About Lars & Narrative Yoga
Feeling Freedom
This work is ultimately about how we meet life — and how much freedom, aliveness and connection we can experience along the way.
I have been working with people since 2001 and practising as a Transpersonal Counsellor since 2014. Along the way, I have trained in a range of therapeutic and contemplative approaches and continued to explore the relationship between body, mind, feeling, movement, nature and human connection.
Yoga has been part of my life for more than 25 years. So have movement, meditation, Qigong, archery, nature, craft and the continual practice of paying attention.
These aren’t separate parts of my work.
They are different ways of exploring the same question:
How can we become more present to our lives, more deeply connected to ourselves and others, and ultimately free in how we respond?
I don’t believe we are broken.
I believe many of the patterns we struggle with began as intelligent ways of adapting to life.
What once protected us may no longer serve us.
Rather than trying to fix ourselves, I am interested in what happens when we become curious about these patterns and meet them with compassion.
We slow down.
We listen.
We sense what is happening in the body.
We notice the stories of the mind.
We allow ourselves to feel.
And gradually, we may discover a little more space between what happens and how we respond.
That space is where freedom begins.
My way of working
My work draws particularly on Compassionate Inquiry, transpersonal counselling, coaching and embodied practice.
I work outside the conventional medical model: I don’t diagnose mental illness or prescribe medication.
Instead, I offer a space for deep listening, curiosity and genuine engagement with your lived experience.
The work may be psychological, emotional, physical, relational or existential.
Often it is all of these at once.
Because life is relationship — with ourselves, with other people, with our bodies, with nature and with the world we are part of.
A life of exploration
I have never been particularly interested in following a prescribed path.
More than three decades ago I was already exploring yoga and alternative approaches to health and wellbeing. I founded a yoga school in Germany in 2003 and have continued to study and practise with teachers from different traditions ever since.
My life has also taken me through business, parenting, relationships, community, nature, craft, movement and many unexpected turns.
I’ve changed direction.
I’ve made mistakes.
I’ve had to unlearn things I once believed.
And I continue to do so.
This is not something I teach from outside of life.
It is something I practise within it.
What I have come to trust
We don’t necessarily need to become someone new.
Perhaps much of the work is about unlearning what no longer serves us and returning to what is already here.
Our wounds can become pathways.
Our patterns can become invitations to understand ourselves.
Our bodies can become places of listening.
Nature can remind us that life is not a problem to solve.
And relationship is where much of this learning becomes real.
The aim isn’t perfection.
It is greater presence.
Greater curiosity.
Greater clarity.
And the freedom to meet life as it is.
If you are curious about working together
You don’t need to know exactly what you want to change.
You can simply begin with what is alive for you now.
Qualifications
- Feeling Freedom with Compassionate Inquiry since 2022
- Cert. Yoga Teacher (Yoga Vidya Teachers Association, EFYTA, Yoga Alliance) since 2001 with continued training.
- Cert. Life Coach 2015.
- Founder of Narrative Yoga, Facilitator, Mentor
- Dip. Transpersonal Counselling 2012
- Ayurveda Marma Massage Therapy, Germany
- ReLogos “Healing through Transformation” Breathwork Prac.
- Bach. Engineering/ Surveying (Uni Dresden, Germany)
- A decade+ Member of the Australian Association of Holistic and Transpersonal Counsellors
“There are only three forms of physical exercises that give equal strength to the joints and blood vessels in our bodies:
yoga, karadi sadhana and archery. I don’t know why people have given up the skill of archery in the present day.”
Sri T. Krishnamacharya