Nadine Anne Faitas

Retreat Host I Yoga Teacher I Life Coach

HELLO, I am Nadine

I am the founder of Happiness Safari, and I am here to share my gift of bringing wonderful people together.

My mission is to help you reconnect with yourself — guiding you on a Happiness Safari, a journey inward through Bikram Yoga and many other tools I discovered on my own healing path.

During my yoga classes and retreats, I share these practices with you — always from the heart. Everything I do, I do with passion and love. I am constantly learning, growing, and evolving — and I am here to hold space for you to do the same.

My story

For a long time in my life, I thought I was happy until I realized I wasn't.

I had ‘everything’: a husband, a flat, a cat, a car, a good job, friends and family around me. All things on the outside seemed to be perfect, but inside I was just sad. Four years ago, I was getting unhappier every day, waking up every morning with anxiety and crying myself to sleep at night. At this time, I felt so unloved but mostly disconnected from myself. So I tried to change things outside, changed my job, moved from Munich to London and left my husband.

Making all these changes didn't make my life better, but worse.

Alone in London without my friends and family, I fell into a severe depression with sleep deprivation, and I lost the will to live. I didn’t want to get up in the mornings because I had no purpose in life. I was sad all the time; things I loved or made me laugh at didn’t positively impact my mood. No matter where I went, what I did, or with whom I was, the only feeling was sadness. I felt hostage in my own body. Once a day, minimum, I started crying like a waterfall, no matter if I was alone, at home or in public.

All I knew was I wanted to get out of it somehow.

So I tried therapy, which sometimes made it better for a couple of minutes after the session. Still, my general state was the same, even after ten sessions when my therapist suggested taking antidepressants. But something inside me knew that I had the strength to fight this on my own. Then I started to research what makes people happy!

It took me a long time to find things that worked for me.

Trying them and implementing them into my life. My most significant learning is that changing things on the outside doesn’t make you happy. But when you change your inside world, you can find long-term happiness.

I am on a mission to make this world a happier place.

I became a Yoga Teacher and Life Coach to make a more significant impact. I want to help others to discover more happiness as well. No matter if you are suffering from depression, just got out of a long relationship or just seeking more in life. On this website, I gather everything I found and explored over the past years to live a happy and fulfilled life. Happiness is a journey, and it starts with a decision. I want to help you to start your happiness journey. I am so happy you are here! Love, Nadine

Hi, I am Nadine

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.” ⏤ Amy Poehler

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Meet The Happiness Safari Team!

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Galina - Guest Teacher

Teaching yoga has been one of the most joyful and rewarding parts of Galina’s life. Her greatest joy comes from the deep sense of connection she experiences with students from all walks of life—each bringing their own unique reasons for stepping onto the mat. Galina has been teaching Bikram Yoga for the past three years and has recently been exploring intermediate classes, allowing her to bring more playfulness into her own practice—something she loves sharing with her students. Over the years, she has immersed herself in numerous trainings, retreats, and teacher courses, always striving to deepen her knowledge and understanding of yoga. Her mission is to bring enthusiasm, presence, and encouragement to every class, creating a safe and welcoming space where students feel supported in exploring their practice—physically, mentally, and spiritually. Galina is passionate about guiding students beyond their comfort zones, helping them tap into their inner strength and grow—on and off the mat.

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Johanna - Guest Teacher

Johanna discovered yoga in 2013 while studying to become a high school teacher in Heidelberg, Germany. With a background in ballet and field hockey, she was drawn to both the flow and strength of the practice. When Covid hit, she fully committed, realizing yoga gave her the inner peace she'd been searching for. Encouraged by Nadine, she completed her teacher training at Cara Creek Eco Lodge in Portugal in 2023. Now based in Hamburg, Johanna teaches dynamic Vinyasa and mindful Hatha yoga, while keeping up her personal Bikram practice.

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Balbina - Chef

After a decade as a business controller in the wind energy sector, Chef Balbi decided to pursue her true passions: food, health, and sustainability. Since then, she has completed a plant-based cooking course, worked as a chef in a spiritual community in Sweden, and established herself as a freelance retreat and private chef. She specializes in creating flavorful, whole-food, plant-based dishes, offering personal, event, and retreat chef services. Her menus are inspired by her travels, especially Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavors, and include plant-based twists on traditional Polish dishes. Outside the kitchen, she’s a language enthusiast (speaking five languages!), a nature lover, a tennis player, and a yoga practitioner. If you’re looking for someone to create nourishing menus for your next retreat or simply to bring home-cooked meals to your table, she’d love to help!

