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Hilary STOCKER
has always been interested in movement, both as a sports teacher and as a dancer. In addition, she has been practicing Trager since 2010 and is constantly expanding her Trager work. She is currently completing her training as a tutor. In addition, she also works in holistic coaching. After living in Great Britain and Canada, she settled in Switzerland in 1980. Continue reading
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Trager Therapy
Susanne STRAUB
Facilitator Holotropic Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology IHTP, ZEN student, training in Palliative Care Continue reading
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Holotropic Breathwork
Karin STREULE
is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocal and life coach (Master of Arts, Jazz Singing and Music Pedagogy Lucerne) and certified primary school teacher; since 2008 music tours with her own band and other projects in Switzerland & abroad; since 2015 mother of two children and homeschooler Continue reading
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Music, Sound, Voice
Sabine STÜCHELI
(CH, NL) is a certified voice therapist and certified breathing trainer. She works as an innerleadership coach/trainer. After the acting school in Utrecht NL, she has dedicated herself to the human voice since 1997 through many training and further education courses. Since 2003 she has been an internationally recognized voice trainer in NL, Germany and Switzerland. She continued her education in trauma therapy, singing, dance and eastern movement art. Her daily practice in Nada Yoga and meditation gives her work depth and breadth. Continue reading
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Further training
Orsina STUDACH
Born 1969; the qualified gymnastics teacher (three-year full-time training /GDS Basel) trained further as a yoga teacher after many years of professional experience (four-year part-time training /"Lotos" Basel). Since 2005 she has been working as a freelance yoga teacher and manual therapist. In addition to teaching traditional Hatha Yoga, she specializes in Yoga for pregnant women, Yoga after birth (regression) and Yoga for back problems. In 2013 she opened her own yoga studio in Basel's city centre and has been practicing in her own practice since 2014. Continue reading
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Yoga
Atsushi TAKENOUCHI
(J), joined the butoh dance company “Hoppo-Butoh-ha“ in Hokkaido in 1980. His last performance with the company was "Takazashiki" (1984), which was worked on by Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata. Atsushi started his own theme “Jinen Butoh” in 1986, and created solo works “Itteki” and “Ginkan,” as a universal expression of nature, earth, and ancient times, environments. He made a three-year “JINEN” tour project throughout Japan for 600 site-specific improvisations (1996–1999). Since this time, he has been inspired by the spirit of the universe of Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno. Since 2002, he has been mainly based in Europe, working on Butoh dance collaboration projects with dancers and actors in Italy, France, Poland, Spain, U.S.A., South America, and other countries. Joining in festivals such as Paris Butoh Festival, NY Butoh Festival, Avignon off Festival etc. he has been presenting his solo pieces. At the same time, he also collaborates with film makers. The recent work in Alaska and Hawaii, “Ridden by Nature” (by Kiahkeya), an environmental art film, will be completed soon. Continue reading
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Transformation
Umesh TEJASVI
is from Bangalore, South India. After studying Ayurvedic medicine, he moved to Europe. Here he has been deepening his experience as an Ayurvedic physician and trainer for 15 years. Together with his Ayurveda team, Umesh Tejasvi runs an Ayurveda center at ChieneHuus and in Zurich and is a teacher of Ayurveda Therapy KT education at Kientalerhof. He is author of the book "My Ayurveda - How the Universe Tastes." Continue reading
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Ayurveda
Saadet TÜRKÖZ
is a Swiss-Kazakh-Turkish vocal and performance artist. She grew up in Istanbul as the daughter of Kazakh refugees who were expelled from East Turkestan. She has lived in Switzerland since the 1980s. Saadet combines tradition with improvised music and contemporary sound languages in her work. Her music is characterised by her origins, archaic and pure nature. She combines the traditional sounds of Central Asia and the Orient with contemporary influences from the Western world. Her music could be described as "folklore imaginaire" in a new guise. Saadet does not cultivate a particular style. She lets her thoughts flow vocally and seeks the challenge and unknown zones in musical communication, but also peace and the beauty of the sounds. Continue reading
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Music, Sound, Voice
Mehmet UNGAN
is a sociologist who studied in Mannheim, musician, lecturer and chairman of the board of OMM. As a lecturer at universities, he teaches Islamic mystical music and transcultural music offerings in social work, among others in Frankfurt, Mannheim and Innsbruck. He is co-founder of the Sufi community Gayanshala. With his Sufi music group Hosh Neva, he performs at intercultural and interreligious events throughout Europe. He owes his virtuosity on his instruments Ud and Ney to his two teachers Necati Çelik and Ömer Erdogdular (students of the legendary Ney master Niyazi Sayin). Continue reading
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Music, Sound, Voice
Dance and Movement
Jaap VAN DER WAL
