About me

I know the way because I have walked it.

Hannes Wartmann, yoga teacher and guide for Kundalini Kriya Yoga

On the outside

On the outside, everything worked.

A doctorate in the sciences, leading a team, competent. On the inside, it did not add up.

For a long time I kept functioning: university, a doctorate, leadership responsibility. Until nothing worked any more.

The way back

From the head back into the body

Since I began meditating 13 years ago, the road has been long and rough. Through burnout and depression too. The way from the head back into the body carried me for years. I also lost it again and again, tried a lot, took many different paths.

What got me out was not an insight. It was a practice.

Today I have found a whole system. Coherent, integrated. For the first time, I feel at home in it. Not something I am trying on for a while. Something serious.

Training

More than 1000 hours, some of it in India

I trained in Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Kundalini Kriya Yoga, more than 1000 hours, some of it in India.

I stayed with Kriya because it takes me a level deeper than hatha yoga does.

Today

Occupational therapy and Kundalini Kriya Yoga

Today I study occupational therapy and teach Kundalini Kriya Yoga. I guide people along the path I walked myself.

I pass this on because I have lived it.