Hi! I’m your host and retreat founder Igrajna Vargek and here are a few things that I love…

  • smell of dog paws and simmering tomatoes with garlic

  • afternoon naps when raining outside

  • cooking (and eating)

  • one movie a day since I was a kid

  • designing clothes and seeing women wear them

  • yoga with unexpected music

  • komorebi

  • traveling

  • reading a book in a bubble bath

  • disco balls, disco music and glitter

  • skincare

  • after workout glow and high

fashion designer ✦

yoga teacher ✦

world traveler ✦

foodie ✦

fashion designer ✦ yoga teacher ✦ world traveler ✦ foodie ✦

Koraljka

our main & best retreat yoga teacher

Koraljka is a certified Gaia Yoga teacher since 2012 with E-RYT200 credentials.

Multi style Vinyasa based, Prenatal, Postnatal and Yin yoga teacher. With Rainbow

yoga kids certificate and experience in teaching kids and teens.

Last 13 years she is regularly teaching yoga classes, workshops, masterclasses and

is a member of teaching faculty in the first Teacher Training program in Croatia, Gaia

Yoga school. She is also main lecturer in Prenatal and postnatal TTC in Gaia Yoga.

She has more than 3500 teaching hours and is experienced in group and individual

programs. Her focus is deeply rooted in the individual approach and in a respect for

each unique body and their needs and possibilities.

Beside practicing and teaching yoga she is also a professional contemporary dancer

so the approach to the movement and body is influenced from variety of methods

and techniques that she practices and teaches. Main focus in her work is based on

functionality, strenght and mobility. Her approach in movement practice is driven by

the strong believe of the importance of every day changes and carefull expansion of

the possibilities of the movement through the alertness, openess and adaptiveness

of our minds and bodies.

She finds the greatest passion, dedication and authenticity in the Vinyasa style, and

teaches fluid classes through which she can express her creativity and playfulness.

Koraljka also teaches classes for beginners with special care and patience for more

than a decade.

She considers yoga as an ideal way to improve the quality of everyday life, and

through her work she primarily wants to bring yoga practice closer to everyone,

regardless of physical condition and / or predispositions, considering that every

person can develop body, mind and spirit through yoga practice, always pushing

their own boundaries with an open approach to the beauty of life. Mindful approach

to the life, movement practice, meditation and breathwork is part of her regular

classes with a bit od spiciness through strength work and unexpected music choices

with some dance background being part of each flowy vinyasa she teaches.

Koraljka also studied preschool education and cultural management, working in the

field of creative production for more than 14 years, she gained a lot of experience

and expertise working with people and managing big productions such as dance and

film festivals as well as collaborating with variety of artistic organizations in Croatia

and abroad.

Classes that she teaches are playful and open for everyone, her expertise is creating

a class for each person to be able to follow and adapting needs to the group she is

teaching. During the retreat we will be equally focusing on building strength and

improving flexibility through creative and fun vinyasa sequences as into building

resilience and calmness through mindful practices of meditation and slow

movements rooted in yin practice with somatic influence.

Relaxed, compassionate and welcoming atmosphere with a bit of humor is specific

for her teaching style and classes so you can expect a bit of sweat, a bit of laughter,

a lot of movement and joy surrounded with amazingly beautiful nature of the retreat

location.