Darja Taisa Cerkvenik was born in Slovenia and has been working with children and adults in different settings for more than twenty years. She completed several studies and combines and integrates her knowledge from different fields: special education, integrative psychotherapy, Nonviolent Communication, neurolingvistic programming (NLP), coaching, reflexotherapy, shiatsu, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), family constellations, hospice work, and more.

She spent 5 years in Laos and Thailand, where she lived with local people. Now she lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.