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My Journey

Born in The Netherlands, I grew up as a highly empathic, intuitive, and sensitive girl.

In my childhood, I felt like I didn’t quite fit in. I couldn’t really find my place in the world. Too sensitive, too vulnerable, too dreamy… I often felt like I was living in a different frequency than the world around me.

I wasn’t taught how to express love and affection safely. I didn’t learn how to tune into what I needed, or how to express it. Big emotions overwhelmed me, and I didn’t know how to regulate them. I learned to adapt, to overanticipate, to hide.

Only later in life did I begin to understand myself more deeply. Especially after the birth of my daughter, with the intense hormonal shifts and the initiation of (single) motherhood, I began to recognise symptoms of ADHD, neurodivergence, depression and burn-out. Likely shaped by a history of trauma and chronic stress. Regulation became more difficult, and it began to affect my relationships and daily life in painful ways.

I found yoga in 2012, which helped me clear my panic attacks, most of my anxiety and depression. Soon after I started meditation.

The ending of a very long relationship opened the door to self-discovery and the world of self-development, mindfulness, and natural healing.

After 6 years in England/London, I let go of everything that wasn’t working for me anymore and I went on a nearly three-year solo journey around the world. 

When I first entered the world of Tantra and transformational work, I didn’t know how to stay safe. I wasn’t taught how to recognise healthy or unhealthy behavior in facilitators, or in people who were romantically interested in me.

I didn’t know how to speak up. I crossed my own boundaries often. I could feel things were off, but I didn’t have the language or tools to name it.

There was a lot of fear around being misunderstood, being too much, not enough, rejected and abandoned.

Then I discovered consent work. Especially the Wheel of Consent, developed by Betty Martin. It didn’t land right away, but over time, through practice, it began to shift something deep inside.

I began to realise just how often I’d abandoned myself. How I’d overridden my own signals. How I didn’t feel safe to have needs, or to express desire.

That was the beginning of a new chapter. Learning to feel my boundaries. To speak them. To honour my desires. To ask for what I want without guilt.

That changed everything. My relationships became more nourishing. I felt more empowered, less like a victim of my circumstances. Life began to feel more meaningful.

Consent work continues to be one of the most transformative tools I know for communication, embodiment, pleasure, and personal power.

I began facilitating workshops in 2018, and now support others on this journey of coming home to themselves. Especially those who, like me, weren’t given a map.

People who are reconnecting with themselves, their softness, and their intuition. Who long for authentic connection, but don’t always know how to access it. Sensitive souls who crave depth, but don’t want to perform or pretend.

My work developed from lived experience. Motherhood, relationships, heartbreak, self discovery and self healing. Becoming the woman I deep down always knew was inside of me. 

I don’t offer quick fixes. I offer space, tools, presence and sustainable transformation.

You are not broken.
You were just never taught how to feel safe in your fullness, and it’s not too late to learn. ​

My Mission

To co-create a world where sensitivity is seen as strength, not something to fix or hide.

To empower neurodiverse and sensitive people to live in tune with their body and inner truth, not society’s expectations.

To normalize consent, embodiment and nervous system regulation, as essential life skills, not luxury practices.

To name what’s missing in our education: how to feel, how to listen to our “no”, how to honour the cycles, in our body and in life.

To awaken the fullness of our sensory and emotional experience.
To support people in reclaiming pleasure, presence, and their own inner authority.

And to raise a daughter who feels free to be her whole self, rooted in a deeper knowing than the world ever gave me.

 

Where to find me?

I split my time between Bali and the Netherlands, and I occasionally travel to other countries, including Australia.
Because of this rhythm, my availability can shift throughout the year – sometimes I work on location, sometimes online or both.

If you’d like to work with me, simply send me a message and we will look at the possibilities.

