Yoga With Maja

I hear you. Let's talk about this honestly.

"I've never done yoga / I'm not flexible enough"
Good. Truly. My retreats are not about how far you can fold yourself in half. They are not for the advanced practitioner looking to perfect their headstand. They are for the person who needs to come home to their body and that person can be a complete beginner.You do not need to be flexible. You need to be willing.

"I'm not spiritual enough"
This one makes me smile every time. Because the people who say this are usually the ones who feel something the deepest. You do not need to believe in anything in particular. You do not need crystals or a meditation practice or the right vocabulary. You just need to be curious. Spirituality on my retreats is not a requirement. It tends to just happen.

"I can't swim"
You don't need to be a strong swimmer. We go into the water with snorkels and fins and you are always supported. The dolphins don't care how well you swim. They come to you. I have watched non-swimmers have the most profound encounters in the water because they surrender completely they have no choice but to trust and surrender is its own kind of magic.

"It feels like a lot of money"
I understand this one completely, and I will not dismiss it. A retreat is an investment - in yourself, in your mental health, in an experience that will stay with you for years. I have had guests tell me two years later that it was the best money they ever spent. Not because it was a holiday, but because something shifted that they had been trying to shift for a long time. That said, if timing or budget is genuinely a concern, reach out. I will always try to find a way.

You don't need to be ready. You just need to take one small step.
And I will meet you there.

&a

In most of the world, whale sharks pass through. You get a window of a few weeks and you hope. Mafia is different. The Rufiji River empties into the channel here and floods it with nutrients, the plankton blooms, and the whale sharks stay. It is one of very few places on earth with a resident population. They are not migrating past. They live here.

So we are not chasing them either. We are going to where they already are, and that changes the entire feeling of the week. It also tells you something about this water. Whale sharks gather where the ocean is still abundant. Where they are thriving, everything underneath them is too.

And that energy is contagious. I can guarantee you, that you yourself will thrive and feel abundant after spending a week in those waters.

🗓️ 4-11th December 2026

Book your spot now!

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There is a version of you, one year from now, floating on an ocean so blue it does not look real.

You are far from your inbox. Far from the noise, the calendar, the person everyone needs you to be. Below you, something enormous and ancient lifts out of the deep, meets your eyes, and decides to stay a while.

A humpback swims thousands of kilometres to arrive in Tonga. It does not happen by accident. She comes to these waters to nurse her babies, to rest, to gather strength in the warm and quiet blue, and then in the middle of November she turns and begins the long crossing to Antarctica.

Nothing in that journey is rushed. All of it is preparation.

That is what booking a year ahead really is. Not a transaction. A turning.

You get twelve months to prepare your body, your breath and your courage. Twelve months of knowing that something extraordinary is already sitting in your calendar, waiting for you.

2027 Tonga Humpback Whale Retreat is now open to booking- 15-21 October 2027.
And I got something special for you- an Earlybird price!

Use code WHALE for 150 euros off your spot!

The whales are here, where are you?

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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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