My Path to This Work

I studied business and technology at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. I was thoroughly rational and lived almost entirely in my head – firmly rooted in science and logic, and far removed from my feelings. To be honest, I thought energy work was complete nonsense.

And yet, throughout my life, one question stayed with me – one that reached deeper than anything I had studied: Who am I, really? Surely this cannot be all there is.

Then I went through a period of deep personal crisis. I searched for answers for a long time and tried many things. Meditation brought me greater inner calm – but the real turning point came when I began to turn radically inward and feel everything that had been suppressed within me. For more than a year and a half, for many hours each day, I moved through the layers of my inner world – old emotions, tension in the body, and everything that had accumulated there over decades. My body began to move and release on its own – spontaneous movements known as kriyas in the yogic tradition. Breathwork helped me let go even more deeply.

At the end of this path, something happened that I can barely put into words: a complete letting go. What remained was a deep and lasting inner stillness – a peace no longer dependent on external circumstances.

Some time later, I discovered something unexpected: When I place my hands on another person and – just as in my own process – release control, they begin to move on their own. They find the places where something is being held, and something begins to release there. I am only an observer and a channel: it is not my personal power at work, but a higher intelligence – life energy itself – flowing through me into them and releasing what is ready to be released. It feels as though I am connected with the person before me and can sense what their innermost being needs at that moment.

Today, I support people in letting go of what they are not – so that what they truly are can become visible. This work fulfils me so deeply that I left my self-employed work in the business world behind to devote myself to it fully. That world was about numbers, projects, and results – but never about what truly makes people happy. Seeing someone let go, open up, and find their way back to themselves step by step gives me a sense of fulfilment I had never known in all the years before. Because in the end, life is about one thing: being at peace with yourself – and living authentically. When you let go of what you are not, that is what remains. And that is what I call happiness.

Perhaps it is precisely my story – from a convinced sceptic to a witness of what lies beyond the mind – that helps me connect with people who have never been able to relate to spirituality.