My teachers
Parents: Mum and Dad – a deep bow to them.
Husband: technical support. The foundation of our family hearth and order, he won’t let me fall into illusions about my own perfection.
Children (a son and a daughter): they will always cure me of ambition and professional deformation.
School teachers: the teachers of Russian language and the physics teacher, as well as the botany teacher – saw in me a great conversation partner, as I did in them – which is what I filled the lessons with at my classmates’ request: “Natasha, argue with the teacher about something, she won’t ask us questions…”
**Tanya Vozhakova –**A childhood friend, now an intensive care nurse in Perm, also an extremist at heart.
Sergey Strekalov – doctor of psychological sciences. His projects: The Whole World and the School of Playing with Spaces. He is the cause and the example of seeing the whole – the foundation of my picture of the world and my greatest inspiration. Thank you, master: I admire your love for people!
Olga Popova – transpersonal psychology, holotropic breathwork and rebirthing, shamanic practices. I feel you at a distance – my partner and teacher.
Edmund Shchebalsky – evolutionologist, coach, unsurpassed master of play, the father of FART, of the “Matsiopa” centre and of our joint project “TIES” (the Transcultural Institute for the Evolution of Consciousness). I draw inspiration from your directorial vision and methodology. He gave me the mountains and extreme rest.
Sergey Kryzhanovsky – guide in the Carpathians, master of winter ascents and navigation. He gave me the feeling that everything is possible and made the Carpathians dear to me.
Yuri Biryukov – traveller, specialist in the countries of the East, mountaineer, author of a photography school. An abode of peace and safety. A teacher of wholeness and self-sufficiency.
Konstantin Melnik – potter. He gave me the world of ceramics.
Alexander Khlebnikov – pilot and extreme sportsman. A professional athlete, who has tried, it seems, all the extreme means of transport of our time. He gave me the sky.
Evgenia Zharikova – a sister in spirit, a partner. A professional in many fields: design, photography, psychology, shamanism. She is a phenomenon of intuition and of shaping events. A master of sport in parachute jumping. My first paraglider flight and my experience of home midwifery. She gave me paragliders and… the ability of clairvoyance (which I always marvelled at in her and which I once never even dreamed of).
Ksenia Vitenberg – psychologist, philologist, scientist, mountaineer, poet. A guide in the outer and inner worlds, a master of mysteries. Beside her you get the feeling that everything in this world is happening as it should. A source of wisdom and inspiration. She gave me a sense of sisterhood and feminine power.
Thank you so much.
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Travel and love, ascending to the summits, outer and inner.
