Horses have been my guides since childhood. At first just platonic love and later as real romance or harsh reality of life. Hobby and livelihood.
I started with them in the riding club of secondary agricultural school in Opava (ŠS SZeŠ Opava), where we initially focused on western riding, but after the revolution show jumping and dressage riding prevailed here.
After graduating from the Mendel Gymnasium in Opava, I studied general veterinary medicine at the Veterinary University Brno, where I was initially a member of the equestrian club there, again focused on competitive show jumping and, to a lesser extent, dressage riding. After successfully passing the state exams and obtaining the title MVDr. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine). I worked for several years at the equine disease clinic of Veterinary University Brno, later I took the position of assistant professor at the Institute of Physiology of the same university. This is where I tried teaching for the first time. In the meantime, I completed several professional internships abroad (Germany, Switzerland) at horse clinics or riding facilities and spent less than a year in England, where I took care of hunting and racing horses in a small family stable as a nurse, rider and veterinarian.
I “diversified” my maternity leave with a private field veterinary practice, translating books and writing articles for various periodicals. After several years, I agreed to a new job offer: the position of teacher of veterinary subjects and practice at the Secondary School of Agriculture and Veterinary Lanškroun, where I still work today.
I mainly deal intensively with prevention in horse breeding, movement problems, hooves and, finally, physiotherapy and movement therapy for horses. I am a graduate of the Dorn therapy course and workshop for horses and dogs, I expanded my skills in caring for animal bodies by studying Equine Touch, as well as courses in Osteodynamics, fascial techniques, craniosacral osteopathy, VHT and taping. All these sensitive and effective methods opened my eyes tremendously and answered many old questions about holistic care and therapy that I had searched for in veterinary medicine in vain.
In 2022, I took part in the first Weekend Course and in 2023 the Advanced 5-Day Masterson Method® Course. In 2024, I became a Masterson Method Certified Practitioner Equine.
My credo is to help horses – healthy breeding, healthy work and appropriate prevention. This approach is closer to my heart than fixing problems in animals caused by people’s carelessness and ignorance or even masking them so that the horses can “give some more performance”.