Michaela Fritzges was born in 1959 in Germany and took Buddhist refuge with Lama Ole Nydahl in 1984. She lived in the Diamond Way Buddhist center in Kiel in northern Germany between 1994 and 2009. In 1994 Lama Ole asked her to start teaching and she has since taught in numerous Diamond Way Buddhist centers all over the world. Michaela works as an occupational therapist in her own practice. She currently lives in the Diamond Way Retreat Center in Nindorf in Northern Germany.