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  • Explore Vinyasa, Kundalini & Breathwork – Yoga in Urshult, Tingsryds Kommun & online

    Yoga offers more than physical wellbeing—it’s a way to release stress, build inner resilience, and return to yourself. In my classes, I guide practices that are both accessible and transformative. Whether you’re new to yoga or a long time practitioner, I’d love to share the wholesome space of yoga with you.

    My teaching integrates three key elements: Vinyasa Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Breathwork, each offering a different path into presence, strength, and awareness.

    Vinyasa Yoga – Breath-Led Movement for Strength & Flow

    Vinyasa yoga is a dynamic style where movement is synchronized with breath. Sequences flow smoothly from one posture to the next, helping you stay focused and physically engaged. This practice builds core strength, improves mobility, and supports mental clarity.

    In my Vinyasa classes, the pace is steady but not rushed. I guide with clear instructions, offering variations to support both beginners and more experienced students. The goal isn’t perfection, but presence—meeting your edge with curiosity, not force. Over time, you’ll notice how the rhythm of breath and movement helps you regulate stress, sharpen focus, and feel more at home in your body.

    Kundalini Yoga – Energizing Practice for Inner Clarity

    Kundalini yoga combines movement, breath, sound, and stillness to activate your body’s access to life force energy and support emotional release. It’s a powerful practice, yet accessible—especially when taught with grounded guidance and room for self-regulation.

    Each class includes kriyas (sets of postures), specific breathing techniques, and meditations. These sequences are designed to unlock stuck energy, build nervous system resilience, and help you connect with a deeper sense of self. Kundalini yoga is especially effective for those wanting to shift internal patterns, regain clarity, or process emotional residue—without needing to talk about it. You simply breathe, move, and notice what shifts.

    Breathwork – Reconnect Through the Power of Breath

    Conscious breathing is one of the most direct ways to reconnect with your inner state. In every class, I include guided breathwork to help ground, energize, or calm your system. These techniques are simple, safe, and can be adapted to your needs.

    In addition to yoga classes, I also offer dedicated breathwork sessions– longer guided journeys that focus on emotional integration, nervous system balance, and expanded awareness.

    If you are ready to dive deep and commit to a journey of resolving early imprints that still govern your life and behavior patterns today, you can always join The Presence Process, a 10-week experiential approach to emotional healing that starts 3x per year. While that process is deep, the breathwork in yoga is a gentle starting point—building presence one breath and one move at a time.

    New Classes Starting This Autumn – Online & In-Person in Urshult

    This Autumn 2025, I’ll begin offering regular yoga classes in Urshult, located in Tingsryd kommun, southern Sweden. You can join:

    In person – in our (then) newly finished yoga stuga in the village garden of Urshult

    Online – live via Zoom, with the option to watch replays

    Classes are designed to meet you where you are. The space—both virtual and physical—is created to support grounded self-connection and exploration through curiosity.

    Want to join?

    Visit my shop page to book tickets. I’d love to welcome you to the mat—whether here in the picturesque village of Urshult, or from wherever you are.

  • Why I Offer Online Gatherings (Even Though I Love Sitting By the Fire)

    There’s something undeniably magical about gathering in person—sitting in a circle, feeling the warmth of a fire, sharing presence under a full moon sky. I deeply value those moments. They ground us, remind us of our belonging to nature and to each other.

    And yet…

    Over the past few years, I’ve also experienced and facilitated incredibly empowering and transformative journeys online. These digital circles have offered a surprising level of intimacy, depth, and connection—proving that healing, presence, and personal growth don’t need four walls or a forest to unfold.

    Why Join an Online Gathering?

    Whether it’s a guided breathwork session, a Presence Process session, or a Mother Circle, online spaces have opened doors for many of us—for good reason. You can join:

    • 🌍 From anywhere in the world – Whether you’re in a city apartment or a forest hut, you’re welcome.

    • 🧘 From the privacy of your own home – Create a space where you feel safe to go deep.

    • ⏱️ At a time that suits your rhythm – Most of my offerings come with replays.

