Behind this web site is a small woman with bigger and colorful biography and this is a brief introduction to it.

Due to the parallel happenings and intensity, chronology of happenings is a bit twisted.

The inspiration for writing this “atypical” biography was the often present curiosity of the students in the classes as well as many other people along the way who were interested in Lika’s life more than in the importance and beauty of own breath and originality of the personal soul…

In the hope that this text will inspire all of us…

After six lives which her mother had carried and unsuccessfully tried to bring to the world, Lika was the eighth created life and the second of two survived lives.

Her nervous system and spinal cord are developed and her heart began to beat at the same time next to one other heart.
She was born February 24, 1969, with 1.8 kg and, together with her twin brother, grew up in the family and environment of warm people where unselfish giving and sharing was the most natural and spontaneous part of daily life of the entire country SFRY (short: Yugoslavia).

As a child, just like any other child, she had many interests. The family were giving her great love and understanding and they were supporting different types of her creativity, interests and talents.

Her father, who was a child himself when he was forced to watch his father’s shooting by German soldiers in World War II, was identical twin.

Her mother was a nurse, a rare philanthropist and even more rare altruist.

Her parents each had quite different approach to children’s upbringing. Her father, being army civilian, had an approach of the old school without “please” and her mother was more for the wise and brave approach with no prohibitions but where one learns to bear the consequences oneself.
“If someone throws a stone at you throw a piece of bread at him” were also the words and deeds of her mother and thus the inevitable part of Lika’s growing up.

Lika and her brother have been guarding by gypsy babysitters. Saying that one should not make difference between people, her mother would take little gypsies from the street home, she would bathe and feed them and after playing together with Lika and her brother, she would bring them back.

Both parents were very creative people.

In the primary school she was interested in anatomy of the human body, genes, brains, nerves, nature of things “behind” .

Her greatest passion, desire and love as a child was figure skating. This eventual new path in life offered by the unselfish and unusually brave idea of ​​her mother which meant separating from the family thus from her twin brother back then, she refused.

Later she discovers the magazine THIRD EYE (an Yugoslavian periodical on mystical, phenomenal and scientific issues), parties, falling in love, occult anatomy, mysticism, philosophy, literature, secrets of healthy nutrition, alternative methods of life and healing …
Interest in “something behind” was rooted into various fields.
To the herbs she is faithful over 35 years.

Desire and need to understand human feelings, thoughts and deeds especially those of the nearest ones, wakes up interest to investigate human psychology during her secondary school time.

Due to not the best grades in high school, at Gymnasium and in training for medical laboratory assistent, she was, fortunately, not admitted to Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1987 at her nearly 18 she started studying biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

When she was 19 she left without her mother when a new life began for her, not only different from her life until death of her mother but also significantly different from the lives of children in her age as well as from lives of many other people, much older than she.
Shortly after, due to a lack of finance and support she quitted biology studies.

In the late 80’s and early 90’s she lived in Novi Sad, Serbia, having greatest luck to meet and share her life with great erudites and good people in general. Thanks to some of those people she enters the world of theater. Most of her life at that time she was spending at the Nolit book store (today Solaris) at Spens, in Novi Sad, which was one of the best bookshops in the whole country back then. At that time, her spiritual and mental nutrition have been also books stores and theaters in Novi Sad and Belgrade.
Youth love lead her from time to time to Split, Croatia.

During the war in Yugoslavia, she returned to father’s home but shortly after, despite her happy childhood and warm upbringing she was told to leave her father’s house and never return again when, again, began a new life, this time a life without any support, advice and warmness of home but also a life without any control, prohibition and other’s decisions about her freedom of movement, expression, opinion, action and freedom of choice in life in general. A life with complete, round the clock self-responsibility and self-control.

Almost at the same time with that event, while preparing drawing and painting for a re-admission exam at the Faculty of Applied Arts, a chronic starvation brought her to the hospital.

Since the age of 13 she spends her school holidays in the campings on the Adriatic coast when she uncovered the power and mystics of the sea which have become an inseparable part of her life.
Due to her father’s upbringing she has been working and earning money for her holidays since she is 17.

