Lotusflowers

  When people ask me what kind of work I do, I find that a sort of difficult question to answer. These days, I am expected to explain my mission in one sentence. (And to continue on that theme) I am supposed to have a website full of movement and promises, super fun social media posts, preferably with lots of photos of my amazingly photogenic pets.  Too often I sat down with a well-meaning coach and tried to explain that I have a business that is not focused on increasing profits, that the people I want to reach out to can actually read, and therefore don't need to be sent from one moving image to the next on my website, and that my social media posts are about what nature really looks like here in the Netherlands and I don't feel like or have time to photoshop my photos, because everyone does so.  So why do I occasionally talk to a coach, you may be wondering. It's because I want to reach as many people as possible with my work and am open to suggestions, but in my own a...

 According to the over five-thousand year old Chinese medicine, our body consists of meridians, passages, or rivers. It is like our whole body is split into parts, a beautiful and super-complex puzzle of flowing and moving parts.  The meridians start at the top of our fingers, in our face and at the end of our toes. This is how the meridians connect with our environment, the earth and heaven.  Each meridian has its own function, is related to its organs and other parts of the body.  By practicing Healing Qigong we move our whole body in a special way. This special and natural way moves all meridians and invites them to open up. In our lives, we encounter all sorts of situations which challenge us, teach us and sometimes hurt us. All these experiences we are not able to digest, or heal from, we carry around. In our memories, in our mind and also in our body. We store all sorts of experiences in our body, until the time comes to heal them en let them free. I think huma...