Instructors
All of our instructors are long-time teachers and motivators in their fields. Their work spans a broad range of spiritual activities, exercises, and self-awareness practices. Two key themes connect them all: conscious progress and positive energy. At this stage, we can share a list of currently confirmed instructors. The final list of all instructors and their full programs will be announced soon.
Brief overview of our lecturers:
Valentina Šipuš / Yoga wisdom and inner peace
Valentina Šipuš is a spiritual seeker whose tireless desire for truth and purpose has led her through many challenges and obstacles, until she accepted that those very challenges are key to her personal growth and development. Along her journey, Valentina absorbed knowledge and adopted various techniques enriched her life with love and light. A particularly profound experience for her was the time spent in India, embraced by Mother India, where during the summer of 2022 she truly discovered the true nature of beauty and its essence. She organizes various workshops and events to support people on their paths to self-discovery and healing. She has a special focus on women who have chosen to embark on a journey of healing, reclaiming their femininity, and seeking balance in their lives.
Marijana Sekulić / Guide of Love and Bodily Awareness
Marijana Sekulić is a guide of love and bodily awareness, a teacher of sensual dance, and an alchemist of transformation through body and movement. At the festival, she brings tenderness, depth, and strength of the feminine principle, connecting us to the body as a sacred space where intuition, power, and truth reside. Through workshops and dance rituals, Marijana invites us to feel ourselves more deeply, love more authentically, and move more freely. Her presence awakens the primal in us - the life force that dances, breathes, and loves through every cell. If you wish for your energy to flow effortlessly, if you feel the call of sensuality and inner freedom, then her workshops are just for you.
Jelena Pack / Healthy Food - Naturopathy
Mag. Jelena Pack is the first naturopath in the former Yugoslavia region, having completed her naturopathic studies in Germany and Austria. She focuses on women facing health issues from puberty acne to old age, dealing with conditions such as: polycystic ovaries, insulin resistance, infertility, thyroid problems, polycystic breasts, autoimmune diseases, perimenopause and menopause, hormonal weight gain, endometriosis, and adenomyosis. She organized two international medical conferences in 2021 on the topic of Hormonal Connections to Our Health and in 2022 on the psychoemotional aspect of illness. Several RESET programs are held annually at various locations where she helps women establish balance and improve their health.
Gloria Zácskai / Holistic Center Anima Mundi
Drawn to Magic and the East/India, Gloria Zácskai has been familiar with yoga, meditation, studying the Vedas, and Ayurveda since her youth. With the introduction of Kundalini yoga into her life, she discovers the world of awareness, Sacred sexuality, liberation, and healing. Along this path, she embraces the role of a teacher: Kundalini yoga, she organizes workshops and retreats, Shakti dance - Yoga dance, Laughter yoga, Ayurvedic advisor, Traditional Chinese tea ceremonies, with Blue Lotus and cacao ceremonies. She practices vegan cuisine, holistic massage, crafting herbal remedies, and writing. Three years ago, she opened the holistic center & mini ashram ANIMA MUNDI in Daruvar where she teaches and offers services as mentioned above, and organizes weekend retreats for individuals and small groups.
Selma Ištar Vilić / Shamanic Workshop
This year's festival is honored to host Selma Ištar Vilić, a shamanic practitioner and teacher who has been dedicatedly guiding people through processes of spiritual healing and inner transformation for years. Selma leads us through a powerful shamanic ceremony "Five gifts of the Soul", where we will discover how to: unleash the Inner Child and be true to ourselves | awaken the Vital Self through creativity and inspiration | reclaim Personal Power and release limiting patterns | connect with the Wisdom of Ancestors | find the Divine Self and the authentic purpose of our soul. Through the sounds of the shamanic drum and guided journey, we will remember ancient wisdom, heal what holds us back, and open ourselves to a life filled with trust, strength, and inner clarity.
Mirosito Mariri / Ayahuasca shamanism and plants
Mirosito Mariri is a researcher of the world of plants and South American shamanism, whose journey began in 2012 with his first encounter with ayahuasca. Through years of dieting sacred plants and working with Shipibo, Quechua, and Asaninka shamans, he deepened his connection to the spiritual world of nature. His own healing through plants opened the doors to a deeper understanding of their messages and transformative power. At this festival, Mirosito will conduct a workshop on Ayahuasca, teacher plants, and ancient practices of connecting with their energy through the "dieta" process. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in a traditional plant bath with Amazonian plants, accompanied by singing sacred "icaros" songs that bring healing and inner harmony.
