the journey...
... was & continues to be a long and winding road. It hasn't always been easy, but I am grateful for all the landscapes I've explored with my curious feet, for the incredible people that have inspired & guided me along the way and for the patient teachers I've studied with! All of them are part of who I am today.
SELF-DEVELOPMENT & PERSPECTIVE
My time in school, which mostly bestranged me and failed to gift me with a sense of belonging, was followed by years of searching, longing and expanding my cultural and geographical horizons. On long journeys through faraway places, I learnt how to be on my own, how to relate to the world and how to pursue even the subtlest calling. Eventually, I also developed a deep appreciation for the homeland I had left behind.
2012-2018
travels through North- & South America with a focus on cob house building, permaculture design and indigenous healing practices
2017
apprenticeship in traditional Mexican plant medicine (Lucia Perez)
EDUCATIONAL & HEALING WORK WITH WOMEN
Back home, I was called to become a voice for the inseparable connection between humans & nature, as well as for women's rights. I soon found my place in educational & healing work with women, and, inspired by my training as a naturopath, specialized in traditional, herbal gynaecology.
2019/20
Training as a consultant for natural gynecology (HP Heike Schmitz)
Holistic womb healing course (Asia Suler)
Herbal medicine for midwives training (Dr. Kristin Peters)
HERBAL MEDICINE, NATURE THERAPY & LIVED ANIMISM
Over the years, my focus within herbal medicine began to shift, moving towards ethnobotanical, anthropological & shamanic perspectives on nature & healing work. Both in the clinical context with patients, as well as through leading seminars and at last in my own garden, a personal, unique approach to plant medicine developed, which encompasses alchemical principles, animistic philosophies & working with the essence of plants.
2019-22
2021
3year training at the Self-governed Naturopathic School of Berlin
Year of clinical sessions within the naturopathy training, focused on phytotherapy and iris diagnosis (HP Patricia von Estorff)
1year training in shamanic herbalism (Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education)
Member of the non-profit organization “Herbalists without borders” in Berlin
2022
Licensed as a naturopath practitioner (Berlin-Lichtenberg health department)
Move to a forest community in the South German Black Forest
NATURAL CRAFTFORMS & ART THERAPY
Fascinated by the therapeutic connection between the closely interwoven themes of nature and art, my work has expanded to include the component of artistic creation, which I have loved since childhood. Various primitive craft techniques such as ceramics, basketry or the production of natural pigments, as well as botanical art & printing techniques, bookbinding and, last but not least, mythologically inspired writing have accompanied me ever since in my creative practice, as well as in my courses & seminars and in my work with clients.
2023-24
Training in process-oriented art & nature therapy (Blattwerk
Naturpädagogik)
Training in wilderness education / natural craftforms (Wegweiser Wildnisschule)
since 2023
Self-employment as artist & nature therapist
Further education in creative disciplines such as
- Nature-inspired writing (Asia Suler)
- Therapeutic application of herbal medicine & poetry (Jillian McKenzie)
- Abstract Botanical Painting (Laura Horn)
- Color making from natural pigments (Caroline Ross)
- Primitive ceramics (Cantieri creativi, Lidia Bosevski)
- Butoh dance (Atsushi Takenouchi)
since 2024
freelance author for the STORIES project (DieGruenerei Offenburg)
