embodied being was created by Kai Ehrhardt. It is the product of many years of experience as a workshop facilitator, body worker, breath therapist, embodiment educator, sexual healer and erotic mentor. Kai sees himself as a holder of a vision for profound erotic embodiment. He believes that the body and Eros are crucial elements in a cultural evolution toward an integral way of life. Kai lives in Berlin and New York City and has been teaching since 2002.

Having escaped East Germany just months before the fall of the Berlin wall, he witnessed the collapse of the very structure he grew up in. The disappearance of the identity of his home place, and coming out gay in a small, homophobic town in the mid-eighties reinforced his old wound of lacking basic trust in the world. Searching for a deeper and more trustworthy support, a life crisis took him to the desert of New Mexico where he was initiated into his inner world and the values of breath & body awareness. He learned how the conscious body offers direct access to trust in the s/Self, the world at large and to one’s own potential.

Now that structures are destabilizing everywhere from climate to security to politics, the ability to be self-referential and at home in fluid, dynamic change is unexpectedly turning out to be of advantage. What emerges at the same time is a new exciting way of being in the world - embodied being. He would be delighted to share with you what he learned and perhaps lend some support or provide orientation for your journey and to access your own resourcefulness.

Kai's training:

• 3.5 years Breath Practitioner training as developed by Prof. Ilse Middendorf, with Jörg Roffler and Prof. Middendorf at Middendorf Institute for Breath Experience, Berkeley, CA (1999-2002)
• Many continuing education courses with Prof. Ilse Middendorf at the Middendorf Institute in Berlin (2000-2008)
• Continuum Movement teacher training with Emily Conrad/Susan Harper, Los Angeles and Mary Abrams, New York (2006-2011)
• Continuing education training "Breath-Tonus-Sound" with Maria Höller Zangenfeind, Zurich & Munich (2004-2010)
• Swedish & Deep Tissue Massage certification at Body Electric School, Oakland, California (1996)
• Sexual Healing, Body Electric School, Oakland, California (1997-99)
• 1 year integral consciousness and Tantra with Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, New York (1999)
• 1 year energy healing with Martha Piesco & Lawrence Hoff, Fire and Wind Healing Institute, New York (1997)
• 1 year Shiatsu at Ohashi Institute, New York (1997)
• 1 year NLP/Hypnosis practitioner training at Institute Christoph Mahr, Berlin (2008)
• 6 months Coach training with Nandana Nielson at NLP & Coaching Institute, Berlin (2008)
• Full Wave Breathing, Dr. Thomas Goode, International Breath Institute, Boulder, Colorado (1997)
• Cranio-Sacral-Therapy, basic level with Hans-Jörg Bauer, Paracelsus School, Berlin (2008)
• "Forum", "Advanced Course", "Self-Expression Leadership" (SELP) & "Communication" courses with Landmark Education, New York (1998-2000)
  

Kai collaborates with the following organizations and colleagues:


Organizations:
 

• AFA - Arbeits- und Forschungsgemeinschaft für Atempflege (breath work- and research association)
• Atemtherapeuten Berlin (Breath Therapists of Berlin)
• MIBE - Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience
• ISMETA - International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
• Continuum, Los Angeles / Worldwide
• Atem Tonus Ton (Embodied Voice)
• Yoga Flow, Center for Yoga and Voice, Berlin
• Atemschule Schwendimann (school for breath education), Zurich
• Sexological Bodywork, Zurich
• Easton Mountain Retreat Center, Upstate New York
• Moving Body Resources, New York
• Schwelle7, Berlin
• Spiritjourneys, New Jersey

 Colleagues: 

• Don Shewey, New York;
• Kevin Kortan, Minneapolis/New York;
• Marion Evers, Berlin
• Katharina Fellmann, Luzern
• Katja Münker, Berlin
• Bernhard Mumm, Berlin
• Volker Moritz, Amsterdam