Calling all cake junkies and cookie fiends!

Cozy is a place where people can come to connect, laugh, share a treat, and feel at home. We practice the primary tenants of yoga, meaning the humanity in me recognizes and honors the humanity in you. Similarly, we recognize that our mutual humanity likely involves a mutual love of delicious treats!

So come share a class, share a smile, then share a snack! Our cookie jar is always full.

Lucie Lorencová
Lucie is originally from the Czech Republic and came to Porto in 2014. Shortly after that, she opened the first aerial yoga studio in the city - Studio Fly. Since then, her passion for yoga has grown, and after a few years, she discovered a love for more traditional styles of yoga as well. Vinyasa, hatha, yin, and myofascial release have opened doors to understanding that yoga is so much more than physical movement. Yoga is our day by day life, yoga is community. It was through yoga that she met Lauren, now her friend, colleague and most importantly, her favorite coffee buddy.

Living far from her family, Lucie always felt that she needed a place that felt like home again — a warm, welcoming and creative place that serves as a refuge for anyone seeking a home away from home. And so, with a cup of coffee and cake, Cozy was born.

Marta Golasz
Marta is originally from Poland and came to Porto in 2021. She has always had a movement practice of some sort—gymnastics, competitive dancing, choreography, dance improvisation. Her passion for yoga began in 2020 when, during the pandemic, her favorite thing to do was find new hobbies. Yoga quickly became a daily routine and it opened many more opportunities for movement and curiosity, as well as more depth to the practice of self-discovery.

Her mission is to encourage people to practice compassion and take time for self-study, which enables having more agency and connection to one another. Join her and embrace the transformative power of yoga.

Lauren Simonis
Lauren moved to Porto from the U.S. in 2016 where her passion for yoga grew from a hobby, to a habit, to a passion. She first began teaching aerial yoga and then expanded her training to include vinyasa, hatha, yin, and myofascial release. As a teacher, her classes are filled with light-hearted invitations to explore new movements, anatomy-driven alignment cues, mobility exercises, and regular reminders that every body practicing yoga will look a little different—and that is beautiful! Her goal is to help you connect to your spirit, your strength, and your sense of fun.

The idea for Cozy began because she wanted to share this joy and sense of community more fully. She thought, What if this didn’t have to end the moment class was over? What if we had a place where people could meet, share their passions, and find greater connection through art and movement?

She created Cozy with Lucie because it is an extension of everything she loves: spending time with wonderful people, sharing a hot cup of something wonderful, and of course, yoga.

Mason Gates
Mason is a poet and artist from Arizona. His passions are writing, reading, yoga, and the endless pursuit of getting his act together. As a student/teacher of many disciplines, he hopes to reinvigorate the sense of wonder and awe that seems to lose relevance as we age, and he is honored to have the opportunity to be part of a community in which this is nurtured.

One of the main contributors to creative growth is having space and time where ideas, however strange and nonlinear, are welcome. His inspiration to help build Cozy comes from a lifelong search for such a place. He became a yoga teacher so he could continue his history of leading creative, dynamic, and invigorating classes for fun-minded people.