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Veronika STALDER
is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer soundhealer, vocal coach (Master of Arts Jazz Singing and Music Pedagogy 2008 Lucerne), since 2006 music tours at home and abroad with Veronika's Ndiigo & various bands; further education in Complete Vocal Technique by CVT Copenhagen, with Orna Ralston (singer & shaman), soundhealing with Githa Ben David, since 2015 MOIA women's singing circles & own voice workshop offers Continue reading
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Music, Sound, Voice
Stefan Christoph STALDER
Body therapy training at the International Shiatsu School Kiental, training in energy work, systemic constellations with body-based trauma resolution, course assistant and teacher training at the Kientalerhof, trauma therapy Somatic Experiencing i.A.. For many years on the path of mysticism and researcher in the field of trauma and spirituality. Since 2022 with own practice for trauma integration and creative process support in Spiez. Continue reading
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Systematic Constellation
Patrizia STEFANINI
graduated with honors in Physics (1982) and specialized in Medical Physics (1985). Simultaneously, she began studying Yoga, Aikido and Shiatsu. She first completed a Shiatsu training course in Italy, then she has chosen to continue her studies first with Wataru Ohashi and later, for almost two decades, with Pauline Sasaki. In more recent years, she has used her skills from her studies in Physics, researching theories and experimental data to support the model of man that underlies Shiatsu and, more generally, Oriental Medicine. She has co-authored three fundamental texts on Shiatsu and Oriental medicine, and dozens of articles on the same subjects, seen through the lens of modern Western science. Original aspects of her Shiatsu approach concern the reading of man in terms of a quantum macro system. Continue reading
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Shiatsu
Gail STEWART
has been a massage and bodywork teacher in California since 1971. She was fortunate enough to meet Milton Trager in his first course, which he taught in 1975. In 1980 she became a TRAGER Instructor and learned from him until Dr. Trager's death in 1997. She had her own practice and massage school all these years. Her simple and humorous way of teaching is very beneficial and enriching. Gail is a master in the art of listening and presence. Continue reading
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Trager Therapy
Paramjyoti Carola STIEBER
is a certified stage dancer, founder of her school for sacred dance Devadasi - Dance of the Heart, and director of the artistic documentary film "Im Spiegel Deines Angesichts". Continue reading
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Dance and Movement
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
Bhante SUKHACITTO
comes from Germany and first came into contact with the teachings of first came into contact with the Buddha teachings in Thailand, where he met the teacher Ajahn Buddhadasa. He has been a fully ordained monk of the Theravada tradition since 1990. In 1993 he returned to the West and gained experience in various other various other Buddhist traditions. He lived for several years in monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition in England and Switzerland. In 2005 he learned the insight dialog according to Gregory Kramer, was trained as an insight dialog teacher and has been teaching it worldwide since 2010. Inspired by the power of interpersonal meditation practice, from 2016 to the beginning of 2020 he led the Kalyana Mitta Vihara - House of Noble Friendship. Continue reading
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Medtation and Mindfulness
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 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