During this 8-day retreat, you will enjoy twice a day yoga practice, breathing exercises and meditation. We will also practice every morning – from the moment that we wake up until the breakfast ends – a yogic practice of Mauna or “Silence”, which simply means that we will not talk during morning hours, so that we have a better perception of our inner world. Mauna begins with the external practice of non-speaking, and eventually evolves into a deep inner listening – after all Yoga practice is an inner journey towards ourselves.

There will be 3 healing and nourishing freshly prepared seasonal organic high quality nutritious meals per day, as well as freshly squeezed morning detox juices.

Hiking trip to Montekuc. This is the highest peak in the national park and it is a perfect serene spot for getting a breathing views of the entire national park’s unspoiled nature. Energy at this peak is divine, one feels immediately connected with oneself on a higher level, as well as with the universe, and therefore with larger picture of the life itself. After the descent, we will enjoy a delicious lunch at the fisherman’s restaurant by the lake where you may eat fresh fish if you wish, and then we will continue our hike by the lakes, which will end with the swim and yoga class in the nature.

Walk around the lakes, immerse yourself in the Eden-like serene nature, and enjoy the richness of island’s flora and fauna. Mljet is known as the greenest and the most serene island in Croatia. We will take a boat trip to St.Mary’s islet on the Big lake where Benedict monastry, built in the 12th century, is situated. Afterwords we will enjoy our lunch at fisherman’s restaurant, at the sea front.

Local “herb lady” will takes us on a fun foraging trip, and show us edible wild plans and herbs explaning their culinary and medicinal use.

Afterwords, we will visit a small ethnographic museum, and will have the lunch at the organic olive grove farm. After the lunch we hike to the stunning Odysseus cave overlooking the open sea. You will have opportunity to swim in the cave, and to enjoy Meditation on the rocks above the cave overlooking the sea, which will be used to release unhappy memories, fears, negative emotions, and anything that you are holding onto that doesn’t serve your True Self. By releasing these unwanted energies and old patterns into the sea, you will be healing at the soul level.

Cooking class; you will enjoy a healthy cooking class, and will receive a booklet with Chef recipes of the dishes that you will make. You will learn how to make few nutritious whole food vegan/ vegetarian dishes, as well as about the nutrition value of ingredients, so that you can continue on the path of the healthy eating after you return home.

There will be 2 free days – days without planned activities – during which you might decide to book wonderful Ayurvedic massage, kayaking, or biking around national park.Free days activities are not included in the retreat price.

All activities included in the price are optional; you can participate in as many of above described activities as you like, but you can also choose instead to sit in the nature and read a book, swim in the lakes or just relax and contemplate.

Mojca – Yoga Therapist

Mojca is an experienced and passionate traditional yoga teacher. She has been teaching for 15 years, and has a unique ability to naturally inspire a deeper understanding of the flow of breath, movement and mindful connections in Yoga. In her classes, she teaches her students to be in the present moment, to explore themselves, and to empower themselves. She challenges you to increase your physical flexibility and strength, in order that you can transform it into inner strength, balance, harmony and joy with emphasis on breathing techniques such as pranayama. Each session has time devoted to meditation, self awareness and consciousness.  While strengthening your body, you will be balancing your mind simultaneously.

She is dedicated yoga practitioner for over 30 years. Previous to becoming a full time Yoga teacher, Mojca has been working for years in business corporate management, but her quest to find an inner balance and her interest in mind, body & soul healing and healthy life style had lead her to path of seeking teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda and over the years she has spend a lot of time in Ashrams in India, where she was thought by acclaimed and knowledgable Indian Yoga teacher; not only on Asana’s, but as well the Vedic philosophy, meditation and Ayurveda. The desire of changing professional life style got stronger and ripened and resulted in pursuit of becoming Yoga teacher, and what it was ones hobby it became 15 years ago, not only a profession, but the life style.

Over the last years Mojca resides and teaches not only in Amsterdam, Holland, but as well as on Korcula Island, Croatia.

Latterly she teaches online as well as in person, and runs many Yoga workshops around Europe.

She is also a founder and owner of the Joy of the Mediterranean, which facilitates Holistic Yoga Well-being Retreat Experiences. Her retreats concentrate on detoxing and balancing body and mind, reconnecting with oneself on a deeper level, and with huge emphasis on healthy nutrition and healthy life style.

Dejan – Chef

Dejan is a truly passionate and experienced holistic chef, who has a true love and deep knowledge of healthy nutritious plant-based food. 

He believes that everything on the planet is composed of the same elements. Nurturing one’s body means replacing worn out and used elements with new fresh ones in order to allow the body to function steadily and effortlessly so it can demonstrate resilience towards pathogens, and achieve strong immune system and qualitative longevity.

His cooking journey began in 1998 after he has encountered several auto-immune issues that were not recognised by the conventional medicine as a serious health threat. Therefore he has decided to take his well-being into his own hands, and had deepened himself into extensive research of the whole foods and began with diet experimentation on himself, and the awareness of healthy benefits of whole nutrition plant-based foods and their profound benefits on the well being state of body and mind has arisen, which resulted that his auto-immune issues have disappeared after the thorough and consistent self-implementation of the knowledge gained.

Since then he is committed to the Holistic approach of living and his goal is to communicate and transfer his excessive knowledge of it to the people who are in need of these valuable informations and to everyone who want to achieve balance and well being in a Holistic way.

He believes in clean organic seasonal local fresh whole foods, slow cooking, and making all the food from the scratch. He also believes in potent power of wild herbs, and he forages them as well as edible wild plants, which have high nutrition value, whenever he can.

He is a certified Holistic Nutrition Coach and Holistic Chef.

He teaches online private and group healthy whole nutrition cooking classes, online programs such as “Basic Detox” and “How to be healthy Vegetarian”, he has been consulting several restaurants on vegan and vegetarian menus, and he works also as a private Chef when individuals or families want to embark on a journey of healthy eating.

He has been Joy of the Mediterranean’s Chef during the retreats for 10 years now, and hundreds of participants have benefited from his nutritious body and mind nurturing and balancing meals.

On the days when you can’t find him in the kitchen, he practices Pranayama and Yoga, and walks through the nature doing photography which is his parallel love to cooking.

His life-motto is a quote often ascribed to Hippocrates (400BC); “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” , and he believes that it has never been more relevant, seen an increasing processed food intake around the globe, as well as reliance on prescription drugs to treat any illness both physical and mental.