Hampi van de Velde

Hampi van de Velde is a healing medium and spiritual teacher in Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden, where he works under the name „Spirit Balance". He has engaged intensively with his spiritual path for over 25 years, has worked as a healing medium and author of several books on trance healing since 2006, and has taught Intuitive Trance Healing – a combination of English trance healing with his own approaches – since 2008. He is an SVNH-certified trainer and a tutor of the International Spiritualist Federation. He came to English spiritualism through his aunt Emmi Rissi, a medium from eastern Switzerland, for whom he initially translated English mediums. Among the mediums who have taken further training with him is Puck Köhler. A private session lasts about an hour, of which 20 to 40 minutes are worked in trance; clients are neither hypnotised nor put into trance themselves, and a conversation follows afterwards. He recommends one session first and up to three if needed, at intervals of at least a week – if the treatment works, he writes, more are rarely necessary. He names no fixed price: you pay „a fair amount for my time that you consider right and that lies within your means". Treatments are also available as distant healing, and he offers spiritual coaching. He also gives trance healing trainings online and on site, courses in trance speaking, trance writing and trance techniques, open healing and practice evenings as well as day workshops and demonstrations. He expressly makes no diagnoses, gives no promise of healing and advises no one to forgo medical treatment.