Agate Silova
A Latvian Pirtniece working with fire, water, earth and air. Pirts ritual rooted in Baltic folk tradition, love for nature, somatic bodywork for a healthy and joyful living.
For Me The Healing Was in Nature
I am Agate. I grew up in the Latvian countryside, in a family where pirts was not a practice you chose. It was simply life. My great-grandparents knew it. My grandparents carried it. My mother lives it still. I did not learn this work. I was born into it.
But for a long time, I walked away from it. I spent years searching. Yoga, Buddhism, Reiki, different teachers and traditions. I was genuinely looking. For God, for healing, for something that would make sense of being alive in a body in this world. Some of it helped. A lot of it made me more confused, more angry, more disconnected from myself.
the further I felt from anything real.
What brought me back was not a teacher or a revelation. It was simpler. I started singing alone in nature. I lit my own fire. I gathered plants with my hands. I washed in cold water. I sat with the land and stopped asking it to explain itself.
I had to leave behind a life that no longer fit. Work, structures, ways of living that asked me to be someone I was not. It was not easy. But I could no longer live untrue to myself. I trusted that my love for quiet, for nature, for the fire and the plants, would guide me home. And it did.
I am still learning every day. About the body. About womanhood. About plants, cycles, nature and God. This work is not something I have completed. It is something I am living.
the songs of my ancestors, the quiet the body needs to remember what it already knows.
Certifications & Training
I studied in London, where I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in communication. During the years I spent searching, I moved through many traditions: Buddhism, yoga, Reiki, shamanic practices and more. Some shaped me deeply. Others taught me how to say no to what does not serve me. My most honest training has never been in a classroom. It has come through prayer, through nature, through fire and cold water and years of sitting with my own body. But I do not disregard anything I have learned along the way. Each of these, in some way, contributed to who I am and how I work.
Where the Work Happens.
Based in Valencia and in the process of creating a space in the Spanish countryside where people can come for Pirts, practice, learn and celebrate life together. In the meantime I hold sessions at Saged Club in Valencia for somatic bodywork.
Latvia is still very much part of who I am. I return when the work calls, and occasionally lead sessions at a very special Pirts in Ropaži.
Regular workshops at Banya No.1, around once a month. A space I love and return to.