I was born and raised in Jerusalem to Israeli born parents with lineage from Iraq, from my mother’s side and Poland, from my father’s side. My childhood years had been times of daily terror attacks in Jerusalem. When I was 15, two of my best friends were on a bus that was exploded by a suicidal bombing attack and luckily survived only suffering from injuries and the trauma of this event. It was often that people from my school were caught in these attacks as the school is located in the center of Jerusalem. Some died, some survived and all of us didn’t really know if we will complete our journey back home every day. When I was 18, I joined the Israeli military, as every Israeli citizen is required to do. After being a leading youth basketball player and with the passion to also do my best during my military service, I decided and succeeded to join the Special Forces and joined a unit that is highly specialized in close-contact, counter-terror operations. 10 months into the extremely high intensity training, I suffered from a knee injury and could no longer continue my journey into becoming an operative soldier. Although it was a big bummer, it was a time where my soul wanted to find a way out before it is getting real. My ego, or perhaps my social insecurity, at the time couldn’t have allowed me to quit just because I didn’t want to continue, so Life intervened in the form of an injury. And although there was a part of me that was devastated by this, there was another part of me that was relived and thankful that I will not need to face any real combat scenario and the moment of decision of taking someone’s life. I am still grateful for it almost every day. After the injury, I was in charge of coordinating the unit’s trainings until I completed my three year mandatory service. Towards the end of my service my journey back into basketball began and I spent the next decade as a professional basketball player. It was a very fruitful journey that started at the 4th league in Israel and within 4 years I was playing at the top of the 1st league as well as being the captain of the U24 Israeli National Team. During my career I suffered from a few injures and underwent a few surgeries and my career ended at 30 years old with a harsh car accident. After another recovery period, I moved to the US with my wife then. During my four years in the US I was self employed providing guidance to individuals and organizations in the intersection of personal healing/growth, business coaching and leadership. And I hosted 30 episodes of my podcast show Success is a State of Being, which I since closed. Many of my clients were, as well, former professional athletes and business owners from a variety of industries. It was evident that just as athletes need not only to improve their skills but also aspects of themselves in order for their careers to develop, that business owners also need to improve and heal aspects of themselves for their business to develop further. Like any self-led career, this journey was also fruitful, beautiful and full of challenges. During my time in the US, I was trained in Life & Transformational Coaching and Mindfulness Teaching that I mostly incorporated them into my guiding process without any of them being the main thing. I also put thousands of hours into investigating ways to heal my injuries from basketball and military be them physical, mental, emotional and spiritual— they all interplay with one another anyway, a different side of the same coin. Then another big change was knocking on my door. I underwent a divorce, left my life in the US, met my wife today, Freda, and relocated my life to Germany where she is residing. All of this happened within a few weeks. I closed my coaching business in the US and over the next year and a half went through a very deep healing process. I spent hundreds of hours in deep states of meditation, I dedicated myself to practicing compassion with all living beings, and was working with traumas from my childhood, family, and lineage— they all interplay with one another anyway, a different side of the same coin. I spent a lot of time with horses and incorporated with them all the healing and recovery work and knowledge I have gained over the past decade— due to their training and riding a lot of them suffer from very similar injuries and issues to athletes. I healed and renewed many aspects of my relationship with my mom who is a long time Mindfulness and Dharma Teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and am doing my best every day to continue healing my relationships and practice compassion with family, friends and all living beings.

I am a continuation of a lineage of a Jewish family that fled Iraq due to harassments in the 1930’s with a history of violence and sexual abuse within the family and of a grandmother from Poland who was a holocaust survivor and lost all of her family in the war. In that period I met many of these traumas and suffering souls and was doing my best to support the cleansing-healing process of my lineage through my practice of compassion, meditation and bodywork which were almost the only means to deal with it as there was endless, endless, pain included. It’s been almost 15 years now that I have been working with the injuries in my life— be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or intergenerational. And I am fortunate to also support many others along the way. I now dedicate my work to supporting the healing process of individuals, horses, groups, communities and humanity and hoping that my efforts support healing the terrible illness of violence we all suffer from.

If you are the right person, the right animal, the right group, community or organization, it will be my honor to work with you.
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