I have practiced martial arts since the age of 15. They sparked my interest in Eastern medicine. While still a student, I began studying and practicing Yumeiho therapy and acupressure. That was when I realized that in order to help people, you need a broad arsenal of knowledge and skills, so that you can correctly interpret both Eastern medicine and the Western medicine familiar to everyone and known as "conventional" medicine. Only then can you offer your patients the best possible therapies and recovery.

It was for this very reason that, in 1996, I applied to study "Kinesiotherapy" at the National Sports Academy (NSA). This field fully matched my aspirations and understanding of professional growth and development at the time. During my studies, I had the opportunity to meet and learn from people for whom kinesiotherapy is not merely a profession, but a calling. One of them is Prof. Gacheva, the founder of physiotherapy in Bulgaria and the first Bulgarian woman to complete manual therapy training in France at the Lewit Institute. After I graduated in kinesiotherapy with honours, Assoc. Prof. Slivkov, who at the time headed the Department of Kinesiotherapy at the Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Gorna Banya, accepted me for a personal specialization in his practice. Assoc. Prof. Slivkov is the specialist whom I consider the founder of modern kinesiotherapy in Bulgaria. At that time, kinesiotherapy education in our country gave us the chance to become acquainted with the latest practices and to work alongside the very best clinicians while we were still training. Later, I travelled to Denmark, where I specialized in "Rehabilitation of Sports Injuries" at one of the most prestigious schools within ISCA (International Sport and Culture Association), where I won a scholarship for high achievements in both my kinesiotherapy studies and in sport. There, alongside my training as a therapist, I completed the first levels of badminton instructor certification, which in turn gave me the opportunity to take up squash and later teach it as well. Throughout this time, I never stopped receiving and treating patients with a wide range of conditions in the fields of neurology, orthopaedics and traumatology, vascular diseases, and sports injuries. I am a specialist in manual lymphatic drainage, which is fundamental to the treatment of lymphatic disorders. I am the author of a paper on "The Application of Lymphatic Drainage and Kinesiotherapy in Mixed Venous-Lymphatic Insufficiency." After returning to Bulgaria, I founded one of the first squash centres, where I worked as a kinesiotherapist, squash and fitness instructor. For more than ten years, I was also professionally involved in the recovery of our best badminton player, Petya Nedelcheva, which allowed me to refine the methods and techniques I work with, since elite athletic performance places very high demands on rapid recovery. This has played an exceptionally important role in my professional development as a therapist. Sport and bodily education (note, not physical, but bodily education) are crucial to the development of our field. The knowledge of the capabilities and movements of our body is intrinsically linked to the word "kinesiotherapy," which means "treatment through movement." What training in this field provides is the ability to perform functional analysis and assessment of the body's condition. On this basis, goals are set and the means for kinesiotherapeutic or physical treatment are chosen.