Cordula Frei – Author, Editor, Voice Dialogue Senior Trainer, and Host of Roots of Enlivenment and Spaceholder for a Deep Ecology Transformation.
Cordula Frei is an internationally active author, eco-spiritual teacher, somatic and consciousness facilitator, and senior trainer over 30 years in Voice Dialogue whose work bridges psychology, deep ecology, embodiment, ritual practice, cultural transformation, and integrative thinking. She lives and works between the Southern Black Forest, Germany, and the Vogesen mountains, shaping approaches that help individuals and communities move from fragmentation and stress into lived presence, integrated self‑knowledge, and regenerative relationship with the world.
Cordula’s work is rooted in a vast arc of inquiry that weaves together inner experience, ecology, mythic imagination, nervous system awareness, and threshold psychology. Her approach is informed by decades of practice, study, pilgrimage through wild landscapes, and collaborative projects that bring ecological and cultural depth to personal transformation and collective change.
Her voice is heard across books, courses, editorial projects, podcasts, and dialogues that explore how human beings can live more enlivened, conscious, and mature lives in times of systemic disruption.
Podcast – Roots of Enlivenment
Cordula hosts and shapes Roots of Enlivenment on Parallax Media, a podcast series dedicated to dialogues that explore integrative thought, ecological awareness, cultural evolution, and psychological depth. In this series she engages with writers, activists, artists, and thinkers to investigate how enlivened thinking, embodied presence, creative intelligence, and ecological sensibility intersect in the world today. The inaugural episode The Art of Enlivenment: Engaging Thought and Spirit, featuring rich, thought‑provoking conversations and blending creativity and spiritual insight. Roots of Enlivenment is part of the broader Parallax podcast umbrella, which covers philosophy, poetry, psychology, ecology, spirituality, and cultural transformation.
Books and Major Works
Cordula is the author of several influential books that examine inner life, psyche, and evolutionary depth:
Alchemy of Soul (Parallax Media, 2025) is a meditative companion to Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds that invites readers into spiritual initiation and soul practices relevant for contemporary life.
Order or preview: https://www.parallax-media.com/books/alchemyofsoul
Soulskin is a deep psychological journey into the life of the psyche, charting personal transformation, mythic intelligence, and evolutionary stages of self‑realization.
Wild & Wunderbar: The Quiet Power of Remembering (Phänomen Verlag, 2026) , is an exploration of feminine experience, embodiment, nature wisdom, ritual practice, nervous system regeneration, and threshold experiences such as exhaustion, Long‑COVID, and menopause.
More about this work: https://buchshop.bod.de/wild-und-wunderbar-cordula-frei-9791399003994
Cordula also leads long‑form online and in‑person courses such as Deep Ecology: Rewilding Your Soul through Parallax, integrating ecological resourcing, somatic practice, mythic imagination, and nervous system support.
Editorial and Collaborative Projects
Cordula has contributed to and shaped various journals and platforms that foreground integrative and transformative perspectives, including Head of Media at Integral Perspectives, working for Info3 Magazin, creator of Achronon Magazin, and part of the editorial team of Parallax Media’s editorials community. In these roles she has curated and guided content that blends cultural critique, ecological insight, psychological depth, and evolutionary framing.
Her editorial and collaborative work with thought leaders across disciplines reflects her commitment to explorative dialogue, cross‑disciplinary inquiry, and depthful public discourse. As one of the few Voice Dialogue Senior Teachers, she has trained hundreds of people world wide in the Psychology of Selves created by Jungian Psychologists Drs.. Hal and Sidra Stone.
Themes and Focus
Cordula’s work navigates the intersections of somatic awareness, consciousness development, ecological belonging, ritual and mythic intelligence, psychological wholeness, and cultural evolution. She invites people to see inner transformations as deeply integrated with ecological and societal transformation, offering practices and perspectives that help individuals and collectives live with more integrity, presence, creativity, and resilience.
Where to Find Her Work
Books and Publications:
• Alchemy of Soul – https://www.parallax-media.com/books/alchemyofsoul
• Wild & Wunderbar and Soulskin –https://www.phaenomen-verlag.de/buch/wild-und-wunderbar/
• Phaenomen Verlag author page – https://www.phaenomen-verlag.de/autor/cordula-frei/
Podcast:
• Roots of Enlivenment – part of Parallax Media’s podcast suite: https://www.parallax-media.com/overview
She holds space to meet and engage: https://cordulafrei.substack.com/
