From a shamanic perspective, there are several answers to this question:

In addition to the catastrophic influence of the current system, from a shamanic perspective, one thing in particular causes the numerous psychological stress symptoms in Western society: For centuries, no one was here to clean up on an energetic level, instead of just on a physical level.

What I teach cannot be found in books (except my own). This is not because it is invented, but because it comes from a time that we no longer remember in the form of written tradition.

If you want to label it regionally, it would be Celtic shamanism, as my ancestors descended from the Helvetians. However, this is not really accurate - the Celts were only the last guardians of these secrets.

Tattooing that incorporates energetic components involves much more than just handpoking or a ritual setting.

It is about training the consciousness to develop a new way of dealing with pain. In traditional tattooing, we assume that the pain felt during the ritual is not created by the needle, but is released from the body's system. Consciously breathing into the pain plays a central role in this process.

I have had very strong emotions all my life. It wasn't possible for me to rise above them, so I learned to separate myself from my feelings. Learned to no longer notice them, by focusing on the outside. I distracted myself with everything that came along, the main thing was not to dive into these inner whirlpools. Of course, that didn't work at all. The more of myself I repressed in one place, the more came up in other places, rather explosively.

In shamanism as well as in trauma therapy, we often deal with the retrieval of parts of the soul or, expressed psychologically, we re-associate with the parts of ourselves to which we apparently lost contact on our way through life. An important part of this work is the stripping of old skin, i.e. the liberation from the stories that we carry around with us because our society lacks the general knowledge of how to integrate stories, let them go and continue onward.

Perhaps you are already familiar with the words Da'at and Satsang. As always, I wanted to find a unique name for my latest project, even if that doesn't necessarily make it easier to market. But if the world you are in doesn't speak your language yet, you just have to teach it.

I was booked to do a shamanic Reisa during the Opening Ceremony of this year’s Enjoy the Silence Festival. We gathered on one of the beautiful hills surrounding lake Como and celebrated life and love to the pumping basslines of Psycore music for three days, and to me it felt like a proper healing ceremony, where everyone was their own shaman, and the music was the icaro.

Chi is another word for life energy, i.e. the force that breathes life into matter. This power appears to modern man as a miracle, and he tries everything to explain this miracle scientifically in some way. I find that a little amusing - because the ancient cultures knew exactly what the mystery of life force is: Consciousness.