Here’s my story:
My journey has always been one of remembering.
I was born in Eastern Germany and spent the first nine years of my life behind the Berlin Wall. When it came down, everything I had known shifted overnight. The structures that had once felt certain dissolved, and I found myself learning one of life’s earliest lessons: sometimes the path ahead only reveals itself when we begin to walk.
For many years, I followed paths that made sense on paper. I studied Computer Science, trained as a Tax Adviser and learned how to create structure, solve problems and navigate the world of the mind. Yet something within me always knew there was more.
Eventually, life guided me to Ireland...
A place that became a profound teacher. Surrounded by the wild beauty of nature, I rediscovered simplicity, presence and a deeper connection with the Earth. I began exploring the wisdom of the Pre-Celtic Shamanic path, received my first Reiki initiation and started remembering parts of myself that had been quietly waiting beneath the surface.
Ireland taught me how to slow down.
How to listen.
How to feel.
It was also where the seeds of Sacred Clowning began to awaken. What initially felt unlikely became one of my greatest teachers. Through the clown, I discovered the medicine of play, surrender and authentic presence ~ the ability to let go of needing to know and allow life to unfold moment by moment.
That presence continues to shape everything I offer today.
My greatest initiation, however, came through burnout.
After years of pushing, achieving and trying to hold everything together, my body eventually asked me to stop. Completely. I found myself exhausted, disconnected and far away from the joy I once knew.
The journey back was not about becoming stronger or doing more.
It was about learning to slow down.
To listen differently.
To rebuild my relationship with myself from the inside out.
It was laughter that first helped me find my way back. What began as a simple Laughter Yoga workshop became a doorway into a deeper understanding of laughter as medicine ~ not as a way to avoid what we feel, but as a way to reconnect with aliveness, creativity and the wisdom of the body.
Over the years, this path has continued to unfold through energy healing, Human Design, Gene Keys, ceremony and many other practices that have supported my own remembering.
Today, I walk this path as a healer, guide and space holder.
Not because I have all the answers.
But because I know the power of creating a space where we can slow down enough to hear our own.
I now live in the Hampshire countryside, where I continue to be guided by the rhythms of nature and the quiet wisdom that surrounds me.
For many years, I shared this journey with my soul dog Jasper. His presence was one of my greatest teachers ~ a reminder of unconditional love, devotion, presence and the simple beauty of being fully here.
His passing opened another doorway into my own remembering. Through grief, I have deepened my relationship with myself, learning again that love does not disappear when form changes. It transforms, expands and continues to live within us.
Jasper remains part of my medicine path, a quiet companion in spirit and a reminder of the profound wisdom held within love, connection and presence.
My medicine is not one single modality.
It is presence.
It is compassion.
It is the invitation to return home to yourself.
Because I believe that beneath everything we have learned, carried and become, there is a part of us that has never been lost.
And when we create the conditions for that part to be remembered, everything begins to shift.
I would be honoured to walk beside you on your own path of remembering.
From my heart to yours,
Katja Aurora
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