Joy of the Mediterranean

With profound love, immense sadness, and above all, immense gratitude, I must accept the passing of my beloved Joya 🐕 ❤️.
She was one of the most beautiful, kind and pure souls to have graced this Earth , and she has enriched my life, and lives of many who knew her in endless ways.

The sharp pain of her loss pierced my heart 💔 and I initially believed that my loss was solely mine. However, I was overwhelmed by the influx of emails and messages from numerous individuals. Many of my yoga students, and many participants of our retreats over the past twelve years, reached out with emails expressing their gratitude directly to Joya. They thanked her for her unwavering emotional support, always sensing when someone was struggling and providing comfort either by lying on their mat or offering her paw to the ones in need. Her kindness, watchful presence during yoga classes and hikes, and unwavering care were invaluable. Joya genuinely enjoyed her self-chosen work during retreats and took her responsibilities very seriously. During our last 2025 retreat, which we held on Mljet, she was already experiencing significant illness, and I fervently encouraged her that she simply rests. However, Joya made a valiant decision to work one final time, and she did so with grace and love.

I wish to express my gratitude 🙏🏻 also to my friends and to my sister, who all held her in high regard and provided her with unconditional love throughout her life. They were fully aware that she held a place of utmost importance in my life.

Joya, my dear friend, my soul mate, I will never be able to thank you enough for the incredible Joy and endless love you’ve brought into my life over the past 12 years. You’ve touched the hearts of everyone you’ve met, and you truly were, and will always be, my gift from the Universe.
Thank you my Love ❤️🙏🏻

After my yoga self-practice outside on this crisp, cold morning, I looked around and it seemed that overnight, early spring had arrived in the Mediterranean 🌸
Old almond trees in the wild have started blooming, and they have filled my heart with joy💟

The almond tree (Prunus dulcis) 🌸 is the first tree to start blooming in the Mediterranean, and it’s a potent symbol of Resilience, Hope and Renewal after the dormancy of winter. It should remind us that even in these globally challenging times, in which it seems that madness is prevailing, we should not lose hope and trust that a season of ‘full bloom’ is coming, since nothing is permanent.

May all beings be free from suffering! 🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏
Peace in me, peace in you, peace in all living beings ✨

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Mljet retreat 2025 💙
Our beloved retreat in Natural Park Mljet( this year in collaboration with Vivian Cavicchioli), has once again provided us with a platform for both personal and collective growth, compassion, encouragement, support and mutual understanding, creating a safe space for participants to share and heal within the sisterhood of our retreat 💞🙌 💃 🧘🏼‍♂️ 🙏🏻

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We have returned from beautiful Morocco where we were running Marrakech Yoga Retreat Experience 2025 🧘💜🇲🇦
We have immersed ourselves in an immense beauty of the country, which has so much to offer; incredible culture, stunning landscapes and architecture, colourful bazaars, majestic palaces, but finally the friendly people of Morocco who are known for their warm hospitality and their kind and welcoming nature, are what made our experience truly special.

We have explored Berber culture in Atlas Mountains, enjoyed home hosted cooking class with Moroccan family, flew at dawn in balloon 1000m above Agafay desert, saw how Argan oil is made, took pleasure in hamam treatment, laughed together a lot, had meaningful conversations, but most of all we have embraced a new culture with all its diversity, which broadened our perspective, enhanced our adaptability, and enriched our life in countless ways.

My heart is filled with love and gratitude for my students who accompanied me on this journey, which was not only an outer one, but also a deep inner journey in which we were all invited to explore ourselves, and to journey towards ourselves to get to know ourselves better 💜
Inner journey is never an easy one, it takes bravery and diligence, but it is also the most rewarding one - a lot was happening inside of each and everyone of us, including myself, as we were confronted with ourselves and with each other, and it has taught us importance of acceptance of ourselves just the way we were at those moments, as well as acceptance of our differences. It has planted seeds for a further growth, since nothing ever goes away until we internalise it fully.

Yoga teaches us no judgment and no expectations (expectations will always result in dejections!), and we should be practising these qualities daily in order to surpass ourselves 🙏🏻

Namaste with unconditional love towards you all 🙏🏻🥰🤗

Last week we had an amazing opportunity to host again some of the members of our yoga community on enchanting island Mljet 💙 during our Holistic retreat “Reconnect with Yourself and Nature” 💚
We immersed ourselves into abundance of serene and magical nature, which helped us to connect with ourselves on a dipper level, and provided us with a lot of self-reflection time.
We have enjoyed yoga practice that provided us with needed shifts in our spiritual awakenings, as well as with bodily strength, we have been nourished by holistic nutritious food, learned how to recognise eatable wild mediterranean plants, swam in crystal-clear sea and salty lakes and enjoyed many hikes in fairytale nature.
Mljet enabled us all, in these increasingly turbulent and uncertain times that we live in, to experience true joy and endless possibilities within ourselves.

It is with the most gratitude and unconditional love that we thank all the participants for their trust, beautiful energy and willingness to work on themselves 💜
May this retreat be a platform for your further development and many new beginnings 🙏
Namaste

Slovenia Retreat Experience 2024 “Reconnect with Yourself and Nature” 💚

Slovenia 🇸🇮 you are truly stunning 💚
Abundance of your unspoiled nature and all your endless shades of green tranquility, helped us to rejuvenated our bodies, minds and souls, and it has sprang up possibilities of new hopes and beginnings within each one of us 🙏💚

Slovenia 🇸🇮 Retreat Experience 2024 💚

We had so much fun and joy during our cooking class 🥦 Everyone was very enthusiastic to learn and to create. The atmosphere was fantastic, and it resulted in 10 truly mouth watering vegan and vegetarian dishes, which we’ve enjoyed together during lunch.

Well done everyone 💞💚

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We have hosted a small group of participants from our Yoga community during yoga weekend retreat on a beautiful island Korcula/Croatia 🌊🧘‍♀️💙

We have gifted ourselves with slowing down, turning inwards, and being present in the moment so that we could reconnect with ourselves, and experience ourselves on a deeper level, while practicing yoga, immersing into beautiful costal surroundings, and enjoying delicious nourishing foods.

“Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.” - Patanjali.

Big thank you to you beautiful ladies, I am grateful for your presence in my life.
Namaste 🙏💜

Tomorrow is international Women’s day 💟

As we celebrate the strength, resilience and wisdom of women around the world, we wish to enable two women to retreat themselves in a beautiful costal island location (Croatia), and restore their energy.

First two women who will book in the next 3 days (by Sunday March 10th), our Women’s Wellbeing Holistic Retreat May 30th - June 2nd, will get €200 discount, as well as private online yoga class 1:1
prior to the retreat.

May we continue to uplift, empower, motivate and support each other on our own unique paths of self development and personal growth 💜

Happy Women’s Day!

For information about the retreat, and to contact us, please visit;

https://www.joy-of-mediterranean.com/yoga-hiking-mediterranean-yoga-retreat-c1it3/yoga-weekends-yoga-retreats-wellness-camn