I just celebrated a big one: I turned 60 a couple weeks ago.

I remember my dad preferred not even to be reminded of having a birthday. I feel his relationship to getting older was a challenging one.

I actually enjoy celebrating my birthday and I appreciate it when people remember it.

Being alive is something worth celebrating, isn’t it?

59 was an odd age for me because my mother passed away at that age. I was very aware of it when I turned 59 but thought I had dealt with whatever emotions were connected to it.
As I came closer to my 60th though I realized that there was still an underlying fear inside me – fear of maybe not surviving 59.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way when they’re coming close to a a parent’s age at passing, especially when they died young.

Don’t you feel that the way you thought an age would look like when you were a child or a young adult is not at all what it actually feels like when you actually get there?

Aging, as we all know, can be strange. The body is changing and there are so many ideas and preconceptions, and there’s so much prejudice. But ultimately it is a very personal process and we are allowed to reshape ideas and thoughts about age that do not fit us.

I’ve heard the saying „The only alternative to aging is death.“

Conclusion: Every day we get is a gift. I want to celebrate that! Please join me!

Fun fact about turning 60

Turning 60 feels special in many ways – and in the Chinese horoscope it’s quite unique: It marks the moment we return to our original zodiac sign and our original element.

In Chinese tradition, there are 12 zodiac signs — but unlike in Western astrology, where all 12 signs appear within a single year, each Chinese zodiac sign governs an entire year. I was born under the sign of the Horse.

In addition, there are five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The element I was born into is Fire — so I am a Fire Horse.

Throughout life, we move through our zodiac sign several times, each time paired with a different element. Only at 60 do we return to both our original sign and our original element.
So we come back into full support of our true nature.

Unless you grow to be 120 years old, where this would happen again, this is a once in a lifetime experience!

I don’t live my life according to Chinese astrology, but I do find it quite fascinating and I do feel an energy supporting me quite strongly these days.

In Qi Gong, we also work with the five elements. Each organ is associated with a specific element. The organs connected to spring, for instance – the liver and the gallbladder – belong to the wood element. When we support these organs, we are practicing exercises that nourish and harmonize the flow of “wood qi.”

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Our world feels uncertain. Conflicts, tension, change — so many things we once relied on seem less stable than they used to. Even if we are not directly involved, we feel it. The energies around us are challenging to navigate — for all of us, and especially for sensitives.

Even when we try not to get caught up in it all, we still feel the atmosphere. Our systems take it in. Over time, it can feel like too much to digest.

This is where Qi Gong & Stillness can make a real difference.

Qi Gong & Stillness gives us tools to self-regulate.

It offers a way to reconnect with ourselves, calm our system, and remember what matters most, even when everything else feels overwhelming.
Through gentle movement, the body begins to release tension and settle. We ground. The nervous system can calm down again, and when that happens physically, emotions are able to soften as well.

The stillness that arises adds another layer. When we become quiet for a moment, we reconnect — with our body, with our center, with who we truly are beneath everything that is happening around us. And in times like these, that connection is essential.

We need to know who we are.

What we stand for. What matters to us. When everything around us feels intense, it is easy to become overwhelmed — or simply paralyzed because it all feels like too much.

Qi Gong & Stillness helps us stay connected to an inner reference point. From there, it becomes easier to navigate what is happening without losing ourselves.

We all need these moments to step back, rest, heal, and soothe ourselves — more than ever, I believe.


But we cannot stop living.

We cannot allow what is happening in the world to dim our light or take away our capacity for joy. Joy matters — for ourselves and for the people around us.

Qi Gong & Stillness helps protect that. It strengthens the connection to ourselves and to what is important to us. And when we feel that connection more clearly, life often becomes easier to navigate, even in turbulent times.

We may even find small ways to contribute — simply through the way we live, the way we meet others, the way we move through the world. And we all know that small things matter more than we sometimes realize.

If you feel drawn to explore this for yourself, I would love to welcome you to a trial Qi Gong & Stillness class! You can find more details here. I look forward to hearing from you!

A horse runs and leaps when it feels vitality and joy.

It may also run when startled or afraid. Yet the horse is not careless by nature. It is attentive and sensitive to its surroundings. It responds to what it perceives.

And just as naturally as it runs, it also stands quietly in the field, grazing. It rests. It plays.

There is rhythm in its being — movement and stillness belonging together.

In times when collective predictions speak of “fiery” energies, it can be easy to become unsettled or to feel we must act quickly. Yet we are always allowed to pause. We are allowed to take a breath before responding. We are allowed to sense inwardly what is true for us.

If you feel an impulse to move, to change something, to leap — gently ask yourself where this impulse is coming from. From clarity and joy? Or from fear?

Ground yourself. Feel your feet on the earth. Tune in with yourself, with your intuition.

When we stay connected to ourselves, even strong energies can support us rather than overwhelm us.
The Fire Horse does not ask us to panic. It invites aliveness, courage, warmth — balanced with awareness — and rest, too.