Since then, not only for the camping, she works many different jobs. No job has ever brought her a trouble. She has been always working with fun and ease. Most often and because of the dynamics and contact with people she was mostly working in cafes, in various cities.

At the Belgrade Book Fair, due to a warmhearted support of a good and eternal friend, a working place at the stand of the previously mentioned bookstore was secured for almost a life decade.

For more than a decade, due to inseparable connection with the sea, she also spends summers on the Montenegrin coast where she has been working in various jobs, from working in a cafe in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, to a being as financial manager in the City Theater in Budva, Montenegro.

One summer she works three jobs daily. After theatrical performances in the “City Theater” due to tiredness she often does not get to her room instead, with the full earnings from the theater performances of the City Theater in her bag, she would fall asleep on one of the bench next to the alcoholics and drug addicts of the day of Budva. The morning’s sun would wake her up when she would get to the boat and start a new working day as a dishwasher on a nearby island. In breaks of work, together with a local and rare naturalist, she would walk around the island.

She travels alone, mostly as hitchhiker.

She meets countless people of all possible professions, upbringing, habits, will, addiction, character, nature, interests, talents… Passionate theater artists, pianists, cineaste, painters, sailors, naturalists, bibliophiles … and good and diligent people in all places where her rebellious, beautiful life kept bringing her.

With the great moral support of two-three friends and her brother, with the professional support of the costume designer Ljiljana Petrović as well as the quiet, warm support of the wonderful person and professor Zora Davidović (1932-2018) she enrolled at the University of Art, at the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design (FPUD) in Belgrade, Serbia, at the Department of Costume Design in 1994. In the year of the NATO bombing, under very hard conditions in Yugoslavia and after years of almost highest inflation in the world, in 1999 she graduated at the same Department in the class of prof. Milanka Berberović.

From that moment she never worked “for the boss” again.

From her 50+, she has spent 16 years in Greece, sometimes whole years, sometimes seasons, working many different jobs, mostly selling jewelry hand made by her brother and/or her on the street.
Besides, she spent many years as a street body painter (henna tattooist). In all that street activities she was totally connected with lives of the Greek streets with tourists as well as locals. Many times she was bringing people she meets on the street to brother’s and her home. Many of these people as well as her street colleagues have remained her friends until today.
Entangled with all street sellers equally. Some of the small gypsies she often teaches Greek alphabet.

In Greece, further, on mainland as well as on the islands among other things, she designs and realizes costumes for the foam party usually organized by Scandinavian promoters, she paints murals in restaurants, advertisings for companies and yachts, draws a city map and other.
From the competent artists and friends in Crete she learns the Byzantine technique of painting icons.

She gives courses in felting techniques in Athens and Crete.

In Athens and Crete she also takes part in a couple of group exhibitions.

A couple of her artistic pieces were exhibited in Benaki Museum in Athens.

The Gallery in Cyprus organizes a solo exhibition of her fashion and jewelry pieces in Lefkosia.

She meets and lives with great artists and good people in general.

The sublime goodness of one soul brought her to Germany at the very beginning of the twenty-first century.

By the nature or due to inheritance she was practicing various kinds of yoga from her youngest age not fully knowing that the ancient Indian scriptures had names for everything.
She was performing asanas as a little girl not knowing that those body postures are much more than the pure poses of the muscles and joints.

In age of 35 the time has matured and the practice of her twisting returns to her life more seriously.

Seven years after extremely intense practice now not only of the twisting and spinning of the spine and muscles, and after self studying of not only human anatomy, biomechanics and sense of performing the yogic postures but also the other complexed ancient Indian science, she enters the official training for yoga teachers in Germany and completed it with 700+ Hr Yoga Teacher Training in Germany and in German language. She also completed the Yoga Nidra™ training from direct disciple of Swami Satyananda in English.

Her early interest for school psychology was long since replaced with other deeper experiences and recognitions.

During the eight-year period of teaching yoga in Germany and in German language she was giving lectures on various topics on yoga and she has organized several retreats in monasteries and other places in the nature based on Hatha/Kundalini Yoga.
In Koblenz, Germany, in a two-year Yoga Teacher Training in 2012 she was giving lectures on anatomy of the human body and its connection with yoga practice, which, at the request of the students, she continues with a series of lectures on the same as well as the topic of the connection between the cosmos and the man, and its practice.

