Croatian born, Petra has lived in London since 1996, where she began her yoga journey. Inspired by her first teacher Tara Fraser, Petra started to teach yoga in 2000.
From a wide variety of yoga styles available in London, Petra is a practitioner and a teacher of Iyengar (alignment based) and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (Power Yoga). In the Iyengar yoga Petra finds precision and clarity of the postures, which insures that students' health is not put under any risk by doing the physical work in yoga. This precision she then includes in her teaching of Ashtanga yoga, which is characterised by its fluidity, dynamics and breath-movement synchronicity.
Petra’s teaching is based on the approach to every student as an individual. The main characteristics of her teaching are high motivation of her students and an ‘intelligent’ and holistic approach to posture work (injury prevention is a priority).
A mother of two, Petra has been teaching pregnancy and post-natal yoga for the last 5 years. She is a qualified teacher and continues to study with the founder, Dr. Francoise Freedman.
Petra also holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London and is doing consultancy work for one of the leading ball bearing manufacturers in the world, the SKF.
EDUCATION
Since 1996, Petra has studied yoga with some of the world's greatest teachers. However, without the doubt, the biggest influence on her development as a yoga teacher has been the 'teacher of the teachers', Aadil Palkhivala. She has been fortunate enough to study with Aadil on a yearly basis (one-week long teacher trainings held in London) since 2004.
Petra has learned Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga directly from John Scott with whom she studied intensively from 2001 until 2005, when he moved to New Zealand.
Petra is a certified yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and a member of the British Wheel of Yoga. She holds the First Aid certificate and the public liability insurance.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Petra has been teaching yoga since 2000 in numerous fitness/yoga centers in London (Virgin Active, Yoga Junction, etc.). She held numerous workshops in London and Zagreb in recent years. She has also many corporate clients, bringing the benefits of yoga directly to their offices. References are available upon request. She also teaches private classes either at the client's home or at her premises.
