About Christian
I was born in Selb, Germany, on a cold, clear Friday morning in 1980.
Some of the deepest threads in my life started early: cold, movement, sensitivity, performance, and Japan.
Christian Today
I live in Tokyo with my wife Mako and our son Otto.
I work in brand and communications, write about energy and modern life, and continue building KULA as an honest long-term experiment in becoming more fully alive.
The Hidden Pressure Story
For much of my life, I looked driven and capable on the outside while feeling anxious, pressured, and not fully ready on the inside.
I became good at performance, but underneath that was fear, people-pleasing, and a chronic sense of inner tension.
Alcohol and weed became ways to regulate, escape, and keep going.
Burnout and Recovery
That pattern eventually caught up with me.
Burnout became one of the defining experiences of my life. Recovery did not come through one breakthrough. It came through breathing, smiling, walking, cold, movement, sleep, solitude, reflection, and more honest choices repeated over time.
Practices like fasting, ice baths, Qi Gong, and the Wim Hof Method mattered, but the deeper shift was learning how to stop living against myself.
What KULA Became
KULA grew out of that journey.
It is a founder-led notebook on energy, agency, and modern aliveness. A place where I share essays, experiments, reflections, and practical signals from lived experience.
Not from a position of having figured everything out, but from the commitment to keep becoming more honest, more alive, and more useful.
Values, Family, and Future Direction
My deepest driver is simple: I want to dance with Otto at his 60th birthday.
That future horizon sharpens how I think about health, fatherhood, work, recovery, and what a meaningful life should feel like day to day.
KULA is where I work that out in public, carefully.
Move with meaning. Design with intention. Inspire through action.