It took me a long time to understand what I actually do. Not because it is hard to explain, but because it is hard to fit into a box.

I ran casino tables on cruise ships and taught yoga at the same time. I negotiated with directors of Julius Bär and meditated in Indian ashrams. I have led weddings, guided cacao ceremonies and accompanied people in the mountains through the hardest and most beautiful transitions of their lives. At some point this circle closed, and I realised: this is me.

A single word

What has remained from this long journey is a single word: presence. The ability to truly be there, with your whole body, with real interest, without a programme.

That is Bagtun. No concept, no method, no template.

Instead, the attempt to stop time for a brief moment and, in doing so, to bring you a little closer to yourself.

What a ritual does

A candle, a stone, a stick: none of them is special in itself. Then something ordinary suddenly becomes the carrier of something greater. The scholar of religion Mircea Eliade called this hierophany, the sacred becoming visible. It was always there, only now someone is truly looking.

That is why every action in a ceremony has a meaning. It is not decoration, but what makes the meaning tangible in the first place.

I write in your language

A good speech sounds like the person it is about. Someone who spent their life on the sports field gets a speech in which you can smell freshly mown grass. I look for the images in your world, not in a book about weddings. And I leave the laughter in. Even on the hardest days it belongs.

What you can expect from me

I listen before I write.
Every ceremony is written anew for you. Rituals and blessings that have accompanied me for a long time are only added if they suit you.
I live in Bern and speak German, English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
I am part of Traumich, the Swiss network for independent ceremonies.

In the press

Swiss Wedding introduced me in its Winter 2020/2021 issue. In the Autumn 2021 issue you can see me at the festival styled shoot on the sandy beach in Lucerne. Braut & Bräutigam featured the wedding of Sarah and Dominik, which I led as their celebrant. Both stories are under Stories. The articles are in German.