Adrian Băjenaru, Modern Mystic behind Somatic Shaking™

I am Adrian Băjenaru, known online as That Shakin’ Guy, creator of Somatic Shaking™ and a Psychology graduate. My work brings together psychology-informed education, neurogenics, bioenergetics, bodywork, and spiritual practice.

My work explores relationships through the body, particularly the intersection of Attachment, Soul Wounds, Polarity, and Embodiment: why we form attachments, why we end up losing ourselves in relationships, and how emotional patterns are lived not just through the mind, but also through the body.

I believe in the Law and Religion of Love, which goes beyond dogmas and limiting beliefs. The Heart Center is the gateway through which we express the Divine within us.

Somatic Shaking™ is the body-based method I developed following years of study, personal practice, and work with people, integrating shaking, movement, breathwork, awareness, and embodiment.

But my work goes deeper than relationships. It begins with how we relate to ourselves, how we carry ourselves through life, and the relationship between the numinous (the soul) and the nominal (the personality).

Among the teachings I share are:

1. BEING. The art of gaining sovereignty over attention, perception, and personal energy consumption so that it is not wasted, but contained and used for higher purposes. In general, our decisions are unconscious and spring from the reptilian brain. Through BEING, we activate the prefrontal cortex and our higher abilities, as well as the heart center. BEING means to see, not just look; to listen, not just hear; to be, not just do. Through Being, we choose freedom over safety, and love over fear.
2. LOVING. In a world full of narcissism, where you live for yourself, apply the Law of Love. Give, give, give. Just as you learned to ask, learn to give. Notice that everything you have done so far hasn’t helped you—your selfish life, your individualism. Support, give, and above all, love.
3. TRUSTING. Total trust that life supports you and has a greater purpose for you. To trust means to let yourself be permeated by the life force that is everywhere, to let yourself be embraced by this universal creative force. Trust in yourself, trust in others, and trust in life. 100%.
4. EMBODYING. Taking total and radical responsibility for your own life and integrating spiritual realization across all levels of being, until it becomes visible in your body, choices, relationships, and actions. It is not enough to understand the truth; you must live it. No spiritual bypassing, no excuses, and no dodging the things that demand to be transformed. Embodying means becoming the living expression of what you have realized.

The practices I offer can be summarized as:

1. SHAKING: I consider that everything in this world vibrates, trembles, and moves. Through Movement, Shaking, Tremor, and Vibration, we align with the universal force, regulate our nervous system, and release accumulated tension.
2. STALKING: the art of stalking, of being vigilant and agile, of self-observing yourself and your reactions. The path from reaction to response, from sleep to alertness. For a stalker, the social arena becomes a training ground, a form of refinement.
3. SCRYING: recalibrating attention through various means. When we practice Scrying, we listen instead of just hearing, and we see instead of just looking.
4. BREATHING: conscious breathing, cellular oxygenation, and inner journeys through the exploration of altered states of consciousness.
5. REMEMBERING: revisiting the past, experiences, and blocked energies to recode them—unshackling them from those perceptual prisons so that energy can be redirected toward higher purposes.
6. SHEDDING: erasing painful memories from consciousness by transforming them and their consequences.
7. HUMBLING: stepping down from the narcissistic pedestal that breeds unhappiness, hardships, and problems by letting go of everything artificial within you.

In my philosophy of life, I consider that suffering stems from:

My path is divided into 3 main categories:

1. THE ART OF LIVING: the integrative experience of the principles of BEING, LOVING, and EMBODYING.
2. THE ART OF DREAMING: consciously creating reality through working with dreams, dream symbolism, and the power of creative imagination.
3. THE ART OF DYING: discovering total freedom beyond self-importance. Investing in self-image is an attachment that breeds suffering. Like Jesus, who died as a man and was reborn as a god.

Over the decades, my path has included Taoism, Qigong, Yoga, Kundalini, Tantra, meditation, and transpersonal exploration. Today, I bring these worlds together through the contemporary perspective of a Modern Mystic: grounded in the body, informed by psychology, and open to the deeper dimensions of the human experience.

We strongly believe in the idea that:

The illness is the cure, and the sick person is the healer.

MY MISSION

My mission is simple: to bring people back into their bodies and remind them of love. I help them transition from fear to love, from disconnection to presence, and from losing themselves to fully inhabiting their own being. The journey begins by facing our fears, attachments, and deep soul wounds, patterns that continue to live through the body and shape how we experience ourselves, love, and connection.

We start with relationships, because they are one of the most profound places where the wound of separation becomes visible: separation from ourselves, between masculine and feminine, and between self and other. Relationships thus become not just the place where we meet our wounds, but also where we can learn another form of love, one where connection no longer requires losing oneself.

Love is the force that changes the world, but change begins within us.

MY STORY.

I completed my bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest quite late, without considering myself behind. I experienced a spiritual awakening of Kundalini around the age of 14, and another later at age 23. Both were central elements of my life experience.

I studied Gnosticism from the perspective of Samael Aun Weor for nearly a year, where I had a multitude of transpersonal experiences and acquired a range of dreamwork, shamanic, and Kabbalistic tools for working with dreams, mantras, and interpretive skills for universal symbols.

Initially, I practiced Kundalini Yoga on my own. Contrary to the belief that you always need a master by your side to anchor your practice, that isn’t always true—especially when you experience metempsychotic events where past memories reactivate and you simply remember what to do.

Among my spiritual masters, whom I never met in person but held close to my heart, are: Swami Sivananda, Paramahansa Yogananda, Babaji, Sri Ramakrishna, Nisargadatta Maharaj; from the shamanic lineage, Carlos Castaneda; and from the Taoist branch, Michael Winn, who is still alive though I have never met him in person. The list could certainly go on.

Over the past (nearly 17) years, I have studied Taoism and was initiated into Internal Alchemy across almost all levels of practice, Wuji Gong (the Tai Chi of Enlightenment), Yang Style 13 Forms Tai Chi, and many other forms of Qigong that I studied alongside Andrew Fretwell—a man who was more than a teacher to me; he was a mentor and a spiritual father figure.

I traveled to India, Nepal, and Thailand, where I underwent initiations in Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra, and Yoga. For instance, in Rishikesh, India, I received Kriya Yoga teachings through a direct lineage from Babaji via Swami Nithyananda Giri, who also taught me Mahavidya Tantra. Also in India, at the foothills of the Himalayas, I was initiated into Phowa (transference of consciousness) by Lama Lodoe at the Menri Bon Monastery in Solan. I am familiar with shamanic techniques for shifting the assemblage point, which were taught to me in Romania years ago, and I hold mastery in Reiki and Munay-Ki—though I have not actively used these credentials or energies for over ten years.

I also studied Kabbalah for 7 years and am the author of several books focused on vibrational healing through breathwork, manifestation formulas, oracle cards, and mindfulness.

Why “That Shakin’ Guy”?

I arrived in Bali on Andrew’s recommendation, and as I write this page, I am still here. It has been four years since I settled on the island, and I noticed that the shaking practices taught here at Ratu Bagus’s school are deeply appreciated. I had been practicing shaking for many years from a Taoist perspective as a form of Qigong, and I had heard about and sporadically experienced Osho’s dynamic meditation, which stems from the Tantric tradition. Once I allowed myself to go deeper, I experienced not just the dynamic form of shaking, but discovered that my body started tremoring naturally for minutes—even hours—releasing stored tension. I was amazed to see that I could reach expanded states of consciousness and spontaneous Kundalini awakenings.

This phenomenon, known as neurogenic tremor, is a completely natural mechanism we share with animals, particularly mammals. The discharge is triggered by the activation of the sympathetic branch of the Autonomic Nervous System, which governs the “fight, flight, freeze, fawn” response. There are numerous studies conducted through the lens of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) founded by Dr. Berceli, which operates on the same underlying system, though with entirely different tools.

Besides the fact that this foundational form of practice is only now being remembered, I came to realize that it actually lies at the core of all spiritual practices in the most tribal sense of the word. From the Kalahari San of Africa, who believed that shaking allowed them to reconnect with the Divine, reorganize matter, and heal body and soul upon returning with gathered power; to the Călușari, who believed their vibrations generated healing frequencies capable of removing soul illnesses; to Waidangong, Tantra, and Jewish Shuckling at the Western Wall, etc. You can explore more about the history of this wonderful practice on the dedicated page: Roots & Traditions.

After extensive exploration, I built a concrete philosophy and a complete, original experience. I started offering sessions and realized I had truly found my mission: helping people achieve real liberation.

Through this practice, I can guide the person I work with faster than in any other modality directly into their emotional wound, helping them release it. For me, Somatic Shaking™ is more than relaxation; it is an affective-emotional workout, an extraordinary formula for catharsis, and a pathway for spiritual evolution. The breakthroughs my clients have experienced through Somatic Shaking exceed all expectations. So when I call myself “That Shakin’ Guy,” it’s a statement: everything in this Universe vibrates, trembles—life itself, your heart beating in your chest, flowers, rivers… the pulse of life.

Deep Catharsis through Somatic Shaking

Your trauma, attachments, and emotional wounds do not belong to your past—because if they were there, you could show them to me. I see you right here and now. So I work with what is present: with the cells, the fibers, the information stored in the body. That is why in sessions, we always localize emotions in the physical body. If I cannot locate them in the body, I cannot touch them, which is why I have developed concrete methods of working.