Night Train Reflections on repetitive Patterns, new Beginnings and a new Space in Kreuzberg
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Dear Reader,
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I am writing these words on a night train to the Mountains. The Coach is quiet, the world outside rolls by in fragments of shadows in the night. Most people are asleep, makes me smile how funny humans can look, squeezed in a seat, mouth open, legs up side down - eyes red - waiting for the destination to arrive. For me the movement of the train gives me momentum. It feels like the right moment to write again. Sitting here for more than 10 hours, with nothing else to do only rolling south, gives me an incredible amount of space.
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I’ve been silent here for a while. The pause was needed. Life asked some attention of me, and I had to gather my energy back again. Not to hide, more to come back with more clarity. That is also the intention of traveling to the mountains - Clarity, witnessing my own repetitive patterns, sitting with my own process and witness them in zooming out, climbing up - an overview to be able creating fall from that place with a healthy portion fresh air in my backpack.
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As I sit in this train, I notice the words returning. It feels simple, like arriving back in myself.
Patterns that repeat
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In my sessions, I am noticing how patterns return. Their breath is shallow, shoulders tense. We have been here before. The same contraction, the same resistance, the same pain the same story is playing up - sometimes different colors and flavors - similar sensations in the body.
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At first, it looks like being stuck. Frustration... And each return carries something new. Almost like the body is asking: are you ready to meet this differently now?
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That is how it feels in my own experience too - the rhythm of retreat and return, the silence and the re-entry. These patterns are not here to punish us. They show up to test if we are ready to step in a new direction.
The body’s intelligence
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Repetitive patterns are not mistakes. They are strategies the body once learned to keep us safe. A tight chest, a held breath, a frozen belly - each of them is the memory of survival.
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Through the craft of "soft touch" De-Armouring, we do not try to break these loops. We create space to notice them more clearly and soften in the body. To invite and integrate those parts to show themselves and so we are able to listen what is needed to relax. With enough safety, the pattern begins to loosen its strength. A breath flows where before there was only holding. Shoulders sink. The nervous system remembers presence.
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Again and again, I witness this settle shift: the pattern still there, but lighter. Less rigid. More available for choice.
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The mind might judge that process as - oh no, again?
From a pure Body perspective, those moments super important to feel, are we capable to really take responsibility in his recurring loop to be able to choose a different path...
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Does this sound familiar to you? Feel free to respond to this email - curious how you experience that in your life.
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A new beginning
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This autumn marks a new chapter for me too. From October, I will welcome clients in a new space in Kreuzberg. A space dedicated to this work, run by amazing people and I am super excite to concrete and offer my work @RollingTiger - Berlin Kreuzberg.
The energy is soft, clear, very welcoming and compassionate from soft till intense and makes me super curious where this new opportunity will lead me.
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I am excited to share that online booking is now open! Sessions in October are available on Mondays, and from November also on Wednesdays. Optional Saturday mornings can be arranged on request
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You can book your session and the intake working with me the first time here:
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Closing
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The night train carries me forward. The rhythm repeats, and yet each moment feels new. That is how change unfolds. Not by erasing the pattern - by meeting it again with more awareness, more breath, more presence.
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And slowly, the repetition becomes the ground for something new.
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Johannes
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Ps.: Für alle die Deutsch sprechen - hier geht es zu der neuen Seite in Deutscher Sprache: https://dearmouring.berlin/​
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