The Team
We are a group of people from diverse backgrounds who have known each other and grown together for over 20 years.
Out of our passion for inner work, we have chosen to pool our wisdom and experience to create a rich resource for those people who would like to dive deep into the holotropic journey in a safe and supportive environment.
Lydia Schamschula
Lydia Schamschula is an actress and filmmaker and was always curious to approach the filmmaking as a way to explore the mystery of life. She is deeply committed to work in consciousness and meditation. In 2010 she found her spiritual guide and a great community with two beautiful cats.
Since then, she is committed to an ongoing practice on a daily base. For some time now her main focus in meditation practice is on zazen. Furthermore, on the path of the inner journey she discovered Yoga, Osho meditation, Avatar, the Hoffman process and Holotropic Breathwork™.
In 2015 she started her training in Holotropic Breathwork™ and became certified in Grof Transpersonal training 2017 in the US. Afterwards she started organizing and facilitating workshops together with the Holotropic Breathwork™ Berlin team. She has also facilitated in Spain, Ireland and Czech Republic. Since her first Breathwork session her heart felt drawn to this work, and she knew she wants to be fully in service for others.
‘Through my 40 years of experience in expressive therapies, stopping and seeing meditations and living a wholesome daily life I endeavor to bring that experience and wisdom to meet, be present for the groups and each participants process whatever that may be.’ Cyrus
Cyrus Bruton
Cyrus Bruton, born 1960 in the UK and lives since over 30 years in Berlin, Germany where he has been guiding and holding space for community grounded in meditation and wholesome daily living since 1999.
In the 80’s and 90’s he lived and worked in India participating in various emotional and body centered therapies as well as working as a progressive psychedelic trance DJ throughout Europe, the spirit of which he brings to his Holotropic Breathwork™ music sets. He is an Avatar Master and Wizard and Hoffmann Quadrinity graduate.
He has intensely focused on the practice of zazen since 2017 with Jeff Shore, attending retreats throughout Europe and visiting Japan.
He first connected with the work in 2011 and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork™ facilitator in 2016 and since then has regularly facilitated and co-organized workshops throughout Germany with the Berlin team.
Frank Anlauf
Frank Anlauf lives in Berlin since 2014, is a body therapist and has been working for many years in the field of osteopathy, massage, Breathwork therapy, homeopathy and as a non-medical practitioner.
His first contact with Holotropic Breathwork was in 1998, which was followed by several years of inner work. In 2016 he started Grof transpersonal training and certified in 2019.
His work as a body therapist has changed a lot with the Holotropic perspective and above all has deepened a lot. In addition to Holotropic Breathwork, he practices Zazen meditation regularly in a community.
For him, daily meditation is a fundamental basis and the possibility to integrate experiences from Holotropic Breathwork sessions in a supportive way.
Viola-Franziska Bloess
Franziska was born and grew up in Hamburg. She lives in Berlin since 1994, travelled the world in her 20s, but Berlin has remained her base.
She studied theatre and film. In the last 20 years she works as a Producer in the Movie Business of fictional movies and series.
Early in her life she got interested in Meditation and the question ,Who am I?’ became her main focus.
She completed the Avatar materials and the Fisher-Hofmann Quadrinity process, got to know Osho meditations and practices Zazen-Meditation on a daily basis.
She finished her study as a healing practitioner for psychotherapy and is educated as a psychotherapist.
Franziska started the Grof Transpersonal Training for Holotropic Breathwork in 2013 and certified 2022 in Colorado, USA. She experienced this work as a healing process through consciously facing and meeting the experience of the moment. It became a matter of the heart to share what she discovered, supporting others in this process of healing, opening and unfolding.
Astrid Arlt
Philip Boutmans
Philip was born in 1960 in Antwerp, Belgium.
He worked many years in Belgium and Europe as a sales rep and manager until questions about the meaning of life and relationships set him out on a path of self-discovery.
After an initial NLP course he found the Avatar Materials and participated in many Avatar Trainings. In 2008 he moved to Berlin where he found a meditation teacher and joined regular Zazen retreats.
He continued his journey with the Hoffmann Quadrinity Process in 2009 and 2 extensive retreats in the Amazonas in 2014 and 2015.
Philip discovered the Holotropic Breathing in 2012 in Spain and participated in many workshops and modules. In February 2023 he certified as a Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator.
He also certified as a Heilpraktiker for Psychotherapy in 2020, and started his Psychotherapy Practice in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Berlin in January 2024.
Fascinated by the human psyche and consciousness, he is dedicated to and finds great joy in assisting others on their path of self-exploration.