Lenka Lorien Kolárová

Lenka Lorien began her professional life as an artist — she studied fine art and graphic design and worked in that world for years. The creativity never left her, and she still brings it into every session she holds. But it was the turn from visual art to the body that transformed her path entirely. Since 2009, she has been one of Prague’s most experienced holistic therapists, specialising in biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Somatic Experiencing®, the trauma-release method developed by American psychiatrist Peter Levine. What she found in both disciplines was the same essential truth: the body holds what the mind cannot yet speak.

Her training is unusually deep, accumulated across years and continents. Two years of biodynamic craniosacral study in London, guided by osteopaths and senior facilitators. A postgraduate course in working with mothers and babies — one of the most tender clinical populations there is. A three-year Somatic Experiencing training. Thai therapeutic massage in Chiang Mai. Kundalini yoga teacher training. Drama-therapy techniques she threads into sessions when a client needs to re-write an old emotional script rather than simply survive it. She works with clients of every age: newborns arriving in the world with birth trauma imprinted in their tissue, adults living with chronic pain, people whose bodies carry the long, silent history of freeze, dissociation, and grief.

Her philosophy is one she returns to again and again, in sessions and in conversation: that healing rests on three foundations — touch, a sense of safety, and the deep experience of being truly heard. This is not an abstract principle but a method. It was shaped by years of work as a body therapist at British music festivals, by long stays in India for her own healing and study, and by the sustained influence of Ayurveda, Tibetan Buddhism, and meditation. She has attended teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; she says the compassion and unhurried presence of that tradition now anchor her therapy room. Clients often describe the feeling of a session as something between profound rest and a quiet excavation — as if a weight they had forgotten they were carrying had been gently set down.

What surprises many new clients is the second dimension of her work. Each year, Lenka guides small groups from the Czech Republic to Goa, India, for authentic two- or three-week Panchakarma cleansing programmes, acting as interpreter, cultural bridge, and fellow traveller. Between cranial sessions in Prague, trauma work with children and adults, Kundalini classes for the nonprofit 3HO, and these annual journeys to the Arabian Sea, she has built a practice that moves fluidly between East and West, body and mind, silence and story. The thread connecting all of it is the same quality of presence she brings to every room she enters: patient, unhurried, and genuinely curious about what the body is trying to say.