Petra Bianco

Petra grew up in a yogic environment in Zagreb as her parents were practicing and teaching Yoga back in the eighties. They are her great inspiration and her first yoga teachers.
In 2001, when she was working worldwide as a successful professional model, yoga became her daily practice, helping her balance between worldly life under reflectors of the fashion industry and her intimate nature of yearning for connection within. Very soon, she realized the yogic path is her life calling. After finishing her carrier in 2010, she decided to enroll in a teacher training program in Rishikesh and started teaching Yoga on a daily basis.

In 2012, together with her husband Marco, she opened the Pink Elephant Yoga House, a well-known house for Yoga in Croatia. She contributed to building up a strong community of yoga practitioners and teachers in Croatia. Throughout the last ten years, she developed extensive Yoga teacher training programs taught today in Zagreb, Rijeka, and worldwide.
Today Petra is a passionate meditator and meditation teacher very grateful to her master and guide, Ananda Vdovic, an amazing woman and well-known teacher and musician, for guiding her on the path of self-discovery since she was a teenager. In 2020 she became a Shakti Meditation teacher and is happy to share this wonderful technique with others.

In 2012, her strong passion for pranayama practice brought her to study under the guidance and tradition of her great teacher, O.P.Tiwari, one of the few living masters in India teaching pranayama practice in a traditional way. With his blessing, guidance, and extensive yearly education in the pranayama teacher training program at Kaivalydhama Yoga Institute of India, she became the first registered pranayama teacher of this tradition in the Balkans.

Together with pranayama and meditation teachings being her expertise, she is dedicated as well to the Ashtanga method by teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Patanjali Yoga Sutras chanting. Today she is studying the Ashtanga system under the guidance of her beloved teacher Eddie Stern. Other teachers influencing her style of teaching the Ashtanga method are Marco Bianco, Irena Bartolec, Kamal Singh, Nancy Gilgoff, and Andrea Lutz.

Her expertise is concentrated around traditional Pranayama, Mantra Meditation, Ayurveda, Basic Sanskrit, Patanjali Sutra Chanting, Mysore, and Ashtanga-led classes, as well as a therapeutic approach in teaching one on one asana classes in private setup.

Besides teaching in Pink Elephant and other places and yoga schools, she is a passionate traveler, philanthropist, and sociologist by profession. Petra’s teachings are based on a deep understanding of all aspects of yoga. In her teachings, she puts attention on the traditional approach to the Ashtanga method, classical Pranayama, and a strong emphasis on Patanjali Yoga Sutras and Mantra chanting. She works a lot with mindful hands-on adjustments and energy transfer, breath, and bandha work by focusing students’ attention on their own personal experiences and discoveries.

Web site: www.pinkelephant.hr
WhatsApp number: +385912420072
Teaching methodology: In person or via Zoom
Profession: Yoga teacher and educator
Qualifications:   Master’s degree on Sociology
Other Qualification: 600 hr Yoga teacher, Traditional Pranayama teacher, Patanjali Yoga Sutras chanting teacher, Yoga teacher training educator