Natalija Hunjadu / Connecting with Intuition
Natalija Hunjadu is an intuitive coach and sound therapist dedicated to working with women seeking self-discovery, empowerment, and finding themselves. At the Prana Yoga Festival, Natalija will lead a workshop that will inspire you to find your inner center, release stress, and connect with your true nature. Through intuitive coaching and sound therapy, we will explore how to: Recognize and become aware of ourselves as part of nature | Maintain inner peace and strength in the face of daily challenges | Nurture our femininity and spiritual balance | Use sound and vibrations for healing and inner harmony. Through her work, she teaches people how to utilize nature as a source of strength and healing, how to listen to themselves, and live in alignment with their inner voice.
Anja van de Rijt / Energy Holistic Therapist
At this year's Prana on the Sana yoga festival, we have Anja van de Rijt, an energy holistic therapist, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Anima Amor platform. Anja works from the heart and soul, guiding people towards a deeper connection with themselves. Her workshops and ceremonies help in releasing limiting beliefs and reconnecting with the authentic self – with more love, freedom, and inner strength.
Join us and experience an inner reset that changes lives.
Jelena Lopičić / Kundalini Yoga and Meditation
Originally from Montenegro, Jelena is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher with over seven years of experience in the practice. She is the founder of the Kundalini workshop "Encounter with Yourself," as well as the organizer of the retreat where she uses a holistic approach to help people find inner balance, release suppressed emotions and create space for deeper self-connection. Jelena offers a unique Kundalini Yoga workshop, where you will have the opportunity to experience the power of this ancient technique. Through dynamic movement, conscious breathing, mantras, meditation and interactive exercises we open up space for transformation, inner clarity and energy awakening. Jelena believes in creating a safe and supportive environment where we can all connect, recognize, exchange, and support each other.
Eduard Kouwen / Self-Healing
Eduard Kouwen (known as EduArt) is coming to the festival with his workshop "EduArt’s Healing Yoga." His approach to yoga is healing and intuitive. In this session, we will learn how to truly listen to our bodies. By learning to speak the language of the body, we open the doors to recovery, healing, and a life where energy flows freely. Through exercises from the Kundalini tradition and deep Yin stretches, we release tension in the back and immerse ourselves in meditative awareness. Finally, we are guided into deep relaxation through Savasana and meditation. EduArt is the founder of the Natural High Yoga School and has years of experience in teaching yoga focused on self-healing. His approach invites us to relax, feel the body – and through that, heal.
Mirsada Memić / The Power of Yoga through Healing
Eight years ago, life brought me a challenge - a fall and a spinal injury, nine fractured vertebrae. However, instead of stopping me, that moment became the beginning of my new journey. Yoga was my key to recovery, the strength that helped me to stand up again - and more than that, to find my mission. Today, as a yoga instructor certified by the European Federation and the World Movement for Yoga and Ayurveda, I lead the Holistic Association "Sun," where through therapeutic yogic techniques, breathing exercises, and asanas, I help others strengthen their body and spirit. I have also completed training for Marma massage, deepening my knowledge of healing methods. Yoga is more than just exercise for me - it is a way to love and nurture ourselves, to find balance and inner strength.
Branko Puzić / Yoga and Breathwork
Branko is a yoga and meditation teacher with over 15 years of experience on the path of awareness, discipline, and inner transformation. His work is characterized by an authentic and deeply present approach that nurtures the connection of body, breath, and mind – in every moment, in every movement. For him, yoga is not just a practice – it is a way of life. A path that brings us back to the center of our being, where strength arises from silence, and freedom from consciousness. Through the practice he leads, we create space within ourselves for clarity, gentleness, stability, and acceptance. Branko invites us in his workshops to rely on our breath, to feel the body from within, to pay attention to the subtle but important. With his rich life experience, presence, and depth of understanding, he guides us through the process of inner realization and liberation.
Sonja Veljanovski / Dance that Connects
Dance that liberates. Dance that connects. Dance that awakens joy, creativity, and love. Sonja brings a workshop to the festival that invites us to be ourselves, wild, uninhibited – to be love in motion. Soul liberation dance with Sonja. When the body moves and sheds unnatural beliefs, the soul rejoices. Sonja's approach brings us back to our primal nature – one that shines, breathes, and dances freely. Movement, says Sonja, is the language of the soul. It holds memories, feelings, suppressed truths, and unspoken desires. Through free movement, we release what is not us, what we have outgrown – and return to ourselves: raw, alive, whole. This workshop is a reminder to remember. To move. To feel. To dance – without form, without expectation, in our own rhythm.
