Johanga
I do not teach mindfulness as a beautiful idea. I help gather it into a skill: noticing yourself, returning to the body, staying with a feeling, hearing a true impulse, and taking precise action toward your goals. My meta-goal is health, wellbeing, a bright future, and finding your way back to life even after difficult periods.
A path back to living
My experience holds many different worlds: medical school, an MA in Sociology of Culture, producing artists and large events, PR and marketing, blockchain teams, more than ten years living in Asia, a year in an ashram, spiritual practices, motherhood, travel, dance, and the daily training of presence. And then, six months in a US immigration detention centre. I have lived this in my own experience, and I believe mindfulness begins not in perfect silence, but in an ordinary day, in contact with yourself and the world.
Mindfulness, for me, is not a way to become better. It is the skill of being here and now, accepting yourself and life as they are --- imperfect, yet truly happening --- and gradually returning trust to life.
Approach and experience
I created Back2Life and the Skills of Living Life program by bringing together mindfulness practices, meditation, coaching, facilitation, and P.K. Anokhin's Theory of Functional Systems. More than 100 people have joined my practices, groups, and individual processes with questions around self-contact, self-regulation, clarity, visibility, rediscovering a taste for life, and moving toward their goals.
People come into Living Dialogue with deeply human questions: emotional state, self-confidence, moving through crisis, relationships with loved ones, family harmony, health, energy, recovery, finances, work, professional realization, living through heavy experiences, and finding inner support in difficult circumstances.
These questions are not solved through ready-made advice. The approach is grounded in learning tools of awareness and attention: working with a goal, reflection, gratitude, silence, and the ability to pause before important action. Through this, a person learns to hear themselves more clearly, see automatic patterns, stay gently with feelings, and choose actions that genuinely lead them toward life.
What people come with
- emotional wellbeing and self-confidence
- moving through crisis and difficult experiences
- relationships and harmony in the family
- health, energy, and recovery
- money, work, and professional fulfilment
- self-contact, clarity, and returning to a taste for life
Tools they learn
- working with a goal
- reflection
- gratitude
- the practice of silence
- self-regulation
- honest expression of feelings
- observing automatic patterns and distortions in thinking
ICC Certified Coach and practicing certified facilitator
Master of Social Facilitation grounded in the Theory of Functional Systems (P.K. Anokhin)
More than 100 people guided into deeper self-contact and mindful living
MA in Sociology of Culture, producer, and community builder
More than ten years lived in Asia and many years of mindfulness and meditation practice. Also lived in Europe, the USA, and Latin America.
Founder of Back2Life and creator of Skills of Living Life
Meditating since primary school; lived for more than a year in Devraha Baba ashram, where she studied Ayurveda, Jyotish, Vastu, and spiritual service.
Graduated from school with a gold medal in Vorkuta; studied at Minsk Medical University and completed BA and MA degrees at European Humanities University in Vilnius.
My stories of returning to life
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Johanga is a Master of Social Facilitation and ICC coach. I share a taste for life and guide practices.
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