{"id":1449,"date":"2025-03-04T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/80db0ca28a.nxcli.io\/thats-it-ive-moved-to-germany-newsletter-of-feb-6-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:44:01","slug":"thats-it-ive-moved-to-germany-newsletter-of-feb-6-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/thats-it-ive-moved-to-germany-newsletter-of-feb-6-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"I Moved to Germany \u2013 Newsletter of February 6, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here I am, back again! After a very eventful start to the year, I&#8217;m finally getting back on track. I promised to tell you about my journey with the Vedic astrologer who has been guiding me since 2020. That topic will have to wait a bit: it seems essential to first tell you about <strong>my arrival in Germany<\/strong>, the beginning of this new life, and what I&#8217;ve been through these last seven months.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But first and foremost, I wish you a wonderful year. May it bring you the courage, energy, and all the resources you need to pursue your biggest dreams, stay aligned with yourself, and cultivate deep happiness, in radiant health. And above all, may you experience love in all its forms, love fully, and be loved in return.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My New Life in Bochum<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been almost three weeks since I settled into my new home in <strong>Bochum<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a very pretty city between Essen and Dortmund, an hour north of Cologne, at the same latitude as Dunkirk. Yes, coming from the South, I&#8217;ve made quite a leap towards the Far North: I&#8217;ve almost become a Ch&#8217;ti!  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love this city. Nature is omnipresent here, and for me, that&#8217;s vital. Five minutes from my place, I find myself in the middle of a forest that leads to a large lake. And in the other direction, there&#8217;s my gym. Jackpot: this place is made for me.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As soon as I arrived, I felt at home, as if this region and this life were waiting for me. I deeply feel that I am exactly where I need to be, at the right time. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few months ago, I never would have imagined everything that&#8217;s happening to me. Moving to another country? To Germany?! And yet, this country is fantastic. The people are warm, I&#8217;ve already met many wonderful individuals, and my projects are organizing with incredible fluidity.    <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Love That Found Me<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes: I found love again. Or rather, love found me. One more reason to answer this call for a big change.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are connections that cannot be explained, like reunions where souls recognize each other after a long journey. We can try to resist, to push away emotions, to deny the obvious. But there comes a time when we can no longer ignore what is there. We understand that it&#8217;s time to stop fighting, to stop being afraid, and to embrace this new path.   <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Most Difficult Choice of My Life<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than seven months ago, I found the courage to make an essential choice: that of my happiness, but also that of the person who had shared my life for over twenty years. The person I loved most in the world, with whom I grew up and shared so many precious things. She was my love, my best friend, my family.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned a page and lost a lot. I had to say goodbye to an entire family I was closer to than my own, I lost my bearings, saw some friends drift away, left our home in Ard\u00e8che, and said goodbye to our little cats. This choice was the most difficult of my life.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But every loss opens up a space. A void that isn&#8217;t really one: rather a field of possibilities, an invitation to write a new chapter. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, our relationship had evolved in so many beautiful ways. We supported each other through trials, to become aligned beings and together guide other souls in search of meaning. But with time, we reached a plateau. We tried to rekindle the flame, which had nevertheless died out. We had become best friends, a family, connected by a unique bond, but the couple was no longer there.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, as difficult as it was, I made this choice for both of us. I accepted to play the villain, not out of cruelty, but out of love, to give us back our freedoms. So that each of us could rediscover our zest for life and build new chapters.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This stage remains the most difficult I have ever gone through. Despite the beauty of everything I am experiencing today, it still is. It pushes me to grow every day. I am moving towards my fulfillment, with confidence, with love, in my rightful place. And of course, I will never forget us.    <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Isabelle, a Ray of Sunshine<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isabelle (Hangala Music) then fully entered my life, like a ray of sunshine. In her, I find myself again. I rediscover parts of myself that I had set aside for years: my inner child, an inexhaustible joy of living, a thirst for discovery and adventures.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We share the same passions and such similar visions of life that it&#8217;s sometimes unsettling. We already have many projects together, personal and professional, as if we had been waiting for this precise moment to put everything into motion. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Following the Call of the Heart<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing happens by chance. I believe it&#8217;s when we least expect it that the biggest changes find us. It&#8217;s up to us to welcome them to stay aligned, even if these choices require sacrifices and come with pain. The more I move forward, the more I learn to let go. I follow my feelings, my intuition, the call of the heart.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still sometimes feel guilty for having left everything, with a sense of having abandoned. But I did, and continue to do, my best. No one teaches us how to go through an ordeal of such intensity. I try to follow my heart while ensuring that everyone suffers as little as possible. Whatever we do, there will always be repercussions: we simply do our best, trying to be fair.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more I move forward, the more I heal. But I am grieving. For seven months, I had no roots, no bearings. I traveled a lot, searching to find myself again. I kept faith and continued to trust life. And for three weeks now, I&#8217;ve been finding new roots and giving birth to new projects.     <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Awaits Me in 2025<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>I&#8217;m not completely leaving France:<\/strong> I continue to organize <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/immersive-workshops\/\">immersive handpan workshops<\/a> in Ard\u00e8che, and now also in Eastern France.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>I will soon resume energetic and shamanic support<\/strong>, as well as the creation of protection talismans. Since June, I had almost stopped them: facing this instability, I was no longer in a condition to offer quality care. I have regained my grounding and will announce the official resumption very soon.  <\/li>\n\n<li><strong>A seven-day retreat<\/strong> in Ard\u00e8che, at Domaine du Taill\u00e9, in October. It will feature handpan, musical expression, movement, and shamanic practices, with teachings on stress management and hypersensitivity, accompanied by cacao medicine and sacred tobacco. Its name? That will be for a future newsletter. (Since then, it has a name: the <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/soul-sanctuary\/\">Soul Sanctuary retreat<\/a>.)    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Four-Hand Video on a Single Handpan<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, I invite you to discover our latest YouTube video, where Isabelle and I play together on a single handpan. A moment of harmony that we wanted to share with all of you. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"86d9b4a5-cf52-477e-8b5a-91afb6f14cfe\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>With all my love and infinite gratitude for your presence in my community. Your precious support warms my heart and lights my path.  <\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being here, sincerely.<br\/>Warren \ud83c\udf3f\ud83d\udcab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z-Lk2J-ZUl0\">Watch the video on YouTube<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get to know me better, read <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/who-am-i\/\">my story<\/a> or discover my <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/learn-the-handpan\/\">online handpan lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2025 Newsletter: my move to Bochum, Germany, a separation, a new love, and the year&#8217;s plans (workshops, healing sessions, retreat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"itsec_x_frame_options":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-bit-about-me"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenshanti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}