About Me
Medicinal Herbal practitioner, Holistic Nutrition/Health coach, Wholefood chef and Yin Yoga teacher
My love for yoga began 9 years ago after completing my Hata Yoga Teacher Training in India. Since then, through regular practice, I’ve developed a deep connection and understanding of my body. My studies of nutrition, medicinal herbs and healthy lifestyle have accumulated into my passion of helping others with their journeys of healing. For eight years, I have chosen to eat a high-raw, plant-based diet, this has been life changing in many ways but most of all I've had so much fun developing new creative Raw Recipes.
I have completed a diploma in Medicinal Herbs and Nutrition and have spent countless hours studying and honing my own recipes and medicines that complement the lifestyle I choose to live and help in the healing journeys of others. For me personally, healing through food has been transformational in more than just a physical sense. It has also, just as importantly, been a spiritual journey of forgiveness, re connection and presence.
I am grateful for each and every moment in this wondrous journey of life.
What I didn’t learn at school
I was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1981 and until my early thirties I lived a very stereotypical city life.
I struggled managing my health throughout this time, including many stays in hospital with very severe UTI. I had many courses of antibiotics and yet remained despondent and fatigued. However, thanks to this, I had a strong desire to understand the inner workings of human body and wellbeing. So, I dived into understanding holistic health which led me to study nutrition, medicinal herbalism and yoga. I learned that the human body is self-healing though must be treated as a complex interconnected system.
I realised that in general education we do not learn the basics of the connections between good diet, lifestyle and health. How important is to eat naturally grown foods to avoid chemicals that are harmful to our body and to the environment. How important is to support regular bowel movement. How important balanced body movement is for exercise. How important rejuvenating sleep is for overall mental and physical health. The key is being in tune with the body to be able to listen and recognise the signs indicating to us when things are not in balance in one or another area.
I love discovering the interconnectedness between everything
I love sharing what I have learned and discovered throughout my own experiences and research. I believe that understanding the interconnectedness between food, body and nature deepens our sense of wellbeing and empowers us to make healthy choices.
My approach to food
Hippocrates’s quote - 'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.' underpins how I think about food.
Current food production, utilising inorganic chemicals and additives is considered as “normal”. However, this is taking us further away from an alignment with nature and a healthy wellbeing. In the past we have lived more in tune with the seasons and natural cycles, which are reflected in our own body cycles.
I like to encourage coming back to wholefoods, away from the ideas of “fad” diets or supplements which are supposed as “fixes for all”. In my opinion, these are making us more unwell in a long run.
For me, ideally, we should grow or forage for ourselves or purchase our food from local producers that do not use artificial chemicals or enhancers.
Garden to plate
To eat healthy is not a complicated science, but it’s a commitment to following nature and our innate self. More than special diets, exotic foods or super foods, we need to experience the connectedness to how our food grows, is processed and prepared. This holistic approach nurtures both the body and soul leading to holistic wellbeing. In this way, what we eat underpins what we are.
Is to learn to listen to the wisdom of our own bodies. The body knows better than our mind and communicates to us constantly via it’s own language. If we learn to understand it’s signs and symptoms, both positive and negative, we can live more in synergy with it and the environment.