Ulf Reinitzer

„Ein eigenes Studio in meiner Heimatstadt“

Vor sechs Jahren traf Ulf Reinitzer in Christchurch/Neuseeland auf lauter glückliche verschwitzte Gesichter: Sie kamen aus einer Bikramyoga-Klasse. Nach seiner ersten Klasse erging es ihm dann genau so. Und er hatte eine Vision: In seiner Heimatstadt Graz dereinst ein eigenes Studio zu eröffnen. Es war ein weiter Weg, der ihn nach dem Teacher Training bei Bikram auch über die Schweiz führte, wo er in Basel unterrichtete. Am 10. November 2012 hat er seine Vision wahr gemacht und an der Herrengasse 8 mitten in der Fussgängerzone in der Grazer Altstadt das erste Bikramyoga-Studio der Steiermark eröffnet. Das Studio hat inzwischen schon manchen zum Schwitzen gebracht und genau jene Einsicht beschert, die der Begründer des Bikramyogas, Bikram Choudhury, lehrte: „Nothing can steal happiness, peace away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser. If someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser“.

A vision became true

It was six years ago when Ulf Reinitzer noticed in Christchurch/New Zealand happy smiling sweating faces. He was told that they had taken a Hot Yoga class. After his first class he looked exactly the same. And just then he had a vision: He wanted to have his own studio in his hometown Graz in Austria.

It was a very long way: At first he did his Teacher Training, then he taught in Basel in Switzerland. The 10th of November 2012 his vision became true, in the middle of the pedestrian area at the Herrengasse 8 in the old town of Graz he opened the first Bikram Yoga studio in the Steiermark. Meanwhile the studio tought many students to sweat and do the right postures. They learnt also what the founder of this sort of yoga, Bikram Choudhury, said: „Nothing can steal happiness, peace away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser. If someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser“.