Some feedback, testimonials and personal experiences of my precious clients...

ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS

„With Silja’s help I re-discovered the sense of freedom and mobility in my life. When I started seeing her, I felt totally stuck and immobile in my current lifesituation. I knew that I wanted to change something but I wasn’t able to. Each time I left her studio after receiving a session I felt liberated. Instead of endless problems, I was able to see solutions again. With a lot of sensitivity and humor Silja managed to untie knots that seemed hopelessly entangled before. After her sessions I always felt ligther and more capable of acting. As if new doors had opened up that I wasn’t able to see before. I am endlessly grateful for her fascinating and sensitive work.“
A.H., Yoga teacher
 

„The session was so beautiful. Thank you so much! I feel really alive and strong and I am sure that I am physically and emotionally ready to face my challenges now.“
Z.R., Translator
 

„Sessions with Silja are a treasure for me every time. I always feel supported by her in the most human, caring and understanding way. It feels as if she can see right through me, which is a deeply touching experience. Silja is demanding and sensitive in the same time. Which taught me to outgrow my limits without ever feeling pushed. It is possible to go through the most complicated and untouched feelings with her and to untie quite some big knots. Catharsis in the best possible sense.
Sessions with Silja make life easier, richer, more intense, more exciting and more adventurous. They are an amazing opportunity to surprise yourself and to be more in touch with who you really are.
If you want to get to know, feel and love yourself more, Silja is just right for you!“
B.K., Movie Director
 

 „I had so much fun in those two sessions with Silja, unbelievable! And in the same time I experienced them as very powerful. In the weeks and months afterwards I noticed two important results that directly changed and improved my life in a very practical way. It‘s obvious that she practices her profession not only since a few years but for a very long time.“
T.H., Lawyer


„Silja teaches a method that helps you to re-arrange and re-create your life, the way you want it to be. It’s all about profound and existential experiences: anger, fear, disgust, grief and love are powerful feelings that we stopped paying attention to. But our muscles notice them and tend to cramp or contract in funny places – even in seemingly small or innocent allday situations.
Et Voilà: the migraine is building up, the stomach is rebelling, the eye jumps or sleep fails to come.
In my case it was a severe migraine that brought me to Silja’s doorstep. But this was just the tip of the iceberg, sitting on top of a mountain of childhood traumas, lack of self-worth, exploitive and unhealthy work conditions and a row of sad and unhappy love affairs.
Before Silja and me were about to start a revolution in my life, I defined most of what I did or what was done to me as unchangable. „I would like to but I cannot.“, „I don’t have the courage.“, „I lack the strength“ were thoughts that accompanied me all the time.
The sessions with Silja initially gave me the possibility to notice what it was, that I was doing. Then I started to understand, why I was doing it. Then I learned to stop doing what was bad or destructive for me and started doing what was good and healthy for me. I found the courage to quit a job that was about to emotionally ruin me and to stand my ground in difficult situations in my new job. I defeated self-sabotaging patterns and paralyzing self-pity.
Today I enjoy life instead of numbing myself. I learned to love people that care for me. I am even part of a quite cute small family.
And the best thing about it? It was always my decision!
And the migraine? It shows up very very rarely, like an annoying old aunt. But I am kind of thankful to it, as without it things wouldn’t be as great as they are today.
What we do then is to take a short nap together and when I wake up it has already left …“
N.L., Office Manager


„ In the night after my first session I wasn’t able to fall asleep immediatly. I felt a sense of vitality and energy that I hadn’t felt in a very long time. I woke up with a similar feeling – as if something was really set in motion and about to change in my life.“
M.G., Sales Manager


„I feel truly wonderful, the session was beyond helpful. Let’s do it again!“
L.V., Farmer
 

„ After various attempts of trying different therapies with quite little success, I was lucky to get to know Silja and start the somatic therapy based on the Grinberg Method with her 6 years ago. Today I still notice the positive results that we have achieved on a daily basis.
Before starting to work with Silja I was deeply stuck in limiting patterns without being fully aware of them - due to childhood trauma. I lived my life without passion, without self-love and without really being able to perceive my body. With the continously attentive, caring and healing work of Silja I managed to finally identify and dig out the roots of my problems. The way that I perceived myself changed profoundly, which allowed me to leave old destructive structures behind and walk new paths: Loving and being loved, making my own decisions, not being ruled by other people’s needs and expectations…
I gave love permission to enter my life and I enjoy it today with my family and my caring, loving new partner. Professionally I dared to go for my dreams, leaving old fears and doubts behind. Things went much more smoothly than I would have thought…
Sometimes it feels like a new beginning.
Occasionally I meet Silja these days for a session in order to „freshen up“. I always feel empowered and happy after our often humorous meetings.
I am happy that I did this step. And now it is time for me to harvest!“
M.K., Purchasing Manager
 

WORKSHOPS

„It was truly a great workshop – very intense and effective. It definately opened some new doors for me. It’s a true gift to have met you and I sincerely want to thank you for your wonderful work and your support. I am already looking forward to the next workshop.“
M.W., Project Coordinator
 

