Stefan Rippel has been working with back problems for more than twenty
years. He is a qualified massage therapist and reflexologist who started his
career in a hospital where he was involved in post surgery rehabilitation,
treating acute spine problems and stroke patients. Always keen to learn and
expand his range of skills, Stefan started to study Tuina, a massage based
branch of the Traditional Chinese Medicine. This was his first contact with
energetic medicine and he soon realised that harmonizing Qi or life energy
within the body of his clients brought an enormous increase in the results
of his therapeutic work. At this time Stefan also started to practise Qi
Gong which enabled him to control the flow of life energy within his own
body. It did not take him long to discover the benefits of hands on healing.
He was blessed to find the right teachers who were able to guide Stefan in
discovering and developing his individual healing skills. After more than a
decade of studying with Rosalyn L. Bruyere and Hyemeyosths Storm, Stefan
found a more holistic approach to treat his clients in the hospital.

As Stefan's work as a therapist continued he learned that he could do much
more for the people as he was at the right place, but unfortunately he had
to conceal what he was really doing and had to pretend to offer conservative
therapy. As a consequence Stefan left the hospital and started to build up
his own clinic. Until today he treated there a couple of thousand people
with a success rate of approximately 80%.

At the same time Stefan was involved in setting up a department for hands
on healing in a cancer station in one of the biggest hospitals in Vienna.
The job was to treat people undergoing radiation and chemotherapy and to
improve their condition. The study which has been done on a sample of more
than 500 clients who showed amazing results in pain relief stress reduction
and a much better blood analysis as from those in the control group. During
this time Stefan learned much more about pain relief than all the years
before. Additionally he participated in the Aids Help Centre, Vienna,
conducted workshops there and treated patients individually at the Pulmonary
Centre. At this time he co-authored the Erasmus Reports of the European
Union on complementary forms of therapy. He started a systematic
documentation of his observations and experiences which later was the basis
of Stefan's Directed Care Healing School. Today he teaches his method internationally.