Mateja is a seasoned yoga teacher with years of experience. Beyond yoga, she shares her knowledge and passion for movement through classes in conscious and oriental dance. She first encountered yoga in 2005 and began teaching in 2013. Over the years, she has dedicated herself to exploring a variety of yoga styles—including hatha, ashtanga, dharma, vinyasa flow, restorative, and yin—along with countless training programs. She’s had the privilege of learning from some of the biggest names in the yoga world, as well as exceptional local teachers to whom she’s deeply grateful for passing on their wisdom. Her most recent training was a TT500-hour program at the Dharmaway Center in Zagreb, completed in 2024. With her broad expertise, Mateja’s approach to teaching yoga is intuitive, fluid, and unburdened, always attuned to subtly listening to her students’ needs. She believes in a gentle yet profound and “powerful” practice, placing great emphasis on injury prevention and meditative, restorative sequences. For her, yoga isn’t about rigid discipline or pushing the body to its limits—it’s about enjoyment, softening, opening energy pathways, and creating new space within the body. The result? A deep sense of satisfaction, a renewal of life’s joy, and a balanced nervous system. Her experience is further enriched by contemporary somatic practices and body-therapeutic approaches, which inevitably shape her work. After earning a degree from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Mateja has worked simultaneously as a Croatian language and literature professor and a yoga teacher. She also holds a degree in pedagogy, where her research focused on the somatics and therapeutic potential of dance and yoga. Teaching is her calling, and guiding yoga sessions brings her particular fulfillment. She loves sharing her knowledge with others, offering genuine support and gentle, unobtrusive guidance.