Portrait of the therapist
People often ask me where I trained. Some of my teachers did issue certificates and diplomas. But I was never looking for teachers with impressive credentials. I was looking for those whose clients actually got better. Most of those masters never issued certificates, and none of them ever charged me for teaching. Each time, it took a long search to find a true master. And then I still had to persuade them to take me on as a student. So I won't list where or with whom I trained. Come to a diagnostic session, and I'll show you what I've learned.
People came to me because they wanted to change. Early on, I tried to help the way many others do: to help them see things from a different angle, become aware, feel it through, and let it go.
But I always felt that the transformation my clients were striving for could go deeper. That's how working with the body came into my practice. At first I turned to classical Western bioenergetic analysis. It gave me precision: the muscular armor can be felt with the fingers, held breath can be heard, and the pattern is visible in the way a person stands and lies down. The hands learn to read the body like a book.
But this approach has its limits. It is precise, but not subtle enough. Many processes in the body slip past it. The answer came from Eastern medicine, the Chinese understanding of how energy moves through the body, and yogic techniques for working with energy. The full picture emerges not only from bodily patterns but also from deeper, subtler layers.
People have been working with the body and mind for a very long time, and they’ve learned a great deal. I don't work within any single tradition. In essence, they are all about the same thing; they just use different words.
My path is not about trying to invent something or give it a new name. It's about testing things in practice, year after year. Keeping what works. And letting go, without regret, of what only sounds good.
There were many teachers, in different countries; thirty years of practice turned out to be thirty years of apprenticeship.
I don't have a protocol. Protocols are written so that you don't have to sense the person in front of you; they describe an average person, and in all my years of practice I have never met one. My work rests on three principles:
Every technique I use must pass two tests: it has to be explainable, and it has to be felt. When the Chinese tradition speaks of an energy block, what the hands feel is anything but mystical: a dense, cold area that doesn’t breathe. I work with what the hands feel. And the final check is what you feel.
I have never regretted the road I chose. At first, I saw every new client as a challenge. Over the years, I encounter fewer and fewer situations in my work that I haven't seen before. But I never stop marveling when a body that has held tension for years starts to function more naturally and the person begins to change: breathing deeper, standing taller, speaking in a different voice. And most importantly, they start to see the world differently, as a kinder, more interesting place, full of possibility. And without even noticing it, they begin to take for granted things they were recently arguing against. It is moments like these that give me the energy to keep going, and make me want to.
I can't change the world around you. I won't try to turn you into a different person. Only you can do that. What I can do is help loosen the hold that past conditioning has on you.
I don't ask you to believe in anything you can't feel for yourself. That's why the best answer to "who is this guy?" isn’t this page; it’s what you’ll feel and learn during a diagnostic session.
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