Hello!
My name is Reimar Wen Shen (文生). I’m German-Singaporean and currently live in Portugal, where I teach meditation and help run a dance and embodiment community.
Before this, I studied economics and finance and worked in investment management at Vanguard. This background still shapes the way I teach. I enjoy building frameworks and trying to make meditation as practical and understandable as possible.
I was initally drawn to meditation practice because of a lifelong struggle with eczema, a sense of meaninglessness in the work I was doing and despite this, stress from being an overachiever.
Now I’ve been practising Vipassanā for over a decade and teaching since 2021. My path has taken me through many Goenka retreats, four months of training in a monastic setting at Wat Sopharam in Northern Thailand with Ajahn Puttar in the Noting technique, and more recently into non-dual Vipashyana approaches through Michael Taft.
Alongside meditation, I’ve spent many years immersed in Contact Improvisation, artistic and nature-based communities, martial arts and somatic practice. Increasingly, these worlds have begun to come together in both my own practice and my teaching.
Perhaps my greatest teacher today is my young son. Parenthood has challenged almost everything I thought I understood about practice, bringing insight out of the meditation hall and into ordinary life.
More than anything, I love practising, researching and sharing this path with others.
I hope our paths cross one day.