May this new year bring you joy, fulfillment and peace.
 May you trust your intuition and shape your path in your own way, without being carried away by energies or predictions that may not belong to you.

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Foto horses Alexander Klimm on Unsplash
Foto lanterns von H&CO on Unsplash

But when we look around, especially here in the northern hemisphere, nature is still in deep rest.

The energies are still very much Yin.

The Yang energies will start rising more strongly as spring approaches.
Even the Chinese New Year doesn’t begin for a few more weeks.

So if you’re feeling resistant to rushing or “getting back on track”, you’re simply in tune with nature. Trust yourself. Follow your own rhythm.

When we give ourselves rest and nourishment during times our systems crave it, we build the energy to grow and create when the time is truly right.

The energies of now support rest, gentle release of what we no longer need, and a quiet embracing of what’s beginning to stir beneath the surface.

I’m gonna be honest with you though: I DO feel the coming energy stirring. I do feel a powerful surge coming in – which does not mean it can’t be gentle.

But it’s no phase of full throttle yet.

And if you’re someone who is full of energy right now — wonderful! Go for it.
But if you’re not, and you feel odd about it, please know you’re not weak or behind.

We’re part of nature.

Our bodies are part of nature.
 Trust your intuition. Believe what you feel.

One of the most amazing ways to learn to tune into our body, our heart, our soul is
Qi Gong & Stillness.

The gentle exercises lead us back to who we truly are, help us understand what we need and allow us to come home to ourselves.

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For years now, I’ve felt this growing pull to slow down as we near Christmas and the New Year.

While I love connecting with friends and family, I don’t crave big parties or packed schedules.

What I long for instead is quiet time — simple, joyful moments, meaningful conversations, and hopefully even a blanket of snow to remind us that rest is part of the rhythm of life. I love how the world seems to soften and become more peaceful when it’s covered in snow.

This season, I want to honor that slower pace — to let stillness be the celebration, to choose presence over pressure.


Stillness isn’t the absence of life — it’s what lets us actually feel its joy.

Last year — still new to this self-employed thing — I didn’t really know how to handle it and thought I had to plow on, which didn’t feel right. So I marked my calendar then and there:
 starting mid-December 25 —

“Slow down. Stillness. Me time.”

Because I need it.

How are you feeling in this time? Do you feel the same tug to slow down, or does the energy of the season lift you up in a different way?

Wherever you find yourself, I hope you give yourself permission to follow the rhythm that feels most true to you.

Wishing you a peaceful and joyful pre-Christmas season and wonderful holidays! 🎄✨

I walked up to her and her partner, smiling, and said, “I do that too.”
 She laughed and admitted she’d wanted to do it quickly, before anyone saw her — so I wouldn’t think she was a weirdo.
I know how she feels, I usually also look both ways before I do it!

But that moment opened a lovely conversation between us.

And it reminded me why it’s so important to be ourselves fully.

If we hide our true nature — the small, genuine things that make us light up — we also hide the chance to connect.

By showing up authentically, we give others permission to do the same.
 And that’s how kindred spirits find each other.

So often we hold back our natural impulses — those spontaneous gestures of affection, wonder, or curiosity — because we worry about how they’ll be perceived.
 We fear seeming odd, too much, too emotional.

But when we hide these parts of ourselves, we also hide the possibility of connection.
 If I hadn’t seen her hugging that tree, I would have walked by without knowing we shared something small yet meaningful.
 We might never have spoken.

Our authenticity is what opens the door to recognition — to those small, magical moments when someone smiles and says, “Me too.”

These are the moments that open our hearts.

And God/dess knows we need more of that on this planet.

So let’s hug the tree.
 Dance in the field (that would still take courage on my part — but I want to get there!).
 Laugh out loud.

May we keep meeting each other in these small, genuine moments of truth — open-hearted, unguarded, and real.

So much has happened since! And boy did expansion come into my life! There’s always room for more, but I just wanna stop and acknowledge the one part of my life that it really has come to fruition: my living situation.

Some of you may know that I had to move because the building I used to live in will be torn down. I knew that at some point I wanted to move out of the city into a bit more peace and nature, but

who knows when I would’ve actually done it if the universe hadn’t given me a gentle push.

It was a big step for me and took quite a bit of courage and a lot of inner and outer work as it is, so doing it without having to would have taken longer, I know that.

I was quite open as to where I would live in my search for the new place. Having a beautiful apartment was more important to me than to stay in the vicinity of Zürich, where prices are often really high. I found a great apartment in a Kanton next to the Kanton of Zürich. (Kanton is like for instance a State in the US.) I didn’t and still don’t know it very well, and I didn’t know the village I now live in at all. So it was a big change.

There is the saying „Be careful what you wish for.“ I don’t like it like this, it sounds like a threat. I would rephrase it into: be aware of what you wish for.

Be aware of it that inviting change into your life will require changes to your life.

Read it again.

What I mean by it is: inviting something new into your life in a bigger way will most likely ask of you to release old things. Literally things, maybe relationships will change or fall away, and mostly, you are going to change.

