About me/O meni

I am interested in the human being, in all our forms, perspectives, and colors, both as individuals and as a community. My activities are therefore directed towards exploring the human mind, soul, and heart, as well as our collective functioning.

Fortunately, my education is a reflection of my interests, and not the expectations of my environment. I hold a doctorate in anthropological sciences, with a diploma in international relations. As a young researcher, I spent several years in Africa and the Balkans, where I learned about cultural difference and diversity. At the same time, I explored the spiritual dimension of humanity by attending international workshops on magical passes and recapitulation, which originate from the practices of the ancient Mexicans. I earned the title of instructor for energy movements called Being Energy. I am also a therapist of energy kinesiology ("Health Through Touch") and an instructor of the ThetaHealing technique.

Fifteen years ago, I became acquainted with the work of David Elliott and began practicing pranayama breathing meditation, which is based on self-love. I trained to become a healer using Breathwork. The most significant change in my life came from a consistent, daily commitment to meditation.

In recent years, I have been shifting my focus more from the individual to our collective functioning and the connection of humanity with the Earth, which I believe is of utmost importance for our future. We are all made of the same substance as the Earth, every single one of us.  In my regular job as a diplomat and political analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I have therefore dedicated myself for years with great commitment to international negotiations in the fields of development cooperation, environment, migration, sustainable development, and science. In past years, I lived and worked with my family in Paris, home to the international organization OECD, and we currently reside in Geneva, where I work at our country's permanent mission to the UN.

I try to understand my body through sports activities. For several years, I was an active rock climber and alpinist, and later in life, I ran quite a few marathons. Currently, I greatly enjoy yoga.

I dedicate most of my time and love to my family, both immediate and extended. With my husband Borut, we have a daughter, Sanja Katarina, and two sons, Sen Martin and David.

For my current work, which is the transmission of knowledge about healing on a personal and collective level, my life experiences, which have shaped me, were essential alongside my formal education. Intellectualizing, abstract thinking, and analyzing can take us far in understanding ourselves, but they have their own airtight limits if we do not include our bodies in the process.

I do not live under the illusion that I have found solutions to all of life's problems. However, I am no longer afraid to be seen. I have learned to accept those parts of myself that limited me in the past or still limit me today. And with great enthusiasm, I wish to pass on the knowledge about the possibilities of healing.

I believe that Breathwork,  the meditation technique I have been practicing almost every day for several years now has great potential to change the lives of people around me for the better. It helps practitioners to know themselves in a way that was perhaps previously inaccessible to them. And that makes all the difference.

For more detailed information about my activities, I can be reached at jana@janaurhlesjak.si.

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Zanima me človek, v vseh naših oblikah, pogledih in barvah, tako posameznik kot naša skupnost. Moje dejavnosti so zato usmerjene k raziskovanju človeške misli, duše in srca ter našega kolektivnega delovanja. 

Moja izobrazba je na mojo veliko srečo odsev mojih zanimanj, in ne pričakovanj okolice. Sem doktorica antropoloških znanosti, z diplomo iz vsebin mednarodnih odnosov. Kot mlada raziskovalka sem kar nekaj let preživela v Afriki in na Balkanu, kjer sem se učila o kulturni drugačnosti in raznolikosti. Obenem sem raziskovala duhovno plat človeštva z obiski mednarodnih delavnic magičnih kretenj in rekapitulacije, ki izvirajo iz praks Indijancev starodavne Mehike. Pridobila sem naziv inštruktorice energijskih kretenj, ki se imenujejo Being Energy. Sem tudi  terapevtka energijske kineziologije (Z dotikom do zdravja) in učiteljica tehnike ThetaHealing. 

Pred petnajstimi leti sem se seznanila z delom Davida Elliotta in začela izvajati meditacijo pranayama dihanja, ki temelji na samoljubezni. Izučila sem se za celilko z uporabo dihanja. V moje življenje je največjo spremembo prinesla dosledna, vsakodnevna zavezanost meditaciji. 

V zadnjih letih se od posameznika vse bolj usmerjam v naše kolektivno delovanje in povezanost človeštva z Zemljo, ki je - verjamem - izrednega pomena za našo prihodnost. Iz take snovi smo kot Zemlja, prav vsi. V moji redni službi diplomatke in politične analitičarke na zunanjem ministrstvu sem se zato  vrsto let z veliko predanostjo posvečala vsebinam mednarodnega dogovarjanja na področjih razvojnega sodelovanja, okolja, migracij, trajnostnega razvoja in znanosti. V preteklih letih sem zato z družino živela in delala v Parizu, kjer je sedež mednarodne organizacije OECD, trenutno pa bivamo v Ženevi, kjer delujem na stalnem predstavništvu naše države pri OZN.

Svoje telo poskušam razumeti preko športnih aktivnosti. Kar nekaj let sem bila aktivna skalna plezalka - alpinistka, kasneje v življenju pa sem pretekla kar nekaj maratonov. Trenutno zelo uživam v jogi.

Kar največ svojega časa in ljubezni namenjam družini, moji ožji in širši. Z možem Borutom imava hčerko Sanjo Katarino in sinova Sena Martina in Davida. 

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Za moje tokratno delo, ki je posredovanje vedenja o celjenju na osebni in kolektivni ravni, so bile poleg moje izobrazbe nujne predvsem življenske preizkušnje, ki so me oblikovale. Intelektualiziranje, abstraktno razmišljanje in analiziranje nas lahko popeljejo daleč v razumevanju nas samih, ampak imajo svojo neprodušno zaprto mejo, v kolikor v igro ne vključimo naših teles. 

Ne živim v iluziji,  da sem v življenju našla rešitve za vse težave. Ne bojim pa se več, da bom videna.  Naučila sem se sprejemati tiste dele sebe, ki so me v preteklosti omejevali ali pa me še omejujejo. In z velikim zanosom želim znanje o možnostih celjenja prenašati naprej.

Verjamem, da ima meditativna tehnika, ki jo izvajam že kar nekaj let skoraj vsak dan, veliko možnosti, da tudi ljudem okrog mene spremeni življenje na bolje. Izvajalcem namreč pomaga spoznati sebe na način, ki jim je bil prej morda nedosegljiv. In to naredi vso razliko.

Za podrobnejše informacije o mojih prostočasnih dejavnostih sem dosegljiva na jana@janaurhlesjak.si.