Hello!
My name is Reimar Wen Shen (文生). I was born in London to a German-Singaporean family, and now 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 (Dzogchen, Mahamudra).
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.
My work now extends into museums, artistic residencies and tech entrepreneurs, through dance workshops, individual sessions, and group retreats and courses.
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.
I hope our paths cross one day.
