About me
My name is Tereza.
The start of my life has somehow not been an easy one. My childhood was one I mostly forgot, later in early adulthood loosing contact with both of my parents and finding myself standing alone on two feet of a very scared girl.
As it often happens, pain became a fire hunting me to relocate through too many countries to count, building quite an incredible career in engineering and eventually, in 2021, landing in Switzerland - amid an ongoing lockdown & social resctrictions.
Living through the most lonely days and nights of my life taught me (together with a lot of books and expensive therapy - #Swiss life) many life lessons, including one that stands at a core of this project. I understood who I am, what my values are and that the only way for me to live from then on is to walk these values as strongly and passionately as I possibly can.
To value Emotional & Physical Health. To be Kind. Lead with Empathy & Self reflect. To cherish family, friendships & community. To seek wisdom & learn as much as I can. To be honest, loyal and respectful. To value peace & stability.
And what is the life lesson I learnt that I so want to share?
I believe that the health of our relationships shape our lives. That community and friendships are one of the most beautiful experiences we can have on this rock flying in Space. And that is why, I found part of my purpose of this life to be - connecting people together.
Movement
I do not come from a sports background at all. As a child, I was way too shy and never experienced being part of a team. For most of my life I “went to the gym” somehow but viewed it more as a necessity, accessory to the “normal life” as that was what I saw all around me.
Until coming to Switzerland that is. And, discovering Bardogs & the community within. I still remember the day I sat in my car in front of the gym, close to crying (in my late 20’s), scared to death to enter. Forget working out in front of other people, I was there nearly daily at 5AM, just because I was just terrified.
Slowly, together with my physical strength came something I did not expect at all back then - new level of self confidence. With that came comfort to move around others. And with that step came the sport community.
And oh my god how incredible community it is. What a feeling it is to share movement with other people. To watch & support each other through failures. To grow together. This is when the dream was born, to support this as much as I can. To grow the community, to teach one day? To mentor kiddos and maybe help plant a seed of curiosity towards a sport, leading to finding friends for life.
And oh my god it happened. Faster I ever dreamt of.
In 2024 Laboratorium team gave me an opportunity to teach Calisthenics & Handstands, expanding then to Bardogs & later to ASVZ (Swiss university sports club) where I started coaching functional movement. At a similar time, I met one incredible little girl whose mum allowed me to coach her - this now expanded to a regular kids class of six kids between 6 - 12 years old.
Throughout most of my adulthood I have been fascinated by anything that had to do with the Space. From watching rocket launches on YouTube, visiting the NASA center in Florida and CERN…I even started to consider doing a second M.S. in Space engineering, perhaps switching careers one day?
Every time I went to a book store I came back with yet another book - ending up owning quite a collection of books from Hawking, Astrophysics scripts, theories about formation of Black holes and Nebulas, newest technologies used to understand the Space.
One day, I discovered this little amazing store in Zurich owned by the kindest man there is, Mr Wyss. And there, I bought my first telescope - Vixen Teleskop PORTA II ED80SF Apochromat. My expectations was a bit funny, I thought I will see these crazy colourful galaxies like you see them on the internet - right? Well no.
It took me hours to freaking discover the Moon at first. Few more mountain trips to be able to find it with consistency. And few more to get bored with it thinking I now need to go and get a better telescope to see more. I was hungry to hunt for the object on the other side. I wanted to see a star being formed. Or an asteroid passing by. How cool would it be!
And there. Yet another perspective and a life lesson I am so so keen to share.
It is not all about what we see, what we achieve. Just the fact that we are here, literally on a piece of a rock, flying through the Space. And we are able to, with this little device, observe an object that is hundreds of thousands of kilometres away - the Moon.
With no AI or no other technology than something as simple as a lens, we are able to see the little details and shapes of its craters, created by events that happened within a timeline our brain cannot even grasp.
And maybe, if we are lucky, we are able to see beyond. But that is not what this is about.