My work has grown over decades from personal practice, body-oriented development, meditation, and conflict and trauma work.
It combines embodiment, shadow work, communication, and nervous system regulation
— not as a method, but as a lived integration.
Since the 1990s, I have been engaged with depth psychology, relationship patterns, and personal development.
Since 2008, I have been shaped by a continuous Buddhist meditation practice, since 2010 by intensive bodywork, and since 2020 by advanced training in trauma and embodiment.
CURRENT TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
2025-2026 Compassionate Inquiry Connect (CI Connect)
The 12 levels in present, accompanying practice. Actual running annual course/workshop with Gabor Maté, Sat Dharam und Senior Practicioners
2023 Graduation as “Certified Embodied Facilitator”, certified embodiment instructor, with skills and knowledge in embodiment for application in various disciplines, contexts and events. Continuation of various individual courses and in person workshops with Embodiment University / Embodiment Unlimited UK
2022-2023 Certification “Trauma Coaching”
2022 with Patricia Aguirre (trauma therapist), 2023 Mark Walsh and renowned guest teachers (Steven Porges, Deb Dana, etc.): Stress- and trauma-informed and -sensitive coaching. Supporting clients in building the foundation of self-care and stabilization and/or building balance and capacity with the perspective of trauma as strength.
2021-2023 Certification “Embodied Toolkit”/“Embodied Yoga Principles”
Ady Vidyadasa, Mark Walsh and team: 26 positions in posture and movement (“Yin and Yang”). For the development of individual exercise practices, the perception of personal patterns and the promotion of new experiences and ranges. Short-term for changing momentary states and longer-term for changing patterns of being and behavior. In the original and adapted mini/micro practice in everyday life.
2022 Certification "Embodied Meditation Teacher"
Karin van Maanen and guest teachers (Martin Aylward, David Treleaven, Daniela Welzel, etc.): From the separate "observer" to meditation "as" a body, somatic and trauma-sensitive meditation instructor.
"Courage to Lead", courage to lead.
Taking the lead, against patterns or traumas. Somatic "ways out of the victim role".
2021 Certification in Embodiment Coaching and Foundations of Embodiment by Mark Walsh & Team, Embodiment Unlimited UK.
DEEPENING WORK WITH BODY, TRAUMA & COMMUNICATION
Somatic Expriencing/SE introduction according to Peter Levine, with Paki E. Heisserer, Polarity Education Center / Center for Inner Ecology, Zurich (Somatic Experiencing, trauma work according to Peter A. Levine)
"Embodied peacemaking" & "martial arts in trauma recovery and conflict resolution" by Paul Linden
For me a continuation of "NVC" with practical body-based learning hours
Authentic Relating
Empathetic, body/sense-conscious development in active listening and conscious speaking, "self-aware, mindful communication" (ART and others), Circling
Complementary forms of breathwork
BBTRS Biodynamic Breathwork Trauma Release System according to Giten Tongkov
Supplementary studies and workshops on topics including the nervous system, trauma healing, shadow work, potential development, somatic development, and influences on intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality.
Dami Charf and Andrea Silwanus, Jamie Lynn, Irene Lyon, Gerald Hüther, Celeste Pomegranate (Celeste Gonzales), Michael Brown (shadow and trauma work with breathwork), and many others.
2017-2018 Basic training in Tula massage, "Meditation in Touch", with Louka Leppard, in Geneva. Mindfulness-based method, meditative empathy, focus on force versus gravity, posture, flow of movement, in the deep, somatic effect and in interaction with conscious centering.
2010 onwards, different workshops in the deeply effective Tulayoga (not classic and not acro "yoga", a reverse, floating on feets form)
Both showed me a heartfelt work in giving, a body work that is as deep as it is comprehensive.
Engaged in non-violent communication (NVC) according to Marshall Rosenberg, ways of non-violence and peace practice (Ahimsa with Gandhi),
and original tantric philosophy, which takes even more into account the sensory perceptions in the environment.
LONG-STANDING PRACTICE & SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION
Since 2011, Fire Dance and teachings. Important encounters with my second wise teacher Emaho Montoya (Santa Fe), deceased in 2023, his indigenous roots, seminar workshops in Berlin, Teufen and Basel, transformative forces and the element of fire.
Engagement with Ayurveda and nutritional biology, nutrition and psychology.
Since 2010, intensive introduction to Yoga (Hatha, Anusara, Element Yoga)
Over the years, I've also added other yoga styles and Pilates.
Over the decades, various workshops and courses on voice, sound, body, dance, expression, perception and effect, research into strong emotions.
Most formative:
Voice:
- Mantra chanting (recommendation: workshop with Sonja Loinsworth), later substitute facilitator of the mantra group with themed lessons in Lotos Vihara e.V. Berlin
- Overtone singing with Bodo Mass and free singing groups
- Voice training and singing lessons "without sheet music" with Christiane Döring, Berlin
Expression, dance and body:
- Space and movement studies according to Laban
- Experimental expression dance, Butoh with Sonja Heller and Anna Barth
- Ecstatic dance, 5 rhythms, Biodanza, Taketina, Gaga - and things to follow...
- Theater group
Emotions, release and shadow work:
- Breathwork, AoB/Alchemy of Breath, Anthony Abbagnano and by Nik Frey in Zurich
- Dynamic meditations in the former M.A.U.Z. Berlin
- Holotropic breathing with Manik Reuters and others.
Since 2008, I have been engaging with the Buddhist philosophy of life and practice for everyday life, which has stayed with me to this day.
At first, in the Lotos Vihara e.V., Berlin, taught by my (first) root teacher Dr. Wilfried Reuter (a former student of and later commisioned to teach by Ayya Khema r.i.p.). Then in the Theravada Group in Zurich, Quartierhaus 6 in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism and in other places. Sermons and intensive training in the
forms of meditation
- Metta (loving kindness, opening the heart, compassion)
- Samatha (concentration, calming the mind, deepening)
- Vipassana (insight meditation, observation of phenomena, knowledge)
- Walking Meditation
- Contemplation
Alternative teachers from Yogacharya, Zen Buddhism, reflections on Christianity.
Various retreats, Lotos Vihara e.V., S. H. Goenka, Beatenberg Meditation Center, and on my own at home
Special course on chakra teachings in formal and socially related everyday practice
Practical seminars on transience "Life and Death", NVC and much more.
LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 2022, vocational trainer with cantonal/national certificate for practical training in training companies, initial training of apprentices
Since 2020, customer companion in public transport, 2021 practical companion Junior Train Team (initial training)
2015 emigration to Switzerland, where I have been on regular visits since 2009.
2008, several existential years with various professional roles, "training" in dealing with ongoing changes and communication....,
assistant and office worker, extras accounting, medical-pharmaceutical market research, with marketing in the physiotherapy practice, saleswoman, piecework packer, elderly/household help, call center inbound; volunteered at the meditation center and yoga studio, renovated apartments and a lot more
2002 graduated as a fashion designer (design, art, culture, anatomy, gender studies), followed by individual and group coaching in business and financial planning, marketing communication, time management, etc.
2000 self-employed after studying in the event sector and fashion, decoration (collaborations with art&performance, costume design and department store events for KaDeWe, made-to-measure clothing and orders for other designers)
Since 1992 at the latest, in-depth interest in depth psychology: trauma and trans-generational psychology, social trauma, addictions, co-dependency, depression, burnout, fears, nutrition, body schema, hidden emotions, somatic symptoms. Gender (gender research), role models, systemic relationship networks, identity and identifications.
1976 Born in Berlin, Germany