30/01/2026
A little late to the game - but here we go. This trend took me on quite a journey down memory lane and straight back to one of the most exciting years of my life: 2016 ✨
I wasn’t on Instagram yet. I took photos without the intention of sharing or telling a story. Just a few here and there, mostly for myself and there are even fewer of myself. Looking at them now, they are unpolished, uncurated taken from inside the moment rather than for the outside world.
That year I was traveling the second year in a row full time, living off my savings, living and moving through India, Bali and Australia. Practicing a lot of yoga, teaching occasionally, letting my life unfold, which in hindsight was so spacious and carefree.
The funny thing is: this was exactly the life I imagined for myself as a future yoga teacher, traveling endlessly, living lightly, always somewhere warm.
Reality turned out a little different :) Becoming a full-time yoga teacher asked me to settle, focus, commit. And that was always the plan. Those years of travel were part of setting that dream in motion. At the end of 2016 returned to Germany to pursue it and I’m still here, still teaching, still loving it. (Although I would not mind to travel more)
I joined Instagram only two years after it came out, a little late to the game, and with that, the way I take photos (and what I notice) has changed forever. Looking back, 2016 still feels like a really important year. A chapter lived mostly offline, shaping everything that came after.
I’m glad I lived it the way I did ❤️