About Veronika

• Somatic education program Conscious Body drawing on Laban movement analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals™, Body Mind Centering™, Authentic movement, Hakomi method and Mindfulness (Prague, CZ, 2019-2022)

• Dance&movement&somatic workshops/classes/retreats (since 2009)

• Ecosomatic courses, workshops and projects: Earth in Me, Global Water Dances, Bohemiae Rosa, Walking as a Fluid Constant in Urban Space and Landscape (CZ, since 2018)

• Contact improvisation courses (Prague, CZ, 2022/2023)

• Contango workshops (Czechia, Germany, Italy, since March 2023)

• Ecosystem of Hope - methodical course based on ecotherapy and Work That Reconnects (Prague, CZ, 8.-9.3. 2024)

• Massage course for sports and convalescent massage (Prague, CZ, July 2013)

• Shiatsu course (Graz, AT, 2019/2020)

• Somatic Thai Bodywork workshop with Mikis Taguchi (Tanvald, CZ, September 2023)

• Reiki, initiation to Level III Master (Prague, CZ, 2011-2013)

• Šital Yoga based on mental yoga (CZ, 2011-2020). Since 2020 following a spiritual path by practising mindfulness and tuning in to the Self.

• BSc in Biology and MSc in Theoretical and Evolutionary Biology (2007-2012)

• PhD in Environmental Studies (2014-2020)

• Practice in environmental studies (agricultural landscape, GMOs) and social studies (science for policy in environmental risks)

• Internal and external travels - months in Berlin, Graz, the Arctic Circle in Tromso, the mountains and ocean coasts of Mexico, and years in Prague, Brno and Nová Role (CZ) ...since Aug. 2024 based in Potsdam, DE

• Relationships with people and the more-than-human world 

Dance&movement classes 

• "Flow in Motion" - Class series (KK Nemo, Prague, CZ, January-February 2023)

• "Progressive Body" - Class series co-facilitated with Bora Debnárová (Citadela, Prague, CZ, March-June 2023)

• "Laskavě v těle" somatic classes (Pohled, Prague, CZ, September-December 2023)

• Series of online somatic lessons 

• "Contango jams" with lead warm-up - Co-facilitating monthly with Anna Fišerová (Druna, Prague, CZ, since January 2024) 

Workshops

• Creative movement WS in the frame of Dance and Movement Week (Smichov Community Space, Prague, CZ, July 2022 and 2023)

• Creative movement WS at Karavana event (Zásmuky, CZ, October 2023)

• "Support in your back" somatic WS (Prague, CZ, 7.1.2024)

• "Playfulness in motion" (L10, Prague, CZ, 28.1.2024)

• "Perceptively through the landscape" - Co-facilitated daily tours with Lenka Sabolčáková (summer 2023)

• "Tuned Ears II - reciprocity as a source of artistic inspiration" at the 2nd (non)conference of deep ecology - Co-facilitated workshop with Katka Křováková, (Lipová-Lázně, CZ, 21.–23. 6. 2024)

Individual practice

• Bodywork

• Massage

• Shiatsu

• Reiki including initiation 

since January 2023

Member of

• Somapraktikum - self organized alumni group of the somatic education program “Vědomé tělo”

• JáMy - dance improvisation group with site-specific performances

Performances

• With JáMy at festivals and cultural events across the CZ

• In the frame of projects&residencies Earth in Me, Global Water Dances, Walking as a fluid constant in urban space and landscape

I see returning to the body as a prerequisite for experiencing an understanding of oneself as part of nature. From the experience of the interconnectedness of the natural world can spring the need to care not only for oneself, but also for relationships with others and with the more-than-human world.

I find information about the interconnectedness of ecosystems and humans presented on an intellectual level important, but I see grasping it with the mind alone as insufficient to change our values and actions.

I feel blissful in experiencing myself as part of the whole. I rest in that moment and have no need to do anything. ...then comes the desire to let it manifest outward, to create from the whole. Such creation doesn't need to be taking from anywhere, it creates from within, from stillness with a sense of flow and gentle joy. On the contrary, when I act from lack, when I feel that something is missing and I need to fill it, from emotions of fear, anger, and the need to "save myself/you/the world", it is as if I have to take somewhere for such creation, where it will be missing again, creating lack again. 

My intention is to facilitate the shift of the individual and society from ego to eco, from ego to Self, i.e. from ego to wholeness.

Yet the purpose of my work is not to save the world, people, their bodies and minds, health, relationships and nature. 

Rather, I feel that I want to do this because in doing so I create from the whole and meet the divine; because in doing so I feel that I am me, connected to my centre and manifesting outwardly in a kind power, not an effortful one. I am in flow and it happens.