Yoga Teacher Training School (TT 200)

Izabela is the founder of Verbasana and a certified yoga teacher with over 20 years of personal practice and over 10 years of teaching experience in Croatia and abroad. Through her work, she creates a space for conscious movement, breath, and presence — guiding students towards a deeper understanding of yoga, inner peace, and personal transformation. She completed the four-year Sunce Institute for Yoga and Ayurveda with Yogacharya Jadranka Miklec (600 hours), Yoga Therapy Education (200 hours), Prenatal Yoga, Gaia Yoga School in Zagreb (200 hours), and the international S-VYASA University program (300 hours) in Bangalore, India, under the auspices of the Indian Embassy and the Ministry of AYUSH.

In total, she has completed over 1,300 hours of formal yoga education. Izabela is the former president of the Croatian Yoga Association. She spent 15 winters in India, staying in various ashrams and traditional yoga centers, where she refined her practice and deepened her understanding of Indian philosophy, language, and culture. She has taught Hindi and Sanskrit, passing on knowledge of the original texts and their application in contemporary life.

As a leader of numerous holistic yoga retreats in India, Bali, Europe and the USA, and a leader of online education at Amarya Academy in the USA, Izabela continues to share yoga as a path of knowledge, healing and conscious living. Her approach to yoga is authentic, warm and transformative — focused on personal growth, inner strength and wholeness of being.
You can find more about Izabela at www.verbasana.com

Svemir is a certified yoga teacher and therapist with with a deep understanding of the body, energy and sound. He graduated from the Sunce Institute for Yoga and Ayurveda with Yogacharya Jadranko Miklec, where he gained formal knowledge in yoga and Ayurveda. He is also a trainer for holistic coaches at the American Amarya Academy for Holistic Coaching.
Svemir has a deep understanding of the relationship between the somatic, energy bodies and chakras, and integrates sound therapy, meditation and yoga into a unique experience.

His teaching approach leads to an understanding of the purpose of Yoga and brings peace, presence and transformation through vibration and awareness. He is the initiator of YOMAD – Yoga, Music and Dance Festival and together with Izabela participates in conducting international retreats.

She completed the basic qualification for a yoga teacher (200 hours) at the GaiaYoga school in 2011, and then the advanced qualification (500 hours) at the Divya yoga school in 2017. For several years, she ran the Divya yoga center and a school for yoga teachers. She has undergone many educations and courses in the field of yoga, body techniques and meditation, including many multi-day Vipassana and Mindfulness retreats in complete silence.

Tena’s professional vocation takes place through research into the connection between body and mind, which she has been improving for years by studying yoga and Buddha’s teaching. Now she runs her online yoga, meditation and yogic lifestyle program from the island of Biševo, where she lives with her husband and son. The program is aimed at using specific techniques and a therapeutic approach to encourage participants to respond to their physical and mental challenges.

Pradeep Urs comes from India and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 20 years, guiding students towards personal transformation through the integration of yoga, Ayurveda, and marma therapy. His belief is: “Yoga is not only life-changing, it is transformative.

Pradeep is a certified yoga and yoga therapy expert, a certified instructor and evaluator by the Ministry of AYUSH, India, and an expert in Ayurveda Marma Therapy with international experience.

He has conducted numerous online and offline “Self Marma Therapy” courses for participants from Singapore to the USA, and was the State President of Patanjali Yogpeeth, Karnataka. In Europe, especially in Croatia, Pradeep pioneered Marma Yoga, designed a yoga curriculum for the University of Zagreb, and taught yoga and Indian culture in collaboration with the Indian Embassy. His holistic approach connects body, mind, and spirit, empowering participants to become self-aware and achieve self-healing.

Ana Balažin Vučetić is a pediatrician and IBCLC consultant and certified Gaia Yoga teacher. She graduated in 2006. at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, among the top 10% of students in her generation. During her specialist training at the Clinic for Children’s Diseases Zagreb, she completed the postgraduate study of Maternal and Child Protection, and in 2016 passed the specialist exam in pediatrics.

Dr. Ana currently works at the Sabol Polyclinic as a general pediatrician and IBCLC consultant. Within our yoga teacher school, she leads the anatomy section, combining her medical knowledge with yoga practices, especially in working with pregnant women and mothers.

Dez Stephens, MCC (SAD).

Dez Stephens is a visionary coach-educator and social entrepreneur whose work spans almost two decades. As the founder of the Radiant Health Institute and co-founder of Amarya Global, she has trained more than 1,000 holistic coaches in more than 25 countries. As a holder of the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation, Dez combines deep professional knowledge in coaching with a sincere commitment to well-being, social justice, and care for the planet.

Her work is characterized by:

Empowering coaches to build successful private practices based on holistic principles.

Running a socially responsible model that combines wellness, personal development and activism.

Media and advocacy involvement, including co-producing the Emmy-nominated documentary End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock, dedicated to indigenous women’s water rights.

Based in North Carolina (USA), Dez brings personal passions — animals, activism, and environmentalism — to her coaching and teaching, making them authentic and profound.