About Jana
Jana Uhliarová
The care behind our work in the Czech Republic
Jana organises Andrew Barnes’s retreats and events in the Czech Republic. Since 2014, their collaboration has brought people together to explore relationships, sexuality and personal transformation.
Explore their shared journey ↓Get to know Jana
A personal path, a gift for supporting others
Jana’s interest in organising grew out of her own journey of personal development. Her studies have included kinesiology, tantra, coaching and family constellations. Her travels have taken her regularly to India, where she completed yoga teacher training in Goa in 2017.
Over time, she recognised how much she values working behind the scenes: creating the conditions in which others can give their attention to the work. That personal understanding accompanies the practical care she brings to Andrew’s retreats.
Our work together
Creating space for transformation to unfold
At the heart of Jana and Andrew’s collaboration is a shared desire to be of service. They want the retreats they create in the Czech Republic to be places where people can come as they are, feel genuinely welcomed and have the space to meet themselves more deeply. The hope is not simply that something beautiful happens during a retreat, but that what opens there can keep moving through a person’s relationships, sexuality, choices and everyday life.
01A place for people to meet themselves
People come with questions about intimacy, sexuality, relationships, purpose and the way they are living. Jana and Andrew want there to be enough space, warmth and respect for something real to be met, without rushing it or trying to force an outcome.
02Care that lets people arrive
Transformation needs more than good teaching. It also needs a setting where the practical details have been thought through, the welcome feels personal and people can settle in without having to hold everything together. Jana brings much of that quiet care to each Czech gathering.
03What opens here can travel home
The retreat is only part of the story. The deeper value is in what continues afterwards: more aliveness in the body, greater freedom in relationships and sexuality, new ways of seeing themselves, and the possibility of living with more of themselves present.
A shared journey
Years of work, learning and commitment
Their collaboration has been shaped by what they have created together, and by what life has asked them to meet along the way.
The beginnings
Giving the work a home
From the first Czech gatherings in 2014, Jana helped give this work a home in the Czech Republic. Over the years, she became the person many participants came to know before they ever arrived, the familiar face welcoming them back at another retreat, and the steady presence keeping countless details moving behind the scenes. For many people in the Czech community, Jana simply became part of what it meant to come to one of Andrew’s events.
Through changing times
Growing through change
Not every chapter has been easy. There have been joyful retreats, deep conversations, full rooms, shared laughter and the quiet satisfaction of seeing people leave with something new moving in their lives. There were also years when almost nothing felt certain. During COVID, Jana and Andrew kept finding ways to organise and facilitate retreats through lockdowns and changing restrictions, while also meeting significant personal challenges in their own lives. What came through those years was a collaboration that had become deeper, steadier and more seasoned.
The continuing purpose
Returning to what matters
After all these years, the reason for continuing is still simple: people matter. Jana and Andrew bring different strengths to what they create, but they share the same wish to offer experiences that invite deeper awareness, authentic self-expression, greater aliveness and a more conscious relationship with sexuality, relationships and life itself. That purpose is what keeps drawing them back to the next gathering.
More than a decade of care, continuity and contribution
A contribution that deserves recognition
I have a deep appreciation for Jana and for everything she has given to bringing this work to the Czech Republic. So much of what participants experience begins long before I enter the room: in the conversations, planning, problem-solving, welcoming and countless acts of care that help each gathering come to life. Her contribution is woven into more than a decade of retreats, into the community that has grown around them, and into the welcome and care people feel when they arrive.
Join us in the Czech Republic
Explore Andrew’s upcoming Czech retreats and events, or contact Jana with a question about the local arrangements.