I feel that by moving I had to leave an old part of myself behind.

A part of me that I had grown very comfortable with and accustomed to, but that I had probably outgrown a while ago. And I realized that some parts of me fell away just by me moving, parts that had not really been my own anymore in the old living situation, but that had just remained there out of habit. That was very odd and at times disconcerting.

Also, talking about expansion: I moved into a larger apartment. I have the same amount of rooms, but it’s more spacious. In the beginning I didn’t know what to do with all that space. The space around my body, the space that I was used to inhabiting was smaller than what is available to me in the new apartment, which was a very weird feeling. I had allow myself to grow into it.

What I am getting at is: let’s dare to dream!

Let’s dare to invite an expansion into our lives – or whatever it is we wish for! And at the same time let’s be aware that this is going to ask of us to release certain things – like the parts of us that up to now didn’t believe in that dream for instance.

What is your dream? What is it you secretly truly wish for would happen/expand in your life?

Becoming aware of it is the first step. Writing it down is the second step. Writing it down will show us already how open we are and where the boundaries are that we set for ourselves.

Which „buts“ show up after we write it down? When we actually see what we truly want on a piece of paper? That’s what I mean: there’s the first thing to release. It will require a bit of inner work. On the other hand: how much joy shows up when you write it down? How good does it feel?

All things to play with!

Here’s to allowing ourselves to dream – while being truly grateful for what we have, too!

Take care! 🩷

Are you into New Year’s resolutions? I’m not. Not anymore at least.

But: inspired by my Insta coach (@themovementmaestro) I’ve chosen a word for the year. Or rather, it chose me. As soon as I opened up to the concept, it just fell into my brain.

Here it is: EXPAND.

When I first heard it I thought, of course! This must be about my business! I want more followers on Instagram, I want more students, teach more lessons, I want more income…But pretty quickly, it was clear to me that it was about more than that. It’s about very deliberately choosing what I want to expand in my life. Or in a situation.

What do I want more of? What do I want to give more space to?

It’s so easy to get diverted, to be dragged along a main stream narrative or get emotionally involved in things that are happening in the world. To become quiet and listen within, and then being very intentional about what I want to live, to be, to create is more important than ever.

What do you want to expand, give more space to? Right now? This year? Generally in life?

Also: I don’t know about you, but I did not grow up with the notion that I should be „expanded“. It was more about staying small and definitely not about standing out.
The one thing, come to think of it as I’m writing this, that I was actually encouraged to stand out in was playing music. I started playing the violin when I was four – piano and singing became important too at a later point – and I was definitely encouraged to give it more space. And that was a gift!
But as a person, as me, I always felt I was too much.

I believe there is enough space for all of us!

And it’s not about overpowering others, or invading someone else’s space. It’s about embracing all that we are and knowing that that’s exactly how we are supposed to show up on this planet.

So here’s to us expanding into who we truly are and growing into our full selves!

How do you talk to yourself?

I had a little improvised Qi Gong foto/video shoot recently with a friend of mine – it was a first for the both of us! 

It was a lot of fun – after I relaxed somewhat. I’m such a perfectionist and because I teach I want the pictures to be pretty much perfect and my posture to be just right, etc. Also I look at myself with such criticism,

I was surprised how judgemental I can still be towards myself!

Just a few weeks ago I hit a wall concerning social media and posting pictures and videos of myself on Instagram for instance. For many reasons. It was a mix of just being shy to put myself out there, feeling critical and suspicious of social media and fear of loss of control within it, and also my own perfectionism and self-criticism, to name the main points. I had to do quite a bit of soul-searching and focus on what it is that I really want and the advantages posting will give me if I want to build my business online as well.

It was a huge step for me to finally post my first video. But I have to admit it was quite fun to start to learn about the technical side of it, learn how to cut the video, add captions etc..


I’ve decided to take this putting myself out there on social media as another opportunity to release my self-criticism

and become more gentle and loving with myself concerning my appearance and what I think I should look like, sound like, be like. It’s such an old way of treating myself – which I adopted very early in my life. I know this is something many of us are experiencing.

How are you with your self talk?

Are you accepting of yourself or do you put yourself down a lot? Which comes more easily to you? I am much better at loving and accepting myself just the way I am than I used to be, but I obviously still have a bit to go. Which is fine – we’re all right where we need to be!

The first reason to learn to be gentle with ourselves is because we all deserve to be treated this way by ourselves, period.

But I just want to put out there that the more loving and empathetic we are towards ourselves, the more loving and empathetic we can be towards others and the world. Imagine what the world would look like if we all were at peace with ourselves…Okay, huge topic. I’ll stop here for now.

Qi Gong and Stillness are a beautiful way to learn to be more gentle with ourselves. The gentle exercises and learning to just be with ourselves, physically and mentally, bring a quality of gentleness into our lives which can become second nature when practiced regularly or at least called upon instantly when needed. I am so grateful to have these tools with me at all times!

Take care – and be gentle with yourselves!