Ośrodek Tu i Teraz

 As a drummer, music producer and event facilitator I offer events, seminars and retreats as well as individual sessions. I mostly collaborate with partners like Dhwani W. Zapp, Shakya M. Grahe, Harshil Chiostri and others...

I trained with teachers like Arthur Hull, Frank Natale, Serge Kahili King and others, play music since the age of 12 and produce CD's with various world music projects and artists like Hamsafar, Prem Joshua, Snatam Kaur, Milarepa, Ashik, Subodha etc.. My own productions „Forget Your Limitations“ and „Shamans Return“ are widely used in workshops, classes and seminars as well as in discotheques and parties. With my band projects TranceFormation and The Call Of The Drums,  I tour and play all over Europe.

In my shamanic retreats I create a save spiritual healing environment for personal insight and growth of inner power and wisdom. Using ancient rituals and techniques I invite people to reconnect to the deep wisdom of mother nature and the inner healer, guide and alliances.

Workshops

1. Shamanic Journey

The shamanic journey is in some ways very similar to a TranceDance experience. You go on an inner journey to find answers, healing, clarity, guidance - only this time you lay down on your back, in a safe, cosy environment, and you use the sound of the shaman's drum to travel inside or outside yourself. The drum is your vehicle to go on a journey. Again we use the blindfold, the breath of fire and the intention and search for our answers. Often we do this in a group, but I also offer these journeys for individuals, specially for delicate issues.

2. SHAMAN's RETURN - A shamanic healing meditation

Shamans Return is a 60 min. meditation in five stages in an easy format for the daily practice. It's a great way to shake and dance off the stress and pressure of a nine to five (or even more?) workday.... The music is tribal and rhythmic, transporting. Dynamic drums, percussions and voices support the first two active stages... Then the shamanic medicine drums take you onto their wings. Plus some soothing sounds of Sansula and monochord to get you back.

3. SHAMAN’S SHAKE - A Shamanic Cleansing Meditation

The Shaman's Shake is born from the insight, that shaking our body can release old tensions, caused by traumatic experiences. It is an ancient technique, used in many cultures, for healing and cleansing. Shaman's Shake contains 4 phases: Gibberish, Shaking, TranceDance and Stillness. All that with the music specially set for this meditation.

What is "shamanic", what is a shaman?

To me, a shamanic practice is about generating an atmosphere of healing. From the old language - healing comes from whole - so shamanic practice it is about becoming whole, or: to fill the hole(s). All shamanic ceremony, ritual and prayer, as well as many symbols are conceived as Medicine

Shamanic practice is based on the understanding that we - as human beings - are not seperate, but part of nature/existence, and therefore we find everything we need to stay healthy and/or to become whole again - in nature, in ourselves - open and responsible. To me, all healing is about Traumas - wounds of shock that mostly happened in our childhood as well as in war or other turmoils of live.

A shaman is someone with an inner drive to support himself and others to reconnect to their own inner power, to become whole and powerful.

20 years ago I met Frank Natale. Frank was a pioneer in the field of personal growth and self-awareness seminars and helped in many ways to take the shamanic / spiritual aproach back into our western culture.

In his trainings I reconnected with many of my long forgotten childhood  memories about nature and spirit and got inspired to share this knowledge and the techniques I learned.

I offer trancedance, shamanic journeys, meditations and various other techniques and practices for spiritual growth and self healing, on my own as well as with various partners. Since I'm a musician, I always use live music for most of the events to support the quality of "being in the moment", in the "Here and Now". Besides - the quality of live music,  played on real instruments in real time helps people to step much easier into the "otherworld".

EVENING RITUAL:

TranceDance - Intuicyjny Taniec Uzdrawiający

One of the oldest and easiest ways to experience healing Trance states is dancing. Equipped with a bandana (blindfold), using an energizing breathing technique (breath of fire), the journey begins: 'Close your eyes, put on your bandanna, focus on your intention or theme, start the breath of fire and begin to move in the rhythm of the music and you find yourself in trance...' - in a state of alertness, awake and yet - in a vast inner space where the physical laws are not longer valid... you may encounter wild animals, spirits, angels, spiritual alliances, healers and guides... You may become or meet with other beings, find yourself in the forest or the mountains, in your past or future... Trust your body and let your self be danced - and when the dance is over you will be richer, more clear, in peace...TranceDance is one of the oldest ways of reconnecting with your inner forces - empowering, uplifting, energizing, motivating. A great way to step out of old habits and to look at your life in a different way.

Dancing without looking creates a different focus. The energy which is usually used to look out, getting approval, trying to connect with others – is used to look inwards, opening up to our emotions and memories. The approach of TranceDance is opposite to traditional dancing, no steps to learn, no moves to make, no special clothes to wear (except that is is a comfortable as possible). Instead you try to let go of control, let the body move by the rhythm.

FILM TO TRANCE DANCE:

https://youtu.be/_jmIrvYKjs8

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