Courses, Trainings & Credentials

2025
  • Shadow workshops - Samyama healing centre Bali
    - Familiar Isn’t Safe: Breaking the Attraction Pattern
    - What get's in the way of healthy relationships
    - The Responsibility Trap
    - Receiving Pleasure
    - When Freedom Burns Connection
    - Choosing Desire Without Guilt
    - Why Wanting Feels Dangerous
    - Receiving Your Own Truth -
    Allowing Inner Guidance to Lead 
  • Build your Dance training retreat by Anderson & Brenda in Bali
  • Zouk Mira Embodiment Retreat & Training in Bali
  • Zoukdreams Castle of Miracles 2025 (NL) - organising team + workshops facilitator
  • 3 Day Official Wheel of Consent ® Training - Roger van Doggenaar, certified trainer
  • Yoga Nidra Facilitator Certificate - SanaYou YOGAcademy
  • Boundaried - online course by Damien Bowler
  • Inner Worth - online course by Damien Bowler
  • Non-Violent Communication workshop
2024
  • Zoukdreams Castle of Miracles 2025 (NL) - organising team
  • Tantric Awakening Festival Amsterdam - workshop facilitator
  • 3 day Official Wheel of Consent ® Training - Roger van Doggenaar, certified trainer
  • 3 day Official Wheel of Consent ® Training - Sonja Ava Eiger, certified trainer
  • Voluit Vrouw-Zijn Year Training - Sensual embodied leadership for women - Janneke Robers
  • Zoukdreams Monastery retreats with Brenda & Anderson - organising team

  • ACT your nature training
  • Ode aan de Yoni Winterfestival (workshop facilitator)
  • Non Violent Communication workshop
  • Embodied Co-Loving Community Amsterdam: Spaceholder and consent facilitator
2023
  • Zoukdreams Castle of Miracles 2025 (NL) - organising team + workshops facilitator
  • Voluit Vrouw-Zijn Year Training - Sensual embodied leadership for women - Janneke Robers
  • Guard Your Boundaries course - School of Life
  • Zoukdreams Monastery retreats with Brenda & Anderson - organising team & consent facilitator
  • Ode aan de Yoni Zomerfestival
  • Minimalistisch Ondernemen - Soulworx
  • Embodied Co-Loving Community Amsterdam: Spaceholder and consent facilitator
  • Temple of Alchemy Amsterdam: Spaceholder
2022
  • 4 months Relationship Coaching Trajectory - Anouk Bongers
  • Jouw Yoni Journey, 3 months - Chris van der Weide
  • Authentic Tantra - Orgasm intensive for women, online course
2021
  • Ecstatic Week InnEssence: Co-organiser & facilitator
  • Spoedcursus Spaceholden - Motherhood rising
2020
  • Gave birth to Ayla!
  • Lived in InnEssence community for 6 months in The Netherlands
2019
  • Women's Circle Facilitator Training - School of Shakti - Amsterdam
  • Tantra Into Zouk - assistant & spaceholder - Amsterdam, Level 1, 2, 3
  • Eigentijdse Jongeren Spring Gathering - workshop facilitator
  • Awakening & Healing program - Samma Karuna - Koh Pangan
2018
  • Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Training L1, International School of Temple Arts (ISTA)

  • Taste of Love Tantra Festival (Australia) - Designer
  • Awakening & Healing program - Samma Karuna - Koh Pangan

  • Abdominal Chi Massage Course - Blue Garden -  Chiang Mai

  • Tantric & Rebirthing Breathwork Journey - Edward & Prema - Berlin

  • Tantra Into Zouk L1 - Amsterdam

2017
  • Spirit of Intimacy Festival (Australia) - organising team
  • Rewilding Tantra Training - Koh Pangan

  • Awakening & Healing program - Samma Karuna - Koh Pangan

2016
  • Landmark Forum course assistant - London
  • Landmark Forum Integrity seminars - London
  • Landmark Forum foundation course - London

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The pain of having sisters

Of course, I love my sisters.
But something from my early years quietly shaped my life.

When I was two, I suddenly had to share my world.
I was too young to understand what was happening.
Too young to grasp big changes.
Too young to know how to keep my place in the family.

What I’ve been exploring lately is how that early experience planted the seeds of scarcity in me.
This sense of “there isn’t enough” 
not enough love, not enough attention, not enough space for my needs.

And so a protector stepped in.
One who learned to minimise what I wanted,
to silence big feelings,
to become “easy,”
to take less space,
to convince me that my needs weren’t important anyway.

It’s strange how such early moments can ripple through adulthood…
how they show up in relationships, intimacy, business, self-worth…
How the body remembers long before the mind can understand. It’s a common wound under firstborns who suddenly had to share their parents.

