The team

Sometimes what truly holds you doesn’t come from a finished plan. It comes from meeting.

When we first met, it was actually something quite simple. Nico wanted to get back into his body – more movement, more strength, a clearer sense of himself again. Valentin, meanwhile, was increasingly drawn to energetic work: to what lies behind things, to what you can’t grab straight away but feel clearly. We both had a clear direction – and we lost sight of it fairly quickly. What emerged instead was conversation: long, deep conversation. First about training, then about energy, then about everything in between. We talked about people, about the state so many live in today, about pressure, stress, expectations, about constantly functioning and the sense that something is missing even when everything on the outside seems to “work”. We realised we came from two completely different worlds – yet we were speaking about the same thing.

“I train, I work with my breath, I want to be free – stable, clear, in balance.”

“I work shamanically, I accompany, I cleanse, I go into deep processes – but in the end it’s still only about a human being coming home to themselves again.”

And at some point it was obvious: one works through the body, the other through energy – but the aim is the same. We began showing each other things: practices, breath techniques, rituals, awareness. And something happened we hadn’t expected: we both saw how much we had each been missing. The body without depth is only strain; energy without grounding is only idea. And in that tension, the first real idea was born – not planned, not strategic, but more like a thought that hung in the room:

“Why split them at all?”

What would happen if you brought both together? If a man didn’t only train but also understood what moves inside him? If he didn’t only go into processes but also had a stable body that carried him? From that moment it grew more intense. We didn’t only talk – we began to live it. Days turned into long sessions, evenings into nights. We tried things, discarded them, built anew. We trained and worked right after; we did rituals and then went back into the body. We asked: what actually works? What changes something? What brings someone back to themselves – not for a moment, but in a lasting way? It wasn’t a tidy process. It was honest – sometimes intense, sometimes chaotic, sometimes very clear. But that’s how something arose that wasn’t “thought up” but grew.

We realised it isn’t about building a concept that sounds good but about creating a space that works: a space where the body becomes tangible again, the breath settles, the mind clears, and the inner world finds order again.

Over time, something we could grasp emerged from those shared experiences: a structure, a flow, a path. And at the same time it stayed exactly what it was at the start: honest. That’s how NORDVAKA came to be – not as an idea but as a connection between two paths that were never separate yet had been lived as separate for a long time.