said, a lot of teachers are from India of course and it’s really nice to see. Because I mean, we would do yoga in India, but I didn’t. So I like to see people who are teaching here from India. They have such a nice way of teaching, and they really go so deep, so in detail. It’s not more the Western like I said before, with music. It’s really like discipline. And the way they explain it is like my studio, there’s one guy, he’s like a guru, he’s a guru I think. He has answers for everything, and they all make so much sense, you know, and just like to talk to him, it’s like, wow, I just want to sit down, ask him all these questions, and yeah.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:26:39

I completely agree because sometimes the Indian teachers describe something, it’s like they take the most complicated biggest life question and they answer it in five words. You get hit in the chest, in the heart, complete buttons. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:26:54

Yeah, yeah. Exactly. 

 

Are there any current projects that you’re working on, that you’d like to tell us about?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:26:56

So Sabrina, are there any current projects that you’re working on, that you’d like to tell us about, whether that’s a training course you’re taking or you’re offering or any retreats or anything?

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:27:06

A hundred percent. I wanted to do teacher training, actually it was my friend who wanted to do it in Egypt, but okay right now because of Corona and everything, it didn’t happen. Then, with my other friend, I’m planning out something but it’s in Ibiza. Because I was living in Ibiza for a while in Spain. So, I feel really connected to this place and it’s also like such a magical island that people think okay it’s about parties and whatever. But no, like if you really like. If you don’t party, Like discovering all these other amazing places you know the nature, everything and the beach. It also has so many interesting people in Ibiza. So, yeah, and they have so much Yoga also there. So I’m working now on this one. And, obviously, one day I’m planning to have my own center with yoga and meditation. Just like everything, like a small shop with a small juice park, and yeah. 

 

Are you doing any courses online?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:28:10

So, do you want to just mention, are you doing any courses online? Are you offering any online classes? There’s everything in the studio in Dubai.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:28:17

Right now I’m redesigning my website. So now it’s off, yeah. But I think next week we will relaunch it. And then you can access it. You can find my classes. For example, yoga for back pain, it’s so cheap, like everyone can get it, super affordable. And it’s like a different kind of yoga class, different kinds of meditations, recipes and all these things.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:28:51

When your websites relaunched, what’s the URL for it? I’ll make sure to have it in the show notes and link to it on my website wildyogatribe.com, but we just wanted to visit your name or a different URL. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:29:02

It’s sabrinaactive.com.

What is the best way to get in touch with you?

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:29:05

And so if anybody wants to reach out and follow you on Instagram on social media, is there a platform that you like the most and would like to tell our listeners, it’s the best way to get in touch with you.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:29:16

Yeah, Instagram, of course. Like Instagram and then soon also my website, buy Instagram like all the time Sabrina; Biljana dash… underscore, sorry. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:29:30

Yeah. 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:29:31

Sabrina Biljana underscore. 

 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:29:32

Perfect.

 

Sabrina: 00:29:30

Well, I’m still a German. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:29:34

No problem. So yes, in the show notes and everywhere. If you want to get in touch with Sabrina and learn about the courses and your offerings. Instagram is a great way to do it. She has a beautiful profile. A lot of inspirational quotes on there as well which is always nice to get into your day and I’ll have those links so you don’t have to worry about spelling anything correctly. 

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:29:56

Perfect. 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:29:58

Well, thank you so much Sabrina for taking the time to be with me today. It has been such a joy to connect with you, it was such a journey.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:30:03

Thank you so much.

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:30:04

And it was just amazing for me to hear and learn more about Theta Healing and Face yoga and about your journey with plant-based and Raw cooking.

 

Sabrina Neitzel: 00:30:12

Thank you so much for having me. It’s so nice to meet you. 

 

Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast Outro

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:30:19

Thank you so much for tuning into this episode of The Wild Yoga Tribe with Sabrina from Germany. Now she’s teaching in Dubai, and I hope you enjoyed learning about all the awesome things we got to touch on today; from face yoga to Theta Healing to Raw food and plant-based nutrition. I think my conversation with Sabrina was really fascinating from so many different elements and aspects of yoga, and of course don’t forget, yoga is magic. Thank you so much for joining me and being well.

 

 

 

Lily Allen-Duenas: 00:30:53

Thank you for being on this journey with me. It’s been a privilege to be with you. I know that your time is precious and I am both humbled and honored that you chose to spend your time with me here on the Wild Yoga Tribe Podcast. As you were on your own inner journey, remember that you are not alone. There are so many of us on this path to awakening, this path of self discovery and expansion. And we are right here, alongside you. Remember to hit subscribe so that you never miss an episode and if you feel called, please share this episode with someone that you think could benefit from it. Leaving a review would also be so appreciated. If you’re on social media, I am there too at the Wild Yoga Tribe. You can tap into all the amazing resources on my website the wildyogatribe.com and you can meditate with me on Insight Timer and get your flow on with me on my YouTube channel, where I’ve recorded free yoga classes. If you’d like to schedule a private yoga or meditation class with me or a coaching session, you can find the link to do so, to book in the show notes or on my website, again the wildyogatribe.com. Thank you once again dear listener, for being with me. May your day be light and bright. May you be peaceful and happy and lead on the right path, free of suffering and free of sorrow. Be Well dear one, be well. 

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