Zuna has been dancing all her life. She considers dance as one of the potential expressions of her Taoist soul. She graduated from the Dance Conservatory and the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava, having several internships in Europe and Asia. In addition to dancing, she studied shiatsu at Shiatsu KI school and acupuncture at the University of Guang Ming Beijing in Prague.
Apart from her choreographic work for the Artyci Dance Company and other ensembles, Zuna is a sought-after teacher working in Bratislava (SK), Banská Bystrica (SK), Prague (CZ), Salzburg (A), Vienna (A), Leeds (UK), Freiburg (D), Wroclaw (PL), Poznan (PL), Bangkok (TH), Beijing and Hong Kong (CN).
She has been teaching for over 30 years, during which she developed a unique style of work with a human body, based on experience with the anatomy of the human body and the energy flowing within. She connects her dance knowledge with the universal principles of Taoism through her studies of Chinese medicine and Qigong, bringing to her students new information about movement intelligence. The qualities of Zuna´s teachings include a peaceful, sensitive and qualified approach to movement and body.
Zuna currently focuses primarily on Qigong and Neigong and their impact on the health and movement quality of performers.
Zuna is the author of two research projects Dance and Medicine and Dancing Qigong aimed at combining the philosophy of Taoism with the life of artists, especially in terms of promoting their health and improving their performance.
read Dance and Medicine
read Dancing Qigong
Her activity is also expanded with journalism. Her articles about dance, health and Qigong are regularly published in dance and theater magazines as well as in alternative medicine journals. In 2018, was published her first book Tao the Way to Health and in 2020 next book Meridians – pathways of life. Her third bookQigong as a Medicine,published in 2021, is focused on Qigong. In 2024, her book The Wisdom of a Tree was published, offering readers insight into Taoist philosophy through the observation of natural processes. In 2025, her accompanying workbook will also be released.
At the end of 2024, her first book in English, The Tao of Movement, was published, presenting principles of Chinese medicine and Qi Gong for movers to understand and apply. The book was published by Singing Dragon.
read Book TAO the Way to Health
read Meridians – pathways of life
read Qigong as a Medicine
read The Wisdom of a Tree
read Tao of Movement
Zuna also works as a Shiatsu therapist, a Japanese body therapy practitioner, and has been running her Shiatsu School in Slovakia since 2007.
Since 2024, she has also been working as a certified therapist of Japanese forest therapy, Shinrin-yoku.