Hi There,
Just a brief mention about myself, which you might like to read.
I’m British and have been living in Germany for many years. I married my Filipina wife back in 2013 and we have a beautiful little boy who was born in 2016.
I have had a number of businesses. The first being a stained glass supply shop back in the 80s until the mid-90s. During this time I became interested in yoga, taichi and qigong. I ardently pursued the latter two although I loved the gymnastic aspects of yoga but found myself rebelling a little against what I perceived as some sort of dogma. Taichi at that time was simply the movement and in that doing, a moving meditation.
In the late 90s, I started down a path of selling light-therapy to people who suffered from winter depression (SAD). The long grey winters here in the north of Europe were and still are hard to bear. This was before the internet really got going. I worked with an English company who had developed a light clock which at that time was known as the Natural Alarm Clock. The company went on to be called Lumie. And you if you are interested in excellent light-therapy units and light devices that can help you with all manner of health challenges then check light clocks and them out on Amazon.
This was doing well and took me up to the crisis in 2008/09 after which business became extremely challenging, so much so that I hung my hat up on this business in 2012 with a sigh of relief.
Returning to 2001 and my interest in health issues both for the body and mind, I found myself staying in the flat of a medical doctor whose name was doctor Madan Kataria. He was the brainchild behind the world laughter yoga movement and creator of the laughter clubs which now amount to more than 10000 around the world. I started my first laughter club in the main city park in the summer of the same year after my individual training in Mumbai, India. I organised many of the good man’s training workshops here in Germany and gave many workshops both privately and in the corporate sense myself over the last almost twenty years. I still give a few at the adult education centres here.
A little before that I attended several intensive trainings of which some were of several weeks and one went over a year in the wonderful art of hypnosis. I received several certificates not least the one from the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. I still find this a fascinating area and occasionally a client will look me up to have a session.
In 2008, I decided to learn more about hatha yoga and attended an intensive 200-hour training. I was the only guy, albeit an older one. I enjoyed the training and had planned to do more in this field but at that time the crisis bit deep and was so filled with battling to keep my business afloat I felt that the calm necessary to help others relax during a classic yoga class was not part of me. I did, however, continue with laughter yoga and my weekly club meetings as well as seminars. This, I found was a great help.
Now many years later, after postponing the blogging idea for many years, I have finally got down to doing what I enjoy and that is writing and helping people discover a little more about themselves and what they can achieve if they know more about what is available with respect to health both mental and physical, getting the most out of one’s mind and brain, yoga, breath and many other things. I love to write and to support my interest you will see, from time to time, suggestions to products I deem good and worthwhile, there is often a link and should you buy something via that link, I will receive a small commission for bringing this product to light.
Thank you for reading thus far. Best wishes and good health to you and your loved ones.
Robert