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U-Retreat Experts
RETREAT MANAGER
Dora
Dora, our incredible U-Retreat team member, manages and develops retreats. She discovered yoga only a few years ago, but it transformed her life. After overcoming many obstacles and finding herself on a beautiful new path, Dora is incredibly excited to share it with others — to connect people and help them dive deep into themselves. She’s thrilled to be able to lead retreat goers as they discover our breathtaking retreats… and themselves!
RETREAT MANAGER
Jekaterina
Jekaterina is a program and retreat manager. Though she’s originally from Estonia, her love for sports, yoga, and nature led her to move to Ibiza in 2015 — and she hasn’t looked back since. While her background is in finance and banking, Jekaterina has dedicated her professional life to doing things that she loves. Drawn to U-Retreat’s concept of non-commercial retreats in handpicked places, she looks forward to bringing guests to her adopted home, where they can disconnect from the material world and plunge into the spiritual.
YOGA TEACHER
Ilenia
A passionate yoga teacher and traveler, Ilenia helps to organize and manage our fantastic retreats. After studying tourism management and earning her MBA, she’s spent the last 13 years working and traveling abroad. Intrigued by all things related to natural health, Ilenia was excited to join the U-Retreat team and share her values of wellness, beauty, art, and creativity for the body and soul.
MENTAL TRAINER
Manuela
Manuela works as a life transformational and mental trainer at U-Retreat and accompanies you on your journey to your true essence. She also lovingly supports you to shine your light and discover your gift to the world through your unique being. To do this, she uses different techniques and exercises derived from her multiple skills. She trained in different areas like dance pedagogy, energetic movements, experiential pedagogy and outdoor training as well as craniosacral therapy. Becoming a mother was the biggest transformation in her life and gives her the opportunity to grow into the best version of herself every day. For Manuela, working on the “heart set”, is as important as working on the mindset. There is no life B, so let’s start today to shine your light and paint your world with colours!
NUTRITIONAL EXPERT
Anita
Anita is our nutritional Expert. She is always looking for new sunny, warm and windy places. She is a sea lover, determined kitesurfer, loving mom of a 3-year old boy, passionate cook and she never misses a chance to talk about healthy eating.
Anita studied nutritional science in Vienna, Austria, as well as sports to teach kids in high school. Since she finished her studies she has been travelling around Europe and South America to find beautiful, windy kitesurfspots. Anita has been working as a nutritional scientist for an education instituition for adults in the healthcare sector, as well as selfemployed giving kitesurf and vegan cooking classes and Anita taught nutrition and sports in high school for a year.
HEAD CHEF
Petra
Petra is our head chef in U-Retreat and putting the whole concept of our plant based diet and nutrition for our life transformational retreats. She is a former Head Chef of one of the world´s top ten health retreats. Trained in plant based and raw vegan cuisine in Europe, surrounded by beautiful nature, Petra began to explore the powerful healing properties of fresh foods & herbs for detoxification of body and mind and rejuvenating force of fasting. She continued her Raw Chef training in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, which expanded her palette with a new range of flavours and combinations.
Petra has been a raw food & vegan chef for the past 5 years. Her biggest passion is helping others with transitioning into more healthy lifestyle while focusing on making plantbased meals highly interesting, delicious, satisfying yet simple to prepare. She is passionate about nutrition same as in nourishment of prepared dishes.
GREEN CHEF
Sonia
Sonia is our green chef. She grew up in Southern Spain, where her kitchen experience started at a very young age, working in her parent’s restaurant. Her mum was an accomplished chef and her love for local and seasonal foods was passed on over Sonia igniting her interest in cooking. At 11 years of age, Sonia encountered vegan food for the first time. Without being aware of it she started her journey into a plant-based lifestyle. She went to University and obtained a degree in Law but soon after graduating she realised her passion laid in food. She did a lot of research until she discovered Raw Vegan Cuisine and she was blown away. She realised she could be playful and very creative and also inspire people, in many ways, through food.
After moving to London, she completed formal training as a Vegan Natural Chef by the College of Naturopathic Medicine and has been embarked in many other projects. She is currently completing a course in Plant Based Nutrition by the University of Winchester and works as a Plant Based Chef with different organisations in London. She strongly believes in making food very accessible to everyone, in sharing and in magic living!
PSYCHOLOCICAL CONSULTANT
Ulrike
Ulrike Auracher is our psychological consultant. She graduated from the University of Vienna and earned a post-graduate diploma as a Clinical and Health Psychologist. She has profound expertise in both the scientific and therapeutic field. Uli worked for renowned institutes among them the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and the Anton-Proksch-Institute.
More and more she has become passionate about supporting organisations and individuals in their growth. As a certified Work and Organisational Psychologist (with the Austrian Psychologist Association) Uli has fine antennas for individual needs combined with an analytical approach and her deep understanding of what it takes to empower teams and organisations. Uli loves to be in motion, mentally and physically. She is outdoorsy and enjoys nature as a source for grounding, fresh energy.
FOUNDER | MENTAL TRAINER
Korayem
U-Retreat was founded by Korayem Razik, an Austrian with Egyptian roots who has spent his career working in Europe and the Middle East. He has extensive experience organising travel and training sessions, as a business coach, positive transformation trainer and mental trainer, he truly understands the nuances of what makes an exceptional retreat. A yogi and avid traveler for the last 25 years, Korayem’s passion is what drives him to continually improve U-Retreat, shaping it into a leading platform for bespoke retreats — and never losing the focus on quality.
Korayem studied engineering and earned an MBA in international marketing. He was many years a Managing Director for an Austrian solar energy and industrial company in Dubai and a former board member for the Austrian Business Council in the Middle East, and was part of the Austrian president delegation in many countries. He’s currently writing a book on leadership and change, and he can’t wait to share it with you!
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