- 10+ years(Meditation)Practice and research, of which more than one year with a focus on Vipassana — and counting.
- 5+ years(Dialogue facilitation)Facilitation, scholarship and participation. In my tradition, dialogue is defined as a co-created space of wonder and wander, driven by what is happening rather than what should happen.
- 15+ years(DJing & music production)Six of them invested in ambient, experimental and meditation-oriented music.
- 10+ years(Couple dancing)Professional, rooted in presence, conscious lead and follow, and structured improvisation.
- Many years(Bodywork)Amateur, consciously improvisational experience giving massage. I've recently begun taking this aspect of myself professionally: currently trained in relaxation massage, and developing in deep tissue.
My journey has been nothing but spontaneous — mostly built on curiosity, experimentation, and nurturing whatever worked for me. I'm not an expert in anything specifically. Maybe that's because I'm a perfectionist. Maybe it's because I see this path as never-ending, and expertise as belonging to technical fields, where one can know all the ins and outs. What I've found is that the path is shared more often than not. Even when insights are reached alone, the influences and seeds one goes through come from anywhere.
The path to wellness, relaxation and holistic health is never linear, and the methods and mediums don't matter as much as the presence we bring to each of them. Sometimes we're open to a verbal medium, sometimes auditory, other times to physical touch — or a mix of all of those and more. Holistic Dialogue is an approach and a philosophy that embodies this understanding, and it stays in continuous flux, coming closer to the personal and shared harmony of mind and body that leads to the purification we badly need as we live our hectic societal lives.
If you want to know where this comes from rather than what it looks like, there's a manifesto. Five pages, mostly questions, and not about sessions at all.
Read the Holistic Dialogue Manifesto