Dorota Okrasinska is a teacher and artist with cultural roots. She joins her educational background with her art to create international projects.

Dorota called her third name as an artist, Vera Pearl, which means ‘authentic jewel’ and is associated with her mission to inspire her audience to live their best life. Dorota has won several jazz competitions and attended a winter acting school. She took part in many musical projects and released singles, where you can find many influences such as poetry, soul, and jazz. Dorota is preparing her first professional album now, playing piano and singing emotional ballads.

In her opinion, life is a stage, and we are all the performers. She connects her musical passion and educational background with her audience and readers to share her inspirations about finding authenticity in their lives. Theater, drama, and music are her tools to talk to people in the language of art about serious topics.

For Dorota Okrasinska, writing is a form of expression between the world of the human mind and its embodied relationship with the world. In writing, she sees the gift of connecting these two worlds, which are an integral part of every human being who is an observer and participant in his or her own life. This is why her motto is to live a life of mindfulness, which allows for a conscious experience of life and the art of interpreting it.

She grew up near Wrocław in Poland, a city famous for dwarves, which are symbols of its inhabitants. It was there that she completed her master's degree in pedagogy and took her first steps as a teacher. Education was her first source of inspiration, where she could observe the causes of human behavior and the formation of human traits and relationships from an early age. Then she moved to Krakow, the city that was the seat of Polish kings at Wawel Castle, not far from where she completed her postgraduate studies in educational management and, shortly afterwards, coaching and tutoring in education. In Krakow, she gained experience in the organization of cultural events until the pandemic, during which she stayed in Sweden in Helsingborg, teaching at an IB international school. There she started writing her first articles intensively, being inspired by the new culture, as well as observing human relationships in the face of a time of crisis.

Dorota was writing for the science magazine Entrepreneurship—Education, indexed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Subsequently, her article was published in London in the journal Hermes, one of the highest-rated philosophy journals in England. Soon she began publishing for another ministerially indexed journal, Society. Education. Language and her first monograph chapter were published in a book, a transcript of an international conference, 'Women, society, and law: from Roman law to the digital age,' by Malgorzata Eysymontt and Carmen Lázaro Guillamón.

Dorota's main literary interests are body-mind relationships, mindfulness, and mental health. Her mission is to draw people's attention to the art of living their lives fully, in harmony with nature and the cultural heritage. In her articles, she evokes philosophical and psychological assumptions, referring to scientific and cultural achievements, drawing the reader's attention to timeless values. Thus, her idea is to make the viewer reflect deeply on the current world, expected and lost, in the context of a multicultural analysis.

Dorota is currently living back in Poland, in Sopot, a city in the north of the country on the Baltic Sea, and she shares her art and her projects at @wenus.ekspresji on her channels, which you can find on social media, especially on her Instagram professional profile.