About me
Hi, I'm Chantal
Dancer, Manager, Life coach
My path to my vocation
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I was born in Zurich in 1978. Even as a child, dance was my element. It was the refuge where I could express myself as I am. Ballet was my dream, my path and became my profession. With hard work and discipline, I achieved my goal and danced at the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. But the intensive training and the high pressure gave me pause. After nine years, it was time for a change.
I ventured into the commercial sector and later into e-commerce - a completely new world that captivated me. But here, too, I encountered the same meritocracy. I asked myself: how can you achieve ambitious goals with joy and ease without losing yourself in the process?
This led me to my calling. Today, I help people to get moving and realize their dreams without constantly exceeding their own limits. Through my experience in dance and business, supplemented by targeted training and further education, I am now a Nia Teacher and Spiritual Life Coach.
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It touches me to accompany people on their journey to new insights and to themselves. I motivate them to explore and expand their movement possibilities and expressive potential. It is indescribable to experience again and again when people arrive at themselves and feel themselves in their body and in their strength.
My aim is to encourage you to discover your inner strength and to take your place in life with pride and ease - at your own pace and in your own way. I know how important it is to make healthy choices and take your desires seriously - and that's exactly what I pass on.
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My wish for you is that you walk your individual life path with self-confidence and focus, that you move joyfully on your path and celebrate yourself and your uniqueness.
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Who am I?
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In the past, I would have said hard on the outside, soft on the inside. That has changed. I have shed my hard shell and can now use my subtlety in my work to empower other people.
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I drink tea and not coffee and have lived in Munich for over 30 years.
For me, success means being authentic and confidently following your own path.
Chantal Gagnebin
My areas of activity
All my life and professional experience, as well as the professional expertise I have acquired, enables me to accompany you on your journey to more lightness, a more loving relationship with yourself and a self-determined, fulfilled life.
With my Nia offer, I invite you to train yourself through joyful movement. It is particularly important to me that you appreciate your body more and more, have fun and keep discovering new facets of yourself.
My coaching style combines depth with humor and relies on creative and playful methods to accompany you and help you overcome your limitations at your own pace.
My vision
My vision is that everyone recognizes, develops, lives and uses their potential to inspire and support others. That people know what they need to be able to give and be effective. So that they take their place responsibly as an important part of the bigger picture.
And it all starts with you.
My Mission
My mission is to help people get where they want to go. To recognize their own strengths and their impact, to align their actions so that they are joyful and profitable. So that they can go through life with ease and are aware of their issues and tasks. And that helps people to be happier and to treat themselves, others and planet Earth responsibly.
For me, going beyond yourself and trying new things is an important part of life.
Chantal Gagnebin
Kurz und Süß
2024-2025 - Soul Motion : Foundations 2024, Embody & Explore 2025
2023-2024 - Training to become a Spiritual Life Coach® by Laura Malina Seiler
2009-2024 - Nia Technique ® Teacher: White Belt 2009, 2010, 2023, Blue Belt 2010, 2024 with Ann Christiansen , Five Stages Training in Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013
2016-2019 - Part-time Master's degree: Business Management
2008-2021 - Examination Board Member of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria
2004-2006 - Dual training: Businesswoman for audiovisual media, IHK
1993-1995 - University of Music and Theater Munich: Ballet Academy
My way
Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1978, I discovered my passion for dance at an early age. With the aim of becoming a ballet dancer, I moved to Munich at the age of 15 and successfully completed the ballet academy at the University of Music and Theater in Munich. I then worked for nine seasons at the Bavarian State Ballet, where I worked under the direction of internationally renowned choreographers and took on solo roles. This time enabled me to get to know a wide range of dance styles, improvisation techniques and movement concepts. My career has taken me on guest performances all over the world, including in Canada, India, Athens, Venice, St. Petersburg and Kiev.
My motivation for the career change was the desire to try out new areas. From 2004 onwards, I developed this new perspective through a commercial apprenticeship and various e-commerce training courses. In 2016, I began a part-time generalist master's degree at FOM. Since 2014, I have repositioned myself in permanent positions as a project manager, product owner and later as a digital product manager and gained valuable professional experience at various companies. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn .
The professional stress of working from home and the constant flood of information meant that I lost touch with myself and my body more and more. In my search for balance, I immersed myself intensively in mindfulness techniques, yoga, personal development and spirituality. A long period of illness, which turned out to be burnout, made me realize how valuable my life energy and life time are. This experience was a turning point that prompted me to rethink and reorient my life.
In 2009 I got to know the American fusion fitness concept Nia and was immediately fascinated. My first Nia class felt like "coming home to my dance". I completed the white belt training in Hamburg with Ann Christiansen and the blue belt a year later. In addition, I expanded my knowledge in 2013 with the Five Stages Training in Portland, Oregon. From 2009 to 2015 I regularly taught Nia classes and organized workshops and events in Munich and the surrounding area. I have been teaching Nia again since 2023. It is a matter close to my heart to support people through Nia to experience themselves and train with joy.
Through my training as a certified Spiritual Life Coach® by Laura Malina Seiler, I have taken my long-standing professional career to a deeper, more personal level. This experience gives me the motivation and ability to strengthen people in their individual growth, to inspire them and to accompany them on their path.
My professional background
My vision
My vision is that everyone recognizes, develops and lives their potential and uses it to inspire and support others. So that people recognize what they need and what they can give and achieve. So that they take their place responsibly as an important part of the bigger picture. And it all starts with you.
My Mission
My mission is to support people in being and staying with themselves, in sensing everything, feeling all emotions, recognizing themselves and taking responsibility for themselves and their actions.
Life offers you a multitude of opportunities to realize your injuries and recognize your patterns. What you do with them is up to you. My mission is to help you empower yourself and take responsibility for yourself, for yourself and as a role model for others. But above all for yourself, because we often take responsibility for others without taking full responsibility for ourselves.
I create and hold spaces for the change you want. We humans are made to be aware of our patterns and injuries. We are also made to shine with our radiance in its full power and to inspire one another. When we begin, little by little, to embrace and accept everything that we are and everything that we have experienced, compassion for ourselves and others grows out of it. This creates kindness, gentleness and peace, in us and in our world.
It is also important to me that you become aware of your gifts, your talents, your uniqueness and your impact. That you know that you are important, that it is important that you are there and that you exist and that you are doing what you plan to do.
Which enables me to support you:
1993-2025
Nia® White Belt, Blue Belt, Five Stages Training
2009-2024
Soul Motion Foundations – Meditation in movement and dance
2024
Spiritual Life Coach® 12-month training course by Laura Malina Seiler
Certification 05/24
General Management FOM Master's program w.d.
2016-2019
Training as an audiovisual media clerk IHK
2004-2006
Ballet Academy University of Music Munich
1993-1995
Examination Board IHK Munich and Upper Bavaria