Reimar Wen Shen is a Contact Improvisation facilitator, performing artist, and meditation teacher based in northern Germany with a German-Singaporean background.

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In Contact Improvisation, he has studied in-depth with Bari Kim, Kirstie Simson, Ekaterina Basalaeva, and Sasha Brezrodnova. From 2020 to 2023, he lived in Thailand, where he practiced with and later assisted at the TOWARDS Institute with Sasha Dodo and Dolores Dewhurst Marks.

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He has a background in martial arts—Taekwondo (1st Dan) and Aikido (including training at Ryu Dojo in Tokyo)—which form the physical ground of his movement practice. His work in Butoh include creating solo performances Dukkha, Abgrund der Krise, and Requiem Sanctum, and ongoing study of Jinen Butoh with Atsushi Takenouchi.

 

Reimar is the founder of vipassanathome.org, where he offers online meditation courses, one-to-one guidance, and in-person retreats. He began practicing Vipassana in the Goenka tradition and later trained in Northern Thai Vipassana (Mahasi noting and Open Awareness), including four months in retreat at Wat Sopharam with his teacher Ajahn Phra Puttar.

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His teaching projects include Action & Emptiness (CI), Contemplative Contact Retreat (with Francisco Borges), Aikido & CI, and Shared Body, Shared Dream (Butoh & CI with Virginia Torres). He also co-facilitates OceanDance (with Geraldin Acevedo Espana), combining somatic freediving and Contact Improvisation, which he studied with it's creators Sasha Brezrodnova and Mario Blanco.

 

In 2025, he co-created The Healing Museum project at the Bode Museum in Berlin with curator Dr. María López-Fanjul. The project brought mindfulness and somatic presence into the museum setting through guided audio meditations, a curated exhibition, and live events, in collaboration with Charité Berlin.