I'm Marina Ostović - a holistic life coach, breathing techniques practitioner and a yoga teacher in Zagreb, working online in English. I help women over 30 reclaim calm, clarity and energy.
I grew up facing challenges that left me anxious and unsure of myself. Despite that, I followed my love of language and learning - a degree from the Faculty of Humanities, and then twenty years teaching English and Italian.
I poured my heart into my students. Somewhere in those twenty years I lost touch with my own energy, calm and joy. Burnout didn't arrive as a collapse - it arrived as years of treating exhaustion as the price of being good at my job. I looked fine. I functioned. My body never came down.
Feeling burnt out and exhausted, I knew I needed a change. That's when I turned to holistic education - a training in yoga, breathing techniques and life coaching. Those practices didn't just help me manage stress. They changed how I relate to myself, my emotions and the world around me.
Today I help women over 30 do the same. My approach is gentle, practical and deeply supportive: I guide my clients to release stress, reconnect with their inner calm and find clarity and confidence in ordinary days. I know what it's like to feel overwhelmed or anxious almost all the time, even when everything looks fine - and I know it's possible to reclaim your energy and feel at peace.
Six years of breathwork practice and four years teaching yoga, built on twenty years in the classroom. My grounding is as much lived as it is certified.
6
years practising breathwork
4
years teaching yoga
20
years as a school teacher
Certified practitioner - the foundation of how I work with women one to one and in groups.
Traditional breathwork trained in the Kaivalyadhama lineage - the heart of every session I teach.
Teacher trained in guided meditation and deep-rest Yoga Nidra for calming an overactive nervous system.
Trained to teach in a way that keeps you safe and in choice - trauma-informed, never trauma-treating.
Diploma in Integral Vinyasa yoga, with further training in Pilates for yoga teachers.
Certified conductor of psycho-physical relaxation (Croatia) - structured techniques for releasing held stress.
Everything online - sessions, membership, programmes, coaching - is in English. The studio classes in Zagreb are in Croatian. I never mix the two inside one session.
I'm not a therapist and this isn't therapy. Trauma-informed means I teach in a way that keeps you safe - it doesn't mean I diagnose or treat. If something needs clinical care, I'll say so.
I don't take responsibility for the work you need to do: the action steps and practices we agreed upon are yours to integrate.
Or start with the free breathing guide and see how your body responds before you commit to anything.
Zagreb, Croatia - online worldwide, in English.