Which one of my hand-painted yoga mats is perfect for you?
Finally a group photo! – of my three hand-painted yoga mats.
They are all available in my shop at chriszka.myshopify.com. Feel free to reach out with any questions – here, or on christina@majcher.dk. Residents of Copenhagen? Place your orders by email!
Which one is for you? Here are some keywords:
To the right: Endless Summer 🔥
Fire, enthusiasm, new ideas, peak performance and endless youth. For the easily distracted, the ones who get 17 new ideas while still in yoga class and need reminders on focus, balance and patience. And reminders, that big improvements start with very small changes. It took me 75 hours to do the drawing, so the pattern itself serves as a reminder (and it works!). This is the mat I have used the most, by far. Drawn completely by hand with pencil and ink. More info on Endless Summer.
In the middle: Backgammon for Aliens ⚡️🔹
This was the first one. Air, space, aliens, brainwaves! For those who want to enter the cosmic machinery and make their moves on the game board behind the visible world. For the playful lovers of technology. For those who want to turn their yoga practice into a party game: Twister! For those who love buttons, keyboards and deep thoughts but need a break from the screens. This is the one I have done the biggest amount of headstands on. Painted by hand with acrylics on canvas. More info on Backgammon for Aliens.
To the left: Island of the Gods. ✨🌊
The newest one! For the hot yoga and hot climate enthusiasts: The hotter it gets, the better the grip. For those, who want to turn their yoga mat into a cosmic surfboard of light and balance. For those who rediscover their equilibrium in the waves of both sound and water. For the musicians, the sound healers and those of us who needs a temple, a totem pole or a trip to the tropics. For the travellers! (But be aware that this mat is the heaviest of the three: It has a natural rubber base and weighs 3,5 kilos). And for reestablishing the connection to the earth. This mat is inspired by my visit to Bali, and all the fractal-like patterns on the island: the rice fields, the temples, the portals, the sound-healing pyramids, the surfboards, the waves and the electric sunsets. Painted by hand with acrylics on canvas. More info on Island of the Gods.
My newest painting: WipeOut, a portal for your wall
Posted on January 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
Do you want a canvas art print of my latest work for your wall?

The video below features me and the art print on canvas of my newest painting, WipeOut, on a wooden frame, ready for your wall. 60 cm x 60 cm x 1 cm. For sale!
WipeOut is your very own meditation portal on the wall: Hypnotic and meditative.
WipeOut took me 57 hours to paint (acrylic on canvas), with 51427 small decisions along the way (a huge puzzle!) It’s inspired by light machines, moving techno visuals, the amazing powers of our brains and playing WipEout in virtual reality with my nephew and niece.
The art print is signed and numbered on the back of the canvas.
You can also buy it as an art print on paper (instead of on framed canvas) at a reduced price.
Link to my shopify page with more info: chriszka.myshopify.com

Blasts from the Past: Forbidden Pleasures
Posted on December 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
Oooooh, do you remember those joyous days of the past, where you could go to paradise regularly and have the time of your life (guaranteed) with 70.000 other people?








(This is TrailerPark 2010).

















Crazy stuff happened back then, you wouldn’t believe… Sometimes people drank from the same bottle.







Aaaaaah, the good ol’ days where people just pressed their faces against each others faces.












Look at the lovely people not giving a toss. RAW, august 2009.



And do you remember all the kissing? So many raver kisses. Because that was just a normal thing to do.
Today, I saw a big, ugly sign on Istedgade saying “God jul og god afstand”. Read that again. That is offensively annoying. I need three raver kisses to recover from such an assault on my sensibilities.



Recently, Sune saw this horror of a sign (see below) in Copenhagen and took a photo, just to remember Dystopia.

We need three raver group hugs to recover from this.



So…. how do we squeeze something good out of 2020 – the most raver-hostile environment ever?
Well, here’s an absolute certainty: The parties are going to be EXCELLENT when they come back! Great music is made in dark times, and once we are allowed back on the dance floors, it will be like reuniting with the cosmos and a thousand friends and your own innermost self all at the same time.
We will all look and feel like this:





(This is Ozora, 2015, by the way. An incredibly beautiful festival. Just whauw.).
And just to put things into perspective, this is what Tim Driver said about his early early days of raving – back when proper techno parties were few and far between:
“Back then there weren’t that many parties to choose from. A month could easily pass between one techno party and the next. So when a techno rave was on, everyone showed up. It didn’t matter if it was techno or house or jungle or goa trance or whatever it was. It was just ”Let’s go!” no matter what.”
Words to remember in 2020….. AND you can use them as a fun thought experiment or meditation practice or whatever you need to lighten up these last (and dark) december days of this anti-raver year. Imagine that first proper rave some time in the future… where everyone shows up! 🙂

Alright, I have run out of time and stamina. I hope you enjoyed the tour of the Forbidden Pleasures of the past. And I hope you are looking forward to indulging in them again.
If you want to celebrate my birthday some more, digitally… please enjoy my Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition.
And I think this would be a perfect time for you to read a few pages from my diary about my early years of raving. This is one of my personal favourite JUngLEkalender posts: The Jungle Diaries: Longing for the Tribe
Need more Forbidden Pleasures? I recommend Jungle Feelings. The Group Hug Special.
And the Jungle Feelings: The Love and Kisses Special
Or one of my favourite selections: Jungle Feelings: Magic on the Dancefloor
Need some proper psychedelic vibes? Join me for a trip to Ozora!
Did you like the photo of Tim Driver, Babyface Version? Read about Tim Driver’s first rave experiences here.
And enjoy an entire selection of babyfaces in the Babyface Special.
If you missed out on day 1 of this 2020 edition of JUngLEkalenderen, jump right in: Blasts from the Past: Back When Masks Were Fun

How to be a Raver: Preparing for the Apocalypse
Posted on December 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
All these corona restrictions and lockdowns and the never-ending labyrinth of rules-and-regulations are not fun for anyone. But they are PARTICULARLY NOT FUN AT ALL for junglist and ravers!
Because this is what we like to do:

And this:

And this:

And this:

And this:

“Restrictions” are the opposite of raving.
Here is a photo of the spirit animal of all ravers during these restricted times, looking at what we have lost:

We also know that this entire corona thing would be a LOT more fun if ravers were in charge (of the mask thing, for instance). Because ravers are just a thousand times better at it.







Speaking of enemies, we also know that ravers have been preparing for the apocalypse for decades. Junglists have been expecting dark future time lines pretty much always, twentyforseventhreesixfive.
If you need proof, check out my junglistic Pandemic Playlist. The track titles reveal the truth: “Sick Note”. “No Cure”. “Half-Truth”. “Happy New Fear”. “Bacteria”. “Gas Mask”. “Lost Civilization”. “Manipulated Living”. “Panic Attack”. “New World Order”. “Breathe”. “Mindgames”. “Toxin”. “Isolation”.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/61noNbbirOXjhQIMfgqrQg?si=1yievHOcQeS6Hwy2RsEObg
Psytrancers have also been preparing for the apocalypse since forever. By building awesome, self-sufficient, ecological party utopias far away from rules and regulations (and cities), out in nature, dancing under the sun and the stars 22 hours a day.

But unfortunately, even though ravers would be super good at running the world, they have been forced to shut down and abandon all creativity and awesomeness for nine months and counting.
Are you ready for the dark plot twist?
It seems that Justitsministeriets Propagandaafdeling thought that ravers were the problem as much as eighty years ago – way back in 1940.


Are you ready for some more time machine confusion?
Coming up is photographic proof that maybe All Our Troubles originates from the mainstream house party. Obviously a place to avoid at all cost, if you can. Just check out the corona style deco at the Sensation White Party back in 2008. That party was quite a scary experience. Some of the 27.000 people attending had even paid 40.000 dkk for a ‘platinum table’. I will call this ‘unhealthy vibes’ and leave it at that.


If you want to read what I felt about that event back in 2008, the link is at the end of your scroll, after all the pics.

This is Chriszka the Time Traveller, sensing that something is wrong with the food markets in China in 2004.




– with every single musician isolated in their own room. If it HAS to be done, do it like this!

No breath and no nose = no masks needed!

Seriously, ravers should be in charge of everything.











(This is Turmbühne, 2008).
For more reasons why ravers should be in charge of everything, I highly recommend that you read The Seven Best Things About Being A Raver.
For even more raver mask creativity, catch up on yesterday’s post right here: Blasts from the Past: Back When Masks Were Fun.
Want more wonderful moments from the past? Check out Blasts from the Past: The Pirate Party Pack.
Can’t get enough of junglists? Meet some excellent ones (and enjoy the old pics) in The Secret Junglists.
Were you at the Strøm concert with Mike Sheridan and Det Danske Ungdomsensemble in 2013? Travel back by reading my review right here. (I was VERY happy).
If you want to read my article on the Sensation White phenomenon in 2008, here’s my article, reporting from the front line: Finanskrisen skal festes væk.
See you tomorrow where things get WIIIIIIIIIIIIILD.
Blasts from the Past: Back When Masks Were Fun!
Posted on December 1, 2020 2 Comments
Do you need some relief from the continuous return of masks-on-your-face-every-winter? Time to travel back to better times, when hugs were plentiful and masks were fun, colorful and completely voluntary.




Today: Black-and-white thinking.

(PS: Spot all the horror movies featured here in our party group!)

Proper futuristic vibes.

(But then I also thought that the digitalized dystopia run by global corporations would mainly exist in my cyberpunk books by William Gibson & co).

This could be from a rave in 1993. It could also be a Coma time capsule from 2011.
I shall not reveal the truth.

This is at Henry’s Dream, 2013.

This is Lewis, predicting the future at Ohoi’s 2-year birthday bash.

With eye-lashes and feathers for extra keep-your-distance oomph.















Casually worn around the neck, in style.


Would be tons of more fun if masks looked like this!
This is Svingsen showing off her big eyes in a classy jester costume.
She is off to the Coma party, obviously.

Do you want more Blasts from the Past? We highly recommend Blasts from the Past: Roskilde 2008 if you miss those festival vibes…. and Blasts from the Past: Ohoi! turns 6 or maybe Blasts from the Past: The Raw After After Party if you just miss hanging out with people you like.
Want to see lots of faces with NO masks? Check out the wild selection of very young-looking features in Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special.
Enjoy your time travels and photos of people having fun in the past. Good thing we have a time machine, people!
PS: Surprise ending: In the true spirit of JUnGLEkalenderen, The Ultra Special One Off Edition will expand into a 3…2…1-countdown, ending on my birthday, probably. (It’s 2020, prepare for anything). So see you tomorrow, people.
Other recommended posts:
This is one of my personal favourite JUngLEkalender posts, a few pages from my diary about my early years of raving.: The Jungle Diaries: Longing for the Tribe
And The DIY Test: Is Your Child a Junglist?
Shadow Work: The perfect souvenir for the year 2020
Posted on September 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
Shadow Work – my corona lockdown art piece – is now available in my webshop! (Right here).

This piece took me two and a half months to complete – and it was all made during corona lockdown.
The idea for Shadow Work – including the title – was completely clear in my head before I started drawing:
There was this woman in the foreground, completely absorbed in the interesting puzzle in front of her. And then I wanted to draw the complexity behind that manageable problem. How a thousand invisible and unconscious connections rise up and form a complex landscape behind the patterns and puzzles in front of us.
Appropriately, I started drawing the piece in March 2020. Perfect timing for shadow work for the entire planet!
And as the corona lockdown was enforced and the closure of the country gave us all ample opportunity to explore how the depths of our own psyche react under pressure and during unusual circumstances, this shadow work idea just became more and more relevant by the hour. Which, of course, made the drawing process even more fun.
It became pretty clear to me that when people are forced to stay at home by themselves, and are forced to get their information on the goings-on in the world through their screens and their internet connections rather than through their own personal experience, well, then what goes on in their heads is primarily a dance orchestrated by their own repressed shadows and their own unconscious automatic reactions. Not reality.
I wish more people would take the time to do some inner work instead of constantly REACTING and getting carried away by stuff on social media. Inner work is slow and laborious and time-consuming, but it is not just ‘worth it’, it is the only way.
My corona lockdown drawing: Shadow Work
Posted on June 12, 2020 Leave a Comment
Today is June 12th. Three months have passed (almost to the date) since the closing down of the country on March 11th.
Tomorrow, my favourite yoga studio reopens. JOY! So this is the perfect time for me to finish this drawing – which will be done in an hour!
My corona lockdown artwork.
The title is SHADOW WORK. I knew exactly what I wanted to do from the moment I started the drawing in March. I also knew what the title should be.
And I think “Shadow Work” turned out to be the perfect description of what has been going on for the past tree months.
Slowmotion Explosion: A progress video of my newest painting
Posted on January 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
40 hours of work in one minute!
I have made a stop motion video of my work on my newest acrylic painting, Slowmotion Explosion. (Acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm): https://videopress.com/v/uJVcCXfj
What you see in the video below is the entire process from the empty canvas and the very first pencil sketchings to the finished painting.
The painting is inspired by the patterns and visions formed inside my head during a session with closed eyes in front of the incredible cyberdelic light machine, the Lucia No3.
My first meeting with the light machine was at the Breaking Convention conference at Greenwich University (here’s my article on the conference). Some months later, I was invited to meet up once again with the inventors of the light machine to test out some new functionalities (THANK YOU).
One and a half month after that, on Dec 31st, the painting was done.
Below: The progress video (press play). Soundtrack: Threesixty by Pan-Pot.
My third hand-painted yoga mat is now available in the shop!
Posted on December 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
My new hand-painted yoga mat is ready! ✨ Perfect for the darkest time of the year where some of us NEED to turn our yoga mats into cosmic surf boards of light and balance.
This is my third hand-painted yoga mat – transformed from my newest acrylic painting, Island of the Gods.
The painting is inspired by Bali and all the fractal-like patterns on the island: rice fields, temples, portals, sound-healing pyramids, surfboards, waves and electric sunsets. And, of course, yoga everywhere.
Take a closer look at the mat at chriszka.myshopify.com – and order your own.
Cyberdelics: The Trippy Machines
Posted on September 27, 2019 4 Comments
My article on Breaking Convention is out – the largest conference on psychedelic research in Europe, taking place at Greenwich University in London.
There was so much going on during the three days, and I could have written ten articles about it.
My focus in this one, which was published in this week’s edition of Weekendavisen (Danish national newspaper) is on the cyberdelics at the conference, in particular The Lucia no. 3 (the hypnagogic light machine) and the Isness installation (a virtual reality experience for four people made by computational physicists (+ team) at Bristol University.
The article is here (paywall): The digital trip machines.
A translated version (not prettily translated, yet, but effectively!):
The digital trip machines
It is afternoon in a semi-dark room at Greenwich University in London, and I’ve just tried the wildest machine I’ve ever experienced. Since I put on a virtual reality headset for the first time in 2013, I have grown used to sensory-enhancing experiences provided by machines. I know that a VR headset can transport me into an entirely new reality in an instant. I’ve grown accustomed to having my expectations exceeded – year after year, as the technology improves.
But this experience beats them all.
The machine itself doesn’t look high tech in any way. There are no wires, no gadgets on the body and no headsets to wear. I just have to sit in a chair in front of a lamp connected to a computer. I close my eyes and I know that soon, bright, flashing lights aimed at my face will penetrate through my closed eyelids. That is all.
But the next thing that happens is so wonderful and surprising that I have to perform somersaults with my language capabilities to describe it.
I’m sitting in front of the lamp because I’m attending the bi-annual Breaking Convention: Europe’s largest conference on psychedelic research. For three days there are academic lectures on the latest knowledge in the field on all floors of Greenwich University’s stately buildings; from anthropologists with expertise in the use of psychoactive plants by Mayan Indians to brain scientists focusing on MRI scans, microdosing and the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat mental disorders.
A large area on the ground floor of one building is, under the title The Cyberdelics Showcase, dedicated to installations where different kinds of technology mimic the psychedelic experience or transport us into altered states of consciousness in other ways.
In the morning hours on the first day of the conference I am standing in line, ready to be signed up for as many of the various VR installations as possible, including the meditation booster Healium, which measures my brain waves and sends visual feedback directly into the VR glasses on how relaxed and focused I actually am during my meditation, and the ambitious ‘Isness’ installation created at Bristol University, where four people are inside the virtual reality experience at the same time.
Wearing VR headsets and haptic gloves, me and three other conference attendees are transformed into silent, collaborative light beings who can juggle and manipulate the molecular structures between us. Computational physicists have created the experience to demonstrate how solid matter is nothing but concentrated energy. Novo Nordisk has expressed interest in the technology which they will be using for nano-design.
After hovering around like a light being with molecular manipulating superpowers for 40 minutes, I understandably think that I’ve reached the pinnacle of the conference, technologically speaking.
Still, I feel very excited as I sit alone the day after in front of the lamp in the dark room. Compared to the Isness installation, which filled a whole room with wires, HTC Vive headsets and motion sensors, the lamp in front of me really doesn’t look special; just like an advanced designer lamp (with a hint of a dentist vibe) connected to a computer. But it turns out to be a portal to the biggest experience of the year.
I close my eyes. The bright white light of the lamp starts to flash. And immediately, a wonderful fractal dance of miraculous colors unfolds in my head. I rush through tunnels of kaleidoscopic patterns. Sizzling networks in yellow and turquoise rise and disappear. Thousands of deep blue and black circles explode into a star-shaped pattern so beautiful that I can feel it in my stomach. One second later, I am sent through a new, neon-colored swath of interwoven shades. Peacock Green! Glowing orange! I’m in a cosmic roller coaster of light.
It is a very interesting sensation, seeing these complex and intertwined geometries with my eyes closed. There is no distance between the patterns and me. Mentally, I can try to place the passing colors on the inside of my eyelids. But that’s not where I see them. They are closer, inside my head, and wonderfully intense. The colors are so juicy that I feel I can drink them.
When the light stops flashing, I am immediately back “in the real world”, with a wonderful sensation in my body, as if I was a Tibetan monk who has meditated so deeply that I am ready to levitate. Calm, super focused and wonderfully comfortable.
The machine I’ve just tried is a ‘hypnagogic light machine’, also called ‘Lucia no. 03 ‘. It was created by two Austrian doctors, the psychiatrist Dr. Engelbert Winkler and the clinical neurologist Dr. Dirk Proeckl, who has brought the machine to Breaking Convention since 2011 and give a talk on their work the following afternoon in a crowded room in the neighboring building.
Originally, they built the machine to simulate a near-death experience. Winkler was very interested in the American psychology professor Kenneth Ring’s research into the positive effects that people who have been through a near-death experience experience. “It is extremely interesting that an intense experience, which lasts only a few minutes, can have lasting positive effects, similar to many years of intense psychotherapy,” says Winkler.
He began using hypnosis to send his patients (with anxiety disorders, for example) into a similar state. And he quickly discovered that when he used a bright light to help them stay in the trance state, the treatment was much more effective. Next, Proeckl suggested that they combine the bright light of the lamp with strobe effects to simulate a tunnel experience. This is how the first prototype of the lamp was made, partly consisting of remodeled components from the coffee machine in their office.
When they first sat down in front of the machine, they were quite amazed by the unexpected visual effects.
Lot of people who have sat down in front of the hypnagogic lamp compare the patterns emerging inside their heads to the visual delights of their experiences with DMT: the psychedelic ingredient which is found in ayahuasca (the highly potent psychedelic brew of the Amazonas) and, according to some theories, also produced in our brains and released when we dream and when we die.
When the effect of the light machine was examined by researchers at Sussex University using EEG measurements, they found similarities between the effect of the stroboscope stimulation and the effect of psilocybin: the active substance in psychedelic fungi that has been shown to be effective in the treatment of anxiety and depression.
Records of the brain’s electrical activity during light stimulation showed that the lights sent the brain into relaxed, harmonious states similar to those that can be achieved through prolonged, deep meditation. And the after effects reported are the same: improvements in mood, creativity, sleep quality and increased ability to focus.
“I consider Lucia no. 3 as one of the first true cyberdelic machines: a technology that can induce altered states of consciousness but without the ingestion of psychoactive substances, ” says Carl H. Smith – curator of the Cyberdelics Showcase section of the conference and one of the founders of The Cyberdelic Society.
“We are in the midst of a great, psychedelic renaissance, but even though psychedelic drugs are being researched at universities all over the world, it is still a niche. With The Cyberdelic Society, we want to open up the field to even more people; including those who will not take psychedelics themselves because of the fear of loss of control, bad trips and the fact that in most countries taking psychedelics is not legal. The great thing about technology is that you can just take it off again”, says Smith.
In his daily work as head of the Learning Technology Research Center at Ravensbourne University, he focuses on improving poorly designed technologies and fixing the problems caused by them.
A good example of such a technology is our cell phones, which are making us all near-sighted because we no longer train our eye muscles appropriately, but constantly stare at a screen just an arm’s length away from our face. In this case, the virtual reality technology offers a good counterweight because VR experiences activate our peripheral vision, which is really healthy for our eyes. There are plenty of technologies designed to distract and zombify us, impairing our well-being. But instead of writing off all the new technologes as unhealthy, we need to find ways to use the technologies in ways that increase our focus and enhance our ability to be in the world, says Smith.
The cyberdelic technologies are certainly popular at the conference. Both the Isness installation and the Lucia no. 3 have been fully booked from morning to evening during the entire Breaking Convention. And as I prepare to leave the university on the last day of the conference to catch my plane home, people are still queuing in front of the room with the light machine.
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