Sven Geitmann

For a long time, I, too, was only functioning

For a long time, I was the one who had it all under control. Graduate engineer, clear-headed, dependable. From the outside it looked like exactly what you're supposed to achieve. And yet there it was, quiet and persistent, this feeling of inner emptiness. As if I were running alongside my own life instead of truly being in it.

Perhaps you know this. Day after day you give, you keep so much going, you're there for others. And in the evening you ask yourself where you actually got lost along the way. It was at exactly this point that I began to look closely, instead of continuing to function.

Since 1997 I have been engaging with psychology and personal development. I didn't walk this path from theory, but because I needed it myself. I did behavioural therapy, got to know and tried many methods, and step by step found my way from a life of constant functioning to more inner ease. Today I know from my own experience: there is another way. And you don't have to break down first.

I am 56 years old and live in Schwante, in the municipality of Oberkrämer in Brandenburg, northwest of Berlin. I have two grown-up children. Since 2019 conscious breathwork has accompanied me as the tool that has helped me most deeply to find my way out of my head, back into my body and to myself.

My guiding principle has grown over the years, it wasn't invented: Connection is the key to healing. Connection with yourself, with your body, with what you truly feel, and with the people around you. Out of this connection, much that was frozen for a long time may come back into balance.

These trainings matter to me because they may give you a sense of safety. At the same time, they are never what's decisive. What truly works between us is the encounter from one person to another, in calm and as equals.