What I Actually Want to Know When Someone Emails Me Before Training

Most people write to me the same way before training. They ask what level to start at, what it costs, and when the next course runs. I answer all three every time, because they matter. But they are rarely the thing someone is actually asking me. Reading the gap between what is asked and what is meant is most of how I get to know someone before we ever meet.

The easy part first

Training runs from Level 1 through Master Teacher, taught live in Canggu or live online, never from a recording. It is EUR 488 a level, the same price either way. Groups stay small, often six people or fewer, and sometimes it is one student and me. There is no fixed calendar: dates get arranged around whoever is coming, so a first email is the start of a conversation rather than a form to fill in. Each level includes the manual, the attunement itself, and support afterwards, and I teach the symbols from Level 1 onward, not held back for a later level. All of that sits on the training page already. What the page cannot do is answer the question sitting underneath the one someone actually typed.

Why the real question stays out of the email

I think most people assume I already know what they are nervous about, so they leave it out. Some assume the worry itself is embarrassing: that asking whether you need to believe in energy for any of this to work sounds like hunting for an excuse to back out before you have even started. Others assume the training page already answers it, so asking feels redundant, when really the page was never going to cover this part. Others have quietly decided training is for a certain kind of person, and they are writing to find out if they qualify, without wanting to admit that is what they are doing. An email is a thin format for a question like that, so people reach for the safe version instead. The ones who do ask outright, in the first line, are usually relieved when I just answer plainly instead of reassuring them for three paragraphs first.

A good number of the people who write to me have already done something hard: raised children, run a business, got through a divorce or a loss, and are looking at training as a second act rather than a weekend hobby. That history rarely makes it into the first email either. It usually comes out later, once the awkward question has already felt safe to ask.

What is actually sitting underneath

Strip the logistics away and the real questions repeat. Will I feel foolish if I feel nothing during the attunement. Is six people too many to sit with strangers, or too few to disappear into. Could this become real work later, alongside the massage practice or the coaching work or the job someone already has, or is that wishful thinking. Am I too old, too sceptical, or too unsure of what I actually believe, to start something that asks me to sit still with it. And underneath nearly all of it sits one more question: whether stopping after Level 1 or Level 2 is genuinely fine, or whether I will quietly think less of someone who does not carry on to Master Teacher.

Feeling nothing during an attunement is ordinary, and I would rather say so before someone books than have them discover it afterwards and quietly worry that something went wrong. I would also rather a student arrive with accurate expectations than romantic ones. Training is not a performance, mine or theirs.

What I wish arrived instead

Ask whether German or English suits you better, since I teach in both. Ask whether a private course fits you better than a group of six. Ask whether training works around a job you already hold, or whether curiosity on its own is reason enough. It is. Ask what happens if one level turns out to be enough. Nothing happens. You keep the manual, the attunement, and whatever shifted in you, and that counts as finished, not as stopping early.

Write the question you keep almost sending, not the tidy version of it. I read every email myself, and the odd one is usually the useful one. You can read a little more about how I trained on the about page, or send the real question straight to me through contact.