Foundation
What the house is built on.
I have always been curious about people. About how we experience ourselves, what shapes the way we think and respond, and why certain things can feel so obvious to us that we rarely think to question them.
A lot of my learning has happened outside formal education. I spent many years travelling and living in places very different from the one I grew up in — Canada, Australia, Central and South America, Asia, and a stretch in the far north of Norway, where winter brought long darkness and summer almost endless daylight.
Being somewhere long enough to live a different way changes your perspective. Things that had seemed normal to me suddenly weren't. People related to time, nature, community, work and each other in ways I hadn't grown up with. I got interested in what sits underneath our idea of normality, and how much of what we believe about ourselves is actually something we learned.
I think this is where my curiosity about the human being really took shape.
Learning through the body
My formal training began with naturopathy. From 1998 to 2001, I studied anatomy, physiology and pathology and explored different forms of manual therapy. This was followed by training in classical massage, Shiatsu, Hawaiian bodywork, Tui Na and Nuad Thai.
I worked primarily with massage and bodywork, and assisted in Tui Na training.
Working with people through touch taught me to pay attention differently. You can't really work with someone's body without noticing how individual every person is. The same technique doesn't necessarily feel the same from one person to the next. What helps one person may not help someone else.
That stayed with me.
Following the questions further
Over the years, my studies moved into prevention, relaxation and health, and later into medical foundations through an intensive Heilpraktiker programme. Then I became interested in breathing.
Through Functional and Advanced Breathing Instructor training with Oxygen Advantage, I studied breathing patterns, breathing mechanics, and their relationship to stress and physical performance. I experimented extensively with the Wim Hof Method myself, and later with Chakra breathing — different lineages, but each opening another way to notice what's happening in the body and the nervous system.
That search for direct experience took me to Stockholm as well, to Anders Olsson's Conscious Breathing Summit, where I sat — and breathed — in a drysuit filled with CO2. Reading about tolerance to carbon dioxide is one thing; feeling it is another.
I'm currently continuing this path through a 500-hour Yoga Therapy training with WAY Akademie — 200 hours this year, another 300 planned for next.
I'm not looking for another system that tells us how we should feel. Breath, the nervous system, somatic approaches — they interest me because they give us more ways of noticing what's happening, and responding to it.
What I have come to believe
Regulation can be useful. There are times we need to settle, find our bearings, or create enough space to respond rather than react. But I don't believe being regulated is the goal of everything.
We don't have to turn ourselves into a calmer, more balanced, more productive version of who we are. Sometimes being with ourselves means letting an experience be there without immediately trying to change it.
Something more fundamental comes before the question of how to regulate: noticing what's happening, accepting that it's happening, and staying connected to yourself while deciding what you want to do. That's not passivity. It's having a relationship with yourself that allows for choice.
This is also why I'm cautious about the language of optimisation that's become so common around wellbeing. There's always another state to reach, another habit to improve, another part of yourself to work on. I don't want INERA HOUSE to become another place where people feel they need to improve themselves in order to be okay.
Learning from methods without being defined by them
I've studied many approaches over the years. Some became part of my practical work. Others mainly changed the way I look at the body, health and human experience. I don't currently offer everything I've studied, and I don't think an education needs to become a service to have been valuable.
Sometimes the most important thing a method gives you isn't another thing to do, but a different way of seeing. That's probably been the most consistent part of my education.
The ground beneath INERA HOUSE
INERA HOUSE grew from all of this, but it isn't a collection of the methods I've learned. It comes from a long-standing curiosity about people, and from looking closely at my own assumptions.
That might be through the body, through breath, or simply through noticing something we'd overlooked. There's no particular version of a person I want to lead anyone towards.
I want people to hear themselves a little more clearly. That's most of it.
Practical experience
My practical work has mainly been in massage and bodywork. For a time, I taught as part of a reintegration project — helping women rebuilding their lives after a women's shelter prepare to return to work. Everything was serious. Everything was systematic. Massage, nutrition, the basics of taking care of a body again.
One day I just put music on instead. People moved. People laughed. Same room, same women. A different stimulus. A different reaction.
Not everything I've studied is something I currently offer. The training reflects the path that shaped my understanding of the body, attention and human experience, and the perspective I bring into INERA HOUSE.
Education & Training
Yoga Therapy Training · WAY Akademie · 2026–2027 (ongoing, 500h)
200h completed in 2026, a further 300h planned for 2027. Focus: breath, autonomic nervous system, somatic approaches.
Advanced Breathing Instructor · Oxygen Advantage · 2024
Functional Breathing Instructor · Oxygen Advantage · 2023
Intensive Heilpraktiker Programme · 2022 (1 year)
Anatomy, physiology, pathology, Heilpraktiker law.
PR Specialist · Freie Journalistenschule Berlin · 2018
Certified Preventologist · DGAM · 2008
Health Practitioner for Relaxation & Vitality (BfG) · DGAM · 2004
Earlier Training
Naturopathy · 1998–2001 (three-year professional training)
Anatomy, physiology, pathology, manual therapeutic approaches. Practical assistance in Tui Na training.
Nuad Thai Bo Rarn · Level 1 · 2005
Tui Na · Level 1 · 2004
Shiatsu · Advanced Course (Wataru Ohashi approach) · 2002–2003
Hawaiian Bodywork · Basic 1 & 2 · 2002–2003
Classical Massage · 2001