About Juerg Dreamturtle

 




Juerg Dreamturtle, 2008



Juerg Dreamturtle helps us to connect with the truth

in our heart and life.

 

He helps us to listen to the sacred messages

of our mind (emotions, thoughts), body (diseases, chronic pain,

imbalances, etc.) and life (relationships, challenges, etc.).

 

Collectively, he helps us to listen to the sacred messages

of our world and Mother Earth.

 

Juerg helps us to grow towards our Sacred Life in harmony

with our open, feeling heart and the good of all people

and Mother Earth.

 

 

 

Juerg “Dreamturtle” Ritter (Ritter means “Knight”) is a native of Switzerland 
where people have been living in harmony with the mountains, land, herbs and natural healing for thousands of years. Juerg is also a New Zealander. 

 

Both Juerg’s Swiss grandparents and parents were very interested in natural medicine, alternative healing, herbs, wild food, etc. and helped him to connect with nature, forests, collecting wild foods, herbs, mushrooms, etc. from an early age. 

 

Inspired by his grandfather and parents, Juerg learnt and practised various meditation and healing techniques from his early 20's, such as Reikji I - III (Master degree in 1985 by Peter Weich), NLP, TM, Sidda Yoga, Coue, Bachflower Remedies, etc.


Before embracing his dreamturtle work full-time in 2000, Juerg worked / lived 

on four continents and travelled very extensively in over 35 countries since 1975. 

Following his father, he first pursued a successful international career in the field of marketing, senior management and as consultant / owner of several companies in New Zealand. He was President at the age of 26, based in Hong Kong, with responsibility for South East Asia for a Swiss company. 

 

Juerg gave up his international career in 1988, to settle in New Zealand with his wife and baby daughter on a beautiful 1920's homestead with 10 acres near the ocean.

 

  In the following 12 years, he founded and managed his own consulting and management companies as well as up to 18 client companies in New Zealand.

 

As much as possible, Juerg has shared and offered his advice on a voluntary basis to indigenous people and communities in North America and New Zealand.

 

For over 20 years, Juerg has advocated business development and investments, 

which are in harmony with the heart, culture and core values of people, 

communities and Mother Earth, such as family-based soft eco-/cultural tourism, 

sustainable harvesting of wild foods, eco-building, authentic arts/crafts, music, etc.


Juerg is fluent in English, Swiss German, German and French. Juerg also speaks some Spanish and has learnt “bits” of Italian, Mandarin and Cantonese.

 

Apart from his dreamturtle work, Juerg loves to spend time with his now grown-up children, in nature, amongst heart people of all cultures, collecting and cooking wild foods, savouring ethnic foods, creating in an intuitive, creative way (art, photographs, writing, cooking, etc.),  sweat lodge / hot baths, etc.






"Celebrate Life" Juerg, 2001

 

 

Juerg is the father of two very loving, wise children, Sybill and Dominik 
(born 1988 / 1990). 

 

 

“They are both truly beautiful, old souls.

We know we have been together many times – 
and we are deeply grateful to share and 

help each other again so much, on this journey" 

 

 


 

more about Juerg's family - click here

 

 

 

 

 

Dreamturtle

 

 


Since his first extensive travels in the U.S. in 1979, Juerg has visited and worked with many indigenous people from as far north as St. Lawrence Island near Siberia, the caribou people north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska and as far south as the late Big Bill Neidjie, one of the spiritual guardians of Kakadu National Park, in Australia as well as Maori communities and elders in Southland, New Zealand.

In 1999, during one of his many journeys, visiting soul family, Juerg was given the spirit name “Dreamturtle” (“Papeshpupe” in Blackfoot) by the late Buster Yellow Kidney - Medicine Man of the beautiful Blackfoot people of Browning, Montana.

 




“Dreamturtle Sun”, Juerg 1999


Ever since I was a boy, I have felt very close to 
American Indians, especially the formerly nomadic, buffalo nations. 

It was very sacred and a true blessing for me to reconnect and share 
with heart family amongst many indigenous cultures – 
especially the beautiful Blackfoot and Lakota people 
of Montana and South Dakota, as well as 
in Australia and New Zealand.

 


“Dreamturtle” is about the dream of creation we carry in our heart – for us to feel, heal, be and share love, compassion and the wisdom of our magical journey with others - and to grow towards our sacred life in harmony with all people 

and Mother Earth.

Juerg has been honoured to share and provide healing for many indigenous and non-indigenous elders, medicine men and women, healers, spiritual teachers, doctors, etc. in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America.





Healing and Working with Juerg


 

 


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