Do you stick to the same genre when choosing a book to read? Or are you adventurous enough to read something that is quite different from what you are used to? For me personally, I enjoy reading books encompassing various genres. So I was so thrilled to read a book that was so different from anything I have ever read before and it was captivating, thought provoking, well written and thoroughly enjoyable. The book : “Being Pyotr Ilyich- Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life Revealed By Himself 130 Years Later” by Chris Nielsen. It’s a spiritual memoir shaped by past life regression that explores Tchaikovsky’s inner world through the lens of soul memory, emotional healing and reincarnation. Before I introduce Chris Nielsen onto the blog to chat about her regression therapy, Tchaikovsky and her book, here’s a quick book summary:
BOOK SUMMARY
“Being Pyotr Ilyich: Tchaikovsky’ s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later” is a confessional spiritual memoir that explores the deeper meaning of human suffering, love, and creative purpose through the lens of soul memory. Born from an extensive process of past-life and between-lives regression, the book recounts Chris Nielsen’s unexpected discovery of a former life as the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—and the profound emotional wounds, unfinished lessons, and spiritual insights that followed her into this lifetime. Moving beyond biography, the book uses Tchaikovsky’s life as a case study to illuminate how trauma, grief, identity, and longing echo across incarnations. Blending personal experience with therapeutic and spiritual reflection, Chris offers readers a rare glimpse into the mechanics of incarnation, life purpose, and healing from the perspective of the Higher Self. At its core, this book is not about the past—it is about understanding why we are here, how love shapes our evolution, and how deep inner clarity can transform pain into meaning. This is a book for seekers, creatives, and anyone longing to understand the hidden threads that connect suffering, love, and the soul’s long journey home.
ISBN-10: 9730378851
ISBN-13: 978-9730378856
ASIN: B0BTZTG87W
Print length: 205 pages
THE INTERVIEW
A big warm welcome to the the blog, Chris …please introduce yourself 😊
Thank you so much for inviting me to this interview. I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to share a little about myself and about the journey behind my book.
First of all, I would say that I have always been a researcher of Life with a capital L. Since I was very young, I have felt a deep need to understand the essential questions of our human existence: who we are, why we are here on Earth, what suffering means, whether there is a relationship between our emotions and our physical body, and what death truly is.
I have also always been drawn to questions about God. Does God exist? Where is He? What does He do? Can we communicate with Him? What does He feel? These questions were never abstract to me. They were living questions — questions that came from somewhere very deep inside.
And, in a mysterious way, I feel that over the past twenty years, life itself has gradually answered many of them for me. At the time, I was not always aware that a particular experience I was going through was actually life’s way of answering one of the deeper questions I had been carrying within me. But looking back, I can see that each crisis, each inner struggle, each book that came into my life, each teacher I met, each course I followed, and each healing experience was part of a much larger answer.
Many of the truths that were revealed to me through this personal and spiritual journey are now woven into my book, Being Pyotr Ilyich – Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later.
So, to answer your question in a more “earthly” way, I am Chris Nielsen, the author of Being Pyotr Ilyich – Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later, a spiritual memoir shaped by past-life regression. The book explores the inner world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky through the lens of soul memory, emotional healing, reincarnation, and the deeper meaning of human suffering and destiny.
Alongside my work as an author, I also host the podcast Time Traveling – A Spiritual Journey of Healing, where I explore the deeper architecture of the soul through past-life regression and spiritual awareness. Across more than forty episodes, I share the inner story behind my book, while also reflecting on universal themes such as emotional healing, reincarnation, the purpose of earthly life, and the connection between mind, body, and spirit.
My spiritual and therapeutic path began more deeply in 2013, when my husband and I started studying complementary and energy-based approaches to healing. Over the years, my training has included Reiki, bioenergy, hypnosis, reflexology, lymphatic massage, and past-life regression therapy through the Past Life Regression Academy in the United Kingdom.
At the same time, I also come from a very artistic and cultural background. Since 2007, I have worked in arts marketing, communication, and public relations, collaborating with cultural institutions and international projects. One of the most memorable moments of my professional life was serving as Communication Assistant for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in France. I have also worked with institutions such as the Bucharest National Opera, the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choirs, and Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, through the studiOpera European project.
Academically, I trained in Theatre Directing and Communication, then specialised in Public Relations and Advertising. I continued my studies in France at Université Lumière Lyon 2 through a European Union scholarship, and later earned a Master’s degree in Cultural Marketing at Université de Lorraine, with the support of a French Government scholarship.
My first book, European Opera Nowadays: How to Promote a Performance?, was published in Paris in 2011 by Éditions L’Harmattan. It was written in French and focused on communication strategies in European opera houses — a subject very close to my professional life at that time.
