My introduction to Shiatsu started in 1985, with classes by Robert Jaruslawski and Shizuko Yamamoto. They offered me my talents for energetic bodywork an showed me a new way to communicate.
In 1991 I started a professional Shiatsu training in Kiental in the Swiss Alps. These events a new way of my life, that is still present and ongoing today. I taught Shiatsu courses within the Germany Adult education system. Later I developed and taught private lectures and classes about various energetic bodywork techniques. In conjunction with the workshops, I offered individual treatments. Inspired by continued education seminars, I began to combine Shiatsu with other methods of bodywork and to create my own style.
In 2000 I opened the school for TAO Footreflexology Massage.
In 2005 I founded the practice for AI CHI Japanese Art of massage and the school for AI CHI body- and energy work.
”My practice is a combination of knowledge, which I have received from many teachers and my own acquired personal experiences.”
Curriculum Vitae
1985/86 – Gereatric nursing school in Regensburg/Germany & examination
1988/89 – Courses in Shiatsu, Japanese Yoga (Do In) and macrobiotic Cooking on two education camps in Greece and Portugal.
1991 – 93 – Intensive training (yearly) on the International Shiatsu School Kientalerhof, Switzerland.
Teachers: Saul Goodman (founder of Shiatsu/Shin Tai), Dr. Wilfried Rappenecker (President of the German Shiatsu Society), Ray Ridolfy (Leader of the London Shiatsu School)
1992 – „A Gentle Passage“ workshop with Bill Spears (Student from Elisabeth Kübler Ross und Lama Sogyal Rinpoche) about euthanasia und the development of empathy – Kiental, Switzerland.
1993 – Workshops with Mantak Chia, founder of the Tao Yoga System.
1993 – Shin Tai I – Courses of Study about the structural Osteopathy of hip and spine with Saul Goodman in Hamburg, Germany.
1993 – One year training (part time) and certification in Rwo-Shr Footreflexologie Massage with Luisa Holler in Bad Reichenhall, Germany.
1994/95 – Worked as an assistant instrictor in the Intensive Training Workshops in the International Shiatsu School Kiental, Switzerland.
1994/95 – Certification as Shiatsupractitioner
1997 – Shin Tai II – Courses of Study focusing on the Central Chanel (Gouverning Vessel Meridian). Release and recovering of the original lifeforce with Saul Goodmann in Kiental, Switzerland.
1996 – 2000 – Training in visionäry Cranio Sacral Osteopathy with Hugh Milne from Big Sur, California in Hamburg, Germany.
2000 – Workshop in Visceral Manipulation with the American Doctor of Osteopathy Michael Shea in Kiental,Switzerland.
2002 „Bulding up your own practice“, – Professional Shiatsus Workshop with Cliff Andrews from the United Kingdom in Hamburg, Germany.
2004 „The hormonal System“ A four day Workshop for Cranio Sacral Practitioners with Charlotta Vannini in Kiental,Switzerland
2004 – Seiki Soho, Advanced techniques in traditional Japanese Shiatsu. Workshop with Akinobu Kishi Sensei & Kyoko Kishi in Kiental, Switzerland
2005 – „Seiki & Shinto“ – A three week Intensive in Japan including workshops in Seiki Soho and traditional Japanese arts with Akinobu & Kyoko Kishi in Kyoto, Oshaka and Nara
2008 – Seiki Soho – Weekend in Munich. This was the last course with Akinobu Kishi, cause he died in 2012.
Since that time I stopped visitig seminars and developed my own style in combining elements of Seiki, Shiatsu, Shin Tai and Cranio Sacral Bodywork to an own System called AI Chi. I teach and advise only one person or very small groups.