Nuad Therapist

Dipl. Shiatsu Practicioner

Craniosacral Therapist in Training

Constant continued education and training within the area of bodywork.
Special focus:

• Bodywork in Pregnancy with Almuth Kramer and Anima Schmitz-Salue

• Wellmother-Shiatsu - Support during pregnancy and child birth, as well as the time after birth with Suzanne Yates

• Fasciae work in Shiatsu with Gabriella Poli

• Dynamic Thai Yoga Massage with Siawasch Peyman

• Five Elements and Thai Yoga Massage with Krishnatakis (Sunshine Network)

• Craniosacral applications for Nuad-Practitioners with Vangelis Varis

• Visionary Craniosacral Work with Hugh Milne (in training)

Motivation

What led me to this path of holistic bodywork? Probably a combination of a life long search for healing, my love for language, movement and forms of expression as well as my attraction to the unexplicable.

I have always been fascinated by those phenomena that our mind alone was not able to explain or describe. Holistic bodywork helps me to somehow grasp these things more easily. I was starting to learn a language that is understood worldwide - a language of mindful touch.

Through meditation as well as through mental- and intuition training I studied mind and soul and was able to experience for myself how powerful our mind and thoughts are. My training in Classical Massage Therapy taught me how much we can and actually do move with the help of our bodies. Our bodies are and expression of what moves us - we embody everything we do and think on all levels - psychological, physical and soul. Everything is connected. Through Shiatsu I learned about the five phases of transformation and got to know the Meridian energies and their connection with each other. From the first encounter I was fascinated by the quality of touch, the precision and the simplicity and I still am. NUAD encourages me and confirms that what I have learned before and it opens further possibilities for me as well as more time. It helps me thereby to loosen by some means or other culturally seeded limitations.

Even if different forms of healing massage therapies carry different names or derive from different cultures, their essence is the same. The principles are the same. The intention is the same. The perspective might vary but I find a change of perspective often quite helpful and refreshing.

I use these parallels and connect them. I work with Shiatsu and NUAD supportively. I love the meridian work in Shiatsu, the spiritual power that has been transmitted to me in my NUAD studies and I am fond of the multitude of techniques in both methods. They perfectly complete each other and I feel at home on my futon.  For me, the healing power of Shiatsu and NUAD lies in the assumption to see the human as a whole and to meet everyone accordingly. In treatments we always focus on health and not on sickness, so that more healthy space can arise. For me, this is the power of healing, heartful and mindful touch which I have been lucky to have experienced for myself many times.

In my therapeutic encounters with people I try every time anew to let go of wanting to understand everything, to center and connect myself in order to be present for what is in the here and now. Move what wants to be moved through mindful and heartful touch and hence strengthen body perception, body awareness and thus the connection to the self - the whole self.

I am very much looking forward to working with you and to walk with you a few steps on your path.

I stand in deep gratitude to all my teachers and people that I have met on my path so far.

“Having always had a strong sense within that everything is connected while the world around me was busy always trying to expose their differences. I was always finding similarities between things, people, arts, cultures, languages. I could never understand why everything was looked at separately and not as a whole.”

Baris Yazar