When Jitka falls seriously ill with an autoimmune disease, she takes an unorthodox approach. Instead of doctors, she listens to the voice of her heart, which urges her to end a long-term partnership, leave home, and travel alone to Latin America to heal with the help of ancient local medicine. Her story is about two journeys. An adventurous journey that takes her through the Amazon rainforest, mountains, deserts, and coastlines across the entire Latin American continent. And then there is another, no less adventurous journey into her inner self and beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness, through which she is transported by the psychedelic plant medicines of ayahuasca and San Pedro. This extraordinary yet captivating travelogue tells of trust, determination, and the effort to understand illness and thus herself. Jitka Juliet Navrátilová has lived in London since her youth, where she works as a professional guide. Her greatest passion is traveling. For half her life, she has also been engaged in personal development techniques, women's spirituality, and shamanism. All of this intertwines in her debut, Thinking with the Heart.
