I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED ART

Growing up in a small Bavarian village, my parents would sometimes take me to exhibitions in the city and whenever I was exposed to art, especially contemporary art, I felt the power it had to change my perception and to open my mind. Its daring, rule-breaking, outside-the-box-thinking signals made me want to become an artist as well.

After thoroughly studying and practicing the Fine Arts I dived head first into the art of Self-discovery. I undertook years of devotional sadhana following a female lineage of yoginis from the northern Kali Kula, 5Rhythms movement medicine, Shamanism, psychotherapy, breathwork, silent meditation, body work and sweat lodge to name a few.

The gateways one needs to walk through in pursuit of the Truth can be painful and they are most definitely humbling. If a transformational experience isn’t denied and medicated away but integrated, it can open up a whole ‘new life’. Of course the change on the inside is what makes the world look a different place and its inhabitants different creatures. That’s the magic, the alchemy, the power we all have over our own lives.

My mission is to bring beauty and connection to the world through creative expression, gatherings and healings. I offer a range of transformational self-development workshops, for people to be able to switch on their own inner lights and to remove inhibitions and blocks.

I weave my knowledge of sculpture and visual art with ancient healing practices from around the world and my own direct experience of the omnipresent undercurrent of love. I aim to re-introduce forgotten knowledge from the fringes of society as well as to re-kindle communication with the natural world (ourselves included). I believe that we can repair lost connections and find peace but we can’t do it each on their own! We need each other’s help to heal.

In my offerings I use mainly shamanic skills and of course my intuition and creativity. I love to tap into the wisdom of nature, the power of the elements within and all around. I make my own drums and healing tools which I use in 1:1s and in group sessions.

For me the most fascinating way of making art as well as exploring life is to open my inner gates to a world unknown. Unknown to the rational mind there is a source of information, freely flowing with symbolic language. As an artist as well as a shamanic practicioner I can collaborate with this flow of information. I can’t force it but I kind of ‘offer myself up to being worked through’.

If you feel called to work with me, please get in touch directly or have a look at the events page to see my current offerings.

  • For a very long time I was very careful to keep things separate. The cool stuff aka contemporary art and my other ‘whacky’ aka spiritual interests that would make any serious art person roll their eyes and run a mile. (At least that is what I believed).

    Truth is, that separation had made me unhappy. It was as if only half of me was allowed to live. What was the point of producing more cool stuff that didn’t mean anything when the world was full of it already? And where was place for my desire to really connect with myself and with Spirit?

    I remember the time when I allowed myself to try out everything spiritual and liberating that pulled my interest without judging, just for the experience.

    I was singing my heart out in a language that I didn’t understand, dancing my naked truth with people I had never met before, shaking, hugging and rolling around on the floor during an active Osho meditation, sober raving at 3am in the morning in East London, offering rose petals to a fellow goddess during a Kali puja, walking all night in a dark forest until the first bird started to sing as the sun rose, and so on.

    IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. IT MADE ME FEEL SO ALIVE.

    WHY HAD I LET MYSELF GET CONDITIONED INTO BELIEVING IT WAS EMBARRASSING?

    Once I had repaired the lost connection, everything changed, including my art. There was an excitement about life and an uncompromising I-do-what-I-want attitude.

    Now my art studio and my sacred place are in the same room, they interlock, I weave between them and they connect with each other.

    There is no division between the world of the unseen and the world of art as both are connected to this mysterious flow of inspiration and information.

    For me it is the same well. The unconscious and beyond.

    How many people are silencing themselves because they feel ashamed of being authentic. Whatever authentic means to you, are you hiding or celebrating it?