About me

A brief profile:

Born in 1969
Vocational training: electrical engineering
Passionate safety expert
Personal interests: traveling and coming back, untouched nature, the charm of old and modern cities, vegan food (especially chocolate donuts), espresso doppio, reading books, listening to and watching jazz, relaxing with Shiatsu, and much more
What I haven’t needed for a very long time: alcohol, cigarettes, milk, meat & fish, energy drinks, and doctors. All of this is the result of dissolving energetic blockages. If you dissolve things internally, certain things are no longer necessary externally. You can thus detach yourself from them without stress. Which brings me to the point:

When and why did I start rebirthing?

The catalyst was a weekend seminar with two shamans that I attended in 1990. For two days, we (there were ten of us) practiced a wide variety of exercises, which were interesting but not particularly insightful.

On the third day, however, the older of the two shamans said that we were now going to do something that we would probably only experience once in our entire lives. It would be so profound that it would change us fundamentally. No one knew what was in store for us. He said, “You are now going to experience your second birth.“

What followed was a unique experience, the intensity of which I have never experienced again. One person at a time lay down on the floor while two others simply stood by their side. The two shamans went from group to group with their drums, drumming louder and louder on the person on the ground. At the same time, we had to breathe in and out intensely. The whole process lasted about 20 minutes. You had to imagine that you were going through the birth canal again. As soon as the climax was reached, the drums became quieter and gradually fell silent. Afterwards, you were “received” by the two birth attendants and allowed to open your eyes again.

The process triggered indescribably “liberating” feelings in each of us. It was fascinating for me to see what is possible through intensive breathing.

The seminar was over and I just had to continue. For weeks, I searched for a technique that would do exactly that, namely to break free from these energetic patterns by reliving old experiences. In 1990, however, there was no internet. Today, I would have found it with just a few clicks. Back then, I finally found something in a small booklet advertising seminars. The name “rebirthing” promised to be the solution to my search.

Once again, without knowing exactly what to expect, I attended a seminar with about 20 participants. Here, too, the focus was on breathing, and two other participants guided you through the process.

The difference, however, was that there was no drumming or “pushing” through intense breathing. No. It was much “gentler”. And it lasted about an hour each time, instead of only about 20 minutes as with the shamans. Our seminar leader was Dhyana Yogi, his “spiritual name”. His real name: Seth Bartlett (USA).

The experiences in this seminar were also very profound, but they were not what I had expected. The shaman was right. You only experience the “second birth” once in your life. The insight: rebirthing has nothing to do with birth, but with everything that comes after it.

The rebirthing seminar also offered the opportunity to subsequently complete training as a “professional rebirther”. The prerequisite was to have at least ten individual sessions with a professional rebirther beforehand, which I did immediately.

This was followed by training, which lasted several months. The training was very practical. Sometimes you were in the role of the rebirther and sometimes in the role of the rebirthee, i.e., the “client”. We exchanged a lot of ideas, learned about interesting tools (the pyramid process, the “personal law”, the completion process, the philosophy of physical immortality, etc.), and I also had the opportunity to meet the founder of rebirthing, Leonard Orr, in person.

All in all, the training provided the basic framework for my further approach to rebirthing. After that, I offered individual rebirthing sessions and continued to exchange ideas with seminar participants. Over time, however, the group disbanded and I continued to develop the technique through my own experiences.

The best book on the market, “Vivation – The Science of Enjoying All of Your Life” by Jim Leonard & Phil Laut, provided me with deeper insights and techniques. This book describes all the background information from birth to death, as well as the most excellent explanations of terms ever written on this subject.

But even with this book, it still didn’t feel 100% “right” to me. It was still missing “that certain something”. I always remember what one participant said during the training. After her session, she said that she suddenly had the feeling: “It’s breathing me …” You could hear a pin drop in the group. Yes, that was what rebirthing was all about. Dhyana Yogi said, “The goal of rebirthing is to lose your mind”. You couldn’t have put it more aptly in that situation. That sentence stuck with me.

The only problem was, that despite numerous “sessions”, this state rarely occurred. The “it’s breathing me” was the exception rather than the rule.

So I continued my research for over 30 years and conducted countless of self-experiments, only to discover time and again how rebirthing can “not” work. But: it was precisely these “wrong” paths that enabled me to develop special “integration tools” that make the dissolution of energetic patterns much faster, easier, and more pleasant. Integration tools are like a magic trick where you know how it works, but it still makes something that was just there disappear in the next moment. In short: by using the integration tools, it becomes much easier to surrender to energetic patterns so that they can complete their own natural cycle.

The result: you are no longer “in your head” (you lose your mind) and are completely in your body, in your breath, in your “self”; total relaxation, detached and the feeling of being “reborn”.

Once the energies are flowing again, many things that were previously needed (to suppress energetic patterns) are simply no longer necessary. You become “truly” free and can now do the things that correspond to your true nature.

Rebirthing is similar to Reiki in this sense. I started practicing Reiki in 1988, two years before Rebirthing. Reiki is also about “being in the flow”, but on different levels and with different approaches. For me, however, one complements the other.

You can find all the information about Reiki on my website https://reiki.cc and in my book: “Reiki – Das komplette Handbuch”.

You could compare it to an onion. Rebirthing ensures that layer after layer is removed, allowing you to approach your true nature step by step, i.e., from breathing session to breathing session. Reiki brings the onion into energetic balance so that it remains healthy in everyday life. And in the master degree of Reiki, you already get a feeling for the inner core of the onion.

Finally, here is a “story” from my rebirthing training. Leonard Orr told us that during his travels he had met several people who were already “older” than 300 years old. Of course, there was immediate skepticism in the room, because how could anyone know if this was true?

Leonard Orr’s answer was quite something. “It’s simple”, he said, “you only need to touch such a person and you will feel no tension in their body. Immortal people only use the muscles they need, for example, to walk or sit upright. They no longer need additional tension to suppress energies”.

For me, that was the best explanation I have ever heard on this subject.

I would like to mention one more training course: I worked in a crisis intervention team for several years. The task was to provide psychological support to colleagues after extraordinary events. Similar to the task of a professional rebirther, the main task here is to support the client in their own process. Most of the time in crisis intervention, you just sit there and listen. This allows the client to find their own solution and solve the problem themselves.

What I learned from this: the best support you can give someone is simply to be there for them while they find their way back to themselves …