Lately, I’ve been meeting that little girl again.
The one who felt that shift she couldn’t name,
the one who coped the only way she knew how.

Giving her softness.
Giving her space.
Letting her know she was never replaced.
Letting her feel that her needs matter.
That there is enough.
That she gets to take up space.

And somehow…
that simple truth is beginning to change everything.

#innerchildhealing #innerlijkwerk
#firstbornwound #embodiedhealing
#nervoussystemhealing #attachmenthealing
#selfworthjourney #innerlijkkindwerk
When a man didn’t run from my emotions

During the @zoukmira embodiment events, I met someone who reminded me of what that could feel like. He wasn’t interfering in my process or offering advice I didn’t ask for. He wasn’t overly protective or constantly checking in. He was just there. I could sense him in the background, grounded, steady, available. And when I needed him, I could approach him. When things felt too much, I could lean on him, and he would simply be still. When I cried on his shoulder, he didn’t try to make it better. He just stayed quiet, letting me have my moment, and somehow that stillness spoke more than any words could.

When we paired up in a shadow workshop I showed him some of the anger I carried inside, and I remember feeling scared that it might be too much, that I did not feel safe enough in the container of the group to go deeper. He looked at me and said, “I can handle much more than that.” Those words landed so deeply. It wasn’t even the words themselves, it was the way he said them, the energy behind them. I realized how much I had longed for that kind of presence my entire life; a masculine energy that could hold me without needing to control me, that could guide me back to my center simply by being there.

I can see now that so much of what I’ve been searching for in men was really this longing for safety, for someone to help me hold all that I feel, not to fix it, not to change it, but to witness it. And somehow, through this connection, something in me started to heal. 

This experience didn’t erase what was missing in the past, but it showed me what’s possible now. That love, safety, and presence can still arrive later in life, in forms I didn’t expect.

@Martin_hartmannshenn I’m grateful for the friendship we have build. A connection built on trust, and holding space for each other. In my most vulnerable moments, I could lean on you and feel the steadiness of a masculine support that helped me stay with myself. 💫

 #innerchildhealing #fatherwound #divinemasculine #innerwork #embodiedhealing #emotionalawareness #healingjourney #shadowwork #selfhealing #embodiment #traumahealing #spiritualgrowth #nervoussystemregulation
🇬🇧English in comments 

Het is heerlijk weer.
Ik zit met mijn vriend op een terrasje te werken, met een prachtig uitzicht op het park.
Langzaam stroomt het terras vol mensen. Gesprekken, koffiekopjes die neergezet worden, stemmen, gelach.
En ergens merk ik… dat ik me steeds slechter begin te voelen.

Op een gegeven moment zeg ik hardop: “Ik ben overprikkeld. Het gaat niet goed.”
Ik pak mijn geluidsdempende oordopjes, zet een kalmerend muziekje op, doe mijn ogen dicht en leun met mijn hoofd tegen de achterkant van de bank.

En dan komen de emoties.
Verdriet.
Niet gekoppeld aan een herinnering of een gedachte. Gewoon… verdriet.
Ik laat het over me heen komen, zonder er iets mee te willen doen.
Langzaam vullen mijn ogen zich met tranen.

Na een tijdje open ik mijn ogen weer.
Dezelfde zon. Hetzelfde park.
Maar ik voel me ineens zoveel lichter, zoveel meer aanwezig.

Soms zitten we de hele dag in ons hoofd.
We merken niet hoeveel kleine gebeurtenissen, berichtjes, blikken, geluiden zich in ons opstapelen.
We banjeren maar door.
En pas als het lichaam fluistert genoeg – of soms schreeuwt – hebben we de kans om te stoppen.

Soms is dat alles wat nodig is:
de ogen sluiten, het lichaam voelen, en toestaan dat alles wat vastzat… mag stromen.

Herken jij dit? Dat je pas voelt wat er leeft in je lichaam als je eindelijk even stilvalt?
Voel je vrij om hieronder te delen.

#overprikkeling #hoogsensitief #ontprikkelen #emotiesvoelen #emotioneelherstel #zelfzorg #hsp #lichamenluisteren #embodiment #emotiesdoorvoelen
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