In one moment of her life and on her path of yoga, but also as a continuation of the life state of affairs, it naturally happen that she was completely devoted to yoga practicing very advanced techniques which, in accordance to intensity, dedication and other circumstances brought her specific experiences.
The life of someone who is totally devoted to yoga implies daily and devotional practice (sadhana) which begins before dawn and through a very active and creative day ends with every-evening meditation and other yogic practices.

On the US website Yoga Alliance, on her profile page stands a small green sign for the E-RYT 500, for the yoga teachers the highest one.

She creates and makes clothes since she is 13. She usually never wears uniforms.
Nevertheless, respecting great warmth of people, honesty and expertise the lecturer at the Thai Massage School she yet did it in Chang Mai, Thailand, where she completed herThai Massage and Reflexology Training in 2013.

From the beginning of 2015 to mid-2017 she runs her own Hatha Yoga School in Cologne, Germany.

Her interests and education in the field of holistic lifestyle and healing in past years have continued through education in Indian medicine and other Vedic sciences.

A couple of words more …

Some people called her homeless.

“Emigrant” congenitally. 

Through the web portal “couch surfing” together with her husband she was hosting people in Germany from almost all continents of the World for many years.

A endurable, 33-year-old tenant in a different countries and with a variety of experiences. In Germany, she experiences privately and not privately at the same time but from different landlords, even that what she once thought a man would not experience (again) in the 21st century.

Good knower of the soul and energy of Greek waterfalls, mountains, islands, nights, dawns and sunsets under a clear sky and in the immediate vicinity of various waters as well as very advanced yoga techniques combined with all this. During her long stay in Greece, she was also a winter swimmer.

A long-standing atypical camper across European Mountains and next to European waters. She also knows naked life under the open sky for a longer period of time.

Mostly autodidactic.

She is not a member neither of any yoga community or group nor of any religious sect, society or organization.

She believes in people and their infinite but hidden and sleeping potentials.

She does not eat anything and anyone what or who has a nervous system.

She has huge respect to every single life on our planet as well as all events in the entire Universe, yet except of her life as a twin, her breath, her eyes, her ears, her heart and head, biographies, lives and deeds of her parents, as well as some other “powers”, in her life there is no particular guru.

She claims that there are many great heads and good souls on Earth, as well as awareness all over.

The nature of the elements and the language of nature in general are her great teachers and friends lifelong.

She always explains that one should not take life literally and deadly seriously.

With no exception, she appreciates the effort, knowledge, experience, feelings, thinking, healthy humor and the diversity of every single human on Earth but certainly does not believe in various assurances, confirmations, certificates, titles, stamps or events from and for “power-gurus” or “masters” of meditation or spirituality, especially not in those of new age and in the rich Western countries. She also does not take seriously the so-called “master-yoga” classes.

She believes in the mastery of true goodness and heart.

Respects every single individual on Earth, yet in the company of true goodness of the people, open hearts/minds, in the company of those who despite all challenges of abundance truly remained on the earth, who despite all kept cheerfulness and a sense of humor (and not cynicism), who believe in the beauty of real, true goodness and radiation of all these, she feels like being at warmest home.

She believes that one’s own effort, willpower and inner sacrifice are the best schools.

Her round the clock self-responsibility and self-control as well as the fascination of human creation and transformation have not stopped until today.

Her sharing and giving without surplus questions like why, to whom, how or what, inspired many people, mostly Westerners, to ask her whether she had a psychological problem.
Beside her help one way or another to the psychologists in their practice she does not visit any psychologists or clinics and does not participate in non-violent communication therapies.

In addition to other circumstances the being-twin congenital sense of proximity, breathing next to other, sharing with others, the experience of listening to other hearts, caring for others, unity in general as well as continuously separating from all this experimenting for changes and new spaces, are deeply and indelibly rooted in the tissue of her existence.

The entire website as well as her blog http://dancinglila.com/blog-about-life/ are reflexions of her personal experience on thinking, doing, learning, listening, playing and life in general.

For technical reasons, other photos can be viewed on this as well on this page.