Wired for Wonder

I come from a nomadic family of adventurers, born in the Netherlands to parents from East Africa, raised in the mountains of Andorra and shaped by life in Spain, and long, wandering stints across the USA, Argentina, France, Thailand, India and Morocco. Patriotism never landed. Being human did. Movement of body, place and spirit has always been my compass.

For the first 20 years of my life, I spent more time with horses than with people. Training, competing and simply being with these magnificent, intuitive animals taught me to listen beyond words, to read energy, to feel into subtlety, to respond from presence. Those years shaped my nervous system and my soul in ways I only fully understand now.

My father once rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and skied across Norway. As a family, we crossed Africa on motorbikes. I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of kilometers on epic road trips, chasing horizons and the wild silence in between. These off-the-beaten-path adventures didn’t just shape me, they changed me. They taught me to move through the world with reverence, curiosity and deep presence.

That same spirit of presence led me to the TEDx stage in Andorra, where I shared three simple tools to recognize the state where synchronicity naturally arises. My talk invited the audience to experience their minds not just as perceivers but as co-creators of reality. I offered practices to center the self in stillness and reminded us all of the profound interconnection that binds everything.

Now, after years of learning, exploring and unlearning, I find deep joy in transmitting what I’ve gathered, especially through my small, intimate trainings. There’s something profoundly fulfilling about holding space for others to reconnect with their own body’s innate wisdom, witnessing that spark of recognition take root and watching with wonder as they weave it into their own teachings.

Having lived in pain and experienced injuries (chronic sciatica, frozen shoulders, pulled groins, sprained ankles and plantar fasciitis) I know the frustration and emotional weight of a body out of balance. The body is a divine creation and pain is never random, it’s a form of communication, a signal that we’ve drifted from harmony. When we recognise that we are often unconsciously creating the conditions for our own discomfort and learn how to shift toward balanced, intelligent movement, something profound happens, not just in the body, but in the mind and spirit too. My mission is to guide others in reclaiming this awareness, restoring natural alignment and remembering that body, mind and soul are one, inseparable. When we move in harmony, we come home to our whole selves.

These days, I fill my cup with sunrises and sunsets, hikes and soulful conversations, cuddles with my kitty and my sweet podenco, Sky. I train my body, dance barefoot to deep house under the stars, devour mind-expanding podcasts, support others in their healing and do my best to remember:

this life is a miracle.