    • 👶 As a busy parent – You can press pause, take breaks, or return to the session later.

    • 🔁 Again and again – Rewatching sessions often deepens the experience.

    Or maybe you’re simply feeling called to join from where you are, just as you are. That’s more than enough.

    Online Doesn’t Mean Less Real

    The presence we cultivate together doesn’t depend on being in the same room. It depends on how we show up. Again and again, I’ve seen how online spaces—when held with care—can support authentic connection, emotional integration, and lasting transformation.

    So if you’re curious, you’re warmly invited.

    And if you have any questions, suggestions or requests, feel free to get in touch. I’m always happy to help.

  • Reclaiming Your Power: How Anger Can Lead You Back to Your Life Force

    Have you been feeling anger more often lately—maybe even in small, everyday moments? It can feel surprising, even unsettling. But when anger rises, it often carries more wisdom than we realize.

    Rather than something to fear or suppress, anger can actually be a doorway back to your natural energy, vitality, and power.

    Anger Is Often About More Than the Present Moment

    When anger shows up strongly, it’s rarely just about what is happening right now. Beneath the surface reaction—whether it’s tightness in the chest, a swirling storm in the belly, or the impulse to shout—there is often a deeper layer: a memory of a time when you needed your anger, your power, but had to suppress it.

    Over time, these moments can create blockages in your natural flow of life force energy. Anger today might be life’s way of inviting you to reconnect to those blocked places—and to reclaim the energy that was tucked away.

    The Opportunity Within Anger

    If you’re willing to pause and meet anger with presence, rather than judgment or suppression, something begins to shift.

    You might notice that the anger itself isn’t the enemy. It’s a signal—a call to feel deeper, to offer yourself the support that was missing before. It’s an opportunity to sit with younger parts of yourself, letting them know that now, it’s safe to feel and express power.

    The goal is not to stay entangled in anger, but to move through it, finding the steady strength underneath. Over time, you learn to access your inner vitality directly, without needing anger to unlock it first.

    Check here for new dates for the 11-week Presence Process Guided Online Journey.

    A Simple Practice: Meeting Anger with Presence

    Next time you feel anger rise, try this:

    1. Pause. Take a deep breath before reacting. Notice where you feel the anger in your body. Is it in your chest, your belly, your throat?

    2. Feel without labels. Set aside the story about who or what caused the anger. Instead, stay with the raw physical sensation. Feel it fully, as if you were offering a hand to a younger version of yourself who didn’t get to express this before.

    3. Stay present. Remind yourself: It’s safe to feel. I don’t need to act on this feeling right now. I am here for myself.

    4. Allow movement if needed. If your body wants to move—maybe shaking, stomping, or making a sound—find a safe, private space to let the energy move through you.

    5. Breathe. After a few moments, notice how the sensation shifts. Often, underneath anger, there is grief. And if you can breathe into that, you may find relief, strength, and a new sense of aliveness.

     

    When anger is met with presence, it becomes more than just a reaction—it becomes a path to reclaiming what is already yours: your life force, your vitality, and your authentic power. 

    Check here for new dates for the 11-week Presence Process Guided Online Journey.

     

     

    Image by Henryk Niestrój

  • Breaking Free from Fear through Presence

    Have you ever noticed how certain patterns seem to repeat in your life, no matter how much you want things to change? You recognize the signs, you feel the pain or fear, yet somehow the spiral continues.

    When someone recently asked me for a fresh perspective to help break such a cycle, two practices came to mind — both grounded in the power of presence.

    1. Shifting from Story to Sensation

    This is a key element of The Presence Process (new dates for the online group here).
    This process teaches us to move our attention away from what we see — the circumstances, the storylines, the reasons — and instead place it on what we feel — within, here and now, without needing to explain or label it.

    Instead of seeing events through the mind’s interpretation, we begin to experience them as energy in motion (e-motion). Patterns, pain, and fear are no longer just problems to solve, but felt sensations to meet: warmth, cold, tension, release, movement.

