A life fully lived is the most beautiful poem there is.
My storyBy imperial descent from a long line of sloths, I've always taken the slow road.
I grew up under the eye of my grandfather, an ornithologist in the Swiss Alps, who shaped how I met the world, and, was raised internationally by my father. For as long as I can remember I've walked on countless paths, some known, most not. What fascinates me is the quiet interplay of gravity and breath: I feel it walking, running, and most of all in the water when swimming, diving or freediving into the stillness of another realm. It's the same magic I've practised in meditation for over fifteen years exploring the inner corridors of a breathing body between heaven and earth. I praise the small things, none more than a fresh cup of green tea.
I studied art history and philosophy, then spent years working in the international art world, but at some point I chose a slower life. In 2021 I quit my job to walk the Camino de Santiago, and stopped trying to fit in. I dedicated more time to my passion of writing, and it was in the years that followed that I became a recognised art critic.
I also trained as a yoga teacher under Sandra Sabatini and Helen Noakes from 2016 to 2019, and worked with cancer patients for the Swiss Cancer League in Zurich, and trained in end-of-life accompaniment to be with my father as he died. None of it was a plan at the time. Only now do I see how the threads connect: my inherent strength for being with people at the points where their life changes shape.
What brings me to Japan?
Our holiday home and my love for green tea.
What brings me to Korea?
My Korean partner, my meditation teacher, and my love for Korean art and literature.
My MissionWild Pilgrim exists to remind people that we all have enough.
I fondly believe that infinite quiet contentment can be found in slowing down, in noticing what is already here, in sharing ourselves in real company until consumption quietly loses its grip.
We have never been more connected whilst feeling more alone: overworked, overstimulated, unsure what we actually want. I believe there is another way to move through the world, and it is by slowing down and feeling that we are part of this breathtakingly wondruous Earth, and ideally—perhaps, possibly, potentially—take better care of it.
My dream is simple. I’d like to remind you how yummy a ripe tomato tastes, how to dance with a dragon fly or have a chat with a gorgeous tree, how it feels to breathe cold morning air and rest your eyes on the horizon and to sense that a life fully lived asks for very little.
Wild Pilgrim Journeys mostly run through small villages, and walking them helps keep those communities alive, bringing business and livelihood back.
My VisionBringing Lifelihood to Rural Villages
I believe the Earth does not need our protection. It can do without us. It is we who need this precious planet, because it is our only home. We need the furry, funny bees humming from flower to flower. We need clean water to replenish us, clean air to keep us healthy into old age, trees to cool the world and let us breathe. We need living soil to keep us fed.
Yet we are entering an era where the last trees are dying, the last rivers are being poisoned, the last fish are being caught, and still we haven't understood that money can be neither eaten nor breathed.
Wild Pilgrim's vision is to become more than a practice: a living network rooted in local communities, bringing life and business back to small villages suffering from rural depopulation.
May every footstep be taken with loving kindness, a reminder that there is more to a life than profit and success.
Every walk ensures work and livelihood in places that suffer greatly from depopulation.