Teachers

All our teachers are highly trained and have years of experience with practice and teaching of body&mind techniques.

Daša Lakner, BAc (Dram.)., Head of Agniyoga Centre, yoga teacher

Her life is full of movement and yoga is for her more than just physical practice but also a spiritual path.
Her primary field was dancing, which she had encountered as a child at the Ljubljana Ballet School; she then spent the next 15 years combining ballet, interpretive dance, and other contemporary dance techniques. She studied dramaturgy and was working in theater and & new-media art as producer, artist and performer. However, all her activities have been more and more influenced by yoga, in which she found the means and the way through life.
She has been an International Yoga Federation (IYF)-approved “RYS SuryaSakti Yoga Teacher” since 2004 (the first generation of students from the amazing teacher Jana Colonna) and registered by American Yoga Alliance as an experienced yoga teacher E-RYT 200. In 2007, she completed the training for Pilates Instructor (Stott Pilates method).
She is the head & heart of Agniyoga Center (opened in 2009) and Agniyoga School in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
She has been learning yoga both in Slovenia and abroad, at renowned Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (David Williams, Michael Gannon, David Swenson, Petra Carmichael), Free Flow Vinyasa Yoga (Seane Corn, Gabriela Bozic- Jivamukti yoga), and Iyengar Yoga (Michela Franci) workshops. And this are only some of the teachers along her path that have inspired her and towards which she feels great gratitude and respect.
She is aware that we keep learning for all our lives, so she continues study and is happy to pass her knowledge to others. Om Shanti
dasa@agniyoga.si

Katra Kodela, BSc (Psych.)., movement teacher (Franklin method®), Cranio-Sacral & Tuina therapist

Her interest in the individual as a psycho-physical whole draws her in various directions: towards observation and analysis on one hand and towards action and expression through movement on the other. In her school days, she was an active athlete, competing in sports dancing. She studied karate in high school, only to later return to dancing, this time to contemporary dance, and to theatre, which she is still doing today. As a dancer, she experienced the meaning of a healthy connection to one’s body and of its functionally healthy use. She learned about anatomy and biomechanics at the Franklin Method Institute®, where she completed a 3-year course (2005–2008). In 2007, she became a Pilates Instructor (Stott Pilates). Her free time is spent actively as well: she is a skier, swimmer, ice skater, yoga practitioner, fire juggler, and also loves taiji.
She still studies regularly: at the Franklin Summit Berlin for instructors (2007), Hawkins&Franklin methods (Vienna, 2008), Taiji Shan (Ljubljana, 2009), Qigong workshop (Ljubljana, 2009), Franklin Refreshing for instructors (Dusseldorf, 2009), Body&Mind Convention (Zagreb, 2009), Taijiquan and Qigong workshop (Poreč, 2009).
katra@agniyoga.si

Monica Montanaro Rosival, yoga teacher

From the moment Monica has discovered yoga she has been practising almost daily. It was love on first sight. Her passion alsotook her to India a couple of times, where she learned and deepened her knowledge of yoga not only physically but also spiritually.
She has been practising Japanese Buddhism since early 90s and she realizes that her mission is to keep on discovering knowledge and her faith and share it with the people she meets in her path. She finds yoga a beautiful discipline that together with the Buddhism fulfil her daily life.
Lately she decided to share her knowledge and her passion with other people and she successfully accomplished the Suryasakti yoga teacher-training course (2011) in Slovenia recognized by the International Yoga Federation.
Monica also worked as life coach while living in UK helping people to overcome their obstacles and difficulties, and move forward in their lives. As she has lived the last 20 years with Diabetes type I, she empathise very well with people living with similar chronic diseases and she has found in Buddhism and yoga a valid help and support in her daily life.
She is currently studying Psychology at the Open University UK. She is very passionate and she believes in what she does.
monica@agniyoga.si