Background and Education

I was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, yet raised the first years of my life near the sea in an international environment in Oman, the Middle East. This already inspired me with a rich palette of cultural flavours and an innerstanding of their relationships at a very early age. Call me a third culture kid.
Most likely this influence of my early childhood has fuelled my undying interest in other cultures, sparked my love for travel and exotic (sunny) places with aqua blue waters and nature and my strong inclination to global, international communities and networks.

As soon as I wrapped up High School, I was off working and traveling around the world. And I have learned so much more from exploring the world, spending time in nature and being and creating together with amazing, inspiring people, than any regular school or institute has ever taught me.

As a sensual person and lover of life with a big heart for community, harmony and cross-cultural communication and education, I adore the variety of fascinating, beautiful places and their people, colours, tastes, movements and melodies that our world offers and have studied their dance, music, nature, language and wisdom teachings with great enthusiasm.
Along with my journeys into the outer world, I have explored many deep journeys into my inner world as well. Waking up to the deep trauma's and programming that have been a part of my Life's story and de-story and dis-spell them in order to re-story my Life has been a source of enormous growth and inspiration for my own unique Life's work.

I am passionate to share my experience and support others along their path of expanding their horizons and deepening their awareness, creating cross cultural connections, remembering their true nature, growth and deepening their sense of community, harmony, purpose and peace.

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Bridging Worlds
My travels and studies around the world, practice of dance, music and energy work, studies in art school, dance and academic background in culture studies - with minors in journalism and documentary film - have all lead me to find deeper meaning, innerstanding and bridges between different worlds and perspectives in a creative way. To go to the essence and the deeper 'why' of things and find the common ground beyond apparent differences, on which to build those bridges and networks.
 

Group Facilitation & Co-Creation

Building meaningful and supportive (international) networks, communities, platforms and organisations through co-creation and participatory leadership has always been part of my work as a coach and creative facilitator in the field of education and social innovation. The tools that my training in the practice of Art of Hosting and Participatory Leadership and Non Violent Communication have given me in this have greatly supported me along this path of building inspiring, nourishing and lasting relationships and communities through co-creation.

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Energy- & Bodywork

Both for my personal growth and my practice as a coach, yoga and dance facilitator I have been deepening my innerstanding and experience of the human body, mind and soul throughout the years.  
Becoming a practitioner in various energy healing practices through Kryst codes and systems such as Barbara Brennan's Hands of Light method, Quantum Healing, the Hawaiian principles of Huna and Aloha and Life Alignment have inspired me greatly. As did spreading my practice and love for facilitating yoga, (conscious) dance and the powerful effects of movement, meditation, music, sound and song. This also brought me deeper into contact with various shamanic and mystic practices that I've studied from Native American, Indonesian, Hawaiian, European, Middle Eastern and (West) African traditions while visiting and living in these regions. Also the endless wisdom of the Body through bodywork and Kinesiology, the working of creation and the universe through the wisdom of Water and working with the Divine Uninion template through Heart coherency practices and Hieros Gamos calibration and some of the Keylontic Science of the AMCC-MCEO-GA Freedom Teachings. Sometimes I may also use several assisting techniques such as breath work, constellation work and sound healing, using drum, singing bowls, my own voice or any other musical instrument that will support a positive shift of your energy.
Life Alignment coaching has been one of my core practices for many years and is a soothing, yet profound integral transformational healing method for body, heart and mind. It provides the means to free yourself from past hurt, negative emotions and old patterns and programs in order to live fully in alignment with your life purpose from a sense of peace, passion and joy.
I love how all of these unique and beautiful practices can add immense value and deepen our awareness in processes of transformation and learning, e.g. in healing, relationships, education and business. To restore health and balance and create fertile environments for (personal) growth.

Yoga & Dance
As a certified yoga teacher I've studied various types of yoga, which you will find listed in my yoga offerings.

My path with dance started at as a young girl with ballet. Then latin dances and contemporary dance followed, until I was introduced to conscious dance in 2012, after which I immersed myself in the practice of 5Rhythms Dance, Movement Medicine and Soul Motion and Sufi dance.
To me dance is a dialogue and a language beyond words that allows us to directly express and communicate the truth of our body and feelings. I've studied this language also in various cultural traditions during my journeys around the world such as Persian dance, Oriental dance, Balinese dance, Sufi whirling, traditional ceremonial dances from Mexico and Africa and the two month intensive Holistic Dance Language training during the Temple Arts & Mystery School by Zola Dubnikova in India.
My practice, facilitation and deep love for dance and movement medicine feels like an ongoing and deepening relationship with life. It is this deeper dialogue and relationship with life, with yourself and with one another that I invite you to dive into.

Music
Along with dance, music is one of the biggest loves of my life. As a child I would wake my parents with my singing and always dance, clap and tap to the rhythm of music, so my mother gifted me a pair of maracas at age two.Yet as I turned 7 and had my first piano classes, I came to believe I wasn’t musical as I had difficulty reading notes. I shut down to the point of stopping music classes altogether as I mainly just seemed to get things “wrong". And the same happened with dancing ballet, creating art and singing. Discouraged by failing in a method of learning that felt overly rigid, unpleasant and unnatural for me. Like most regular education. 

Personal growth and nourishing the connecting to my own heart, courage and flow of feelings has lead me back to letting my intuition, joyous, loving feelings and improvisation prevail in my creativity. In this way I found my joy in DJing and singing and started playing at local world music events and recorded my first songs in 2016. Since then I have played many gigs in the conscious dance scene around the world and collaborated with various artists as a singer.

Education Innovation
Education - learning and sharing wisdom and experience - has always had my heart. Yet due to my dissatisfaction with the established school system, I have been actively supporting new innovative Education initiatives. Starting in 2012 with offering visual communication services for the Operation Education movement in The Netherlands, to founding and building De Universiteit learning community in Amsterdam in 2013, following a program at Knowmads International Business School and being an active member of the Open Masters international learning community until 2015. Harvesting deeper insights from collective knowledge and using Quantum learning techniques has become a big part of any learning and educational space I facilitate. Still until this day I am lending my skills for any initiative that rings home for me, and started organising and facilitating wisdom circles.

Storytelling & Media

In order to ensure clarity of purpose and meaningful action and direction for the benefit of the whole, storytelling​ has been one of my favourite tools. Whether I convey or facilitate them through film, writings, radio, dialogue, dance, music or live storytelling sessions and performances, stories have shown themselves to be a vital element in any form of education, (organisation) innovation and community building to convey the essential knowledge or message in a connected, effective and appealing way. Read more about my background in film, journalism, radio and visual art here.

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