About Sandra Ehlers: Values, Vocation, Modalities

Namaste.

My vocation is self-integration and spiritual awakening.
This
is expressed in different modalities: as a self-integration mentor, trauma informed yoga meditation teacher, Reiki Master, life adventurer and writer. 

 

Get personal with me – how my experiences have guided me to my current vocation

I’m devoted to help you create the foundation for a life of deeper physical, emotional and spiritual connection. Focusing on self-integration, I help you find acceptance for all parts of the self. Opening your heart this way gives access to internally sourced joy, love, peace, inspiration, freedom and deeper present-moment awareness in life.

The countless sharp and unexpected twists and turns, bottomless despair and bliss have all been crucial on my own self awareness path. My foundation builds on profound personal experience of self-integration, on a decade of deep immersion into yoga (now focused on tantra) as well as modern psychology and methods. 

For a decade, yoga (the 8 rungs) has been my foundation to work with uncertainty and self-trust. It has slowly unveiled how my underlying driving force, through every twist and turn, was always the search for truth and truthfulness, Satya, and a life in full alignment with my innermost values.

This journey, while often hard, has also brought me tremendous joy and love. My devotion to give love back is now guiding all aspects of my life.

How I teach

I teach yogic wisdom, modern tools, shadow work, energy work etc. in a rather unconventional way – not just certain methods, but flexible exploration that encourages direct embodiment of practices, and through which each person is empowered to tailor their own way.

You are always encouraged to explore your own faith and beliefs, and simply allow any guidance to be starting points. You’ll also be encouraged to start where you are, and to follow the practices that feel best for you in the moment. My teaching is trauma informed and sensitive to the needs of the individual or group.

If you feel drawn to explore your inner truth with me, let’s connect. I look forward to hearing from you!

What I offer

Self-Integration Process

A self-integration process can involve anything from deep emotional healing for trauma integration (cPTSD, neglect, abuse) to self-alignment and expansion (self-care, relationships, sexuality, work and vocation, spirituality). The process is intuitive, powerful and relies on your willingness to go deep to meet yourself. Learn more

Self-Integration Mentoring

Whether you look for trauma healing through shadow work, to deepen your relationships and intimacy, to understand how your mind, body, emotions and energy can work in unison, to transform your relationship to life-force and sexuality, or to reach for your dreams, I can help you find your own process or take the next step.

Witnessing / space holding sessions is an alternative if you simply need unconditional presence and compassion, or help to hold space for your own expression or healing. Learn more

Shakti Reiki and energy work 

Through my years as a Reiki Master, I can attest to the very real benefits of energy work for the mind-body-energy system. Especially highly sensitive and/or emphatic persons may benefit greatly from learning to regulate their energy.

Once we learn to work with it, energy work can act as a gateway between the external and internal. It can both help increase personal body-mind-energy awareness and control, support our well-being, and help bring us deeper into meditation.

I offer deeply nourishing and powerful Shakti Reiki. Are you curious to see if energy work can really help you even at a distance? Or have you already tried Reiki before, and are eager for a powerful energetic experience? Begin here!

Teaching

Teaching is a big part of my calling. I’ve been blessed to teach diverse subjects such as theoretical electrodynamics, mountaineering and yoga/meditation. Surprisingly, they’ve all had one thing in common: The empowerment in overcoming one’s own limiting beliefs and in learning to trust oneself – which opens the door to deeper into our presence-awareness.

My main demographics is highly sensitive, gifted and/or 2E neurodiverse people. Finding empowerment through a foundation of stability and self-compassion, to flourish whatever one’s path in life, is a passion of mine. I’ve also done youth volunteer work in the past and am open to cooperation in this area.

Please note: I do not hold regular yoga classes at this time. I hold online workshops and am open to on-location workshops – see below. 

Style: For Hatha (physical classes), I predominantly teach either the Akhanda method (“all of yoga”), including breath work and many of the the asana prevalent in modern classes, or Ashtanga-inspired free flows, or calming gentle classes. Most of all, I love to teach Yoga Nidra combined with energy work for deep-working meditative experiences. Read more 

Retreat facilitator

The yoga retreats rest on the foundation of tantric yoga, modern knowledge and on my own experience with Kundalini awakening. Classes and practices are crafted to support both clarity and real-life embodiment, deep connection, support for the individual journey, and the space to both withdraw fully and to fully expand and blossom together with others. I emphasise the importance of a safe community and feeling nurtured, not pressured, by the practice.

Workshop facilitator

I offer workshops on a variety of themes;

  • Healing and self-empowerment as a neurodiverse / gifted / 2E / HSP / empath
  • Yoga, Tantra, shadow & light work, and Kundalini awakening
  • The healing power of nature, Shamanism

Nature can powerfully elevate inner work. We benefit from its capacity to hold us connected and true to ourselves, to enhance and deepen our experience, and to help break limiting beliefs. The focus of the outdoor workshops ranges from re-igniting joy to deep emotional and energetic self-healing; from playing with comfort zones to creating life alignment. 

Writing

Writing is a life long passion and meditation practice of mine. I am currently engaged in two book projects and related content creation.

If you need an author for articles on yoga and deep healing, or the inner growth gifted to us by external adventures, please contact me to share your proposal.

I also write and translate poetry, create thought provoking social media content, and maintain a small blog about deep healing.

Research and philosophy

After physics, I became increasingly mesmerised by all aspects of how we understand ourselves as human beings; in particular how we view consciousness. This is where my yoga journey began, along with self-study of the intersection between science and actual human experience.

Since a decade I’ve also explored approaches to a spiritually healthy life through the frameworks of Yoga, using an array of techniques, skills and methods like mindfulness, contemplation, mantra and different types of meditation, finally finding myself drawn to Tantra and the Bhakti path of service.

Coupled with modern Western ‘shadow work’ (rooted in psychology) and foundations to support self-compassion, self-trust, self-love and deep self understanding, I now combine all these schools of thought to help Westerners integrate the depth of both East and West into their own language and practice, guiding towards more aliveness, freedom and fulfilment in life.

The cornerstones of my own practice are to develop trust, intimacy and truth (Satya) in all aspects of life. We all have so much love, pain, experience and wisdom to share with one another, and as a teacher, my highest priority is to bring forth the wisdom that already resides within us all.

Mountain photography and adventure journal

AlpineJournals.se is a nature photography gallery shared by myself and Markus Kvist. It doubles as a resource bank of mountain tours in the Alps, including a few chosen journal entries recounting our adventures. We consider it a humble but hopefully helpful resource for people planning their own tours in the Alps. 

Web development, web design, content creation

Please visit my LinkedIn page for a formal curriculum. I do not offer web dev services anymore.