Medicine of Flowers 

Numerous migrations between Serbia and England during her formative years lead Maja toward an ongoing exploration of our true nature… the essence that lies beneath our multilayered, transgenerational and unavoidable cultural and social conditioning. At age eleven, she began her studies of yoga and meditation ~ a journey that continued to deepen with time and practice. Whilst Maja’s academic path unfolded through the fields of humanities and social sciences (communication, anthropology, philosophy and psychology), she always nurtured a close contact with the arts (live arts, applied arts, healing arts etc). Honouring the call to experience the life and landscapes around the world (in her late 20s) inspired Maja to step away from an established career in event production & venue management and took her on a transformative journey through The Americas, Asia, Europe and Australia; which greatly deepened her studies and understanding of self-awareness, holistic healing, anthropology and sustainable living. 

Maja’s underlying interest in the human condition meant that her service always gravitated around working closely with people and building community. Meanwhile, her intrinsic love of nature always kept her in close contact with the Earth and the elements. Maja has spent the last 10 years working with medicinal plants and studying healing through traditional plant medicines. Alongside this, she has spent many years learning about ecology and sustainability through living in conscious off-grid communities as well as through taking permaculture and natural building courses. 

The first yoga teacher training course (in Hatha and Iyengar) which Maja took was at the Himalayan Yoga Academy in Rishikesh (India) in 2014. She has since been sharing her practice through teaching yoga in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Maja advanced her training in Vinyasa yoga which was followed by a third teacher training course in Prenatal yoga. She has also studied Zen Yoga Massage, has trained as a birth doula and holds a Batchelor of Arts degree. Her meditation practice germinated and grew through the study of Goenka’s Vipassana, The Silva Method and participation in plentiful meditation courses and retreats. Her inspired exploration of the realm of yoga, consciousness, self-knowledge and holistic living is ever-expanding and through this journey Maja aspires to help cultivate authenticity and wholeheartedness within ourselves and in all our relations. Maja and her partner Asdrubal’s united vision gave rise to Casa Arkaana, an intentional and ecological wellness center, which supports people in their processes of transformation, empowerment, reconnection and liberation. At the root of Maja’s work is the endeavor to be in service by facilitating the expansion of awareness so that we can align with our fullest potential, thus co-creating a more harmonious and sustainable world. 

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Through his work, Asdrubal endeavours to inspire and empower people to walk a sustainable path, creating symbiotic relationships with nature’s elements and systems by sharing different tools which can help us to re-connect with our body, mind and spirit.

Having experienced the power of meditation through esoteric teachings at age 14, he embarked himself on a life-long path of self-discovery. Asdrubal decided to leave home at 20 years of age to explore the world. He made Britain his home base and spent several years travelling around Europe, India and South East Asia. Amazed by the different ways of living which he encountered, he started learning and adopting different practices into his every-day life. 

After seven years abroad he had a strong calling to come back home to Mexico and reconnect with his roots. After a few years of being back in the vortex of city life, he realized that his calling was to work with and for the land which he decided to do by becoming a farmer. Asdrubal studied permaculture in Bali and continued his studies of the land through microbiology, agronomy, natural building, fermentation, live-stock and water management and so forth. After years of continued studying, observing nature and teaming with microbes Asdru started creating, developing and applying different sustainable systems which form the foundation of Casa Arkaana's vision as a healing space that serves to connect all who visit with mother nature.