The Many Adventures That Have Shaped My Life

Die verschiedenen Abenteuer meines Lebens

Transformation, adventure, and spirituality have guided my path as surely as death, rebirth, and the unfolding of new beginnings. Threaded through it all runs an unshakable trust in life itself — a quiet knowing that every journey, whether across continents or into the soul, leads us closer to truth.

In 1992, I moved to England

In 1994, I founded a black metal record label

In 2003, I became a prison chaplain

In 2007, I began an overland journey around the world that lasted ten years

In 2008, I arrived in India and stayed for a long time

In 2017, I returned to Germany, the country where I was born

In 2018, I immersed myself in the study of death rituals in Varanasi, India

From 2021 to 2024, I lived in the forest, sharing my experiences and reflections from a place of deep stillness

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Training & Professional Experience

Education & Training

  • BSc in Psychology (UK)

  • Priestess of Avalon Training, Glastonbury (five-year programme)

  • Yoga Teacher & Ayurvedic Practitioner, trained in India, USA and Europe

  • End-of-Life Companion (Sterbebegleiterin), Germany

  • Extensive study in Indian philosophy, meditation, and spiritual practice, including long-term ashram residencies in India

  • Currently training in Restorative Justice, England

Professional Experience

  • Music Journalist and Deputy Editor, Kerrang! (London, UK)

  • Founder & Director, Misanthropy Records (UK)

  • Pagan Chaplain, British Prison Service (2003–2007)

  • Author, Meeting Shiva – Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas (Changemakers Books, 2013; BPI India, 2014; Neue Erde Verlag, 2015)

  • Speaker and Workshop Leader on spirituality, transformation, death awareness, and sacred living

  • Co-Director and Lead Trainer, three-year Yogic Studies Training with Julia Hilgert, culminating in a 2024 study journey to the Himalayas

  • Freelance Writer, published in magazines across the UK and Germany

Areas of Focus

    • Spirituality, psychology, and personal transformation

    • Personal and collective trauma

    • Death awareness and end-of-life support

    • Yoga philosophy, embodiment, and sacred practice

    • Cross-cultural and ancestral healing

    • Restorative and Transformative Justice

At the heart of all my work lies a single intention: to serve transformation — in individuals, in systems, and in the soul.

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The Call of the Soul

Read an article about my life published in the German newspaper Wiesbadener Kurier.

 

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