Hi, I'm Carina.
Born and raised in purest nature in the Austrian Alps, my spirit has always been one of an explorer and adventurer. I had to see the world out there. So I left my home land at age 18 for my first overseas trip alone for 6 months.
After finishing university back home I moved to London to seek out the big city lights. I did everything that a 20 something year old would, but kind of shouldn't do. I really tested the limits by partying hard, working hard and at the end just really trying to find out who I was. I was seen as very confident, loud, a character, ... however underneath that mask, I had a lot of insecurities. One of my beliefs about myself was, that I wasn't "fun" enough or "entertaining" enough when I didn't have a drink!
Moving To Ibiza
2013 was the year I arrived at a place with my head against the wall. I felt burnt out. Exhausted by the abuse of my own body. Questioning who I was meant to be. I needed something. So I booked a trip to Ibiza, this time not for a week long of clubbing, but for a Yoga Teacher Training in a gorgeous villa in the hills of Cala Salada.
I began to FEEL my body again.
The training was a catalyst for turning my life around completely. After connecting so deeply with my body and my breath for hours and hours daily for a whole month, there was no going back. I packed up my stuff in London and moved to Ibiza. With no plan. No job. No family. I TRUSTED. And the island received me with open arms. I met my partner, stopped partying and Yoga became my LIFE! I began to teach daily. I really developed my signature style. My voice. My rhythm. My essence. Celebrities from the music industry, travellers, artists and wellness seeking tourists became my clients who would return again and again to attend my classes and invest into their personal and spiritual growth.
For over a decade I have been leading wellness retreats in Ibiza, Bali, Dominican Republic and Morocco and had the honour to receive and work with hundreds of people from all over the world. Those experiences have always had an adventurous touch and brought spirituality and shamanic teachings to my clients from a grounded perspective (I was never and still am not much down with the airy fairness of the New Age movement. I am a total Capricorn after all!)
IVF, Grieving My Papa & Finding God
Throughout all these years, whilst my yoga career was blooming, my womb wasn't. I desperately wanted to be a mum and for 7 long years that wish wasn't granted. As we went through a second round of IVF after discovering mechanical damage done by surgery in my younger years, I sat in our rented apartment in Palma de Mallorca. I had prepared my body with medicines from the Amazon forest. I had practiced Kundalini Yoga for 40 days to raise my frequency. I had already received our embryo into my womb, not sure if it would stick around. I kneeled on the floor and I PRAYED. I went into a state of prayer and stillness I haven't known before. It was the direct line to God. I could feel HIM in every cell of my being. I felt peace. The little seed in me had started to grow and become alive! I was finally PREGNANT!
Little did I know that the closeness to God was what I needed the most just a few months later. I was 5 months pregnant when I called my mum and the police answered the phone to inform me that my beloved father had committed suicide! What I went through and felt in that time cannot be put into words and I am deeply touched as I am writing this.
My Heart shattered into a million pieces. And alongside the immense pain and grief that I was feeling, there was this huge Love that got stronger with every day that my baby was growing inside my belly. I never knew until then, that such a huge spectrum of emotions can be experienced simultaneously. Then I realised that even pain so big that we are not sure if we can survive it, even such pain in our soul, is LOVE.
The year 2022 has marked me incredibly and the emotional scars, the deep feeling IT ALL, the having to be present with it all, because there was no way out (not even the option to numb out with wine or other substances), has matured me into the woman and teacher that I am today.
I walked through that fire and breathed through day by day as I could. I had to keep going. On October 6th our amazing baby girl Naya was born!
Now & What Is Coming...
As the arrival of a baby often does, it rips your world and your heart wide open and you will never be the same.
On a motherhood level I have been plugged in and fulfilled and absolutely absorbed from day 1. It luckily came very naturally for me.
On a professional level I had to take everything apart that I had ever done and find SO MUCH PATIENCE to know the next step and what I am here to do. After some twists and turns I realised that the 12 years that I had dedicated to the work with the body, breath, the nervous systems, fascia, ... was where my work was needed!
In a new way. The upgraded version. The experiences that life has thrown at me in those last years have given me tools to hold my students in a deeper way. More profound. Less surface. No holding back. I am here to hold YOUR WHOLE HEART! More than ever before!
I founded The Nourished Mama Lounge, because mothers in 2025 and beyond are often very isolated and we really need a village and connection with other moms. I can resonate with other mothers' present topics (time limitations, physical issues, raising children questions, nutrition etc...), however I want to say that my work still includes ALL WOMEN! Because we all need to come home to ourselves. To our body. To our Heart. To our true nature and power that will enlighten this Earth (and the men on it too!)
My recent studies of tantra have taken me deep into pelvic activation work which my upcoming course is going to be all about. This is the work not just for mothers but ALL WOMEN who are ready to step into their power and through that will change the world.
RETREAT DREAMING...
The vision I am holding now is to bring mamas and their small children together on retreat. In beautiful nature. Sitting around the campfire. Singing. Dancing. Crying together. The little ones running around wild and free with their bare feet and salty hair. So I hope to sit in circle with you soon. Because this is what we truly need to return to. As mothers. As women. As humans. In person. Heart to Heart. To show our children a different way. A more connected way of living. For them to become responsible and loving stewards of the Earth.
