I organized a small tour in the Ukraine. The five venues hosting me there are mostly located in the peaceful southwest of the huge country. Enshuring my security and flexibility on the spot I will travel only with light gear and will leave behind my bulky caravan. The idea of this adventure is to generate visibility for a network of eco villages and communities hosting sustainable agriculture, spiritual events and offerings of alternative healing technics in the Ukraine. The tour also serves as a starting point to create a personal network of community places and get to know peace activist from this country. I you feel inspired to follow and support me on my international peace tour please connect on social media with me. For more information check out the list of links /the QR Code. Donations welcome. Linktr.ee/phoenix.ukraine.tour
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„Phoenix Ukraine Tour“

For those of you, who want to read the circumstances how and why I decided to tour in the Ukraine. I will publish news on my tour again in the next few weeks here in my Blog. Wishing everyone a wonderful summer, greetings from Czechia.

The last quiet days before my adventure in the Ukraine I spend with online promotion, messanges and sorting my gear for the upcoming 9 dates on my tour through 7 (!) countries in July. Currently waiting at the polish/ukranian border for the unknown I reflect about the advices that came in. Practical stuff like parking the car next to the road in case of flight alarm. Apparently people get really cracy and panic and most accidents happen because of that. Also I am being warned that people will try to kill me with too much food, stay alert!!!

Happily arrived at my first stop in Central Ukraine. Thank you for all your blessings! Despite the challenges everyone is facing, the joy we feel together is great. Cristal clear skys (due to lack of air traffic) and pure nature brightens our days here ❤️

Nobody would have thought, what was awaiting me in this amazing country! Starting with a brief but thorough check at the border, friendly helpful and a tiny bit chaotic, I enter a country officially at war for the first time in my life.

Our first circle in the lovely community VELIKA RODYNA, Lypowez/Central Ukraine 🔥

In the second village on my peace tour in the Ukraine I find a well organiced perma culture farm. This place, some 80 km northwest of Kiev now hosts a pregnant women, a mother with a one year old baby and other refugees from the ongoing bombings in the nearby capital.

News from my Ukraine tour Kiev region 🔥 follow updates on social media here:

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Intense days of touring lie behind me. The first 5 circles of my Ukraine tour only allowed a day and a morning of singing, teaching yoga and connecting to each of the wonderful communities in central Ukraine before heading out to the next place mostly hundreds of kilometers away.

Day after day, place after place the experience here in the Ukraine intensifies. A growing awareness how the people around me are influenced by fear, loss of freedom, lives and body parts.

Back in the west my heart is filled with compassion, trust and the memories of three weeks of miracles and the many amazing souls that I was allowed to meet on my tour through the Ukraine. 🔥

Thank you GEN Ukraine for making this peace tour possible. Much looking forward to seeing you guys in 2026 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Another year has passed and I am back on the Greek island Lesbos to work for various NGOs in and around the big refugee camp Cara Tepe. This years touring had its moments of glory, but in total left me with a low budget for this peace project. I am now engaging in a social media campaigne funding the coming three months of my music school. For more information how to support me go to:
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Many things have changed but one thing remains coming and going to the military base in Perama opposite my beach every few days: The two fast military vessels that where reported by the New York Times two years ago to throw people from the island to open waters infront of the turkish coast.

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„Okay, I’d have to lie if I claimed that the monkey circus surrounding the relocation of the refugee camp inland—right into the forest in the middle of nowhere—didn’t affect me as well. Above all, I very clearly sense the tendency to allow as few international volunteers as possible into the old camp, which has meanwhile shrunk considerably. The authorities have obviously been instructed to exploit every tiny ambiguity and loophole in order to delay or completely block the necessary permits. In my case, it’s the spotless criminal record extract that is currently getting stuck because of a triviality!
Now, I’m not really the whistleblower type who then goes on to report in highly dramatic terms about alleged concentration camps and the like. But at the very least, I note with some astonishment how the locals here are playing along with this—let’s put it mildly—questionable game. Especially since the island’s economy has benefited from the business involving volunteers and new arrivals. The university has certainly calculated that it hosts more foreign guest students than other universities here in Greece—Athens perhaps excepted. Not to mention the countless jobs connected to the camp and the NGO scene. But oh well, those will remain even at the new location. There will just be more commuters who will rack up thousands of kilometers overall.
How did some economic wonk put it the other day? Cyclists are the worst! They don’t need new cars, no expensive mechanic services or spare parts, they aren’t overweight, don’t need as many medications, doctors, or hospitals, and don’t require multi-lane highways! In that sense, everything is fine here on Lesbos anyway.
Speaking of bikes—last night, after the social center closed, I rode down to the German-chain supermarket and quickly bought rolled oats, walnuts, dried figs, dates, and ground flaxseed. While packing everything into my bike panniers, two lively Africans roll up on battered old bicycles [wire donkeys, Drahtesel]—Salam, how are you? As one of them swings himself off his fast single-speed, I recognize, amazed…

M. from Sudan is now the proud owner of a new guitar that was donated this year. Meeting up with him turns out to be difficult due to the holiday break of most of the NGOs. A restaurants garden in the city center serves as a cold venue for final teachings and a personal check in.

Being the fourth winter here already, the cold weather didn´t really come as a surprise, but every year the freezing, shivering people in the food chains and in the waiting lines for warm clothes touch my heart.

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