„I enjoyed this workshop very much and it had a great physical and emotional effect on me. I was able to get rid of different blockages by understanding them better – also physically. I was very touched, my heart softened and I felt like a heavy burden was taken off my chest as a result of the workshop. Being her empathic, friendly and direct self, Silja knew how to open a gate to my feelings – even the ones that I tend to avoid – and showed me how to deal with them better. The location and the other participants were holding space and giving me trust to feel well and safe and cared for. I am deeply thankful for Silja’s trustworthy guidance and the relaxed atmosphere she created."
M.H., Actress

„I experienced Silja and her work – in one-on-one sessions and workshops – as very personal, ethical and empowering. The results of the work were easy to integrate into my life. I perceive a much higher quality of life today, which opened many doors for enriching encounters and incidents to happen to me. I can whole-heartedly recommend to try and experience this work for yourself.“
D.M., Sales Executive
 

„Exercises that are fun and go deep, interesting conversations and new food for thought. Approaching challenges together in a light way. Supporting each other, being surprised by each other, showing oneself and growing together. A great oportunity to apply what was learned in one-on-one sessions and to train it independently under Silja’s guidance without ever feeling alone with it. I experienced the workshop as very empowering and had so much fun. Thank you!“
B.K., Bodyworker
 

„The workshop set a lot of things in motion for me and apart from personal realizations and new perspectives it also was an opportunity to leave my normal sensation of stress aside and feel happier, more relaxed and more satisfied in my body.“
S.C. Software Product Manager
 

„Your work is sensational.“
A.H., Singer

CREATIVITY TRAINING

"I worked with Silja before and that helped me a lot. This time though I had a major studio crises and strong time pressure concerning an upcoming exhibition. Silja came to my place and we did the creativity training in my studio. Through bodywork and talking I was able to find again love and joy for what I was doing in my creative work. I still didn’t know if it would help more than changing my mood for just that evening. But the next days - reminding myself of our session - I started working and found more joy and love for the work every day. The pressure eased. It doesn't feel like Silja added inspiration and joy, she  just helped me to move away what was lying in between - worrying and feeling stuck - so that I could find my own inspiration again."
N.D., Artist


 „I perceived the effect of the training as a combination of deep relaxation and a new consciousness. Issues that I had been dealing with for a long time were quickly defined clearer and easily changed in my life. Silja’s work is definately a great way to get to know yourself better and learn to reach your aims – personally and professionally. I can recommend Silja without any doubt.“
F. I., Movie director


„I know Silja since a few years already and have worked with her on several occasions with one-on-one sessions. I have great trust in her. Usually we have been working with problems and blockages that concerned more my private life.
Using her technique in the format of creativity training for adressing subjects of my worklife as a writer and a leader of a creative team has been amazing. With Silja’s help I managed to come to a point of deep relaxation and clarity concerning my profession. I also reached a deeper understanding of specific relationships and circumstances in it. These realizations helped me greatly with the day-to-day interactions with my colleagues and strongly improved my ability to „hold my nerves“ in difficult creative processes.
The combination of coaching and working on the body at the same time leads to a very special kind of awareness. It becomes possible to notice and change old beliefs, habits and reflexes by reflecting on emotional and physical reactions that are coming up in familiar and mostly uncomfortable situations in life.
Silja creates a space that allows for feeling safe and cared for while being motivated to go beyond one’s limits at the same time. Only when leaving the comfort zone does change truly become possible…
In stressful day-to-day worklife I focus far too much on (my) weaknesses and problems. Silja showed me how much positive energy, love and appreciation is coming my way in professional contexts, which I usually don’t notice. This realization is a gift that makes the contact with my team much calmer and softer.
The training helps me to be much more relaxed about situations of conflict while being able to use the pressure created in such situations in a productive way. Learning not to tense up and shut-down in difficult creative situations is truly beautiful. It helps me to be aware of different emotional stages of such situation without being ruled by them (f.e. fear, pressure, judgement, giving up, sadness, resignation).
This state of awareness makes active change possible. It‘s one of the things I like most about Silja’s work. She leads me in a caring but determined way towards blocked or painful points and shows me how to overcome them by myself.
My private and professional life have changed through the work with Silja, because I have changed. Thank you so much for that!“
D.M., Screenwriter
 

 „The training sessions with Silja were the key to opening the blocked door to my acting career again.
I was totally stuck and therefore needed to pause my acting training. With Siljas help I reached a point where I could not only continue but was able to act with a sense of freedom and presence that I hadn’t known before. Today I am happy as a member of a theater ensemble.
Through Silja’s work I learned to feel my body again, to relax, to open up and to release old fears that had been stuck – feeling them also as a source of energy. And as a side effect my palms and the soles of my feet stopped sweating permanently, which had been a problem, I hadn’t known how to solve before.
With Silja I have learned to allow my vulnerability again. I discovered a state of being that is both relaxed and full of energy. Since then my body is truly my instrument – in the best sense.“
A.M., Actress

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