About

Janka Livoncova is an Insight Meditation Teacher and a trained Somatic Movement Educator. She has been a dedicated student and practitioner of meditation and yoga since 1994 and started sharing her practice with others in 2004.
Janka has been practicing and studying the dharma for three decades. Initially in the Soto Zen tradition and, since 2007, under the guidance of her Vippassana teachers DaeJa Napier, Thanissara and Kittisaro. She maintains a daily meditation practice and regularly attends Vipassana retreats.
A graduate of Spirit Rock’s two-year Community Dharma Leaders program and the Sacred Mountain Sangha two-year Dharmapala training with Kittisaro and Thanissara, Janka leads the Chattanooga Insight Group and retreats in Chattanooga area.
Janka completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Stephanie Keach in 2005 in Asheville, NC and, in 2009, completed her 500-hour level with Mary Paffard in CA. Her style is also influenced by the teachings and practice of Angela Farmer and Vanda Scaravelli.
Janka is a graduate of the Somatic Movement Education training program at the Kinesthetic Learning Center, licensed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and The School for Body-Mind Centering® and currently teaches Somatic Movement Class on Zoom