Jitka studied medical anthropology, but she was more interested in the nature of the mind than in the biology of the brain. After studying psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University, she completed many trainings, trainings and courses in psychotherapy. For example, body therapy, group psychotherapy, supervision and family psychotherapy. Parallel to her education and professional growth, she has already started to conduct many of them herself as a teacher. Among other things, she is the founder of music therapy in Czechoslovakia and training in integrated family therapy.
Already in the 1990s she became interested in Buddhism and started practicing Vipassana meditation. Later, in 1998, she began working with the Czech monk Ashin Ottam as his assistant teacher. Through him she met the Malaysian monk Bhante Sujiv, with whom she has been conducting meditation courses in this country and in the Czech Republic for over 20 years. Since 2000, every year until now, she has traveled to Asia for several month-long intensive meditation retreats. The main teachers who have influenced her are: ct. U Pandita, ct. U Janaka, Ven. Sujiva, Ven. U Tejania, ct. Pemasiri and Steve Armstrong.

You can learn more about her psychotherapeutic trainings as well as her psychospiritual training “Seek-Find-Let Go” at her website www.vodnanska.eu.

She has written a biographical book, Water That Burns (2018). Torst Publishing. And other professional publications as well as regular essays in Regeneration magazine.