Marina Carević / Transformation through Breath
Marina Carević is a breathwork and yoga teacher who, through her own experience, discovered the power of conscious breathing and its influence on health, energy, and quality of life. Marina will lead a unique workshop dedicated to the transformative power of breath. Through an interactive experience, she will explain how proper breathing can act as a magic wand that is always available to us – but one that we often aren't even aware of. She will share her personal journey - how she overcame chronic diagnoses thanks to breathing and how each of us can immediately apply these simple yet powerful techniques for better health and life energy. These sessions will not be traditional pranayama classes but rather a guide to returning the breath to its "factory settings," allowing us to breathe again as nature has always intended.
Yvonne Wierenga / 9D Breathwork Breathing Method
Yvonne Wierenga practices the revolutionary 9D Breathwork method - the most intense and transformative breathing and sound experience you can encounter! Yvonne is deeply intuitive, powerful, and versatile in guiding transformational processes, with an exceptional sense of what each individual needs at the moment they need it most. Through somatic breath, healing sessions, and energy work, she takes you back - towards your essence, towards feelings, towards the body. She works with Human Design, hypnotherapy, family constellations, NLP, and bodywork - to help you take control of your own life.
Zoran Salopek / The Power of Change
Self-realization, success, and consciousness are just some of the themes of Zoran's research work on introspection. He emphasizes the importance of working on emotional intelligence as the foundation for progress. Understanding the role of our Ego, exploring the comprehensive truth, and advancing through conscious changes is the path to experience and maturity. Zoran Salopek is the author of several books on the challenging journey to self-discovery. As a lecturer, he inspires you to bravely embark on your own path, which likely won't be easy but will be filled with knowledge essential for practical living. In his lectures, he presents his personal experiences in an accessible manner and with real-life examples. Asking questions, accepting reality, forgiveness, gratitude, and understanding what truly matters are the beginnings of your inner awakening.
Aida Ahmagić / Vinyasa krama Yoga exercises
Through her many years of work, Aida aims to show others the importance of authentic expression and self-return. Her Vibrational healing consists of somatic stress release originating from Trauma Release Exercise. She utilizes Breathwork (specific breathing used during the somatic part) and grounding meditations. This practice serves to completely reset and balance the nervous system, opening the energetic body to other spiritual practices. Vinyasa krama - a traditional Yoga practice, dynamic due to the energetic aspects such as breathing and focus, achieves meditation through movement. This is a special sequence adapted for all levels of Yogis, from beginners to advanced students seeking a challenge.
Iva Solarević Jeličić / Ecstatic Dance
Iva describes herself as someone whose life is dedicated to discovering the multidimensional nature of human beings, with the aim of finding ways to achieve health, joy, and freedom. Her exploration has led her through the realms of the body, mind, emotions, energy, and consciousness. During her studies, she delved into physiological processes, the musculoskeletal system, health, and the functioning of our bodies. She is completing her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb, where she deepens her research on the relationship between mind and body and the impact of meditation, yoga, body movement, and energy work on the psychosomatic system. Her workshops represent a process of deep inner healing. She combines free movement, ecstatic dance, heart opening processes, as well as body-oriented psychotherapeutic techniques and exercises.
Đorđe Civrić / Everyday Mindfulness
Đorđe is a psychologist, psychotherapist, holistic coach, yoga teacher and mindfulness educator with over 20 years of experience. He expanded his knowledge in Thailand and in ashrams across India. Today, he bases his work on integrating modern psychology with Eastern wisdom and techniques. He conducts workshops at holistic retreats for individual and group therapy, as well as within yoga trainer education programs. His workshop, "Everyday Mindfulness - Theory and Practice of Mindful Living," brings participants the essence of the mindfulness approach - both from a psychological and practical standpoint. Participants will learn about the basic mechanisms of the brain and behavior, as well as how mindfulness aids in self-regulation, stress reduction, increased presence, and reflection. Theory and practice for everyday life.
Sonja Stojanović / Natural Body Cleansing
Sonja is a psychologist by profession. After graduating in Belgrade, she spends ten years in Paris, where she becomes familiar with naturopathy - a holistic approach to health. This not only becomes her professional calling but also a way of life. Today she lives and works in Belgrade and at the festival she brings us a workshop on the topic: "Natural Body Cleansing." The basics of naturopathy, practical detoxification, stages of the process... are just some of the topics intended for everyone who wants to better connect with their body, cleanse the body, and feel more ease and vitality in everyday life. In addition, she practices Ayurvedic massage - a relaxing full-body massage using oil. An ancient technique of touch that nurtures the body and spirit.
