Meet Your Facilitator: Safar Nikodem
Safar Michal Nikodem has been facilitating Star Sapphire and Conscious Living workshops for over 15 years, leading groups across Europe, China, Japan, UAE and other countries.
Safar is a trained therapist based in Prague, Czech Republic and a member of Czech association for psychotherapy. He is also trained in Star Sapphire, Psychic Massage, Constellations, Ayurvedic Balance Bodywork and Painting Art Therapy.
Safar has studied and trained for 15+ years in Star Sapphire and Conscious Living methods, with Sagarpriya DeLong, the creator of these methods over 35 years ago, learning the art of leading groups about Presence. These methods are blended and incorporate meditation, therapeutic techniques, and conscious living approaches.
He is a seeker of truth and a meditator, and his approach involves helping the participant move from a “state of desire” to a “state of presence”. This essentially is the journey inward and relaxing into the heart and connecting to your spirit, lessening the grip of the ego and its demands.
Safar combines skill with a rare depth and warmth, gentleness and creates a safe space for participants to explore their inner landscape and discover their path to inner healing, balance and living with growing wholeness.
Many hundreds of participants have benefited and experienced transformations with Safar’s work: through Star Sapphire and other Conscious Living retreats he conducts. Please read testimonials shared below.
Safar gives individual therapy sessions in his practice in Prague, and leads workshops (Star Sapphire, Conscious Living, Presence) across the world.
Safar was previously a professional chef and taught people how to cook. Still today, when he makes food for himself or his friends, he touches, smells, senses, and listens to the ingredients and puts them together in the order and quantity they want to be. This is his everyday creativity, everyday meditation. The moments when suddenly everything stops and silence takes over are moments of pure blissfulness for him and also for his clients during groups, sessions, or cooking engagements.
He is bringing the Star Sapphire & Conscious Living work to the United States first time in September 2026 to meet the challenges of Living & Leading in the AI Age with Wholeness. You can learn more about the Roots & Wings retreat, in the Twin Cities, MN here.
About Star Sapphire and Conscious Living Methods
A proven pathway to inner growth and transformation
Star Sapphire helps to connect with and balance our rational and intuitive sides, for personal well-being, deeper relationships, fulfilling work and sustainable leadership. This work was developed over 35+ years back by well-known therapist, meditator and author Sagarpriya DeLong. Since then, hundreds of therapists have been trained, and thousands of participants have benefitted from this transformative work across Europe, India, Brazil, China, Japan, UAE and more. We are so excited to bring this work to the United States for the first time.
Conscious Living programs grow awareness in daily life, ultimately transforming the quality of life.
Programs about consciousness in normal activities include hands-on experience in using the techniques. The participants work on a project or activity. From this experience they are able to report back to the group about those situations in which awareness went up (high satisfaction) and the contrasting situations in which awareness went down (low satisfaction). As a result of closer examination of the choices that are made, everyone learns how to stay more present doing the small, simple things that everyday life requires.
Conscious Living Programs
Safar Nikodem is the group leader and for the Roots & Wings retreat in the Twin Cities, MN. He will use a blended approach of Meditations, Therapeutic Work, Inquiry, incorporating techniques to come into presence, from Star Sapphire and Conscious Living Programs he has trained in.
About Sagarpriya DeLong
Creator & Innovator of Star Sapphire and Conscious Living Programs
Sagarpriya (Roberta) DeLong was born in Tacoma, Washington in the United States. She studied music and philosophy in college. In her early 20s she joined Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, as a member of their massage team and eventually became the director of the program.
Esalen was a place of tremendous vitality in the late 1960s - as the first and probably the only personal growth center in the US. Sagarpriya crossed paths with many renowned innovators in the field of humanistic psychology during her time at Esalen - Ida Rolf, Fritz Perls, Alan Watts just to name a few. In 1975 she published her first book, “Psychic Massage” which went on to become a classic. In 1977 she met Osho, an Enlightened Mystic, in India, where a lot of her acquaintances has already gathered to meditate. She became a seeker of truth and meditator and invented many new workshops and therapeutic methods. Sagarpriya developed and started to offer Star Sapphire workshop in the 90s. She subsequently authored a book on this topic -” Two Shores of Love” - which is also a classic.
Sagarpriya also co-founded Conscious Living, an association near Bologna, Italy - offering trainings in Star Sapphire and porgrams related to consciousness in daily life.
Sagarpriya passed away peacefully in January 2026 in Italy. Her work now lives on through the Star Sapphire team.
*Source: Key information about Sagarpriya’s life taken from her book “Two Shores of Love”
Why the name Star Sapphire?
A star sapphire gemstone looks rather plain and ordinary on the surface, but inside there is a light - a six-pointed star.
Sagarpriya wanted to reveal to people the subtle luminosity available inside themselves when the rational and the intuitive, (right brain and left brain, inner masculine & inner feminine bio-energies) function harmoniously in a relaxed alternating rhythm in every human. Like breath IN and OUT.
Testimonials for Safar Nikodem’s Work
In particular, here is a sampling of some of the testimonials shared by participants after completing workshops with Safar Nikodem.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a powerful workshop and for the session that you gave me … words can’t express the level of “unlocking” – of RELIEF – I feel as a result, like a river let free of a dam.
I am SO grateful.”
Annica, Sweden
“I have to say thank you for an amazing workshop! For me, it was an incredible experience. My whole perspective on the world has completely changed — I feel like I’m riding some kind of positive wave. People around me keep asking if I just got back from vacation because I’m so full of smiles. The workshop helped me gain self-confidence and become aware of my own worth and the worth of the people around me.”
Alena Ch., Prague, Czech Republic
“I highly recommend this work to anyone seeking soul healing and personal development The process itself reaches incredible depth in a very light and easy way – a true gift we can make to ourselves!”
Tsvete Lina, Bulgaria
Past participant from Czech Republic, English subtitles
Past participant from Czech Republic, English subtitles
A PROVEN PATH:
✓ 35+ years of practice and refinement
✓ Hundreds of workshops across the world
✓ Facilitated by trained therapists and meditators
✓ Grounded in embodied experience not theory
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About the Twin Cities Retreat
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