About Ivana
I’m Ivana, founder and lead teacher of Yoga Centre Flow in Málaga.
Yoga has been part of my life since 1999. After travelling extensively around the world and working on cruise ships, I settled in Málaga in 2010, where I spent several years teaching English and preparing students for Cambridge exams.
I have been teaching yoga professionally since 2016 and have been involved in yoga teacher education for several years- I teach in TT's at the shala where I did my first TT and I have lead a few 100hr specialised courses in Hatha-Vinyasa and Ashtanga- Vinyasa.
In 2019, I founded Yoga Centre Flow with the intention of creating a welcoming, international space in Málaga where people from different backgrounds could come together to practise yoga in a deeper and more personal way.
Over the years, I have completed more than 1,000 hours of training in Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga, mindfulness and meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, myofascial yoga, Yin and aerial yoga. My studies have included advanced teacher training (300hrs) in Rishikesh, India, as well as specialised training in pranayama, Hatha Yoga and pregnancy yoga with Indian teachers.
India has been an important part of my journey. I have travelled there four times to deepen my own practice and studies, and on two of these trips I organised and accompanied groups of students, creating an opportunity for them to experience yoga and its traditions in India firsthand.
I have also organised and led more than 50 yoga retreats, collaborating with other experienced teachers and facilitators to create meaningful, immersive experiences that go beyond the yoga mat.
In 2023 I trained in Breathwork in Thailand and continued my education in areas that complement and deepen my teaching. I have a 320-hour Master’s-level training in Mindfulness and Meditation, training in Gestalt, coaching, and I have recently completed a foundation course in perimenopause and menopause. I am very passionate about personal development and psychology, and I also do functional and strength training.
I believe that everything I learn personally eventually becomes part of what I can offer my students.
My own life experience has also deeply influenced the way I teach. Yoga became an important support during difficult periods of my life, including growing up in a family and environment shaped by war and instability. Through my own practice and personal work, I have become increasingly interested in how we develop patterns and protective mechanisms, how they shape the way we experience ourselves and the world, and how we can gradually learn to move beyond what no longer serves us.
My approach
My teaching combines traditional yoga, movement, breathwork, mindfulness and Western psychology. After more than a decade of teaching and more than two decades of practising yoga, I have developed an approach that is both traditional and contemporary, spiritual yet deeply experiential.
For me, yoga is not simply a physical practice or a tool for feeling better (even though it does make you feel better). It is a path of self-knowledge and connection with something deeper — with our Self, with others and with life itself.
At the heart of my work is self-knowledge.
I believe yoga can help us recognise the patterns, beliefs and protective layers we have developed throughout our lives — many of which once served a purpose, but may no longer be necessary. Through movement, breath, awareness and self-inquiry, we can begin to understand ourselves and the world around us more deeply, reconnect with what is authentic and develop greater choice in how we respond to life.
For me, authenticity is empowerment.
My passion is learning, continually getting to know myself better, and sharing that journey with my students — helping them become more aware, more authentic and more empowered in their own lives.
See you on the mat!
Namaste
