
Some adventures
don’t begin with a plan.
Crown Yourselfdidn’t start as a brand or business idea.

Crown Yourself was born from a long series of experiments. A different way of looking at things.
I have always felt slightly impossible to domesticate. Since my twenties, I lived and created inside Berlin’s cultural landscape - working as a transformational designer, community weaver and event host, sometimes restoring historic fabrics and armors. Based in our international studio house Rose Transformation Salon.
In 2006 Dakini Crowns started knocking on my door.
Arriving through my hands, one creation at a time, without warning...
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"A quiet vessel is formed
not to explain the flower,
but to hold the season in which it blooms."
Japanese wisdom
The Shift
Into Simplicity.
And becoming extremely selective.
Chopping Wood - Carrying Water
These times became an initiation of their own -
to find deeper belonging in my being - without the constant output.
My entire life I had been crafting, building things, gathering people.
Carrying resources to various locations, strongly identified with what I could make. And yet, I struggled to contain my energy and offerings, most of the time. And not everything you can make needs to become public.
So I stopped. Cleansed every corner of my life and simplified.
After letting go of the studio with 95% of my costume collections, tons of materials and many people - this was by far not an easy transition.
But it revealed that real transformation doesn´t come from external work,
nor escaping civilization.
It comes from being curious what life has in store for us. When you allow nature to compost and upgrade old stories from the inside out - no matter where you are.
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The lightbulb moment:
Withdrawing and waiting isn't necessarily inactivity.
It can be the final stage of real authorship.
And yet:
Creative freedom needs structure.
I started to investigate. Still, there was the original dragon living inside of me.
And without knowing exactly what it will be.

Truth is...
In times of transition
life did not remove our gifts.
They just adapted to survive.
Becoming more quiet for a while.
Going underground.
Rooting deeper.
Becoming clearer.
The storm was intense.
Weather changes.
The next door is opening soon.
Read the latest Garden Note:
This is our time to break free from conventional perspectives.
Encouraging innovative approaches to community and collaboration,
that can ultimately expand horizons and foster a deeper understanding
of our personal freedom within the collective.
