Life is a gift! But, I haven't always felt it that way. I have also had my wounds, traumas and challenges in life. Much later I understood that they were gifts in disguise. I was well into training to become a holistic body-oriented psychotherapist when I saw a quote around the turn of the millennium:

 

Here in this body are the sacred rivers

Here are the sun and the moon

As well as all the pilgrimage places

I have not encountered another temple

As blissful as my own body

 

It was a verse by a legendary tantric master from the 8th century; Sahara Doha. Not much in my body was particularly joyful or blissful at that time. I felt tense, anxious, stressed and with pain in both body and soul. But, the quote hit me! “Something” in me knew it was true. That “something” I have later understood was a deeper wisdom of my heart and soul.

 

Now I am filled with gratitude for my journey, for my emotional, mental, physical, and sexual wounds – they both forced me and lured me to life, to vitality, to presence, to love, and to good, deep, nurturing relationships – which have probably always been my heart's desire. A heart that can contain every aspect in you is a whole heart. 

 

We are hurt in relationships, but it is also in relationships that we are healed!

 

Based on my many years of study and my own experience,  I now help clients gain a deep connection with themselves and others by integrating a holistic psycho-spiritual understanding, with an open, heartfelt presence and embodied awareness. I am passionate that others can also come out of their limitations and awaken their inherent life force, and gain the courage to unfold themselves, their own path and inner truth.