Maja Juvan Stough
Ever since childhood, Maja has felt pulled by her dreams, and drawn to understanding what they could be trying to tell her. From a young age she kept a dream journal to record and attempt to decipher what she saw and felt.
Maja’s first experience with the teaching of SOI was in January 2017 when Catherine came to Slovenia to lead an in-person DreamBirth® workshop. Maja was pregnant at the time, and says the workshop changed her life.
“I gave birth several months later using the knowledge. My son was 2 months premature and I don’t know how it would have gone, had I not gotten the knowledge. I was very relaxed and talked to him the whole time during birth and he was OK,” she shares. “Then the doctors wanted to induce the birthing of placenta using Pitocin and I did an exercise instead, which worked right away… the doctors and nurses could hardly believe it. It was amazing. I also used imagery to be able to breastfeed him and he was the only preemie who was able to nurse successfully in the last 50 years, according to the chief NICU doctor. So, since then I have been studying with SOI. The more I learned and witnessed, the more I trusted the work.”
Maja’s educational background includes three years studying medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She also studied English and Spanish at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and became an accredited Professor of English and Spanish.
Maja has taught English and Spanish in Slovenia since 2006 and currently works at Free Waldorf School in Kurešček. Her students include special needs children and those with learning disabilities, although she has led several summer camps for children of all learning levels in Slovenia.
For the past five years, Maja has led DreamOpening groups in Ljubljana, working online and in-person.
