I was born in Germany and in 1960 I married in Italy. We lived in Naples where I gave birth to our three sons.
Since I was 18 years old I suffered from neckstiffness.  Whenever I fell in love my neck stiffened. Since the first years of the seventies I discovered Wilhelm Reich’s books (in bootleg-copies). It was immediately clear to me, that Reich’s therapy would help me.. I became an active part of the first Reichian group in Naples. Ola Raknes  a collaborator  of W. Reich in Norway, came and did vegetotherapy and taught W.Reich’s energy-concepts. We were very exited. I was immediatly convinced by Reich’s work on newborns and his idea about prevention of biopathies and self-regulation. 

Maybe it was my own memory of my difficult birth where I hurt my mother, maybe it was the difficult delivery (forceps) of our first son and the two free-flowing deliveries of two following  sons with a wise and knowing midwife (sage femme). A birth preparation-group was created and soon the leader of the group, a medical doctor and psychiatrist, began to do home-births. I assisted in birth-preparation. Leboyer came and the excitement  grew.
On request I assisted births both in hospital and home. I had become a bioenergetic doula.
 In 1980 I began my formation as a bioenergetic analyst of the SIAB.
In 1981 my family and I moved to Rome and I began my pratice as a therapist. Together with another psychologist, a gynecolgist and an obstetrician we formed a Maternity-Center . The women who came to us received cure, care, and support from pregnancy to birth and after birth. I practiced birth preparation using “Gentle Bioenergetics”and I taught my methods to birth professionals.
In the eighties I met Eva Reich. The prevention of biopathy and self-regulation from birth on was the axis around which her work revolved. I immediately began using the butterfly-massage she taught me, both with my family, with my adult patients in therapy, and added it to the activities I offered at the Center. I continued through the years to meet Eva Reich in Vienna, Oslo, Munich and to participate in her workshops. In 1996, to Eva’s great joy, I founded the Centro Studi Eva Reich in Rome..  

(19/04/2004)

Le nuove conoscenze che la Gentle Bioenergetics e le discipline psiconeurosociali ci offrono oggi, ci riportano indietro, a quei “bambini del futuro” auspicati da Wilhelm Reich, che saranno i “genitori del futuro”, coloro che potranno rispecchiare al meglio i sentimenti dei loro neonati, che ieri come oggi nascono portando con sé l’energia bio-sociale-spirituale della comunicazione umana. Questi neonati aspettano soltanto che noi rispondiamo al loro bisogno di amore e di legame… Allora gli uomini e le donne del futuro potrebbero comprendersi meglio tra loro e riconoscersi come membri della stessa comunità umana (la “s-identity”, l’identità sociale citata da Gallese), e adattare intuitivamente i loro reciproci comportamenti in infiniti modi creativi.

Immagina le tue mani siano pennelli. Disegna il tuo amore sul dorso del tuo bambino. Immagina le tue mani suonare una Melodia.

E’ proprio vero, come sosteneva Wilhelm Reich, che la civiltà comincerà solo il giorno in cui la preoccupazione per il benessere dei neonati avrà la meglio su qualsiasi altra considerazione.

Il problema è che per capire un neonato bisogna nascere un’altra volta. Nascere in consapevolezza.

Il neonato viene dalla fonte, dalla sorgente. Il neonato è essenza.