Origins & Approach
The first ideas behind the work I do today began to take shape while I was studying sports science. At the time, I was interested in why people with similar physical abilities can develop in very different ways and what truly helps people progress in sport.
That is why I found a seminar on talent identification particularly fascinating. We explored what coaches look for in young athletes. It became clear that performance depends on more than strength, endurance, or technique. How someone handles pressure, setbacks, and defeat also plays a crucial role.
This became even clearer when I specialised in sport psychology. I found it particularly interesting that we also explored practical interventions. In other words, what can be done when mental or emotional factors affect performance?
I realised early on that physical performance cannot be separated from mental and emotional experience.
Alongside anatomy and biomechanics, I studied many different sports from both a practical and theoretical perspective. In one of my favourite seminars, we explored what different sports can learn from one another. What, for example, can a golfer learn from weightlifting? I began to recognise recurring foundations of movement and understand the role strength plays throughout the body.
Even then, I started combining this knowledge in my own training and when training people around me: building strength, understanding movement, and recognising what happens mentally and emotionally under load. This connection shaped my understanding of mindful strength training from the beginning.
As I continued working and began building my brand Bodhiflow®, this idea became increasingly established. It also gave rise to the overarching goal of becoming 3fachfit: physically, mentally, and emotionally.
I saw that moving a lot or following a good training plan does not necessarily mean that someone can truly sense and understand their own body.
At the same time, I was able to observe more closely which difficulties occurred repeatedly. Some foundations of movement are similar across people. Where someone begins, what needs attention first, and what currently limits them are highly individual. Sometimes the difficulty lies in the movement itself. At other times, uncertainty, stress, or body awareness plays a greater role.
Over the years, I have increasingly specialised in working with women because it became clear that female physiology needs to be considered in training. Even during my studies, I was struck by how little attention it often received. I wanted to understand more precisely how the menstrual cycle, life stage, energy, and recovery influence training, without reducing women to these factors.
Drawing on these experiences, I continued developing my approach over the years until it became my training method, VASILÁ®.
You can spend an hour doing yoga while your thoughts remain at work or focused on the rest of your day. In the same way, you can perform an exercise during strength training without noticing that you are clenching your jaw, lifting your shoulders, or creating compensatory tension through your hands and feet.
You can push through and override your limits, or remain in your comfort zone without realising it and create too little training stimulus. In each case, you do not fully achieve the result you intended to get from your training.
For me, this is a key difference between simply training and truly understanding your body under load.
At the same time, we live in a world where more and more is tracked and optimised: sleep, steps, the menstrual cycle, heart rate, calories, and recovery. This data can be helpful. But it should not lead to us knowing more and more about our bodies while becoming less able to assess for ourselves how we actually feel.
This inner sense is also essential to me in training.
Training should challenge you. It can be demanding and take you beyond your comfort zone. Progress requires load. What matters to me is whether that load makes you stronger over time or simply adds more strain.
This is where my guiding principle comes from: having the confidence to challenge yourself while also taking your limits seriously.
I do not want to teach women to constantly hold back. I want them to grow stronger, challenge themselves, and learn to assess their capacity on any given day with increasing accuracy. To recognise when more is still possible, when their technique begins to break down, where unnecessary tension is developing, and when more is no longer better.
This philosophy is at the heart of my training method VASILÁ®.
The method combines effective mindful strength training with body awareness, regulation, and female-informed training programming. My goal is for women to make increasingly intuitive yet informed decisions about what they need on a given day, how far they can challenge themselves, and when enough is enough.
This ability extends beyond training. Those who learn to recognise what is happening under physical load begin to identify similar patterns more quickly in everyday life and respond to them more consciously.
This is what my work stands for: growing stronger, having confidence in yourself, and becoming increasingly secure in deciding what will truly move you forward.