Woman Without a Country

About the Book

The reader takes a death-defying journey with a woman whose life is torn apart by two wars, assassinations, and loss of home, family, country, and identity. She is welcomed to safety in another land, but at a high price—years of torturous sexual abuse and suicidal depression, and loss of faith in God and in her adopted home. Just as she gives up, a miraculous cure intervenes—she recovers her identity, the truth of her origins. Transformed, she lives as an enlightened being, but without a home. This unprecedented pilgrimage—a search for healing and identity—recounted in this book can be considered a search for truth. Why? Because knowing one’s True Self is the ultimate healer. The Buddha stated this principle as dhamma, a law of nature. Living in truth is living with full awareness of the miracle of life—all life. This is it. Mira’s journey out of the madness of destruction and serious mental illness demonstrates how creativity, Yoga, meditation devoted to self-inquiry lead to self-knowledge, strengthen intuition, bring one to eternal essence or universal intelligence. Specifically, combined with breathwork, intentional meditation can provide self-healing, manifestation, pain elimination, and guide to self-realization.

About the Author

Miroslava assists individuals to maintain or regain optimum physical and mental health in order to live with peace, vitality, and joy. She has been teaching classical yoga as taught by Swami Vishnu and Swami Mukundananda’s JKYog for over thirty-five years and has trained and been certified both in India and the United States. She also works as a board certified art psychotherapist and licensed clinical counselor. In addition, she makes and exhibits her art and facilitates mandala, chakra, and meditation workshops and Frida Kahlo performances nationally and internationally. Although she instructs meditation in accordance to a person’s levels and needs, her preferred personal method is Vipassana—an ancient Bhuddist technique. She works in many types of settings—private and public venues, colleges, clinics, hospitals, retreats. Miroslava has been teaching meditation/mindfulness and yoga at Microsoft, SNAP, Scottsdale Shadows, Magellan, Discover India Series at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and she continues to teach at Unity of Phoenix, Biblioteca Publica in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and other international locations. She also maintains a private practice, which includes art psychotherapy, yoga therapy, life coaching, and counseling.