INSYNC stands for Soul Food + Yoga + Naïve Art + Community
ANDREA SCHAUER - FOUNDER OF INSYNC CLUB
THE 4 PILLARS OF INSYNC
✹ Soul Food
It all started 8 years ago with the first component SOUL FOOD, when Andrea, the founder of INSYNC, finished her studies in Nutritional Sciences. As a nutritionist, she lent her expertise to a food delivery start-up in Vienna, crafting imaginative recipes, immersing herself in the art of cooking, and meticulously curating food boxes to bring the joy of healthier home-cooked meals to others.
✹ YOGA
Besides the art of recipe creation, Andrea discovered her deep love for YOGA as a form of healing through movement. Her first stop on this journey took her to a Yoga Teacher Training in the lush and hidden spots of Costa Rica, where she found transformation and a deeper understanding of herself. Traveling, meeting new people, experiencing new things, and learning were a huge part of that journey. To deepen her knowledge in the complex studies of spirituality and yoga, Andrea stayed in Costa Rica for three more months before a wink from the universe led her to the United States.
In New Orleans soul food and yoga found their synergy for the first time in Andrea’s life. She managed and taught in a yoga studio and organized weekly soul lunches. She had fallen in love with the States and continued traveling to San Francisco and New York, teaching yoga in offices in Manhattan and attending yoga classes in the most popular spots of this vibrant city. Before heading back to Vienna Andrea worked as a vegan chef in London for two of the top yoga studios with a plant-based café in Richmond and Baker Street.
Back in 2016 after a year of living all over the world, the time had come to start her own business. “Eat with Andrea” was all about recipe development. Andrea created plant-based recipes for known brands such as Joya, Feinstoff, Kenwood, Kissatea, and Ichoc. At that time yoga classes all over Vienna started to take the lead and transformed the business to “Flow with Andrea”. Andrea found herself teaching private classes, practicing together with yogis in yoga studios or offices, parks and retreats in Austria, Croatia, and Portugal.
Once more the excitement to expand and learn took Andrea to Bali and Singapore attending yoga classes and getting inspired by various teaching techniques. This time evoked the desire to share the journey of spirituality and healing through movement and food. Since the complex studies of the Chakras, the energy centers in the human body were a big part of her teaching and trainings, Andrea’s book The Chakra Journey was brought to life. A journal for self-transformation and deeper understanding of the self, guided by the seven Chakras.
✹ NAÏVE ART
In the summer of 2022 INSYNC’s final component NAÏVE ART came to the surface. It stands for creating something simple with imagination and skill, that is beautiful or expresses important ideas or feelings. With creativity being an important part of creating nourishing and delicious plant-based dishes and teaching creative yoga sequences the urge for a place to bring it all together was an evident next step.
✹ COMMUNITY
Bringing people together means sharing the creative path: the first event of INSYNC’s vision “Yoga & Clay + Brunch” was born in Vienna. A fusion of the grounding practice of yoga with earthy clay and a nourishing brunch in between. A place where people are part of a COMMUNITY – the fourth and last layer of INSYNC.
ANDREA’S EXPERIENCE
14 Years yoga practice and exploration
8 years of running a business
3 years of vegan recipe-development
5 Years of teaching yoga at different studios in Vienna
4 years of running Yoga Retreats
3 years of being a Book Author
3 years of being a Mental Health Coach
ANDREA’S TRAININGS
MSc Nutritional Sciences Public Health - Winter 2015
Vinyasa Flow Teacher - Spring 2016
(200 h Lakshmi Rising Teacher Training Costa Rica at The Sanctuary at Two Rivers with Liz Lindh)
Mental Health Coach - Spring 2021
Yin Yoga Teacher - Fall 2022
(100 h Teacher Training Greece at Inea Yoga with TJ Maher)