About me

Life & Meaning

Once I was rushing down the street because I needed to do something….

Suddenly I realised that there was nothing below me – yes, there was the street, the earth, but below Earth, below our planet, there was nothing.

Then it struck me that there was also nothing above me. The sky does not end somewhere, it just extends into nothingness.

And for a short moment I stopped to rush. Because it felt absurd and meaningless….

I am just a short blink in this endless universe. And then I am gone forever.

But I am one of the lucky ones because in those moments I find myself with a sense that I am connected to everything; and precisely there I find meaning.

I have learned over a long time that it is important to train an open heart to be able to find meaning in the meaninglessness.

To find a way of being that is interested and loving and makes it possible to find the courage and sit back with longing and awe to stay on the path of exploration.

But not everyone is so lucky……for some meaninglessness fills every corner of their being and right there I would like to meet you, in the deepest darkness of the soul.

Meditation

has been my constant companion since 1994. I have practiced with Triratna, within the Zen tradition, Vipassana and others.

Being on retreat is part of who I am and usually I participate on retreats between 1-4 weeks per year. The longest retreat was at Gaiahouse, England over a period of 10 months.

My interest lies in Early Buddhism because I feel that Buddha is mostly  presented as a human being who speaks a language that I can understand and acts as a human among other humans.

These early Buddhist texts and stories are the basis for my teaching and I am interested in understanding how they fit into the times of the Buddha and how they can be translated into our modern life and current knowledge about psychology.

This is also the reason that, together with Christin Illeborg and Signe Glahn, Copenhagen Insight Meditation (CIM) was established by us.

Spirituality

Spirituality is to grow into your body, be your body.

When I am in contact with my body, I know my boundaries and experience my emotions without being overwhelmed.

Spirituality for me means integration of body, emotions and spirit. It is not away from or by-passing my body to a different, transcendent reality.

It is also not an intellectual understanding of a certain teaching or understanding of how practice changes your brain/mind, even though I do find this exciting and interesting.

Spirituality is to have a home in my body, to be able to lean into this home with an understanding that I am (much) more than my body and my-‘Self’.

We are all stardust and we are all connected!

And now?

I continue to develop, unravel, evolve and explore my-‘Self’. Because of, in spite of, without end………….

Education and Expertise

Mag. rer. nat (M.Sc. biology), Uni Wien (1995)

Trained Psychotherapist at  ID Academy 

(chock/trauma og transpersonal)

Completed Dhamma Teacher Training at Bodhi College.

Co-Founder of Copenhagen Insight Meditation (CIM)

 

Member of Danish Assocation of Psychotherapists, MPF

Member of Association for ID Psychotherapists, IDPF

Continued Education

Love and Sexuality (ID Academy)

Traumespor (Espen Andli)

Body Movement Therapy (Human Education Group)