    We are invited to feel these energies unconditionally. Without the mental story. Without even labeling them as “pain” or “fear.” Just feeling — raw, real, alive.

    And if we do, we’ll start recognizing patterns through sensation. We deepen into unconditional presence: simply being with what arises. And as we get better at feeling, we’ll move ever closer to the original imprints that have shaped our lives. When we finally feel them unconditionally, the old imprints lose their power. Life circumstances shift — or our experience of them changes so profoundly that they no longer hold us captive.

    The path to breaking any spiral is simple, but not always easy: Feel it all, without condition.

    2. Meeting Fear with Full Presence

    The second practice is something I turn to personally, especially when deep fear about the future shows up.

    Whenever fear arises, I don’t push it away.
    Instead, I welcome the possibility of what I’m afraid of happening.
    I sit upright (or stand tall), imagine it vividly, and breathe deeply into the fear. I stay present, breathing fully, even when every part of me wants to recoil. I breathe until I feel free and strong — even while holding the image of the thing I fear most.

    If the situation is particularly triggering, I take a mental snapshot and place it in a frame on the wall. In my mind’s eye, I look at the image, then at the wall around it (move your eyes all around!). Then at the image again, then again at the wall. Keep on breathing. Take a step closer and repeat. Find your spot as close to or far away from the image as you need to keep on breathing and standing tall. This is how I practice staying present with any fearful image in my mind.

    I do this even with situations that feel unbearable to imagine.
    And each time, the fear loses its grip.
    It dissolves.
    It transforms into love.
    And I find myself free.

    Trust the Power of Presence

    It’s natural to want to break free from fearful spirals. And the key is not to fight harder, or think smarter — it’s to stay with everything that arises, including the things that scare you the most. You don’t have to enjoy it. You don’t have to fix it.
    You simply have to stay.

    And if you’re worried that imagining worst-case scenarios could somehow create them — please know: Creation flows through feeling, not thinking. When you feel free and steady even amidst imagined fear, you open yourself to an entirely new reality — one shaped by presence, love, and deep resilience.

    And often, life responds in ways that feel nothing short of miraculous.

     

    Image by Małgorzata Tomczak

  • Jeff Foster: “Trauma, thank you for protecting me”

    TRAUMA, THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING ME

    Here’s the main thing you have to understand about trauma: it wants to keep you hidden.

    Why? It’s trying to protect you.
    It’s only ever trying to keep you safe.

    It imagines threats where there are none.

    Stuck in the past, it wants to keep you close to what you know,
    close to what you can control.

    When you begin to leave your comfort zone, take that brave step,
    express yourself, assert a boundary, try something new, separate from the know world,
    it will assume, based on past evidence, that YOU ARE IN DANGER,
    and it will do everything it can to get you back to safety,
    convincing you to be small again –
    in order to protect you from failure, ridicule, abuse, further shaming.

    Your mind will scream.
    Your body will shake.
    Your muscles will tense up.
    Your heart will race.
    Your breath will quicken.
    Everything will feel… wrong.

    We can’t destroy this conditioned fear. We can’t get ‘over’ it.
    The more we resist it, turn against it, judge it as bad or wrong, or fight it, the worse it gets.
    The more we reject it, the more we reaffirm to it that the world is truly unsafe.

    We cannot delete the fear but we can turn towards it. Understand it. Have compassion for it.
    Have a more loving conversation with it:

    “Thank you for protecting me, trauma. You served me well. But maybe the danger has passed.
    Maybe I don’t need your protection today. Maybe I am bigger, stronger, safer than I knew…”

    Then, the very same energy that suppressed your authentic self, starts to work for you.
    Liberated, it begins to     express your authentic self, helping you play, be creative, speak up,
    take up space, and take those courageous steps into the Unknown.

    The very same energy that suppressed you, now works to express you.
    The energy that used to shut you down from life, now spends its time trying to open you up to life.

    You learn: IT’S SAFE TO BE ME.

