About M. Roth

• after two years of daily Self-Help, first Five-Day Basic Seminar with Mary Burmeister in 1984 in New York City
• moves to Paris that same year and begins to gather his first experiences as a practitioner
• continues attending Mary Burmeister’s seminars regularly over the following years
• organizes and translates seminars for Philomena Dooley as of 1987
• regularly teaches Self-Help in France from 1988 after translating Self-Help Book 1 into French for that purpose
• regularly translates the Five-Day Classes in Paris, Bonn and Munich from 1989 on while
• taking his own Self-Help Classes outside of France into a growing number of European countries, presenting in German, French, English, Italian and Dutch
• 1994 Teacher-in-Training for the presentation of Five-Day Classes, move to Hamburg
• 1995 – 2002: his activity as a Five-Day Class Instructor in eventually six languages has him teach 126 Five-Day Classes and a similar number of Special Topic Classes in these years, leading to his
• Stepping down as a Five-Day Class Instructor in 2003.

“As much as I had enjoyed my extraversion for all these years and the encounter with so many people, places and views on life, I now felt an urgent need to retreat. The inner calling to delve more deeply into genuinely feeling the art – the approach that had marked my first encounter – gained in importance and led my path over the following years.

The pursuit of classes around the topic “To Feel” was the logical consequence, a move back to my native Hamburg” (from Chicago where he had moved in the year 2000) “provided the frame. The teaching of Self-Help regained some of its earlier importance and more “poetic” classes such as the one on Mozart’s “Magic Flute” and on Wagners “Parsifal” became possible…

From the sense of regained peace it started to feel right to pick up the Five-Day Class materials again and to start presenting them again on a limited scale.”