HeinzGrill is a spiritual teacher and researcher, lecturer, mountaineer, healingpractitioner, and author of around 150 books on topics including yoga, thedevelopment of the consciousness, medicine and health, nutrition, architectureand mountaineering. Born in Bavaria in 1960, he established his first yogaschool and began training yoga teachers in 1989. He moved to Italy in 1999where he has set up the so-called "Sun Oasis", a centre wherespiritual thoughts are fostered and can radiate out to society. Over the years,more than 100 000 people have participated in his teaching. Whilsthis fields of activity are many and varied, the essence of all Heinz Grill'swork is to bring alive those deep spiritual truths of existence which havelasting validity. His teaching and his books enable others to develop their owninner feeling for these truths, and to give them expression in their chosenfield of work or life. His aim is to enrich the visible forms of society withinner, invisible spiritual content. Thus, the practice of yoga too is seen notmerely as a means towards personal well-being, but as a vehicle for givingprofound spiritual principles an outer, physical expression. HeinzGrill's ideas have a huge power to inspire people. This is because his words,whether written or spoken, always carry within them not just factualinformation, but an invisible aliveness which gives them a genuineauthenticity. He is authentic not only in the sense that he knows what he isteaching, but in the sense that what he is teaching carries in it a truth thatis universally valid. Thus, those reading or hearing his words have the sense"I always knew that, but I could not have put it into words myself".His words carry within them a substance which directly awakens the soul,triggering in his audience an inner development to new realisation andmaturity.
