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My story - From disorientation through fear to self-acceptance

It’s July 2019, I’m sitting alone on my bed in a bungalow in the middle of nowhere in Costa Rica, I’m traveling alone for the first time, my mobile has just been stolen. Someone recommended this place to me which, as it turns out, is completely empty.
As I sit here with no one or nothing to distract me, I suddenly see myself and the way I live my life from the outside. A huge wave of sadness floods my entire body. What I see is this: I rush through my life, exhausting my body and soul, feeling connected to nothing and no one, including myself. Looking for pleasure through materialistic things or external sources to fill the hole inside of me.
When did I get off track? When did I get lost and how can I find my way back?
Since then, I have been on a long journey to find answers to these questions. The more I slow down, the more I connect with myself, the more I realize the pressure that society puts on all of us to be better than we already are. So we do more, we work hard, we work even harder, but we never get anywhere. Feeling worthless and exhausted becomes the new normal.
On that day in July 2019 in Costa Rica, I decided to no longer accept this as normal. Since then, I have tried my best every day to nourish my body, mind and soul. This is very hard. I still feel the restlessness, worries or abxiety, my old companions, creeping in. I don’t have all the answers, but I’ve found a few. During my offerings I do my best to share them with you.
I do my best to share the soul-nourishing practices that have helped me to connect and to find my way out of the illusion that doing more is the way. Can you do less too?
You are not alone, you are loved and you deserve everything you can imagine!

My mission - To heal the Planet, We must first heal the connection to ourselves

I am dedicated to honoring and sharing the roots of Yoga from the perspective of our modern busy lifestyle. I hold space for you to still the mind, feel your body and truly connect to your heart and therefor others.

My qualifications

Yoga

  • 200 h Hatha & Vinyasa- Peaceful Warriors Yoga- Bali 2021
  • 75 h Jivamukti- Peace Yoga- Berlin 2021
  • 30 h Traumasensitive Yoga- Fundacion Radika- Barcelona 2022
  • 30 h Yin- Ekhart Yoga- Amsterdam 2022
  • 300 h Vinyasa- Sthira Yoga School- India 2022
  • 40 h Yoga Nidra- Sthira Yoga School- India 2023

Meditation

  • Peaceful Warriors Yoga- Bali 2021

Breathwork

  • Cari Merriam- Berlin 2022

Burnout  Prevention

  • Yoga Therapy Institute- Amsterdam 2023

Understanding & Treating Anxiety

  • Martha Beck- USA 2023

Techniques to Regulate the Nervous system

  • Sarah Baldwin – USA 2023
  • Yoga Therapy Institute- Amsterdam 2024

Sound Healing

  • Kimi Recor- Berlin 2023

Fluentbody

  • Fluentbody Academy- Berlin 2024

Ayurveda Health Counselor

  • Joyful Belly- USA – since 2024

Body & Mind

How do I know if I have an anxiety, stress issue, depression or maybe burnout?

“Do you suffer from permanent, increased tension, from being driven internally or externally? Do you feel overwhelmed? Do you feel hectic, aimless and a loss of overview? Are concentration and memory impaired? Then you probably have a stress problem.

Symptoms of an anxiety disorder, on the other hand, would include: tightness, a feeling of having to take a deep breath, palpitations, sweating, and negative thoughts or fantasies that involve threats.

Depression is characterized by low spirits, listlessness, feelings of meaninglessness and hopelessness combined with an inability to enjoy beautiful things in the usual way.

If you believe that complaints of this type are primarily caused by being overwhelmed at work, then you can also speak of a burnout syndrome.

All of these ailments are treatable and reversible.”

– dr medical Dietmar Hansch

Why do I feel unhappy when I actually have everything?

Yoga philosophy actually sees the main sources of happiness and life satisfaction within us. However, the zeitgeist of our western affluent societies has been suggesting the opposite for decades. Advertising shows us every day that we absolutely need this or that consumer good for our happiness. But that is wrong.

You get used to material goods quickly and then you need more or something new. A spiral begins that has no end. And dependency arises, which forces one to adapt excessively, with the risk of losing oneself in the end.

Modern happiness research shows that true and long-lasting life satisfaction comes to about 80% from internal sources and only 20% depends on external circumstances.

Can I control my feelings at all?

Animals only react reflexively to stimuli. We humans, on the other hand, are able to choose our perspectives and interpretations. We have the ability to make conscious decisions before we react. This is not easy and requires a lot of practice, but it allows us to control our feelings. Our brain is very capable of learning and adapting.

What are thoughts?

“First of all, thoughts are just fleeting neural blink patterns, and nothing else. Sometimes they come close to reality, but often they don’t. Some of them are helpful, but many are not.”

– dr medical Dietmar Hansch

Our sensory organs mainly record the key data that is important for survival. Our brain creates our reality from it. However, this reality is subjective. So there are no objective truths at all, only personal interpretations.

Mental health has a lot to do with being able to allow different possible perspectives. When we can distance ourselves from our own thoughts, we don’t identify with our subjective reality. This forms a central aspect of mental health and inner freedom.

Breath, Meditation and Yoga

What are breathing exercises good for?

In stressful situations we fall into the so-called „fight or flight reaction“. All non-vital functions in the body are reduced, such as digestion or regeneration. This means that our natural cycles are disrupted and thrown out of balance when we are chronically stressed. Through targeted breathing exercises, we are able to independently return from the stress reaction to a state of relaxation

Why do we do yoga exercises?

Emotions are stored not only in the mind but also in the body. The classes are focused on mobilizing tense areas such as the back, shoulders, chest and hips, as these areas tend to cramp when emotionally stressed. By doing certain yoga exercises, we also train to be aware of what is happening in our body. In this way, we can recognize warning signals from our body at an early stage.

What is the goal of meditation?

By stilling the body and sitting still in meditation, our mental awareness also comes to rest. So we are able to see things more clearly. We train our minds not to respond automatically with the usual stress reaction in everyday life. We are evolved to prioritize the negative in order to recognize danger and survive. Our emotion center in the brain does not differentiate whether something is happening in our thoughts or in reality, the stress response is the same. That’s why we want to learn to recognize and let go of unwanted & negative thoughts.