    This is the greatest thing of all. It really is.
    To feel safe within yourself.
    To know that your nervous system is always working for you.
    To love your body, and to know that you are not your body.

    Trauma is condensed life energy, that is all. Stuck, constricted, it longs to be liberated.
    It longs to be seen, known, felt.

    When it’s met with love, it can blossom, YOU can blossom, into pure creativity.

     

    Jeff Foster

     

    What Jeff is saying here, is my own lived experience and I have seen it happen with many others – friends and clients: as soon as we turn towards our trauma (either ‘big T’ Trauma, ‘small t’ trauma or any experience in life that seems to have cut us off, made us small, tense us up)…

    …it gets liberated and this part of us re-awakens to our true, creative self.

    We all have experienced some form of trauma, of life energy getting stuck, and there is a gentle way to return to the pureness of our being.

    I am not a trauma therapist, but it is my job and passion to help all people find inner peace through movement, compassion and breath. On my socials (Insta, Facebook) and in the online school, you will find exercises to help you along your journey.

     
    Image credit: Photo by Matthew Waring on Unsplash

  • Trauma, the body and your breath

    This is a first post on a topic that is very close to my heart: trauma.

    In my eyes, trauma work could save the world. Even if you don’t really have any traumas yourself ;). In my own life, I’ve experienced just how incredibly healing breathwork and bodywork can be. The breath creates space, allows life energy to flow, and softens pain. It’s so deeply reassuring to feel ‘in tune’ again with the rhythms of my heart, my breath, and the nature around me.

    I feel whole and connected again, instead of torn apart and separated. And connection means safety, and safety means trust that I can handle ‘life’, no matter what happens. A huge difference from the fearful, avoidant strategies I used in the past just to avoid feeling.

    This transformation has been the most meaningful one in my life. At its core, it is the transformation from fear to love. From prison to freedom. From brokenness to wholeness. From chaos to calm. From war to peace. From darkness to light.

    Trauma arises when you don’t fully process an event physically, emotionally, and mentally. It’s like the shock gets frozen in your body—often literally in the form of tension or tics. A pattern of fear, disgust, defense, anger, and the like develops, and you increasingly try to avoid those experiences.

    This costs a tremendous amount of energy.

    If it doesn’t get the right attention, you can remain trapped for years in a pattern of learned helplessness, panic or rage attacks, emotional outbursts, apathy, numbness, and addiction.

    What helps, first and foremost, is compassion: loving attention for yourself. And enough awareness in the here and now to start listening to your body’s signals and to get the frozen energy moving again.

    Mentally, you can learn to gently focus your attention on the signals of your body. Emotionally, a kind attitude toward yourself and your situation is helpful. And physically, the key to healing is: rhythm. Through rhythmic movement, you allow the stored energy to flow again. There are simple, surprisingly effective exercises for this, which you can read about in the books I recommend below—especially the second one.

    The one rhythm that stays with you from birth to death, and is both automatic and consciously controllable, is the breath. Through your breath, you can influence your state of consciousness. It forms the bridge between your body and mind. For thousands of years, yoga and shamanism have included special breathing techniques for various purposes, like generating warmth, improving concentration, or entering a trance. (This healing power of the breath—even for physical ailments—has by now repeatedly and convincingly been proven and is recognized by the medical science, especially the field of mind-body medicine.)

    Conscious breathing can stir up strong emotions. That’s why it’s important to go slowly and, if necessary, be guided by someone experienced in these kinds of processes. Such a person might be certified in Somatic Experiencing, or someone else with strong references whom you trust. There’s a risk of retraumatization if you go too fast or are not properly supported.

    The creator of the Somatic Experiencing method—a fantastic writer and wise, compassionate man, the leading authority in this field—is Peter Levine. Below are two books that can be incredibly helpful if you’ve experienced trauma yourself, or if you live or work with people who deal with the effects of trauma:

    Waking the Tiger
    In an Unspoken Voice

    These books aren’t just for people with obvious trauma. I believe nearly every human being will recognize the mechanisms of resistance and detachment as an innate part of being human. It’s an inseparable aspect of our experience on Earth, in a body. The Buddha also had a few wise things to say about it ;).

