Everything in this world was
My guru. — Ramana Maharshi
I grew up as a wild child
with my twin sister Miriam in a pretty normal little town in Southern Germany. Like most children, I was fully embodied most of the time: I created, sang, danced, and spent my time in the present moment. The highly civilized environment allowed me to gain a master's degree in fine arts and educational sciences, but it also led to the hibernation of my inherent creative life force. I worked in the film and TV industry and learned about elaborate ways of expressing myself through new Media Arts from renowned directors and artists.
A near-death experience
in my late 20s changed my life forever. I experienced a completely different state of consciousness and embarked on a quest to find out about the nature of reality. I didn't take anything for granted any longer, and I started questioning what I knew to be true. I wanted to know what this whole life experience was all about and how it is interwoven within a bigger context that lies beyond my imagination. My curiosity and intuition led me to Eastern spiritual studies and practices. I have traveled across the world, visiting ancient cultures and spiritual communities to find answers to my questions. Through the practice of tantric yoga, meditation, and working with plant medicine, I got to experience a depth of reality that was way beyond the reality of my conditioned mind. But somehow, it felt familiar. It was a practice of remembering.
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As a dedicated aspirant, I followed teachers all around the globe, read countless books on Vedantic, Nondual and Tantric philosophy, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, and Western psychology. I graduated from several yoga teacher trainings and shifted my professional career towards supporting spiritual teachers in bringing their teachings into the world. Since then, I have had the incredible honor to work with masters like Eckhart Tolle, Alberto Villoldo, Marcela Lobos, Gabor Mate, Shanti Mayi, Mooji, Krishna Das, and Gerald Hüther. I curate and produce online courses and summits for spiritual awakening and the evolution of consciousness.
I Am on an Ongoing Quest
of Un-Learning
what I have taken on for decades, and what my ancestors have taken on and passed on unconsciously. It is a journey of re-wilding and re-membering a state of being from a time before our ancestors had to leave their land and trauma started to become deeply and engrained in our DNA. More than 10 years of practicing yoga and following ancient and modern teachings, I have come to the understanding that the old shadows can be continuously lived out and expressed, even throughout yoga practice itself. The practice can become rigid and lack our awareness, or become an ego trip if we do not pay close attention. Among the most potent practices for "becoming who we are" (Alan Watts), I have come to find mindfulness meditation, hatha and bhakti yoga, conscious dance, and tantric embodiment practices. Studying and practicing tantric practices over many years has been a true path of Enlightenment for me, in a sense that I feel illuminated by grace, the deeper I wander on that path.
Training & Certificates
ISTA Level 2, 2024, Lead Teacher Rex Rafique
ISTA Level 1, 2023, Lead Teacher Rex Rafique
Embodied Flow 50hr YTTC, 2023, Tara Judelle
Jnana & Bhakti Yoga 50hr YTTC, 2019, Lorraine Taylor
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga for Women 200hr YTTC, 2019, Lorraine Taylor
Vinyasa Yoga 200hr YTTC, 2019, Yoga Synergy Simon Borg-Olivier
Yoga Anatomy & Alignment 50hr YTTC, 2017, Oren Dotan D.O.
Yoga & Psychotherapy Training 50hr, 2017, Maha & Elica Lorde
Tantra Training Module 1-3, 2016-2017, Agama Yoga
Hatha Yoga Module 1, 2014, Hridaya Yoga, Sahajananda
Hatha Yoga Module 1 & 2, 2015-2016,Agama Yoga, Swami Vivekananda Saraswati
10 Day Silent Meditation Retreats, 2014 & 2018, Hridaya Yoga, Sahajananda
Hero’s Journey, Gestalt Therapy Retreat, 2011, Irgendwie Anders E.V.
MA in Fine Arts & Educational Sciences, 2013, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
My Teachers
As lanterns along my path, these beings have been guiding me the way:
Eckhart Tolle, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Sahajananda, Krishna Das, Thich Nhat Than, Simon Borg-Olivier, Lorraine Taylor, Maryz Helaine, Benjamin Joon, Tara Judelle, Vivi Letsou, Gabor Maté, Rex Rafique
Acknowledgment
I wish to acknowledge the ancestral protectors of the land that I inhabit and traverse on my journey. I hold deep reverence for the profound teachings and knowledge that have been passed down through the ages by the wise sentient beings of this planet, and offer my utmost respect to all the elders, both those who have come before us and those who are yet to come.