One path, two shores
The world of structures and the way of the spirit — in one life.
Markus Weigl, Vienna
My path looked divided for a long time. Today I see that it was one single, coherent movement.
For more than two decades I worked in the world of business — in consulting, sales and leadership, most recently as managing director. I know responsibility, hierarchy, competitive pressure and the loneliness of leadership not from books but from my own experience. I have lived this world from within, with all its power and all its painful dynamics — and I have contributed to suffering, my own and that of others. I have carried responsibility within hierarchical structures: as a reserve officer, as managing director, and as a leader and shaper of organisations.
In parallel, and over the years moving ever more towards the centre, a second path emerged: the path of inner cultivation. Multi-year training programmes in coaching and psychosocial accompaniment; Buddhist and shamanic practice; and above all an inner practice deepened over many years in meditation, Taoist healing arts and energy work. Since 2019 I am authorised to teach within my school — the Dragon Gate School in Vienna — for Taoist meditation, Still Qi Gong, Tai Ji Dao and Traditional Chinese energy work.
How the two paths came together
It was not a break that ended one path and began the other. It was a ripening. Precisely because I carried the pressure of those structures in my own body — experienced it in its full depth and worked through it — a deep understanding grew in me of how suffering arises in systems and in people, and of how it can transform. The world of leadership was not a detour before the real work. It was its precondition.
Today my work lives out of this connection: accompanying people at their thresholds. I bring both shores with me — the lived knowledge of the world with all its tensions, and the ripened depth of the inner path with all its possibilities. Perhaps this is precisely why, for some people, I can be the bridge — or the boat for the crossing.
What carries me
Decades of my own practice. The conviction that transformation is not forced but enabled. And the experience that, in a truly held space, people can meet themselves without losing themselves.
Professional background
For those who look for it — the path in stages: