In this exclusive MysticMag interview, we sit down with Sonia Sarina Birrer, a multi-faceted therapist and spiritual practitioner, whose journey has taken her from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Portugal. Sonia shares her transformative experiences and insights into her diverse practices, including Past Life and Regression Therapy, Advanced Vibrational Healing, and Spiritual Facilitation, shedding light on how she helps clients reconnect with their true selves and higher purpose.
Can you share a few details about yourself and your professional journey with our readers?
I am a Swiss national, born and raised in central Switzerland, surrounded by mountains, sheep, and cows. It was a beautiful upbringing with the common challenges of that era (1980s). The generational drama repeated itself in our family as well, and I felt like I wasn’t really at home. I moved frequently, already at the age of 15, my parents offered me the chance to spend one year in Australia, which profoundly changed my outlook on life.
During my teenage years and university, I gained freedom and self-confidence. At the age of 27, I decided to leave Switzerland for good and relocated to Ireland. I opened my own business and sold organic loose-leaf teas in a little shop in Cork City, Ireland. Little did I know that life would take me to other places—I left in 2014 and found myself in Portugal. Driving the 4’000km in my tiny Fiat 500, with my White Swiss Shepherd dog taking most of the space, I was going to live in Portugal, near the ocean, similar to Ireland but warmer. But life brought me back to Switzerland, a choice that came with many tears, and what followed was a couple of years of fighting my destiny and feeling sorry for myself. Little did I understand that I was exactly where I was meant to be. Not only was I brought together with my now partner of nine years, but I also learned a new language (French), so now I speak three languages fluently. Additionally, I was gently pushed in the direction of learning not only more about myself but also gaining tools to work with clients on an emotional and spiritual level.
As of 2024, I am a trained Past Life and Regression Therapist, Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach, Hypnotherapist, Spirit Release Practitioner, and Supervisor for Between Lives Spiritual Regression Training. I have recently completed a workshop in Advanced Vibrational Healing, and it blew my mind. Not yet on my website as of summer 2024, I am offering this to my clients already—it was the missing puzzle piece. I am now fully working with my psychic abilities and using my intuitive gifts, which I always knew I had but never saw as “special” or even “useful.” It is such a joy and pleasure to feel like I am more fully working from my true self than ever before. My mission has always been to be of service for the big shift that is happening—I always called it “reconnecting.” This involves reconnecting with who we truly are, our Higher Selves, and our soul’s path.
What is Life Between Lives Regression and is it different from Past Lives Regression?
Between Lives Spiritual Regression, also known as Life Between Lives Regression, is a process of understanding who we are as a soul. We regress back to our most recent past life, go through death, and from there follow our soul on the journey “up” to the spirit realms, back home, and all the way through the different stages of decision-making for this current lifetime. Depending on the soul resonance, this process can look very different. Although most souls (the human resonance souls always) have a big say in life lessons, body selection, and so on for this lifetime, there are some souls that follow their guides or an authority within their system and are here on a mission. It is like they work here, so to speak.
It is a very interesting process, and my own Between Lives Regression gave me such amazing insights that I knew that if someone is ready to access these memories, it can be life-changing.
I, for example, discovered that I was on a mission, yes, but my mission has no end. There was no succeeding or failing—there is not one thing I have to do, but I am doing my mission every single day. There is nothing to achieve. It hasn’t always been like that; I have had past lifetimes with a clear mission – but not this one. This one is simply anchoring certain frequencies on Earth, and I am doing that with every breath I take. It sounds so simple, but honestly, it was feeling, truly feeling this, that allowed me to finally relax and release stress and this sense of urgency, and truly walk my soul’s path.
These sessions are only for people who have (either) experience in hypnosis or past life regression or have a natural gift to easily regress with their analytic minds not interfering. I am offering these sessions online and in person—they are long sessions as they include 3 hours of preparation, and the following day, we can access the memories, and it takes about 4 hours to go through the process of a full between lives spiritual regression.
Can you walk me through one of your therapy sessions?
Yes. A therapy session always starts with a complimentary discovery call where we discuss what the aim of the session is. What are you looking for – release of an emotional pattern, cutting a karmic cord, relationship issues, transformation of traumatic current life experiences, fears? The buffet table of possible issues to work with is quite vast. People often come to me after years of psychotherapy and with the feeling that all other therapies have failed. I am not saying they do, and I am a full supporter of working in a web of integrating all different modalities – nothing is wrong or right; it is you who knows exactly what you need at which moment.
