After my pre-university exams – the German Abitur – I spent almost a whole year in physiotherapeutic treatment because of several hip operations and became acquainted with quite a few very different therapists and types of therapies.

It particularly impressed me to experience how quickly you can find your feet again by being lovingly pestered.

Finally I decided to train as a physiotherapist, qualifying in 1997.

I worked in several practices and in a hospital for a while, including the intensive care unit. All in all, I really enjoyed my work. The more time I spent with my patients and their complaints, though, the more questions came up: Why do pains so often recur, or reappear in different parts of the body? Why did I so often feel as if I was working on the wrong parts?

A friend told me eventually about a new type of therapy – still little known in Germany – which immediately appealed to me and filled me with expectation.
A few months later I started the first course and noticed after a short while that ‘something was happening’ and that pains – which seemed resistant to therapy – disappeared after one treatment.

Each time it is an enormously fulfilling experience to accompany people for a while and to enable them to continue their life’s path with new energy and without the accumulated luggage they finally managed to leave behind.