Private Body‑Mind Retreat · Yoga, Breath & Shiatsu for Nervous System Balance

An individual weekend of focused practice, body insight, and calm strength. Where practice becomes conversation — between breath, structure, and truth.

Yoga with you in mind

A deep 1:1 immersion through private therapeutic yoga, breathwork and Shiatsu
for your body, your rhythm and your transformation.

A private body–mind retreat

This retreat is for anyone who feels tired, overstimulated, or simply out of rhythm with themselves.
Across one weekend (or a 1½‑day format), you’ll receive personal guidance through yoga, breathwork, and optional shiatsu therapy — supporting you to regulate, rest, and rebuild.

come as you are.

What You’ll Experience

  • Personalised yoga practice – adapted sequence focused on your current physical and energetic condition.

  • Foundational breathwork (pranayama) – techniques to regulate, build energy and awareness of the nervous system.

  • Short daily sequences or video recordings ("cheat sheet") to continue safely on your own.

  • Integration follow‑up — one online or in‑person check‑in three weeks after your retreat to refine the practice.

  • Optional shiatsu treatment + mentoring (90 min  €120)

What This Retreat Gives You


• A calmer, regulated nervous system
• Clear tools to continue your practice at home
• Deep physical and mental reset
• Personal guidance tailored to your body and life situation

Retreat Options

Full Weekend (Friday – Sunday)
4 sessions ×  / 75 / 90 min + online follow‑up
  from  €355  |  €425

1½ Day Retreat
3 sessions + online follow‑up
from €250

Held privately at At Yoga Center ‘Harmony In the Heart of Nature# In Slovakia or online.

Participants coming from outside Leipzig arrange their own accommodation (support available).

Remote sessions are also possible — please contact me to arrange the details and available options.

Meet the Teacher

My work is guided by a simple principle:

Depth over convenience.
Essence over trends.

In a time where yoga is often fast, simplified, and marketed for quick consumption, my approach returns to experience, embodiment, and attentive practice.

I combine traditional yoga methods with body-mind therapeutic work, creating a space where students can practice safely, deeply, and in their own rhythm.

Training, Lineage & Professional Background:

  • Senior-level Ashtanga Vinyasa training — Primary & Intermediate Series with Vijay Kumar, Mysore, India - 2008-2018

  • Senior teacher within the Vinyasa Krama system — Matthew Sweeney, Australia / Ubud, Bali - 2017- 2026

  • Shiatsu Therapy with a focus on body–mind integration — Zuna Kozankova, Slovakia - 2008- 2014

  • Certified Menopause Practitioner — MyMT Menopause Transformation Training with Dr Wendy Sweet, PhD, completed November 2023

  • Alchemy of Menopause — 9-week intensive training, completed June 2025

  • Gentle Warrior Shiatsu for Women — Kindy Kaur, Portugal, September 2025

  • Remedial Massage Training — NSW School of Remedial Massage, Sydney, Australia

  • Former founder and teacher of my own yoga studio in Slovakia for 7 years

  • Professional teaching and therapeutic practice since 2008 across Slovakia, Australia, Bali, India and Germany

My passion is to help people reconnect with themselves through body-based and psychosomatic practices — so real, meaningful change can begin from within.

Through movement, breath, touch and awareness, we learn to listen to the body and return to greater balance, vitality and inner trust.

 

In-person and remote options

I welcome you in Veľká Lehota, Slovakia, at Retreat Centre Harmónia — a peaceful place surrounded by forests, meadows and open space.

Far from the noise of daily life, this is a place where you can slow down, listen to yourself and return to a more natural rhythm.

In-person sessions, private retreats and selected workshops are held here.

Online sessions are also available.

If you prefer another location, I am happy to adapt and come to you by prior arrangement and under agreed conditions.

  • "If you want a teacher who truly understands anatomy and respects your body’s limits, Danka is the best! ."

    "Her teaching reminded me that building a body that feels strong and supported is far more important than the shape of a backbend. I’m still working toward kapotasana, but I’m doing it with intention rather than ego this time."

    -Karen Bocqué

  • "The classes with Danka feel like a soft touch, a pause in the middle of the chaotic world where we can calm down, experiment, observe and focus on our well being while building strength and confidence."

    — Camille Remy, Brussels

  • "She is determined, patient and firm and takes time to explain all asanas, and how our bodies should be feeling while practicing - so I feel guided, supported and safe everytime I practice with her. "

    —Zuzana Belicova, Sydney, Australia

  • 'I really enjoy the progressive and therapeutic approach of Danka's classes and she does an amazing job at giving individual guidance, which is very rare skill and asset when teaching online! '

    - Myriam Méret , Rotterdam

  • "Even from far, she provides a safe space and with her interdisciplinary view and many tools, she guides us with her peaceful strength through the practice reminding us to take care of ourselves, to breathe and to watch our feelings and respect the state we are in as well as our day to day needs."

    — Camille Remy, Brussels

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