Martin Balance
— is an intuitive, sonic, and somatic artist, ENERGY HEALER, certified Breathwork, Mindfulness & Meditation Guide, Movement & Reiki Practitioner, EXPERIENCED Kundalini, Yin, Restorative & Yoga Nidra Facilitator, Gong Sound Teacher & Performer, Somatic Bodyworker, consulting Hellenistic astrologer, DOUBLE MASTER IN ART HISTORY, space curator, and experience creator, a keeper of the water signs.
Since 2019, Martin has amassed over 1,000 hours of continuous education, taught over 1,000 classes across Berlin’s dance, yoga, and meditation studios, facilitated over 50 workshops, certified over a dozen sound facilitators, and hosted three multi-day retreats in Berlin and abroad.
His practice centers on the transformative power of movement, breath, sound, and touch—his signature modalities. With an academic foundation in art history and cinema (his Cancer is Sun, his Virgo is Moon), Martin combines care, creativity, authenticity, and meticulous attention to detail in crafting his unique experiences.
Martin’s journey began two decades ago when he embraced movement and yoga. Over the years, he has explored diverse techniques, including Ballet, Contact Improvisation, Gaga, Feldenkrais, and Klein Technique™, as well as yoga styles like Ashtanga, Bikram, Jivamukti, Kundalini, Restorative, Vinyasa, and Yin.
He has trained extensively under renowned teachers such as Sara Shelton Mann, Ohad Naharin, Yaara Dolev, Natalia Vik, Hugo Marmelada, Yaniv Abraham, Guy Shomroni, Matan David (Gaga), Lydia Schamschula and Cyrus Bruton (Holotropic Breathwork), and others, participating in numerous workshops and retreats.
In 2019, Martin completed a year-long Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (220 hours) at Karam Kriya, the International School of Kundalini Yoga in Berlin. He later pursued further training in Yin Yoga (70 hours) with Liina Tael and Valérie Hartwich and Leading Yoga Nidra (20 hours) facilitation with Theo Wildcroft.
A certified gong teacher and performer, Martin trained under Kay Karl and Don Conreaux, the Gong Master himself, offering intuitive sound healing sessions and gong meditations with his gongs and other healing instruments since 2020.
Martin’s connection with higher intelligence emerged early in his life, leading him to explore energy work. He became a Reiki practitioner under Reiki Master, Alfred Bloch.
In 2021, he completed a 15-day Mindfulness Meditation course (Mahasi Sayadaw technique) at the Dhammanikhom Vipassana Meditation Center under Ven's Bhikkhuni Silavaddhani personal guidance. Later, he joined an LGBTQI+ Vipassana Meditation course organized by Sangha Metta with Pascal Auclair.
From 2021 to 2023, Martin pursued Traditional Hellenistic Astrology and Mysticism, completing the Advanced Years of Study in Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic with Adam Elenbaas. In 2023, he became a certified Transformational Breathwork Facilitator under Master Breath Coach, Brian Kelly.
In 2024, Martin advanced his expertise in somatic bodywork and sound healing, training in massage techniques with Jan-Christoph Müller and learning Tibetan Bowls Sound Massage from Alejandro Noreña Gomez. These experiences have shaped his unique approach to somatic release massage and sound-based therapies.
Lifelong learner Martin is focused on personal development while continuing to inspire and guide through his deeply immersive, healing, and creative offerings alongside pursuing further education in Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork.