Trace, Hold,
Allow, Wake up

THAW is a four-step method I developed for thawing functional and energetic freeze at the energetic level. It traces and transforms personal and ancestral patterns by connecting ancient spiritual systems with modern scientific understanding.

THAW traces personal and transgenerational energy patterns. It maps imprints across multiple systems - what's yours and what's inherited - and then offers powerful practices for harmonization and integration of inherited energetic imprints.

Who THAW is for

You feel like some patterns are repeating in your life, e.g. relationships, reactions, blocks, but can't see what drives them?

You sense inherited energy patterns running underneath - family dynamics, ancestral imprints, epigenetic imprints - but standard approaches haven't reached it.

You've done therapy, meditation, or self-development work and it helped - but something deeper stays untouched.

You want a precise map of where your energetic blockages sit, not generic advice.

You're ready for personalized practice - not one-size-fits-all protocols.

What clients receive

A detailed energetic reading across multiple systems - Western astrology, Jyotish, Human Design, Feng Shui - interconnected, cross-referenced, and tested against your actual experience.

Personalized mantra, pranayama, and breath practice matched to your specific pattern.

A clear framework: what's your own energetic pattern, what's inherited, what's running, and which practices lead to generational pattern release.

When the map might point to deeper inherited topics, THAW refers to constellation practitioners and somatic therapy practitioners from my professional network. THAW makes the ancestral pattern level visible on the energetic level with precision. Constellation work provides relational and ancestral trauma processing; somatic therapies handle pre-verbal inner child trauma. THAW works before, alongside, and after them.

I work trauma-informed: sessions move at the pace of your nervous system, nothing is forced open.

My reading of a session runs on two channels: the body's continuous communication - posture, breath. Paul Watzlawick's axiom holds, one cannot not communicate. Direct energetic perception, in Human Design I am a Splenic Projector, intuitively reading energetic states as they shift. Observation, not diagnosis - yogic awareness of body, breath and energetic state, read at the somatic level: Annamaya and Pranamaya Kosha.

What matters is what happens after trauma - whether we had someone who could hold us, and/or appropriate therapy.
If not, the circle needs to be closed.

Gabor Maté

Frequently asked questions

What is THAW?
THAW stands for Trace, Hold, Allow, Wake up. It is a four-step method for identifying and transforming transgenerational patterns using multi-system energetic mapping - including Western astrology, Jyotish (Vedic astrology), Human Design, and Feng Shui.

What is transgenerational pattern work?
Transgenerational pattern work identifies inherited stress patterns, behavioral loops, and energetic imprints passed down through family lines. These patterns can manifest as repeated relationship dynamics, career blocks, health themes, or emotional responses that feel older than your own biography.

How does somatic recognition work in THAW?
In the Allow step of THAW, recognition lands in the body - not intellectually but somatically. We are using Yogic and Tantric methods to approach the body. The mapped pattern is permitted to surface and move through. This aligns with modern somatic research showing that the body must first recognize a held pattern before it can release it.

Who is THAW for?
THAW is for people who sense that certain patterns in their life - in relationships, health, career, or inner experience - may not be entirely their own. It serves those ready to look at inherited dynamics with precision rather than guesswork.

How does THAW relate to systemic constellation work?
THAW and systemic constellation work are complementary. THAW maps inherited energy patterns across multiple energetic systems, making the ancestral pattern level visible on the energetic level with precision. When the map might point to deeper inherited topics, it refers to work with constellation practitioners, which provides the relational processing. THAW makes the pattern visible; constellation work handles depth processing in that domain.

How does THAW relate to Somatic therapies?
THAW and Somatic therapies are complementary too. THAW maps inherited energy patterns across multiple energetic systems, making the ancestral pattern level visible on the energetic level with precision. Should THAW point to deeper inherited topics, it refers to work with Somatic therapy practitioners, who provide the processing on the body level. Somatic therapies like Somatic Experiencing are especially useful to reach the Inner Child on pre-verbal level, where e.g. constellation therapies cannot go since verbally based.
THAW makes the energetic pattern visible → Constellation work provides processing on the systemic or family level → Somatic therapies reach the pre-verbal inner child.

Can THAW help with epigenetic imprints?
THAW works with inherited energy patterns at the energetic level - the same patterns that epigenetic research has documented as passing through generations via DNA methylation. While THAW does not operate on the biological level, it identifies and maps the energetic signatures of transgenerational stress, then provides practices for generational pattern release and harmonization.

What is functional freeze and how does THAW address it?
Functional freeze is a state where the nervous system remains stuck in a freeze response - you may appear functional on the outside while feeling numb, disconnected, or stuck on the inside. Inherited patterns often trap the body in this state across generations. THAW thaws functional and energetic freeze at the energetic level by first mapping where the frozen pattern sits across multiple systems, then providing targeted yogic practices that allow the energetic pattern to surface and move through the body somatically.

Where is THAW based?
Mario is based in Vienna. Sessions with Mario can be conducted remotely.

For therapists

THAW as a method is not done on the psychological level of deep shadow work. But it could be.

If you are a therapist or psychologist within Jungian, Systemic and Family Constellation, or similar background and are interested in integrating THAW's energetic mapping into your constellation therapy practice, whether in person or online - feel free to get in touch.

The word thaw is increasingly used in somatic trauma work to describe the release of functional freeze. Annie Wright, LMFT, developed a THAW somatic protocol for clinical freeze states. Our THAW method works on the energetic level - tracing inherited patterns across multiple systems and providing practices that allow frozen patterns to move and integrate.