ABOUT

Martin Balance is an intuitive, sonic and somatic artist, certified Breath, Mindfulness & Meditation Guide, Movement & Reiki Practitioner, Kundalini, Yin, Restorative & Yoga Nidra Facilitator, Gong Sound Teacher & Performer, consulting Hellenistic astrologer, space curator, experience creator, and keeper of the water signs.

With over 1000 hours of ongoing education since 2019, Martin has taught over 800 hours of classes in Berlin yoga and meditation studios, given 30 workshops, certified a dozen sound facilitators, and hosted 3 multi-day retreats in Berlin and abroad.

His practice is inspired by the healing and creative power of sound, his signature. With an academic background in art history and cinema (his Cancer is sun, his Virgo is moon), Martin puts a lot of care, creativity, and attention to detail into each of his unique experiences.

Martin started practicing yoga and movement over ten years ago while completing his Master’s Degree in Art History. He didn’t quit the practice since he engaged with different yoga styles: Ashtanga, Bikram, Jivamukti, movement & dancing techniques: Ballet, Gaga, Feldenkrais, and Klein Technique™. He took part in numerous trainings, workshops, and retreats with, among others, Sara Shelton Mann, Ohad Naharin, Yaara Dolev, Natalia Vik, Hugo Marmelada, Yaniv Abraham, Guy Shomroni, Matan David (Gaga), Lydia Schamschula and Cyrus Bruton (Holotropic Breathwork).

He finished over a year-long Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (220 hours) at Karam Kriya, International School of Kundalini Yoga, in Berlin. He consequently completed Yin Yoga Teacher Training (100 h) with Liina Tael & Valérie Hartwich and Leading Yoga Nidras (20 h) with Theo Wildcroft. Martin is, furthermore, a certified Gong & Sound Practitioner, trained under the supervision of Kay Karl in the Individual Gong Master Teacher Training Level 1-3, offering intuitive sound healing sessions and gong meditation classes with his gongs and other healing instruments since 2019. He is also a certified Reiki Practitioner.

In 2021, he accomplished 15 days (over 200 hours) of Mindfulness Meditation Course (the Mahasi Sayadaw technique) at Dhammanikhom Vipassana-Meditationszentrum with the personal guidance of Ven. Bhikkhuni Silavaddhani. Later that year, he participated in an LGBTQI+ Vipassana Meditation Course organized by Sangha Metta with Pascal Auclair. From 2021 to 2023, Martin completed the First & Second (Advanced) Years of Study in the Traditional Hellenistic Astrology and Mysticism Certification Course: Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic with Adam Elenbaas. In 2023, Martin became a certified Transformational Breathwork Facilitator under Brian Kelly, Master Breath Coach.

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