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, sustainability coach and writer.

I was born in the Silesian mountains in the Czech Republic. I spent my childhood roaming in the forest, making potions from questionable herbs and berries and reading books.

I was fascinated by history, religion, different philosophies and books about travelling. I believe that my first yoga encounter was in one of those books (or in the Spirit magazine that my grandma read) but the real-life one happened in the summer camp in the Slovakian mountains when I was ten years old.

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 was hooked!

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, grief and being a very insecure person with no self-esteem, 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 studied Nutrition & Health Coaching to learn more about how our body and mind works and how I can support 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 whatever just pop up in my mind or enjoy good music.

I have a strong connection to nature and you can often find me outside, walking in the forest, foraging herbs and mushrooms or enjoying the sunshine.

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To finish my introduction, there are 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 learning 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 still 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 the 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 ♡