Someone who finds me with a sense of urgency usually knows exactly what the problem is they are looking to resolve, and they may have released certain layers already – but they haven’t gotten to the core of it yet. And that’s where Past Life and Regression Therapy comes in and is so powerful – we go straight to the core!
It is a three-hour session where we find the entry point from your current life reality; then we follow the thread back in a regression (there are different ways to regress – light hypnosis, emotional, physical, or verbal bridge) and get to the source of the issue. We unravel the source, we understand what has been happening, and we determine if there are any stuck emotions, energetic blockages, or other work like body therapy, that needs to be done. We do a full transformation, which usually takes 60-90 minutes after unraveling that first traumatic event. Then we slowly regress back to the here and now, with a stop at the spirit realms where we gain further insights and make sure the issue is fully resolved in the present. Bringing you back to the here and now takes another hour as we release old patterns on the way back, making sure the work is integrated into your current life.
Not all clients regress back to a past life – that’s why it is called Past Life AND Regression Therapy. Some clients regress back to their childhood or into the womb – wherever we find ourselves, once we are sure it is the origin, we work there.
One week after the session, we have a check-up talk, and usually, the issue is fully resolved. Should there be more layers or other related issues that have now come up and are ready to be transformed as well, then we will do this after a 2-3 week break from the original session.
You also offer Spiritual Facilitation. What can you tell me about that part of your work?
Oh, that is such a beautiful aspect – I love it! While I haven’t facilitated many of these yet, I accompany couples who are seeking alternative weddings, which are not held in a church. I also facilitate baptisms that are not tied to any specific religion, focusing instead on welcoming a baby into its community. Additionally, I provide support for other practitioners who need someone to hold the energetic space. I have the ability to connect easily with the spiritual world and am thrilled to offer this gift of channeling higher frequencies into significant rituals, such as weddings, baptisms, or meditation and yoga retreats.
Please tell me more about this Advanced Vibrational Healing that you learned and how you incorporate it into your sessions.
The Advanced Vibrational Technique (AVT) is a tool that has been transmitted from higher frequency beings known as “the Council of Light” to my teacher and mentor, and his wife. About ten years ago, they received the entire course as it is still taught today, all through channeling. Every single word and technique was described in great detail and transmitted. The AVT is a series of tools designed to connect with higher frequency energies – and I’m not referring to ascended masters or angels, though you can connect with them easily as well. I’m speaking about higher frequencies that are readily available on Earth.
The AVT is focused on giving us our power back – we no longer rely on guides, masters, or angels – we have the power within us to connect with higher frequencies, raise our vibration, and use it for the highest good of everything and everyone. It is a teaching that requires zero ego interference and only works when asked to do so. Even though I could, I never tune into anyone else’s higher self unless asked to. The “tuning in” aspect is just one of many techniques that they teach; it is something I have always done, but now I know how to use it.
For my clients, this approach translates into sessions I call “Conversations with Your Higher Self.” As a client, when you come to me, we discuss your goals and questions; then we both relax. I bring myself into a light trance, and with your conscious permission, I connect to your Higher Self. I can then receive answers and anything you want to know, directly from your Higher Self. It is a beautiful and extremely powerful way of working, but I have to add here – it is a VERY honest way of working.
There is no spiritual ego polishing; there is no “wow, you are so great” – the Higher Self shows us the status quo and the answers, along with what needs to be worked on.
The Higher Self usually does not come to talk to me just to tell me how great my client is – it might show me the greatness of someone and also show me the blockages, asking me to remind them of their gifts by working through their issues, that, yes.
I have never been and am not a fan of the idea that there are energy healers or lightworkers who can heal you. You have to heal yourself. Yes, I can support the healing; I can, for example, release intrusive energies from your energy field and weaken emotional blockages so they are easier transformed – but if you are not ready to change your lifestyle and attitude, nothing is healed, and you will get the same blockages back in almost no time. We are all sovereign beings, and we all have the power to create and change anything we want. I work on that premise only. Yes, it is amazing and great to get support, but the real work you do yourself. You have all the power to change your life and create your own reality.
To learn more about Sonia’s work, you can visit www.soniasarina.com
