Recommendations
What has accompanied me and still does: books on bioenergetics, music as an echo of my soul and a few wild neighbors on the web.
Book
Roland Bäurle
The source of the test on this site: Lowen’s body types explained with humor and in plain language. A German-language book.
Open Körpertypen – Vom Typentrauma zum Traumtypen (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Alexander Lowen
Lowen’s standard work on healing the psyche through work with the body.
Open Bioenergetics (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Alexander Lowen
How we lose touch with our own body – and how that can be repaired.
Open The Betrayal of the Body (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Alexander Lowen
On the origins of emotional suffering and the way to a richer life.
Open Fear of Life (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Wilhelm Reich
The work with which Reich laid the foundation for body-oriented psychotherapy.
Open Character Analysis (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Wilhelm Reich
Reich on biological energy and how it gets dammed up in the body.
Open The Function of the Orgasm (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Wilhelm Reich
Reich looks beyond the individual to society and politics.
Open The Mass Psychology of Fascism (opens in a new tab) ↗Book
Wilhelm Reich
Reich on the history of sexual morality and its consequences.
Open The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality (opens in a new tab) ↗Folk
Vollenweider, Bardet, Valentini
Poetry and music on poems by Heinrich Heine.
Open Heinrich Heine (opens in a new tab) ↗Folk
Vollenweider, Bardet, Valentini
Poetry and music on François Villon, as a playlist.
Open François Villon (opens in a new tab) ↗Folk
Rilke Projekt
Poems by Rilke set to music by Schönherz & Fleer; in the video: “Lieben” with Cosma Shiva Hagen.
Open In meinem wilden Herzen (opens in a new tab) ↗Jazz
Abdullah Ibrahim & Johnny Dyani
The complete album.
Open Echoes from Africa (opens in a new tab) ↗Jazz
Wayne Marshall
George Gershwin’s classic, with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France.
Open Rhapsody in Blue (opens in a new tab) ↗Jazz
Keith Jarrett
The complete concert, live in Cologne.
Open The Köln Concert (opens in a new tab) ↗Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The children’s version at the Vienna State Opera.
Open The Magic Flute for Children (opens in a new tab) ↗Classical
Alice Sara Ott
Ludwig van Beethoven’s fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra.
Open Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 (opens in a new tab) ↗Classical
Carl Orff
A performance in Venice, with German subtitles.
Open Carmina Burana (opens in a new tab) ↗Rock
Grateful Dead
Official live video from the concert at the pyramids of Giza.
Open Bertha (Giza 1978) (opens in a new tab) ↗Rock
Paul Simon
In the video: “Kodachrome”.
Open The Concert in Hyde Park (opens in a new tab) ↗Rock
Peter Gabriel
In the video: “Come Talk to Me”.
Open Live in Bologna (opens in a new tab) ↗Website
Texts, recordings and books by Burkhardt Kiegeland (in German). In one of his seminars, I landed with both feet on the ground.
Open Burkhardt Kiegeland (opens in a new tab) ↗Website
The workbook lessons from “A Course in Miracles” to read, day by day.
Open A Course in Miracles – Lessons (opens in a new tab) ↗Website
Eckhart Tolle’s teachings in German, all about living in the now. Membership is paid.
Open Eckhart Tolle – Jetzt! (opens in a new tab) ↗Website
Dhamma Sumeru, the Swiss Vipassana center in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin and S. N. Goenka.
Open Vipassana meditation (opens in a new tab) ↗Some links lead to other websites. I have no idea what they get up to there – maybe they are helpful, maybe they sell unicorns. In short: I am not responsible for other people’s content. Click at your own risk. The book links lead to the German editions on amazon.de.
