Fundraiser for Hc's Body Therapy Education

Hello friends, family, acquaintances, and all other amazing people. 
My name is Hans Christian Skaarup and I am starting this fundraiser, to help me out on reaching the next step on my path to become a body therapist.

Background of the fundraiser 
The last 6 months has been the most influential and eventful of my life.
From turning a depression into a full awakening of myself; by walking over 950km on the Camino de Santiago, to spending more time with emotions, body and spirituality, finding some important answers to the important questions I have had for many years:

"Who am I?  What do I want? What do I give? What is it that i can create? Where can I make a change?"

The culmination of the last 6 months also led me to find out that I do not thrive in my current life style in the work I do.  For one I cannot live the life I want to, but I also cannot rest in the security of having stable finances, and be able to plan ahead and settle lasting roots as I have dreamt of the last 4 years.
But I have found my own answer to this,  and I need your help to be able to get there!

Ready to serve, ready to rock on.
The last couple of years I have worked with my own company 
www.hcskaarup.com - and oh boy,  I have worked on some amazing projects and with mindblowing people. But it does not have the momentum as I could have wished for and during my Camino hike I started to feel more in tune with my hands and my skills to talk with the people I met on the road. Meeting them heart to heart without judgement. As I have done with all the people I met in my life.

During my walk I massaged people, talked with them about their problems and entangled thoughts. I helped them dig deeper into themselves. For some reason this came very natural to me. And with positive results. People told me they felt safe, held, understood and listened to on a deep level. And also felt very relaxed after a good massage of course!  This made the first sparks for me to choose a new path.

The past year I have slowly ventured in spaces of touch and therapeutic work. Either within ceremonial spaces with plant medicines, or small friendly sessions of massage, touch and talk.
Here I learned big lessons of how touch and presence affects us all.
How much healing there is in just the simple gesture of full understanding and touch, without any agenda but to be present. 

This is the skill I want to practice. This is the skill I feel that comes from my very core. It is in my heart´s desire to meet and help, to touch, to talk and create and to be the safe space - where I can help others with the important emotional and bodily work that I am drawn and called towards to. 

All I want is to help those who are in need.
No matter where they are. And I am ready to do so.

The Education (picture from my small event that was a dream coming true in the summer 2018)
I have massaged many people over the past years, and took a lot of time to talk with my friends that approached me as their "mini therapist". 
But to know the ropes and have the right "tools" I have to get some education. 

There are many out there but the one I have in my sights is the one at www.Totum.dk (in Danish) located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Here I will learn how to help people with anxiety, stress, and depression through different techniques of massage, acupressure and talking therapy aimed to heal traumas and untie knots in the body & mind.

The education lasts one year and includes:
348 hours of school
156 hours of educational hands on classes
63 hands on working hours
3 days intense residential work
3 supervisions on my work
Exam

Not only do I get to help people that are in need, but I also feel I would be able to give the help I needed when I was searching for it. 

I want to start in November 2019. 
I know it is right around the corner but I have set my sights on the target and I would be sad to wait another year to begin my journey.  I hope that you want to help me realize my dream, but 30.000 DKK is a lot of money so I have set the stretch goal as a success when we reach half!

Finances

Full cost of education DKK 54.500
Loan interest: DKK 5500

Total : 60.000

I will do what i can to start finding funds to cover the other 50%. I will find funds through other work, and also starting to take in practice clients for a small symbolic amount. I am currently also selling a lot of stuff I have laying around and will do some small mini events as fundraisers.  To start the Education i Need 30.000 DKK the first month.

Walking with love (picture is from the Camino 2019)
When walking the Camino I learned a lot. One of the important lessons was that I can walk a long distance alone, but without the little help from my friends I could not have gotten through. I will still Dj and host small events here and there but the time has come to make a change.

So what I am asking for is a little help - everything counts! Please share your stories about me if you know me, and spread out the word that I need some helping hands, no matter the size to reach this goal of mine. Even 1kr 5kr, 10kr, counts! 

The road has been very long and in the end, I did walk the 950 km that seemed impossible. I am already flying over the borders of what I thought what was possible for me.  But this new step needs more hands.

And I need your hands to lift me up, so my hands can heal and help others & create the life I have been dreaming about and show others that what seems impossible is possible. 

Thank you for reading, thank you for caring, thank you for sharing. 
All love. Hans Christian Skaarup