Since childhood, she has been involved in ballet and piano, but after graduating from eleven years of school, she was unable to continue her studies at the Faculty of Education as she wished due to the difficult financial situation in her family. She started working as a worker in a power plant, but soon was offered a job in the Ostrava scientific library. She graduated from a library extension course and at the same time began to take up mime in the Ostrava Mime Troupe at the Petr Bezruč Theatre. Soon she became the director of the Cultural Centre in Klimkovice and began teaching dance and drama education.

She studied dance pedagogy at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) in Prague and educational drama at the Theatre Faculty of AMU. She was a long-time leader of the children's theatre ensemble Klobouček, worked at the Poklad Cultural House in Ostrava-Poruba, taught at the Janáček Conservatory, the University of Ostrava, and still works at the Folk School in Ostrava.