    The world would be a different place if we all knew about this. I believe that day is coming. The question is, how much worse will we let things get before we’re ready for transformation?

    You can already start today—for yourself.

  • Ademdag • Lekker in je vel: zondag 20 maart 2022 in Driebergen

    Doe je mee? Binnenkort organiseer ik weer de ademdag Lekker in je vel. Je gaat een hele dag op nieuwe manieren ademen en bewegen.

    Er zitten twee sessies bewust verbonden ademen in, ieder in een heel eigen stijl. In zo’n sessie heel je vaak (oude) pijn en verdriet. Daarnaast beoefen je diverse technieken om meer vreugde, energie, heling en ontspanning te ervaren en ga je een eigen vraagstuk op een originele manier beantwoorden: met je lichaam. Het wordt intensief, leerzaam en leuk!

    Ademwerk kan sterke effecten geven op fysiek, emotioneel en spiritueel vlak. Jij en je groepsgenoten kunnen door diepe processen gaan. De adem heeft zo’n sterk effect omdat ze je helpt voorbij je denkhoofd te gaan en je lijf ‘aan het woord’ te laten. Daar kan van alles opgeslagen liggen: vreugde, verdriet en allerlei soorten spanning. Dat is allemaal welkom tijdens deze dag.

    Na deze ademdag kun je alle technieken zelfstandig toepassen. De dag is inclusief thee, lichte lunch en fruit.

    Dit is hoe de dag er grofweg uitziet:

    10.00u
    Opening

    10.30u
    Technieken voor vreugde, energie en het oplossen van het pijnlichaam (een term van Eckhart Tolle)

    11.30u
    Lange ademsessie (intensief)

    13.00u
    Lunch

    14.00u
    Technieken voor ontspanning, heling, probleemoplossing en verlichting

    15.00u
    Lange ademsessie of meditatie (naar keuze)

    16.30u
    Closing circle

    18.00u
    Afronding

    Wanneer?
    Zondag 20 maart 2022.

    Prijs
    € 149 (btw niet van toepassing)

    Inclusief thee, lichte lunch en fruit.

    Locatie
    De locatie is een fijne plek op landgoed De Horst in Driebergen.

    Aanmelden
    Stuur een mailtje naar su*****@***th.com als je mee wilt doen!

  • Heerlijk vezelrijk noten-zadenbrood met venkelzaad

    Een tijdje geleden was ik op retraite bij Eva Driessen. Daar kregen we door keukenprinses Hilde de Leeuw een fantastisch noten-zadenbrood voorgeschoteld. In mijn zoektocht om dat heerlijke brood na te maken, vond ik online dit recept van Keukenrevolutie.be. Onderstaand is weer een combinatie van het recept van Keukenrevolutie en de inspiratie van Hilde.

    Het is werkelijk briljant. Iedereen die het proeft, is enthousiast. Het is lekker als maaltijd of als tussendoortje. Wat ook heel fijn is: het maakt niet zo veel uit hoe veel je waarvan gebruikt. De venkelzaadjes zijn wel een heel bijzondere en verrassende toevoeging, maar je hoeft ze niet te gebruiken en kunt werkelijk eindeloos variëren. Denk ook eens cashewnoten, gedroogde mango’s, dadels, cranberries, gojibessen of bijvoorbeeldanijszaad of speculaaskruiden als smaakmakers.

    Dit brood is alleen écht helemaal glutenvrij (belangrijk als je coeliakie hebt) als je glutenvrije haver gebruikt. Anders kan het zijn dat er sporen van gluten in zitten. Voor mensen die geen allergie hebben maar ‘gewoon’ gevoelig zijn voor gluten, is dat doorgaans geen probleem.

    Een flax egg maak je door een eetlepel gemalen lijnzaad te mengen met een eetlepel water. Dit bindt in baksels net zo goed als een kippenei!

    Noten-zadenbrood met venkelzaad en extra vezels

    Een heerlijke glutenvrije traktatie voor bij de soep of salade of als tussendoortje.

