Juergen Horn: Your Body is a Prison for Your Soul (Here’s the Key to Unlock It)

In this heartfelt conversation, Darin sits down with Juergen Horn — model turned facilitator, healer, and creator of Mindful Movement. Juergen’s journey took him from a small German village and a decade-long modeling career in New York to a complete reorientation toward breathwork, fascia release, and trauma integration after losing his father. Together, Darin and Juergen explore the hidden wisdom of the body, the importance of stillness, and why real healing requires facing our deepest wounds.

 

 

What You’ll Learn

[00:00] Welcome to SuperLife and setting the intention for deeper healing.

[01:59] Reconnecting with Juergen and the life changes since you last spoke.

[03:27] Modeling years and the question underneath success… why am I in this body.

[05:13] Small village beginnings, industrial mechanic work, and early roots.

[05:35] Working in nuclear plants and learning to respect the body’s design.

[06:21] The unexpected doorway into modeling and the wake-up moments that followed.

[06:39] New York success and how early validation fed the ego before it emptied out.

[07:20] Realizing external approval can’t fill internal disconnection.

[09:03] Losing his father and the pivot from appearances to inner purpose.

[10:32] Running from pain until the body forces you to stop and listen.

[10:52] Reprogramming breath patterns that keep you stuck in fight-or-flight.

[11:49] Showing up daily and creating a felt sense of safety for clients.

[13:47] The medicine of stillness and learning to hear the body over the mind’s noise.

[15:46] The “perfect breath” idea and using rhythm to reset the nervous system.

[17:18] Morning and evening breath practices that set up calm and better sleep.

[20:03] Stacked challenges and the moment rage becomes a teacher instead of a prison.

[21:09] Choosing a different energy in hard conversations and what shifted.

[22:22] Daily conscious practice vs autopilot… why intention changes outcomes.

[23:20] What Juergen sees most in clients… unsafe beginnings and suppressed emotion.

[30:25] Childhood patterns behind adult burnout and the self-image trap.

[32:18] Integration over inspiration… bringing retreat insights back to real life.

[33:11] Transmuting inherited rage into strength and creative fuel.

[36:19] Leaning into pain as initiation and a path to coherence.

[39:41] Fascia and the endocannabinoid system as libraries of stored experience.

[42:29] Practical tools… stress reset, jaw release, decompression techniques.

[43:59] Habit stacking… tiny daily reps that rewire body and brain.

[46:23] Vision for retreats, memberships, and collective healing containers.

[48:18] Returning to safety in the body, aligned relationships, and a life you enjoy.

 

 

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Find More from Juergen Horn:

• Instagram: @jules_horn

• Website: mindfulmovemend.com

 

 

Find More from Darin Olien:

• Instagram: @darinolien

• Podcast: SuperLife Podcast

• Website: superlife.com

• Book: Fatal Conveniences

 

 

Key Takeaway

“True healing begins when we stop running from our pain. Through breath, stillness, and facing the ‘monsters’ we’ve suppressed, we transform rage into strength, fear into freedom, and disconnection into love.”