Looking back, I can see that my path has always moved between art, communication, healing, and the search for deeper meaning. For many years, these areas seemed separate. But today I understand that they were all preparing me for the same work: to explore the human soul, to give language to inner experience, and to share what I have discovered in the hope that it may help others on their own journey.
Being Pyotr Ilyich – Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later is a spiritual memoir shaped by past-life regression sessions conducted over the course of a year and a half. When did you realise that your recorded life regression sessions could become such an interesting memoir?
Very quickly. After the second or third regression therapy session focused on this past life, and on the issues stemming from that existence that were still affecting my current life, I returned to my normal waking state with a kind of inner fire — a need, I would say — to share what I was experiencing in trance.
And, as I have always emphasized in interviews and in the introduction to my book, there were two aspects that prompted me to write it.
The first one is related to the book’s narrative itself — the story of my past life as Tchaikovsky. I felt a deep desire to offer people, especially those who still love the music I left behind, an extremely intimate and authentic picture of his story. Regression naturally gives you this opportunity: to truly enter the soul you once embodied and to feel, in the most intimate way possible, exactly what you went through.
So I wanted to offer those who are interested my inner truth from that time — the opportunity to understand Tchaikovsky as a man, not only as an artist or a composer.
But, far more important and powerful than this aspect, what truly led me to publish this book was not Tchaikovsky himself, but all the revelations that were given to me during my own healing process.
In order to heal myself, I desperately needed to understand why I had gone through such terrible suffering back then. I wanted to understand my life mission, my relationship with music, and especially my personal and emotional drama. I wanted to understand my depression and my dramatic ending.
In trance, I was shown things related to what birth and death really are from our soul’s point of view, to the inner child, and to my constant fear of abandonment. I understood karma, my relationship with my family, and the way we adopt behavioural patterns. I was shown how trauma creates inner blockages and limiting patterns of behaviour, and how these patterns must be understood and released in order for healing to take place.
I was also given fascinating answers about our relationship with the body and the Higher Self, the crucial importance of self-love, how the human spirit evolves, and our relationship with the Divine. I also came to understand fascinating things about how the script of a life is constructed.
And as these answers from Above were given to me in trance, it became clear: these truths were too numerous, too profound, and too fascinating to keep only for myself.
Almost all of these themes are issues that every person faces. Our lives are not as different from one another as they may seem. We all go through the same kinds of dramas — variations on the same theme. And when one of us finds an answer or a solution, I believe it is important to share it.
Do you think that your passion for music and being a woman helped you through the past-life regression sessions to understand and be able to faithfully recall Tchaikovsky’s toughest life moments, decisions and emotions?
No, I wouldn’t say that.
All these categories — gender, race, nationality, religion, and so on — are like labels we wear throughout our lives and then change from one incarnation to another.
My experience of more than ten years, both as a patient and as a therapist, has shown me that, from one life to another, we have all experienced roles that are, so to speak, extremely diverse. I, for example, was a reclusive Buddhist monk in the Himalayas. I was among the first monks who, alongside Saint Francis of Assisi, founded his church in Italy during the Middle Ages. I was part of Native American tribes. I witnessed the events in Palestine 2,000 years ago, connected to the coming of Jesus, and I also witnessed scenes described in the Old Testament.
I have been both a man and a woman countless times.
What carries us, in trance, is the close connection between an emotional or physical symptom we experience in our current life and its original source. This symptom may appear as a limiting behavioural pattern, a type of emotional blockage, recurring nightmares, fears whose cause we do not understand, phobias, or unexplained physical pains that cannot be medically explained.
Therapy therefore begins with a clear and troubling problem that we want to resolve. And the therapist, who is essentially a guide, helps us go back to what I call “the zero moment”: the source, the root where that particular problem originated.
That root may be in our current life — in childhood, adolescence, or another significant moment — or it may be in a past life.
For the soul, time is eternal. So whether something happened three years ago or three thousand years ago is irrelevant to our human spirit. The path back is the same, and the healing mechanism is identical.
What matters is to understand not only what happened, but, more importantly, why it happened.
As I often say, in my view, the healing mechanism follows a kind of inner equation: first, you understand why you went through the trauma or painful experience; then you accept it; then you forgive — yourself, others, or the Divine, because these are the only three possible poles of inner conflict — and then forgiveness ultimately opens the way to healing.
So whatever we are today — women or men, whatever our concerns, wounds, or questions may be — we can access our past at any time in order to heal ourselves.
And I want to emphasize that I am not necessarily advocating specifically for regression therapy. That was my path. But today there are many therapies and therapists who, through other forms, ultimately arrive at similar truths and similar healing mechanisms. I explain the principles as I understand them through my own experience. But each person must choose their own path to healing.
Were there any aspects of writing your book that surprised you, either by being harder or easier to relate than you expected?
