About Thamar

You guide others.
Who guides you?

The same work. A different depth.

Where This Begins

As a coach or therapist
you are trained in seeing others.

You have shaped yourself in the art of guiding, of being truly present to hold space for the other person, of seeing what the other cannot yet see themselves. What you rarely receive is that same quality of attention yourself.

That changes when you work with me.

I am not here to help you become a better version of what you have already built.

I move with you into the layers underneath. Towards the place where your true source lives. Towards what drives you, what limits you and what wants to move through you.

That requires someone who does not flinch. Who sees clearly and speaks directly. Who has no stake in your comfort.

That is what I offer.

The Approach

What most trajectories
never touch.

In every coach and therapist there are layers in the unconscious that you cannot reach on your own. Not the patterns you can analyse or reason your way through. The patterns that play out beyond your conscious awareness, woven by your personal history, your family system and your soul.

Most approaches work on one level. They rarely connect with each other. Systemic work, energetic work and shamanic work are almost never carried by the same person, let alone offered within the same space. That makes a difference. Each of the three touches a different layer. Together they reach what otherwise always remains closed.

That is precisely what I bring.

01
Systemic Work

Makes visible how your family system continues to work through who you are as a guide. The loyalties you feel without knowing them. The patterns you took on without realising it. They shape how you make choices, how you speak and how much you give. Systemic work exposes them and creates space to stand in your own place.

02
Energetic Work

Works at the level of consciousness and frequency. It raises your awareness and you begin to embody your own unique frequency, making core beliefs, fears and everything that limits your freedom visible so they can transform.

03
Shamanic Work

Works from within the authentic Q'ero tradition of the Andes at the soul and existential layer. Calling, loss, grief and transition. The questions that are not answered through the mind, but with the heart. Through rituals and ceremonies you restore the connection with yourself and with nature. It touches what lives in the deepest layer of who you are.

Both feet on the ground, rooted in the deep layers
from which everything springs.

Background

Two worlds.
One path.

I spent more than twenty years in the international corporate world, as a global account director in the technology and cybersecurity sector. I know what it means to operate in high-performance environments: under pressure, at speed, with constant expectation of output and results.

I also know what that costs. What it leaves behind. What slowly falls silent in a person who has learned to operate from competence and construction rather than from soul.

That experience brought me to the work of the soul, and ultimately to guiding the people who do that work themselves. Coaches, therapists and facilitators who already know much, guide many, and are ready for the next layer within themselves.

That knowledge is not theoretical. It is lived.

Thamar Karpes — portrait
Where This Begins

My story begins
in displacement.

I was born in South Korea and adopted. I spent my first years of life on the streets and in the orphanage of Busan. In that early period I learned that safety is not something to be taken for granted. Continuing where others stopped became my way of surviving.

I survived on willpower. I had an international corporate career, travelled the world and created a life in which apparent freedom was central. And yet underneath everything there was something that would not go away. An emptiness that could not be filled, no matter how much I achieved.

At a certain point I could no longer continue as I always had. What felt like a burnout turned out to be a turning point: my system forced me to come to a standstill. In that stillness came what I had long been unable or unwilling to feel: exhaustion, accumulated grief, loneliness and the deep traces of adoption trauma.

Slowly it became clear that real strength does not come from control, but from the willingness to remain present with what truly lives inside you.

A coming home to myself.
The journey home.

The Q'ero Tradition

The path that brought me
home.

In 2017 I found Inca Shamanism. Or it found me. The Q'ero are the last direct descendants of the Incas, carriers of an unbroken lineage of indigenous wisdom. I began my study under Don Alejandro Apaza Machacca in the Andes of Peru.

I was initiated as Ñusta Paqo Pampamesayok within the authentic Apaza family lineage. I work together with Marisol Apaza and organise Soul Retreats in the Sacred Valley, near Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca.

Sometimes slowing down
is the most radical choice
you can make.

How I Work

I am not a coach.
I am a mentor.
I walk alongside you.

My approach is phenomenological. That means we work with what is truly present, not with models or frameworks imposed from the outside. What appears in the space is the material we work with. What lives in your body, your field, your history and your soul is what we follow.

I work with coaches, therapists and facilitators who carry a great deal. What is theirs and what is not. What they have taken on from their family system, their clients, their lineage. What life has asked of them through loss, grief, transition and the weight of years of dedication to others.

I see it. I name it.
And I do not move around it.

You are accustomed to clients and students who need you. People who count on you, who see you as the guide. I do not. I carry none of those dynamics with you.

That is precisely what makes this work possible.

You hold the space
for others.

That is your strength. But who holds the space for you? If you are ready to be seen as you truly are, it begins here.

One conversation. Nothing more.