University lecturer in Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Maastricht, NL Scientific movement anatomy, particularly the "senses of movement". His scientific passion is embryology. Dynamic Morphology and Embryology provide him with the connection between science and spirituality. He also gives seminars and lectures in embryology, Dynamic Morphology "Body Philosophy". Continue reading
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Further Training
Herbert WALTER
is a musician, music therapist and music educator specializing in oriental music as well as ethno music. He learned Sufi music from Rahmi Oruc Güvenc - a Sufi master in the tradition of the Mevlevis and taught at his school for ancient oriental music therapy in Austria. Continue reading
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Music, sound, voice
Dance and movement
Punnu SINGH WASU
was born and raised in India into a family with a deep connection to kirtan and spirituality. Influenced by his father, a kirtan singer, and revered Indian masters, his path led him towards the exploration of diverse spiritual practices, including kirtan, spirituality, yoga, meditation, sound healing, and various holistic healing modalities. Punnu is a certified Grand Master in Reiki with over 30 years of rich experience and profound knowledge. Currently based in Bali and Switzerland, Punnu offers meditation, kirtan, sound healing, Reiki training, and spiritual courses on a global scale. Continue reading
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Music, Sound, Voice
Meditation and Mindfulness
Yoga
Max WEIER
more than 40 years of intensive study of the spirituality of Asia: Buddhism (Zen, Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhism) and Advaita Vedanta. Much retreat experience. Encounter with numerous teachers and masters in East and West. Many years of study and practice of Qigong and Yoga. Since 20 years international teaching experience with special focus on South Africa, the British Isles and Spain. author. Continue reading
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Qi Gong
Yoga
Max WEIER
more than 40 years of intensive engagement in theory and practice with various traditions within Asian spirituality (Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shivaism, Chinese Daoism). Encountered numerous teachers and masters in India, Kashmir and Nepal and in the West. Author. International teaching activity. Continue reading
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Qi Gong
Yoga
Matthias WEISS
dedicated himself to spiritual healing in 2003 when he learnt about the wonderfully simple and natural way of healing from Renée Bonanomi. Before that, he worked as a Protestant pastor with deaf people. This taught him that there is much more to communication between heaven and earth than words, so in 2005 he decided to take a new path and follow his calling. Since then, he has been accompanying people in his practice, leading and giving courses and lectures and writing books, such as "Geistiges Heilen. Questions and Answers" (Neue Erde-Verlag 2015). Continue reading
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Spiritual Healing
Andrea WERNER
Andrea Werner, MD, is a practitioner and supervisor of Rosen Method bodywork with clinical experience in individual and group psychotherapy and psychosomatics. She has been gaining experience in various forms of bodywork and mindfulness practices since 2002. She teaches for various institutions. She wrote her dissertation on the topic of body psychotherapy. She accompanies people in her own practice since 2012 in the area of Würzburg with the Rosen- Method bodywork. Continue reading
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Rosen-Method
Jürgen WESTHOFF
head of the ISS-Kiental since April 2016 where he also is teaching. He also is teacher at the Shiatsu School Hamburg, Osteopath and Naturopath with own shiatsu practice in Konstanz at lake Bodensee and Hamburg. Through his education in Craniosacral Therapy and Osteopathy he gained profound knowledge which became an important aspect of his Shiatsu practice. Before that time he was working as artistic costume and stage designer at various german theaters. Long years of meditation, intense buddhistic studies and awareness training are all part of his profound background knowledge. Continue reading
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Shiatsu
Christoph WIESMANN
Multi-instrumentalist, classical education, many years of experience in various styles (classical music, jazz, ethno...) Works as saxophone, oboe and improvisation teacher. The joy of spontaneous musical expression with voice and instruments brought him together with David Darling. July 2004 Completion of the MLP training Continue reading
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MLP
Evamaria WILLACH
born 1949, lives in Hamburg, Trager practitioner since 1992, Trager anatomy teacher since 1995, Trager Instructor since 2007. In her first professional life (1973-1991), she taught English and Spanish at grammar schools. Several psycho- and body-therapeutic trainings and state examination to become a naturopath in 1992. Since then working independently in her own practice in Hamburg and Cologne. Two children and in the meantime two grandchildren. Continue reading
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Trager Therapy
Nadja ZÖCH-SCHÜPBACH
studied psychology and Spanish literature at the University of Bern, completed the psychotherapeutic further training according to Klaus Grawe (cognitive-behavioural therapy with an interpersonal focus) and has been working as a psychotherapist for around 12 years and as a Feldenkrais Practicioner in Eastern Switzerland since 2017. She has been working in her own practice in St. Gallen since 2019 and also in the beautiful Appenzellerland since 2022. Her main interest is the interplay between body and psyche and the discovery of individual paths to holistic health. (www.justbe.care) Continue reading
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Tronc Commun