Yes, of course. It was very difficult for me to put into words the most tragic and emotionally intense moments.
It was hard to relive my own death countless times, as well as the periods of deep depression, my mother’s death, and many other painful moments. I think it is important to remember that this book came into being through the transcription of audio recordings made during my regression therapy sessions.
In order to preserve everything as authentically as possible — almost as if I were broadcasting live from Tchaikovsky’s life — I intervened as little as I could, and only at the level of form. Of course, when you are in trance, you express yourself exactly as things come to you in that moment.
So I had to remove repetitions, smooth out occasional inconsistencies of expression, and arrange the events chronologically, because in trance the chronological order is not always followed.
For that reason, sitting with headphones on, transcribing the recordings and then shaping the text into a clear, grammatically correct, and fluid form for the reader was often emotionally difficult. It meant returning again and again to the drama I had gone through.
But if my readers feel that this book has enriched their lives, touched them deeply, and helped them better understand the meaning of life, suffering, healing, or the journey of the soul, then I will feel that all the effort was truly worth it.
I loved your writing style and the honesty that shone through. I went through a range of emotions — I wanted to reach out and comfort Pyotr as he struggled with his feelings, I sympathised when he was shy at performing his music… phew! Did you find writing “his” story therapeutic for you?
As I mentioned earlier, it was not the story of my life as Tchaikovsky itself that helped me therapeutically, but rather my understanding of the meaning behind it.
Any professionally conducted regression session consists of two main parts. The first is the exploration phase, in which you are guided through the essential moments of your current or past life — specifically those moments that are relevant to the issue being addressed. The second is the healing phase, which I consider to be the most essential part.
During this healing phase, the therapist guides you to meet the souls with whom you shared those significant experiences, to express what remained unsaid, to release blocked emotions, and to connect with your Higher Self and your spiritual guide or guides. This helps you understand the deeper meaning of the experiences you lived through and establish a clear, direct connection with your current life.
The therapist may also guide you through a process of future projection, allowing you to become aware of and strengthen the positive transformations that result from the healing.
There are many techniques a therapist can use to help the patient heal and integrate that healing. And this is what helped me — not the story itself, but the understanding, release, and transformation that came through the therapeutic process.
How did you feel when, during your first past-life regression session, it was revealed that the soul was Pyotr?
I was surprised. I truly didn’t expect that.
But gradually, I began to see the many apparently unconnected threads that had already woven themselves into my current life and that, in fact, stemmed from that past life. But you always understand this in hindsight. At the time, we usually don’t realise how much we carry forward from our past lives — often without being aware of it at all.
For example, if you had a past life in which you died defending a fortress and felt deeply attached to that place and that cause, that unresolved attachment can call you back. You may then find yourself, in this life, working on the restoration of a palace or fortress that you died defending three hundred years ago.
Of course, I repeat, we do not always incarnate among the same people or in the same country. But our passions, our dramas, and what remains unexpressed or unresolved within us always call us back to Earth, until that wound is healed and that emotion is resolved.
For example, I have a close connection to music in this life, and it does not stem only from my life as Tchaikovsky. In the same way, another theme that has been extremely present throughout my past lives — and that continues in this life as well — is the spiritual quest. I have been a monk or a prophet many times, within very different religions.
We have no idea to what overwhelming extent everything in our lives is a continuation.
After exploring approximately thirty past lives over more than twelve years, I can say that we all have a long, beautiful, and complex spiritual journey. Physical death is merely a pause in the physical, material realm — not an end. Everything is connected and continues in our destiny as souls. And as difficult as our journey on Earth often is, our journey as spirits is just as fascinating.
Tell me about your podcast, Time Traveling.
My podcast is called Time Traveling – A Spiritual Journey of Healing, and in many ways it is a natural continuation of my book, Being Pyotr Ilyich – Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later.
In the podcast, I explore the deeper architecture of the soul through past-life regression, karmic memory, and emotional healing across lifetimes. Each episode begins from a question that, I believe, many of us carry within us: What is the purpose of earthly life? Why do we suffer? How are emotional wounds formed? What do we bring with us from one life to another? What happens between incarnations? And how do our relationships, illnesses, talents, fears, or life missions reflect a much longer journey of the soul?
The podcast draws from more than a decade of my own regression experiences, as well as from my therapeutic training and the spiritual revelations that inspired my book. I speak about themes such as the inner child, fear of abandonment, karma, soul contracts, family patterns, self-love, the Higher Self, the meaning of suffering, the connection between blocked emotions and physical illness, and the healing process through awareness, understanding, forgiveness, and release.
Although some episodes are connected to the soul journey described in Being Pyotr Ilyich, the message of the podcast is much more universal. My intention is not only to speak about Tchaikovsky or about my own experience, but to use these experiences as a doorway into questions that concern all of us.
