When I look back, training as a dancer was the perfect gateway to the experience of using the body and all it’s qualities in order to realize the wholeness of my being. For me, yoga is the adventure of a life time. Sharing the never-ending study of yoga is my passion. After 15 years of teaching, it still makes my heart jump every day. Through my personal approach of yoga, I feel that yoga is not something you ‘do’. It’s something that you experience. It’s not at all about getting in to a handstand or getting your downdog perfect. Altough those things might happen along the way;), yoga is not about getting anywhere. According to yoga, you are already there. Exactly where you are supposted to be. The question is, are you present? Are you present in yourself, right now? Are you aware of what you do and why? For me yoga is about investigating all of these questions. It’s like  being on a date with yourself.  Once you start to practice being with yourself, being honest with yourself and truly listening to yourself within a safe space, you will organically do the same in your everyday life.

Yoga as a journey through life

In a yoga class, you will encounter all things you experience in life. Easy stuff. Hard stuff. A challenge, a rest.  You will find yourself balancing and sometimes falling. But these are only trials. Trials that mimic life and enable you to practice. How do you stay true to yourself in the midst of all of that? Not doing too little, but also not doing more than you can. Both ways inhibit yourself and are decisions of the mind. So, this brings us to the big question! How do you know where you should be? How do you know if you are going too far or not far enough? In my classes, we focus on feeling and experiencing yoga rather than doing it.  The moment you make the change from ‘doing’ towards ‘feeling’, it’s easier to find out where you actually need to be. In the yoga class, or in life…

A date with yourself

Our body is the storage box of all we experienced throughout our live’s. Once you start to move your body, or practice being present with your body in stillness. You address not only the Physical body. You encounter all that your body lived through as well. Through bodywork, like yoga, the body often starts to talk to you in the forms of physical feelings, more subtle sensations. Thoughts of any kind might come up. And You are invited to have a conversation with yourself. One that goes far beyond words. Yoga can be the practice of listening, allowing and being with all that is present in you Now.

Let’s travel yoga together

In every yoga class, I create a safe space and scenery for you to go on your own journey. Meet with yourself. Be with yourself.  From there we create a bridge towards everyday life, so life can be experienced in a more conscious way. You can experience yoga with me in many forms. In my Vinyasa classes, we move and flow just as the breath does; just as life does. When it’s time to rest, we can meet in my Restorative, yin or yoga Nidra classes. Whether you choose a moving or a still practice, the intention remains the same: Drop the doing so you can start the listening.

Like any proper adventure, it’s the people you meet who play a big part. Along my yoga journey, I have been guided and inspired by many amazing people: Gosta and Patrick, Tonnie Goes, Ana Forrest, Clive Sheridan, Julie Martin, Emil Wendell, Katchie Ananda, Kamini Desai, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and more.

Like any proper adventure, it’s the people you meet who play a big part. Along my yoga journey, I have been guided and inspired by many amazing people: Gosta and Patrick, Tonnie Goes, Ana Forrest, Clive Sheridan, Julie Martin, Emil Wendell, Katchie Ananda, Kamini Desai, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Montserrat G. Mukherjee, Marleen Jansen and more.