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Polona Kovic |
Translation
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While I was still attending university, I worked as an external
contractor at the UKC (Univerity Clinic Center) where I served as a yoga
therapist for a group that participated in the project, "Reach to
Recovery." Negative feelings, principally fear, were the main
problem of this group. I
therefore based my therapeutic strategy on yoga techniques and yoga
relaxation, which aimed at leading the group to inner awareness and
inner peace. Although my
work was experimental, those techniques yielded many favorable results
and an excellent recommendation from my supervisor. Perhaps more
important, three years of experimental therapeutic work inspired me to
combine my interest in translation with a new passion to teach.
Upon graduation from University in 1981, I became a teacher of Slavic
languages, first in Primary and then in Secondary school (Gymnasium).
Ten years later, I "met" A Course in Miracles and
discovered my deep need to understand it. At
first, I studied the Course every day, trying to apply its principles to
my daily life. Then I got married, left my job as a Professor and began
to translate the Course in 1996. In
that same year, my daughter, Amadea, was born. After her birth, I worked
almost full time on the translation. I
devoutly believed that its inspiring ideas must be accessible in the
Slovene language, too. Soon my husband, Jurij, joined me as a reader and
technical assistant.
Since the publication of the Slovenian translation of the Course in
2003, I have continued to translate other materials about the Course,
especially the writings of my principal advisor, Dr. Kenneth Wapnick,
PhD, without whose help and support I could not have completed the
translation in seven years. Since 2004, my husband and I have conducted monthly workshops on the Course in Piran and Portorose. We have fostered the further understanding of Course ideas through an interview and a workshop on television and the monthly publication of articles in a spiritually-oriented magazine, AURA.
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