Yoga With Maja

You can’t escape YOU… even in the Maldives 🤣

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve shared what’s going on in my “personal” life. Over the past 3 years I’ve blurred the lines between work, life and pleasure. My retreats became my life. The dolphins, the Red Sea became my home. The guests became what I would see something close to my “children” who I’d nurture and support for a week and then watch them fly and do incredible things once they got home. Many of my customers became friends. Especially the ones who came back the second, third, fourth….even fifth time. My dharma became my sole purpose, and truly I consider myself extremely blessed to have found something so early in my life that both fill my heart and allows me to sustain myself in the 3D world.

I am so grateful for my community and for all the support over the years 🩵

Anyhow, back to my life update! Earlier this year I had plans to move back to Cyprus, I even put down a deposit for a house. I was pretty set on going back to my sunny island life as the need to ROOT became stronger. But the universe guided me in another direction. I didn’t get the house and I ended up selling my apartment in Poland, making me effectively homeless and my sweet dog Coco moving in with my mum. At the same time a man entered my life (entirely from no where yet everything divinely orchestrated to make it happen). His arrival put a big question mark. What do I do now??? Do I continue with my original plan to ROOT or do I pack my life in one suitcase and travel the world with him? Yep.. I chose the latter because the unknown will always help you grow. I let love lead me, even when I don’t have all the answers. So here I am. Parking my desire to ROOT for the dream of a teenage girl who always dreamed of seeing the world, but now with a special someone❤️

I’m struggling to put words into how I’m feeling.
On the one hand SO FU***NG GRATEFUL to be the first in my family to travel to 6 continents before 30, the first in my family to have this much freedom and options… yet there’s another part of me that is afraid. The fear becomes immobilizing at times. And the more I fight it, the bigger it gets. Ive been sitting with this for a week now in the Maldives trying to get to the source of it. Forgetting that feelings are meant to be felt, throughly and through, not understood and suppressed… even in paradise. So here’s my reminder for you: you cannot escape YOU. You, your emotional baggage and fears will follow you… even to the peaceful, tranquil Maldives 🤣 I think I’m finally experiencing what my retreat guests are feeling when they arrive to EXHALE with me and life pauses for a week.

Am I alone in this? Do you resonate? How does it feel for you when you finally slow down and there’s nothing to do but BE? Sending you so many ocean hugs as you navigate whatever chapter you’re in right now.

There are a lot of things I cannot fix.

Dolphin and orca captivity, which I think about constantly, more than is probably good for me. Every tank. Every show. Every fin bent over from a life with no ocean in it.

The signal on a boat in the middle of the Red Sea, which will drop at the exact moment you need it most and not a moment before.

The feeling that you should be further along by now. A leaking tap. The algorithm. Why mornings are so hard.

The fact that everything good is also temporary.

It took the ocean to teach me otherwise. Because the ocean cannot be fixed either. You don't go into the water to solve anything. You go in and you let it hold you, and somewhere in that surrender something shifts. Because you finally let go and stopped trying.

But here's what I can actually do.

I can fix a morning that started wrong. With breathwork, with water, with sitting in the sun until your nervous system remembers that it is safe. I can fix a bad playlist. I can turn a group of strangers into a family in about 24 hours. I have done it more times than I can count and it still amazes me every single time. I can hold space for the story that you are too much, or not enough, until you remember the power, the love, the worth within. I can dismantle the belief that rest is something you have to earn.

And I can help you close the gap between the life you are living and the one you can feel waiting for you. Not by telling you what to do, but by creating a space where you finally hear yourself clearly enough to know.

I know how to sit beside someone in their grief or their confusion or their beautiful mess of a life and not try to tidy it away.

I know that most of what we are trying to fix in ourselves is not broken. It is just asking to be witnessed.

And I know, and this one took me a long time, that we are not meant to do everything alone. Not the heartbreak, not the healing, not the heavy weight of just being a person in the world right now.

That is what a retreat is, really. Not a fix. Not a solution. Just a space where you stop trying to fix yourself for a week and see what's actually there.
It is usually something quite wonderful.

There are two of these weeks left in 2026, and then this year is gone.

EGYPT. Wild dolphins at Sataya. Boarding 14 November.
The last cabins on the boat. You can add Cairo and Luxor before we sail if you want the temples as well as the sea.

MAFIA ISLAND, TANZANIA. Whale sharks. 4 to 11 December.
The Indian Ocean, and swimming beside the biggest fish in the sea.

Which one is calling you?

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Have you been dreaming on coming to one of our retreats but you have no one to go with and the thought of going alone simply paralyses you?

On my retreats you will never actually be alone.

Before the retreat even begins, you'll be added to a WhatsApp group with everyone joining you, so you're already connecting with like minded people before you've even packed. I'll guide you on flights, timing, where to stay before and after, so none of the logistics fall on you to figure out alone. I'm reachable seven days a week, and during the retreat itself, I'm there the whole way through.

And then, once the retreat starts, something happens that I still find beautiful every single time. Strangers become friends. Not the kind you exchange a polite goodbye with at the airport, the kind who are still in your group chat a year later, the kind you plan your next trip with. Over 30% of the people who join me have been before, and they come back because they found a way to travel that actually fills them up, one that leaves them nourished, restored, changed from the inside out.

Come as you are. Come alone. You won't leave that way.

🐬 Dolphin Retreat — 14–21 November
🦈 Whale Shark Retreat, Mafia Island, Tanzania — 4–11 December

Where will you come to find your people? 💙

https://www.yogawithmaja.com/retreats/

Imagine waking up to the sound of the sea instead of an alarm. Mornings that move slowly, with yoga on the deck as the sun rises over the water. Breathwork sessions that take you deeper into yourself than you knew you could go. Afternoons in the open water, swimming alongside wild dolphins who move with a freedom and joy that reminds your whole body what it feels like to simply be alive. Evenings around sunset ceremonies and sound journeys under the stars, surrounded by people who, by day three, feel less like strangers and more like family.

If you're here, something is calling you to search deeper and I am here to help you find the answers. 💫

Early Bird Pricing is valid until the end of the day- don't miss out!🐬 🩵

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