About me

Dr Marcel Scharth

Transformational coach and meditation guide

I’ve always been passionate about exploring and diving into practices for personal development and well-being. I started Unfoldment after discovering that I love sharing these skills and facilitating transformative experiences.

We live in an exciting era where more individuals and organisations recognise the need to bring the cultivation of wisdom back to the forefront of our culture and upgrade our capacity to facilitate human development and flourishing.

My journey has led me to embrace a wide range of practices covering different aspects of human unfoldment, including mindfulness meditation, nondual meditation, breathwork, yoga nidra, imaginal journeying, dreamwork, Circling, and Dialectic into Dialogos.

Some of the most influential teachers and mentors on my journey have been Shinzen Young, Michael Taft, Rosa Lewis, Rob Burbea, Daniel P. Brown, Dustin DiPerna, Christopher Wallis, Peter Fenner, B. Alan Wallace, Steve March, and John Vervaeke.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, I’ve been in Sydney for over a decade after a period living in Amsterdam.

Elsewhere on the Internet, you may find me commenting on the latest developments in AI.

Qualifications

  • Coaching:

    • Advanced Coaching Program (ACP) Levels 1 and 2, Aletheia Coaching

    • Advanced Group Coaching Program (AGCP) Level 1, Aletheia Coaching

    • Unfolding Deeply Expanded States, Aletheia Coaching

    • Certificate of Embodiment Coaching, Embodiment Unlimited

    Meditation:

    • Certified Unified Mindfulness Teacher (420 hours)

    • Diploma in Mindfulness and Compassion Teaching, Insight Meditation Institute

    Relational practices:

    • Certified Circling® Practitioner, The Circling Institute

    • Certified Dialectic Into Dialogos Facilitator, Vervaeke Foundation

    Somatic practices:

    • Certified Professional Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS®) Practitioner

    • Somatic Experiencing Three-Year Practitioner Training (in progress)

    Breathwork:

    • Certified Professional Breathwork Practitioner, Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA)

    • Certified Alchemy of Breath Facilitator

    • Certified SOMA Breath® Master Instructor

    • Certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor

    • Certified Breathless Breathwork Instructor

    Yogic practices:

    • Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher (CYT-200), Kundalini University

    • Certified Yoga Nidra Teacher, ShivaShakti School of Yoga

    • Certified Pranayama Teacher (Level 1), Yoga Education College

    Trauma-informed work:

    • Certified Integrative Trauma Coach, Aura Institute

    • PhD in Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2012)

    • MPhil in Economics, University of Amsterdam (2009)