    • 1 kop gemengde noten (ik had walnoten, hazelnoten en amandelen )
    • 1 kop gemengde zaden (ik had pompoen- en zonnebloempitten)
    • 1.5 kop havervlokken
    • 4 eetlepels psilliumvezels
    • 1.5 kop water
    • 2 eetlepels honing
    • 2 eieren of flax eggs
    • 2 theelepels venkelzaadjes
    • 1 flinke snuf zout
    1. Alle droge ingrediënten (noten, zaden, vruchten, vezels en zout)  mengen.
    2. Honing oplossen in het water. Honingwater en (lijnzaad)eieren toevoegen, alles goed mixen. Het mengsel moet vochtig maar niet nat zijn.
    3. Bekleed een vorm met bakpapier. Stort het mengsel er in. 1,5 uur laten wellen/indikken.
    4. Bakken in de oven: 50-60 minuten bij 160 graden. 

     

    Breakfast, lunch, Side Dish, Snack
    Sport nutrition, Vegan
    haver, noten, psilliumvezels, zaden

  • Ademdag • Lekker in je vel: 15 februari 2022 in Driebergen

    Doe je mee? Binnenkort organiseer ik de ademdag Lekker in je vel. Je gaat een hele dag op nieuwe manieren ademen en bewegen.

    Er zitten twee sessies bewust verbonden ademen in, ieder in een heel eigen stijl. In zo’n sessie heel je vaak (oude) pijn en verdriet. Daarnaast beoefen je diverse technieken om meer vreugde, energie, heling en ontspanning te ervaren en ga je een eigen vraagstuk op een originele manier beantwoorden: met je lichaam. Het wordt intensief, leerzaam en leuk!

    Ademwerk kan sterke effecten geven op fysiek, emotioneel en spiritueel vlak. Jij en je groepsgenoten kunnen door diepe processen gaan. De adem heeft zo’n sterk effect omdat ze je helpt voorbij je denkhoofd te gaan en je lijf ‘aan het woord’ te laten. Daar kan van alles opgeslagen liggen: vreugde, verdriet en allerlei soorten spanning. Dat is allemaal welkom tijdens deze dag.

    Na deze ademdag kun je alle technieken zelfstandig toepassen. De dag is inclusief thee, lichte lunch en fruit.

    Dit is hoe de dag er grofweg uitziet:

    10.00u
    Opening

    10.30u
    Technieken voor vreugde, energie en het oplossen van het pijnlichaam (een term van Eckhart Tolle)

    11.30u
    Lange ademsessie (intensief)

    13.00u
    Lunch

    14.00u
    Technieken voor ontspanning, heling, probleemoplossing en verlichting

    15.00u
    Lange ademsessie of meditatie (naar keuze)

    16.30u
    Closing circle

    18.00u
    Afronding

    Wanneer?
    Dinsdag 15 februari 2022.

    Prijs
    Early bird tot en met 10 december: € 99
    Standaard: € 149
    (btw tot en met 31 december niet van toepassing, daarna komt er 21% btw bij)

    Inclusief thee, lichte lunch en fruit.

    Locatie
    De locatie is een fijne plek op landgoed De Horst in Driebergen.

    Aanmelden
    Stuur een mailtje naar su*****@***th.com als je mee wilt doen!

  • Oven vegetables in pesto sauce

    I love using the oven: it’s so easy to just mix all the ingredients and have the oven work it’s magic. Especially since I became a mother :).

    Here, I had a big tray of cut veggies: bell pepper, broccoli, zucchini, and mushrooms. I added some oil and salt and baked them for 30 minutes at 180 until they were tender and almost done. As you bake the vegetables, they will release fluid. At the end of the 30 minutes, I mixed in a delicious homemade pesto (but yours can be store bought of course) with the fluid and together with the oil they made the perfect, creamy, fresh and green sauce.

    Not a strict recipe but more a ‘this is how I do stuff’. Hope it helps.

    Enjoy!