MY STORY
My life began in 1986 in Switzerland in the framework of a fundamentalist Christian cult. I grew up homeschooled, isolated and brainwashed into doomsday scenarios, occasionally traveling back and forth from Singapore, Georgia US and back to Switzerland. As a child, I learned very early that going within was my only option to find peace, since my outer surroundings were not safe.
I learned to question the given options of heaven and hell for myself, think critically and endure the punishment if my rebellion was uncovered.
Obviously my upbringing was is no way acceptable and also very seldom pleasant, but looking back I learned important things that all small children in indigenous tribes learn if they are cut out to be shamans. I learned to go within, track with my body, differentiating truth and lie, love and fear on a very profound level.
When I was possibly at the most promising point of my career, receiving awards for my writing and making good money, I was also the most unfulfilled and bored in my entire life. I just didn’t see the point in it all. I couldn’t take it seriously and the media industry seemed like a big theatre where nobody actually remembered who wrote the script. In a Yoga lesson, I was sent on my first official shamanic journey by my friend and Yoga teacher Flavia Ghidossi.
As I met the first of my spirit animals who was a wild mustang, I broke out in tears. The mustang told me: “You and I can be tamed, but were never meant to be domesticated. Weare meant to be wild. Break free. Now.”
I listened to the call and did that. I ended my relationship, quit my job and my apartment and moved to California. There I reunited with some of my old friends from the India tribe, from that time when I lived on a beach in Goa the only daily goal was to live life to it’s fullest and stay alive until the morning. In a wildly potent creative romance, me and Adrian Fuller moved to the high desert of New Mexico, where we published our deck of mythical Parable cards “The Sandwater Children” and our son, Atticus Wolf, was born.
Around that time I already started diving deep into the shamanic realms and journeying every day. As our whirlwind romance fell apart as quickly as it began and the pandemic rolled across the globe, I was sent back to my ancestoral lands of Switzerland along with Adrian, Atticus and my dog from the Indian reservation named Puma.
Back in Switzerland, I knew it was time. everything i had built up had shattered to pieces. The moment had come for me to step up and embrace my truth.
I guess this was the moment when I stopped hiding out of shame and guilt. It was also the moment when I understood all the pain and heartache I had gone through in my life. This was the most empowering hero’s journey for me, the moment when I realised for the first time, from the depth of my soul, that it had all been more than worth it. I started training with Charlotte Gush and immediately got my first clients.
I never had any doubts in my capability to do this or in the shamanic map “working” or not. The shamanic realm mirrors the landscape of my soul and I am at home in it.
When I run against a wall, I take it apart to the point until I uncover it’s essence, and in there I always find the required medicine. Also, I see myself as a channel, nothing more. I’m able to serve this medicine and I love it, but it’s not my invention, it’s a force of nature in itself. In my healing sessions, I never know where we will end up. I don’t know the resolution before we find it and I am guided by my spirits, most of all those of felines, sometimes Jaguar, sometimes the Lion.
I’m Daniela.
Your guide on the journey into the mythical lands of infinite possibilities and a better world. Like every shaman, I was initiated into the shamanic path by some dark nights of the soul. Looking back, my life was not easy. But was filled with epic adventures and in all humility I can say that I have always followed my heart. This is what makes me able to serve healing and mentoring from a completely non-dogmatic, #nomorebullshit, revolutionary and loving space.
When I was old enough, I left my parents home and decided to explore the world without any gadgets or guides. My journey led me all across the world in zig zag patterns, from India to Nepal, to Southeast Asia, Australia, all over Europe, Morocco, Israel, South America and the USA. I made money on the road by teaching English, painting the walls of hostels, serving breakfast in the morning and Cocktails at night. Before my first 2 year trip to India and Australia I trained to be a tailor, and from there on I went to arts college and received my high school diploma at age 24.
But the academic world was not expansive enough for me. To me it seemed like all we did was take writings apart and put them back together again instead of reaching new horizons.
Parallel to my studies, I started working in journalism, as an author and finally in advertising. My ability to think outside the box and explode given norms was the key to my success in all these areas, but also my biggest obstacle, since it was often not really desired. My academic studies brought me to the University of Zurich and Bern where I studied Englisch Literature and Linguistics and Science of Film to receive my Bachelor of Arts.
To my parents, should you ever end up on my website and see this: I have long ago forgiven you. I am so grateful for the childhood and the lessons that you have given me, and I love you both from the bottom of my heart.
My Approach
It all begins with the realisation that we have a choice…
We can choose between giving up and going on
Between awareness and numbing
Between being the one who runs away or the one who leads the way.
Dream it
Every dream begins with thoughts around it like “You can’t do this” or “It’s not possible”.
But it’s the people who decide not to listen to these voices who claim their medicine and go on to heal and change the world.
YOUR great MYTH
I have a socially critical and mythical approach that suits people with a vision. Your anthropological and ancestoral heritage are an important aspect of all my sessions and ceremonies.
It is through shamanic work that we return to our myth, and it’s in the collective myth that we find purpose by becoming leaders for the collective.
Build it
All the energy work and clearing will not change your life. Eventually we all have to get up and stack stones, chop wood and seal the deals.
It’s the connection between the powerful shamanic medicine and the action that is taken in ceremony or day to day life which leads to real change.
MY TRAINING
I was trained and initiated 1:1 for three years by Charlotte Gush, who guided me not just in the Q’ero Peruvian Mountain Medicine Lineage, but also gifted me insights into the occult wise woman wisdom of Britain and Ireland. While assisting in two apprenticeships of the Q’ero lineage, I stepped into the Essene shamanic lineage from the Holy Land and I am now (Spring 2025) being initiated into the Sephiroth Tree of Life of the Qabbalah.
Since November 2024 I work together with a sacred sexuality guide to implement the concept of sacred sex in the shamanic cosmology and help people reconnect with this part of themselves in a natural and empowering way. I place great emphasis on exploring our collective shadows so that we may empower ourselves and each other again to bring peace to this Earth. I am totally fearless when it comes to this work, because I know how amazing the gold is beyond the shadow, and every journey through a valley of tears leads us to paradise.
core values
no bullshit / transparency / cultural appropriation / embodiment / leadership / no sacrifice / liberation / tribe / lightness
Love, as the source of all innate power, is at the core of all my work.
some of the principles I work with are:
Non-judgement - Non suffering - non violence
IF you were a fly on the wall at my house, you’d see me:
1/ … studying Cabalistic numerology, Hebrew letters, chiromancy and Egyptian hieroglyphs in my pyjamas while I eat homemade cookies in bed.
2/ …pressing invisible buttons with my son on each other’s bodies that make us fall over, hug each other and pretend to fly away.
3/ …researching Grand Hotels all over the world, how they are linked to power vortexes and where I could go and enjoy some Champagne while learning geomancy.
4/ …crying with relief when I wake up from a nightmare realizing that I haven’t lost my dog after all.
