Milan is a certified yoga teacher with 800 hours of Yoga Teacher Training including Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Trauma Informed Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, Pranayama, etc. She is Reiki Level II certified, Sound Healing Certified, Raw Vegan Chef certified and more.

Milan grew up in New Hampshire, USA with a love of dance that started at age 3 doing tap, jazz, and ballet and continues with ecstatic and contact dance today. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors degree in Small Business Management from Southern New Hampshire University and one credit shy of a Minor in Art. She managed a jewelry store before beginning her self employed journey, buying properties and leaning into her masculine energy doing renovations and painting herself to fix up houses to flip or keep as rentals. Her strong desire to achieve material success, she later realized was suppressing her natural femininity, but more on that later. She continued leaning into this drive and attained her real estate license. She opened her own real estate brokerage and managed up to 12 agents and singlehandedly sold 51 homes in one year at its peak. Living the American Dream.

Eventually feeling burnt out, and like she needed a bit of a break, in an innate calling, she decided to spontaneously book a trip to do some yoga and a week later found herself on a plane, on a solo mission to India to complete a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, the birth place of yoga. She rang in the New Year 2020 at the back of the plane with the flight attendants as she had no idea how much life was about to change. The month of January 2020 was spent in an ashram learning chanting mantras, pranayama, hatha, vinyasa, ashtanga, and making friends and connections for life. All blissfully unaware that the outside world was beginning to fall apart.

Integrating back to regular life as germs were spreading and lockdowns were rolling was a tough transition. But the calm was brief. New Hampshire quickly and unexpectedly became the number one market in the country for real estate and she poured herself once again into working nonstop for the next four years.

She took a second trip to India in January of 2022 to complete her 300 Hour Yoga Teacher training once again in Rishikesh. And since she was halfway across the world she wanted a softer landing back to America after training, so she booked a week in Bali and one in Thailand. She fell in love with both the minute she landed! There is something magical in the air. She loved every minute and knew she would be back.

January 2024 her relationship was ending and she was completely burned out with the typical American grind, working more hours than there were in a day for years it seemed. She needed a break. She booked a six week trip. Three weeks in Thailand. Three in Bali. And she ended up realizing how far off the alignment of her life had gotten compared to what she had envisioned and craved. Milan rediscovered her femininity, love of Yoga, her deep passion for the practice, and the resonation of the Non Dual Tantra Shiva, Kashmir Shaivism philosophy of not transcending life, but rather leaning into embracing and observing it. She cancelled her ticket back to the USA and spent the majority of the next year and half on a journey back to self love, self discovery, self connection, and self improvement mostly in Bali and south east Asia including trips to Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

In Bali, Milan took a 100 Hour Meditation Yoga Teacher training in March 2024 and another 200 Hours of Yoga Teacher training in December 2024.

She continues to spend much of her time there because of what she found in the community, the fellowship, and intimacy that is so unique to central Bali. She developed a mantra ‘The Future Is Now’ soaking up all she could from this rich environment.

Now she lives her life leaning into the idea that life should be enjoyed and experienced, not avoided, rushed, or transcended. Why are we working only for the future and missing out on the life we have today, present, in this moment? This is where Ailyak comes in. A Bulgarian word, loosely translated to english means just that. So Milan does her best now to fully lean into a life, a daily practice, and a soul purpose aligned with the Future is Now.

What Milan now desires, more than anything, through this journey of personal development is to share all the life lessons she has learned on her way because it has so deeply changed her life for the better. That’s what this retreat is about. Sharing lessons learned, healing wounds of the past, discovering the power of gratitude, and opening oneself up to higher vibrations and becoming the best versions of ourselves so we can live the life we were meant to live. The future is most certainly now!