How Tantra Changed my Life
As a creative, sensitive, smart, musical girl; growing up in a Calvinistic Christian village was not ideal.
In this village you had to be normal. Normal seemed to consist of many very strict rules; how to behave, how to look, how to talk… and how not to. As a result, I largely lost touch with myself.
Fortunately, I got stuck quite early in life.
I wasn’t even 25 yet, when I was crying every morning when I cycled to work. Not because the job was so terrible – in fact, it was exactly what I always thought I wanted – but because I didn’t feel like I was truly in it.
I described my life as “a movie that passes me by, in which I don’t really participate.”
When, in a moment of despair, I asked God (well, who knows: he might exist after all!): ‘Please can you give me teachers?’… I did not exactly mean Tantra teachers.
But that’s what he gave me. And they shook me very convincingly out of my constricting, old, tedious habits of living up to the expectations of others. That felt incredibly good!
Tantra gave me the tools to stay in contact with my body, telling me very wisely what truly feels good and what doesn’t. It’s on the currents of my body that I navigate and create my live.
Listen to my Podcast: 'How Tantra Changed My Life'
Usually the Avond vol Aandacht podcast is Dutch spoken. We receive many non-Dutch speakers in our private Tantra workshops for Couples, mostly in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Especially for you, I created a miniseries of three English spoken podcasts. So now you too, may get to know us a bit better before jumping into the adventure of Tantra.
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My life as a Tantra Teacher
In the podcast you will hear me tell you how I didn’t touch a brush for ten years after graduating from Art School.
Once I came into contact with Tantra, I completely immersed myself in it for a number of years. Desires are a big topic in Tantra, and in many retreats I got to know mine better and better. As a result, my life energy started to flow fully again.
Naturally, I took my brushes and paint out of the basement again. I suddenly felt what I wanted to do: to paint all those beautiful Tantric gods and goddesses!
Many years, Jeroen (my beloved since 2004) and I assisted our teachers very intensely for many years, learning from them whatever we could. Though unfortunately they only teach in Dutch, I daresay they are among the best of the world.
From ’13 on, the flow of my life very naturally took me to the art of teaching Tantra, instead of painting. I have been teaching group retreats and private Tantra workshops for couples ever since.
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