Past Facilitators
Nils Kriedner (Dredsen, Germany)
- Co-facilitator of three Tantric Fire Couple's retreats with Leandra in 2008
- Tantric Massage sessions in Durban, Cape Town and the Durban South Coast in 2008
- Main facilitator of the 21 day Sahaja Tantra Teacher Training in the Northern Drakensberg in 2010
Nils is 35, single and based in Berlin, Fermany. He is the director of Wahrhaftig Leben Tantra School (Living Fully & Consciously Tantra School)and Sahaja Tantra in Dresden, Germany. He has a long and intense background in martial arts before coming to tantra.
He developed an early interest in methods of physical and mental training after taking up martial arts from the young age of 6 years and learning and experiencing Judo, Karate, Aikido, Wing Chun und Arnis before he finally came to Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, a traditional Japanese martial art, of which Nils says "it combines all important elements, making it the most complex martial art".
He also explored the more mental methods of Buddhism, Autogenic Training and Alpha Training as well as a variety of relaxation techniques, finally taking up Zen meditation under Rei Shin Sensei und Rei Ko Sensei.
After completing school, he fulfilled his dearest wish and spent a year in Japan studying Bujinkan under number of unique masters - Mannaka, Noguchi, Ishizuka und Nagase, as well as the present Great Master Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi. For some years parallel to this, he studied Japanese at a German University, while continuing frequent travels to Japan whenever he could, finally successfully completing his 5th Dan. He was given the title Shidoshi, Teacher of the Warrior Path. He studied Yoga in Germany and India as well as tantric Kriya Yoga under Trayati Gabriele Impsal in Vienna. He completed both a tantra teacher training in Germany and a Yoga teacher training in India, where he also studied Advaida Vedanta under Swami Suddhananda, a great Jnana Yoga master in Tiruvannamalai.
He is trained in Osho Massage, Shiatzu, Yoga-Massage and Ayurovedic Massage as well as Tantra Massage and spent a intensive period studying North American Indian-shamanistic and spiritual teachings. He underwent Wilderniss Survival trainings in USA, Sweden and Germany and is deeply influenced by Byron Katie's "The Work".
Nils says that he continues to discover new horizons of freedom and inner vastness, "Life has taken on a dimension in which I would have to strain myself to find a problem, any problem. I live, I love, I laugh. What I want...? I want to share this conscious, passionate restfulness with all those who are interested."
Nils' Websites: http://www.wahrhaftigleben.de & http://www.sahajatantra.de