Balance Your Why
About Jaime
Yoga teacher, wine lover, and firm believer that rest is not something you have to earn.
I came to yoga the way a lot of people do — looking for a way to quiet a very loud head. What I found was less about flexibility and more about attention: noticing how I actually felt, and letting that shape the day instead of fighting it.
That's the practice I teach. Grounded, unfussy, and genuinely open to every body and every level. There are no poses you have to earn your way into and nothing you need to keep up with. If a class isn't serving you on a given morning, the honest answer is to skip it and sit with your coffee instead.
The wine came later, and it belongs here for the same reason: it slows people down. A small vineyard, a farmer explaining what the soil does to the grape, a long table and no rush to be anywhere. That is its own kind of practice.
"Balance your why" is the thread through all of it. Not balance as perfect equilibrium — balance as returning, again and again, to what actually matters to you. Some of that happens on a mat. Some of it happens over dinner.
Come practise
Three ways to join me
One long, unhurried retreat on the Montenegrin coast, local workshops and gatherings through the year, and practice built around you.
Montenegro 2027
Six nights of yoga, wine and coastline at the Mahakala Center, September 2027.
Upcoming events
Yoga & wine evenings and seasonal workshops close to home.
Private practice & group events
One-to-one sessions, private groups, birthdays, bridal parties and team days — shaped around what you need.