Meet the Founder
Zuzana's Story
Chapter 01
From the Forest to the City
Raised in a rural Slovak village, Zuzana spent her childhood and teenage years helping her parents with gardening, a small family farm, and wandering the nearby forests. From this unhurried, nature-rooted upbringing, she moved to London to study psychology at University College London — diving deep into questions of the mind and brain.
She assisted with research at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, working across world-leading labs exploring cognitive neuroscience, neurodiversity, and the body-mind connection. Through this transition, she began noticing signs of disconnection — in herself and those around her — as the fast-paced urban lifestyle quietly accumulated into chronic stress, disconnection, and discontent.
Chapter 02
From the Lab to the Mat
To break the pattern she was seeing around her and increasingly within her, Zuzana balanced out her understanding of modern psychology and neuroscience with eastern philosophy to support her own wellbeing. Her long-established yoga asana practice was transformed when she started to deeper explore yogic and ayurvedic traditions.
She started supplementing the dynamic physical practices she'd been used to with more stillness and inner work. This was a non-negotiable for her overwhelmed nervous system that went from listening to bird songs to listening to the constant hum and noise of one of the largest metropoles in Europe.
Now a qualified yoga teacher, Zuzana creates offerings that honour both perspectives that helped her on her own path to healing — the modern science and the ancient traditions. She created Etherra to help others slow down and find their way back to themselves.
She shares these pathways not as someone who has arrived, but as a fellow traveler — sharing tools and practices she uses to care for her own wellbeing and offering them as guides for others on their journey toward wholeness.
Training & Credentials
Qualifications
- BSc Psychology, University College London
- Research experience, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200)
- Ongoing study in Ayurveda, yogic philosophy, and somatic practice
The Name
The Meaning of Etherra
“Etherra” is a combination of the words ether and terra (earth in Latin).
Ether
In yoga and Ayurveda, ether (space, the most subtle of the five great elements) is what allows everything else to exist — representing the spaciousness required for healing, clarity, and transformation.
Terra
Terra (earth, the most dense of the five great elements) is the foundation of the physical, embodied experience that allows us to be steady, present, and rooted in our daily life.
Together, Ether + Terra = ETHERRA — representing the entire spectrum of our existence: from the subtlest vibrations to the solid ground beneath our feet.