For me, Time Traveling – A Spiritual Journey of Healing is a space where spirituality becomes very human and very concrete. It is about understanding our patterns, our wounds, our relationships, and our destiny from a wider perspective. And above all, it is about healing — because once we understand why certain experiences happened, we can begin to accept them, forgive, and transform our relationship with our own life.
Are you a bookworm yourself? What genre of books do you personally enjoy reading?
Yes, I absolutely love reading. I would say I am almost addicted to books — they are like a kind of medicine for me.
Especially at night, before going to sleep, no matter how tired I am — and I am usually completely exhausted — I feel the need to escape into books, to unwind after the chaos of the day, and to enter another space of reflection, silence, and discovery.
Over the past fifteen years, I have read almost exclusively books on alternative medicine, spirituality, healing, and consciousness. And I can say, without exaggeration, that some of these books have truly changed my life. I feel extremely grateful to the authors who wrote them.
It is extraordinary how the right book, arriving in your life at a very specific moment, can offer exactly the answer you need at that stage of your journey.
Some of the authors I deeply admire — and whom I often read in French or English — are Brian Weiss, for his work on past-life regression; Michael Newton, a pioneer in the study of the afterlife and life between lives; Dr. Luc Bodin and Ruediger Dahlke, for their work on energy medicine, psychosomatics, and alternative therapies; Pierre Lere Guillemet, for spiritual awakening; Daniel Odier, for his profound approach to Tantra, in the deepest sense of the word, not merely in relation to sexuality; Robert Monroe, for his work on out-of-body experiences; and Tom Kenyon, Wendy Kennedy, and Sal Rachele, for their channelled teachings about what is happening to Earth during this particular era.
I also deeply admire Caroline Myss, especially for her work on the connection between the soul and illness.
And, of course, a very special place in my heart belongs to Daniel Meurois, the renowned French author based in Canada, whose work in the field of spirituality has touched me deeply. He also did me the great honour of writing the foreword to my book. His bestsellers — especially his books concerning the life of Jesus Christ — are truly life-changing.
Is Being Pyotr Ilyich available to purchase worldwide?
Yes, absolutely. My book is available both in print and as an ebook.
Readers can find it on Amazon, as well as through several other retailers and platforms, including Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, Smashwords, and others. It is also available through IngramSpark, for bookstores, libraries, or other institutions that may wish to order it.
All purchase options can be found on my author website: https://chrisnielsenbooks.com/. There, readers can also discover more about the book and read three free sample chapters before deciding whether they feel called to continue the journey.
Personal now — what outfits and shoes would you normally be found wearing?
One of the ways in which my life as Tchaikovsky seems to have influenced my current personality is my taste in clothing. I often feel drawn to a rather masculine, or elegantly masculine, style.
For me, the height of feminine elegance is a tailcoat — which is rather funny, but also revealing. It shows how we sometimes carry things forward without even knowing why we are attracted to a particular style, object, place, or atmosphere.
Yes, I often wear trousers and jackets. I love elegance, but a simple, refined elegance — not baroque, not excessive, not overdone. At the same time, I adore bright colours: green, yellow, orange. So perhaps there is a meeting point in me between masculine structure and a very vivid, joyful sense of colour.
Do you have any favourite shops or online sites?
No, I wouldn’t say so. I buy whatever I feel resonates with my style; I don’t pay attention to brands or trends.
What’s next on your clothes or shoe wish list?
I adore turquoise, and I absolutely love the Mediterranean Sea. So I think the perfect gift for me would be a large, hand-painted beach shawl in shades of turquoise.
It would be especially perfect for the coming summer, because I dream of returning to Italy — a place that is very dear to me, where I have spent many beautiful holidays, and which also feels deeply connected to some of my past lives. :))
Boots or shoes? And why?
Tall, elegant boots, similar to riding boots, because they create a beautiful contrast between masculine and feminine. 🙂
Links you would like to share, e.g. website, Facebook, etc.
Of course. I would be very happy to invite readers to stay connected with me and explore more about my work through my author website and social media channels. My book, free sample chapters, podcast episodes, updates, and reflections on past-life regression, healing, and the soul journey can be found here:
🌐 chrisnielsenbooks.com
▶️ youtube.com/@ChrisNielsenChannel
📘 facebook.com/chrisnielsen.official
📸 instagram.com/chrisnielsen.official
📖 goodreads.com/author/show/29758446.Chris_Nielsen
My podcast, Time Traveling – A Spiritual Journey of Healing, is also available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
BOOK TOUR DATES
Great to chat with you Chris – your book is fascinating ! My thanks to Chris Nielsen for the review copy of Being Pyotr Ilyich.
All photographs have been published with the kind permission of Chris Nielsen. Photography by Andrei Popovici and Augustin Niculescu.
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