I thought it would be nice to introduce myself, so hello! My name is Niki and I am a yoga & meditation teacher (and student), holistic health coach, and writer.

Born in Silesian mountains in the Czech Republic, I spent my childhood roaming in the forest, making potions from everything I found and exploring different worlds through books. I have always felt very connected to nature and all living beings.

My teen years were my personal Dark Ages. I used to bean anxious child always worried about something, imagining the worst case scenarios and had no self-esteem. Nevertheless the coping mechanisms that helped me as a child, did not work for my teen self.

I was struggling with anxiety, depression, panic attacks and grief. I have periods when I did not eat and periods when I was binge eating. There was no balance in my life and I felt that I could not handle the life anymore so I seeked the help of a professional but it did not work. It took me another seven years to find a peace of mind and a way back to myself.

I was studying high school that was in a town close to our village. And there for the first time, I discovered a yoga studio. In 2009, I started to practice hatha yoga in the system Yoga in daily life regularly. It didn’t take long and I fell in love!

I continued to study hatha yoga with various teachers during my high school and university studies. While I was learning more and more about this life-changing practice, soon I realized that I want to share it with others as a teacher. It helped me so much through tough times of growing up, I could not keep it just for myself!

I was more and more curious and decided to learn more. I started to explore different styles of yoga and have become a certified yoga teacher which allows me to share this beautiful practice with others since 2015. You can learn more about my studies here.

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I come from a family that was healing everything with herbal remedies and I have always been interested in herbs, Eastern medicine and holistic approach to our health. I believe that a happy and healthy life is a combination of different factors such as nutritious food, active movement and having a passion in life.

I work hard every day to implement everything that I’ve learnt during all my struggles to live balanced, peaceful and fulfilled life.

I studied Nutrition & Health Coaching to learn more about how our body and mind works and how I can support myself and others to live a more balanced lifestyle that is beneficial to our health and friendly to our environment. I keep educating myself and enjoy sharing what I’ve learnt with others through coaching, writing, social media and workshops!

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Another big passion of mine is sustainability, zero waste lifestyle and ethical fashion. I have a master’s degree from Environmental studies and have been volunteering for different environmental and human rights NGO’s to work on interesting projects.

I am also a keen reader, you would never see me without a book or kindle. I like to write stories and poems, paint and enjoy good music.

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☽ 10 random facts about me ☾

• My biggest dream, when I was kid, was to move to England (the land of Hogwarts) so that’s what I did after finishing at the university. After a year, I decided that it’s not time to settle down yet and moved again.
• I travelled to 23 countries and lived in four.
• I volunteered on a permaculture farm in Costa Rica, where I was studying Spanish, local herbalism and surfing.
• I love the book The Pilgrimage by Paolo Coelho and I walked Camino de Santiago from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela (and then to Fisterra) in 2016.
• My partner and I lived and travelled in our DIY campervan for six months in New Zealand.
• I studied yoga in India, in the world capital of yoga – Rishikesh.
• I love learning languages! I can speak Czech, English, Polish, Swedish and Spanish, and I study Italian at the moment.
• I have been writing stories since childhood and wanted to become a writer one day. I started to study journalism at university but quit after the first semester as I felt that it is more important to actually write than to study it. I started to write for online magazines after that and keep writing stories.
• I have two bachelor degrees (Scandinavian studies and combined art studies) and one master’s (environmental studies). I love learning so I keep studying new stuff.
• When I was a kid, my dream was to have an old wooden house in the forest and be a herbalist and healer for the village. Still one of my dreams 😀

Contact me for any collaboration enquiries or if you just like to have a chat. Looking forward to hearing from you ♡