Yoga teacher · Philosopher · Researcher · Retreat Guide · Explorer of Sacred Places
Regina Rainskaya is a yoga teacher, philosopher, researcher, and guide whose life has been shaped by a deep curiosity about consciousness, spirituality, ancient wisdom, and the sacred landscapes of our world.
She has been practicing meditation since the age of twelve and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than twenty years. Over the years, yoga has become much more than a physical discipline for her — it has become a way of understanding the human being, exploring consciousness, and moving through life with greater awareness.
Her approach brings together yoga, meditation, breathwork, philosophy, ritual, contemplative practices, and a deep connection with nature. She creates spaces where practice becomes an invitation to slow down, listen inwardly, and explore what lies beyond the familiar boundaries of everyday life.
A Philosopher at HeartBefore yoga became her profession, Regina was already deeply immersed in the study of philosophy and religion.
She studied Philosophy at university and continued her academic education through postgraduate studies. Her research explored one of the questions that has accompanied humanity for thousands of years: How does our understanding of Absolute Truth change across different spiritual and philosophical traditions?
She completed her doctoral research on the topic of The Modification of Absolute Truth in Different Traditions. Although she ultimately chose not to defend the dissertation, the years of research profoundly shaped the way she sees spirituality today.
For Regina, philosophy is not merely an academic discipline. It is a living inquiry — a way of questioning assumptions, comparing traditions, and searching for what remains essential beneath different cultural forms.
A Life of ExplorationCuriosity has always been one of the strongest forces in Regina's life.
She has never been interested in simply reading about different ways of living — she prefers to experience them directly.
At different periods of her life, she has lived in radically different environments, deliberately stepping outside conventional structures in order to explore other possibilities of existence.
At one point, she left the city and moved to an alternative ecological community, surrounded by fields, cows, and people experimenting with sustainable ways of living. There, among other things, she baked bread at festivals and discovered another dimension of community, simplicity, and connection with the land.
Later, she moved alone to the Carpathian Mountains, where she lived close to nature and began creating intimate retreats. Every other weekend she would gather people for retreats, combining yoga, meditation, philosophical exploration, and immersion in the natural environment.
These experiences became an important part of her understanding of retreat work: a retreat is not simply a holiday or a set of yoga classes. It can be a temporary departure from ordinary life — a space where something inside us has the opportunity to change.
Following the SacredTravel has always been another form of research for Regina.
She is especially drawn to sacred places, ancient temples, pilgrimage routes, mountains, places of power, and landscapes that have carried spiritual meaning for generations.
Her journeys have taken her to distant parts of the world, including India, Sri Lanka, Peru, the Himalayas, and other places where ancient traditions are still woven into everyday life.
She has spent extended periods living in India and Sri Lanka and has travelled through Peru, exploring not only its landscapes but also its spiritual heritage and relationship with the sacred mountains of the Andes.
For Regina, travelling is never simply about seeing new places.
She is interested in the stories held by those places — the rituals, myths, philosophies, sacred architecture, pilgrimage traditions, and ways in which human beings have searched for connection with something greater than themselves.
This lifelong fascination has naturally become one of the central themes of her work.
Yoga as a Journey of Self-DiscoveryAfter more than two decades of practice, Regina's teaching has evolved into a meeting point between traditional yogic wisdom and contemporary exploration of consciousness.
Her retreats and classes may include asana, meditation, breathwork, philosophy, ritual, contemplation, time in nature, and practices designed to deepen awareness of the body, mind, and inner world.
Rather than presenting yoga as a fixed system, she approaches it as a living path of self-discovery.
Her intention is not to tell people who they should become, but to create the conditions in which they can listen more deeply to themselves.
From the Mountains to BarcelonaToday, Regina is based in Barcelona, Spain, where she continues to teach yoga and create retreats and journeys.
Her work has expanded beyond the traditional boundaries of yoga. She now combines her experience as a yoga teacher and philosopher with her passion for travel, culture, sacred architecture, and storytelling.
In Barcelona, she also works as a tour guide and creates experiences dedicated to the extraordinary world of Antoni Gaudí.
At first, this may seem like a different direction. For Regina, however, the thread remains the same.
Gaudí's architecture, like the ancient temples and sacred places she has explored around the world, invites us to look beyond the purely functional and encounter another dimension of human creativity, symbolism, nature, and spirituality.
The geography has changed.
The subject of research has expanded.
But the essential question remains the same:
What makes a place sacred — and what happens to us when we enter it with awareness?
Sacred JourneyToday, all these paths come together in Sacred Journey — Regina's ongoing exploration of yoga, philosophy, travel, pilgrimage, nature, and the sacred dimensions of human experience.
Her retreats and journeys are created for people who are curious about the world and, at the same time, about themselves.
They are invitations to travel not only across countries and landscapes, but also inward — through the body, the mind, the imagination, and the deeper layers of consciousness.
For Regina, every journey is a form of research.
Every sacred place is a teacher.
And every practice is an opportunity to remember something we already know, somewhere deep within ourselves.
