Ivana Loučková is the longest serving lay teacher of Satipatthana-Vipassana meditation in the Czech Republic. She began teaching in the early 1990s and has been teaching meditation continuously ever since. Currently she works as an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ostrava. She began her personal practice of the Buddha’s teachings in the early 1980s. Her courses are structured, with a precise schedule.