New 4-part documentary series on the practice of Circling

In the winter of 2019 I met John Thompson, one of the founders of Circling Europe, on the Thai island of Koh Phangan.

At the time I was doing small video projects for my Youtube channel, interviewing and documenting the work of buddhist meditators, body workers, Bach remedy practitioners and everything in between, and made small documentary style videos that they could use in their work.

John was in Thailand to facilitate a weekend of Circling - a practice I knew nothing of at the time - and I reached out to him with the offer to make a short doc around the practice. He didn’t see my email before the weekend had ended though, but agreed to stop by me on the way to the airport.

We had a couple of hours together and it didn’t take much time before I set up the camera and just started filming him in our conversation. The outcome of that meeting is still unfolding today.

We had great chemistry together and I ended up just gifting him the interview that they soon incorporated in their teaching materials and on their website.

Not long after he contacted me with an offer: He would gift me their entire 6-month leadership training if I in return would make a short documentary around Circling. I was free to make it in whatever way I wished, we just agreed that the length should be 20 minutes. I showed up for my first training weekend 6 months later, having never tried the practice even once.

Fast forward 2 years, and it is now finally done. It ended up being 4 episodes of around 35 minutes each and it tracks my experience during the training and deep dives into the core principles of this practice that ended up changing how I move in both my private and professional worlds.

This series is our first offering on Circling and you can find it here.

I am presently writing a lot of Circling content and also filming a video series that goes into the many exercises, but for now I hope you’ll enjoy the documentary.

Much Love,

// Andreas