In 2019, my vision of finding and creating a space for healing, both for myself and others, became a reality when I discovered a wonderful house on Kegnaes Island and embarked on the Kegnaes Garden project. The name was inspired by The Beatles‘ „Octopus’s Garden,“ where they found solace and refuge beneath the sea.

Prior to this endeavor, I had worked in the medical field for 12 years, encompassing hospitals, psychiatry, hospice, and emergency services. It was during this time that I received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, four years prior to starting the project. It was a turning point when I yearned for a place where I could work without the limitations imposed by modern healthcare, free from the label of „incurable diseases.“ I longed to find a sanctuary in nature, where I could find inner calm, soothe my nerves, and rediscover trust and hope in my own healing.

I am deeply grateful that life granted my wish and allowed me to share my love for art therapy, psychosomatic understanding, shamanic healing, and gardening with others. Following my MS diagnosis, I had to leave my education as a wood carver and instead pursued studies in clinical art therapy in Berlin. I found immense solace in expressing my pain and fears through clay, colors, and wood, which inspired me to delve deeper into the field.

With over 300 hours of personal psychotherapy grounded in depth psychology, along with six years of experience as a paramedic, I learned valuable lessons on how to accompany and support individuals in challenging situations. At the young age of 22, my paramedic service led me to volunteer at a hospice, where I felt a strong spiritual calling to be present for those who were approaching the end of their lives. This profound experience shaped my connection and trust in spirituality.

In 2020, I crossed paths with my partner, Jacob, and together we explored shamanism during two winter journeys in Peru. This further deepened my spiritual connection. I offer sweat lodges, cacao ceremonies, art therapy, sound healing, medicinal herbology, and psychosomatic counseling.

I am happy to welcome you to Kegnaes Garden, where healing and transformation await.

Here I spend a part of the year, mostly in a small quechuan village called Maska.

I started seeking for healing when I was 20. It was hurting inside, and in my case nothing in the ‘conventional’ way of medicine helped me. So I started seeking the traditional ways of healing. For the last 12 years I have been traveling to be with elders of different tribes, to listen to their stories, learn from them, heal with the plants that they have been using for centuries.

And so like that, little by little, fire by fire, story by story, ceremony by ceremony, I am finding my way back home.I am happy to share what has been shared with me, together with my sister Iris in her nest Kaegnæs garden.

With love

Mireille

There is a wisdom path deep inside your woman’s body.
It weaves you ~back to the first woman that ever was
It weaves you to your mother and her mother before her, It is a cosmic umbilical cord that rhythmically undulates from belly to belly to belly to belly across time and space…
It holds the Divine encoded wisdom of your ancestors.

Their stories are held in your blood
It binds you to every woman on this earth
It binds you to every birth and every death
It binds you to the first woman that ever was
It binds you to the Great Mother.