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Ana - Chef

Ana focuses her practice on the balance between movement, breathing, and heartbeat, she believes that our whole body moves with love. The classes are paced by fluid and fun movements, she loves to see new people falling in love with yoga and the enthusiasm of those who want to discover more. Passionate about food, Ana mixes the plant-based concept with the flexibility of vegetarianism, fish and meat in dishes full of colour and textures. She likes balanced meals and there's nothing she loves more than the seconds of silence after the first bite. She believes that it's around the table that lifelong friendships, connections and truly unique sharing are created!

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Sara - KAP

Sara is a space holder, energy alchemist, and soul whisperer. Her heart’s deepest calling is to guide others back to their truth – into their bodies, into presence, back home to themselves. She opens sacred containers of remembrance: of who you truly are – powerful, luminous, awakened. Sara listens with her whole body, attuned to the frequency of what wants to emerge. Her work is a gentle dance with the divine within – less about doing, more about allowing. She believes healing doesn’t have to be heavy – it can be light, ecstatic, sacred play. In her spaces, you’re invited to soften, awaken, and remember. Let yourself be moved, remembered & activated 🤍

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Elena - Photographer

Elena — is a portrait photographer with a deep passion for capturing women in their most natural, radiant state. She believes photography can be a powerful tool for self-love, and her calm, encouraging presence helps even the shyest souls feel comfortable and beautiful in front of the camera. Originally from Bulgaria, Elena moved to the UK to study marketing, eventually landing in Portugal where she found her true calling - photographing women in retreat spaces, moments of healing, joy, and transformation. She started out photographing yogis, drawn to their vulnerability, presence, and strength. Years later, it’s still one of her favourite things to do - create space for women to be seen, as they are. Whether it’s dancing on the beach, laughing during a breathwork session, or quietly journaling by candlelight, Elena captures those fleeting, tender moments that tell a story. Elena honours everyone’s journey, always chasing light, emotion, and truth with her camera.

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Efia - Sound Healing

Efia is a gifted facilitator, artist, and transformational guide who holds space for deep inner healing through sound, voice, and embodied presence. With over a decade of experience performing as a singer and MC at international events, she brings a unique ability to connect with people from all walks of life. Her own journey—from burnout and people-pleasing to soulful alignment—infuses her work with authenticity, empathy, and depth. Efia’s sessions blend meditation, voice activation, sound frequencies, ceremony, and embodiment. Her approach is especially empowering for women ready to reclaim their voice and authenticity, but she creates a safe, welcoming space for anyone seeking a deeper connection to self. Rooted in her core values—Know Thyself. Dare Be Authentic—Efia guides you back to the wisdom within.

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Anama Sofia - Integrative Healing

With over 20 years of energy work and a strong intuition Anama Sofia Meca can feel or see what is alive in your field and find blockages, which could range from deep traumatic experiences to less difficult situations you could be living at the moment. Together we transmute it into love and light. She does this work together with a full body ayurvedic massage because your physical body also needs attention care and touch. She calls it Integrative Healing because she integrates different tools she has collected on her path ~ biorgonomy, ayurveda, multidimensional therapy ~ together with years of inner work and inspirations. She shares with you thoughts and insights that are channeled, she cleans/energizes your field and main chakras and gives you love from her open heart! It's a very complete and beautiful work.

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Selina - Massage

Selina together with her husband, is the founder of Moodz Spa & Resort, a magical place where she is fortunate to spend her days. As a trained masseuse, Selina has the opportunity to give relaxing massages to amazing people, infusing each session with all her energy and care. Her primary aim is to ensure that both the body and mind of her clients find peace. The process of massage at Moodz is a magical experience, where the energy connection and the senses are engaged through music, scent, and touch. Selina firmly believes that love, respect, and care for one another are essential to life. These values are central to the philosophy of the resort and integral to her massage practice. Selina's greatest wish is for every soul to feel seen at Moodz, ensuring that each guest feels recognized and cared for during their massage experience.

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Daniella - Massage

Daniella Nóbrega Meca is a passionate professional Massage Therapist with three years of formal education in beauty and therapy, complemented by additional specialized courses. She offers a comprehensive range of massages, facials, and body treatments. Her technique combines firm, warm, gentle, and attentive approaches, always personalized to meet each client’s unique needs. Daniella adjusts the pressure and focus on specific areas to ensure the best possible experience. Whether clients are looking for a deep or relaxing massage, she is dedicated to helping them achieve true relaxation with care and intention.

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